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Author : S W. Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
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Release : 1862
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600099235
Author : Karen M. Gerhart
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004368194
Women, Rites, and Ritual Objects in Premodern Japan seeks to expand our understanding of the roles women played in rituals, how particular rituals were carried out, what types of implements or icons accompanied them, and how various ritual objects were used.
Author : Vanessa R. Sasson
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780824889524
Renunciation is a core value in the Buddhist tradition, but Buddhism is not necessarily austere. Jewels—along with heavenly flowers, rays of rainbow light, and dazzling deities—shape the literature and the material reality of the tradition. They decorate temples, fill reliquaries, are used as metaphors, and sprout out of imagined Buddha fields. Moreover, jewels reflect a particular type of currency often used to make the Buddhist world go round: merit in exchange for wealth. Regardless of whether the Buddhist community has theoretically transcended the need for them or not, jewels—and the paradox they represent—are everywhere. Scholarship has often looked past this splendor, favoring the theory of renunciation instead, but in this volume, scholars from a wide range of disciplines consider the role jewels play in the Buddhist imaginary, putting them front and center for the first time. Following an introduction that relates the colorful story of the Emerald Buddha, one of the most famous jewels in the world, chapters explore the function of jewels as personal identifiers in Buddhist and other Indian religious traditions; Buddhaghosa’s commentary on the Jewel Sutta; the paradox of the Buddha’s bejeweled status before and after renunciation; and the connection in early Buddhism between jewels, magnificence, and virtue. The Newars of Nepal are the focus of a chapter that looks at their gemology and associations between gems and celestial deities. Contributors analyze the Fifth Dalai Lama’s reliquary, known as the “sole ornament of the world”; the transformation of relic jewels into precious substances and their connection to the Piprahwa stupa in Northern India and the Nanjing Porcelain Pagoda. Final chapters offer detailed studies of ritual engagement with the deity known as Wish-Fulfilling Jewel Avalokiteśvara and its role in the new Japanese lay Buddhist religious movement Shinnyo-en. Engaging and accessible, Jewels, Jewelry, and Other Shiny Things in the Buddhist Imaginary will provide readers with an opportunity to look beyond a common misconception about Buddhism and bring its lived tradition into wider discussion.
Author : Harshita Mruthinti Kamath
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520301665
At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Impersonations: The Artifice of Brahmin Masculinity in South Indian Dance centers on an insular community of Smarta Brahmin men from the Kuchipudi village in Telugu-speaking South India who are required to don stri-vesam (woman’s guise) and impersonate female characters from Hindu religious narratives. Impersonation is not simply a gender performance circumscribed to the Kuchipudi stage, but a practice of power that enables the construction of hegemonic Brahmin masculinity in everyday village life. However, the power of the Brahmin male body in stri-vesam is highly contingent, particularly on account of the expansion of Kuchipudi in the latter half of the twentieth century from a localized village performance to a transnational Indian dance form. This book analyzes the practice of impersonation across a series of boundaries—village to urban, Brahmin to non-Brahmin, hegemonic to non-normative—to explore the artifice of Brahmin masculinity in contemporary South Indian dance.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781385609
Second, revised edition of T. P. Wiseman's 'Death of an Emperor' - his acclaimed translation and commentary of Flavius Josephus' account of Caligula's assassination. Includes an updated bibliography and a revised Appendix 1 on the Augustan Palatine which takes account of recent archaeological information.
Author : Marie Françoise C.D. Corbaux
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600091195
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105015719649
Author : John Kitto
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Bible
ISBN : UOM:39015039758324
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Bible
ISBN : NYPL:33433081684353
Author : Julia Wedgwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Christian ethics
ISBN : UOM:39015059906910
Author : Alexander Wilson M'Clure
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Congregational churches
ISBN : HARVARD:AH6LEQ
Author : Erhard Gerstenberger
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Bible
ISBN : 0802804888
Author : Bentley Layton
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Anonim
Publisher : SriAurobindoAshram Publication Dept
Page : 607 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Upanishads
ISBN : 9788170587491
Text, translation and Interpretation of selected Upanishads, Hindu philosophical classics.
Author : Horace BUSHNELL
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : Atonement
ISBN : BL:A0027044855