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Author : Pratapaditya Pal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : UOM:39015012933316
Author : Gudrun Bühnemann
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004531239
While Volume I of this two-volume monograph focuses on the deity pantheon of the sixteenth-century Mantramahodadhi, this volume compares for the first time deity descriptions extracted from two earlier and closely related texts, the anonymous Prapañcasāra (ca. tenth century) and Lakṣmaṇadeśika’s Sāradātilaka (tenth/eleventh centuries). The latter work, though based on the Prapañcasāra, treats the topics independently and incorporates new deity descriptions while omitting others. Both texts are still influential and are frequently cited. The Sanskrit text of the 78 deity descriptions extracted from the Prapañcasāra and the 101 descriptions from the Sāradātilaka is based on a comparison of different printed editions of these texts, as well as citations found in other works. The Sanskrit text is presented with a literal translation and remarks on the iconography. The introductory section addresses basic questions related to these two works. In addition, a new edition and translation of the important chapters I (on cosmogony) and 25 (on yoga) of the Sāradātilaka are presented in two appendices. A large number of illustrations of deities complement the volume. The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789069801193).
Author : Thomas E. Donaldson
Publisher : Abhinav Publications
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Religion
ISBN : UVA:X030153195
Utilizing knowledge of the Orissan Brahmanical Art, this text seeks to develop a similar consistent and reliable iconographic and stylistic evolution for the Buddhist Arts of Orissa and its adherence to, or deviation from, surviving textual iconographic peculiarities. The reciprocal influence between Brahmanical and Buddhist Art in Orissa is emphasized with both religions expanding at the same time in regard to proliferation of deities and variant forms, and each apparently competing with the other for patronage and converts.
Author : Julian Strube
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780197627112
"Beyond introducing the subject matter and critically surveying the state of scholarship, this introduction offers a substantial theoretical and methodological elucidation of the book's approach that is also relevant for readers not strictly interested in the specialized subject. Combining perspectives from religious studies, global history, South Asian studies, and the study of esotericism, the foundations of global religious history are discussed both in abstraction and in light of the source material. This especially considers historiographical challenges such as (post)colonialism, Eurocentrism, or Orientalism, as well as issues such as the blurry meaning of "global connections" and differentiations between the global, regional, and local. Leading themes such as the contested meaning of tradition, revival, reform, and modernity are scrutinized, as are the relationship and meanings of religion, science, esotericism, and nationalism that remain the subject of scholarly debate. Global religious history makes proposals for resolving such debates by eliding disciplinary boundaries"--
Author : C. Mackenzie Brown
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1998-09-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791497739
This book provides a translation, with introduction, commentary, and annotation, of the medieval Hindu Sanskrit text the Devi Gita (Song of the Goddess). It is an important but not well-known text from the rich SAakta (Goddess) tradition of India. The Devi Gita was composed about the fifteenth century C.E., in partial imitation of the famous Bhagavad Gita (Song of the Lord), composed some fifteen centuries earlier. Around the sixth century C.E., following the rise of several male deities to prominence, a new theistic movement began in which the supreme being was envisioned as female, known as the Great Goddess (Maha-Devi). Appearing first as a violent and blood-loving deity, this Goddess gradually evolved into a more benign figure, a compassionate World-Mother and bestower of salvific wisdom. It is in this beneficent mode that the Goddess appears in the Devi Gita. This work makes available an up-to-date translation of the Devi Gita, along with a historical and theological analysis of the text. The book is divided into sections of verses, and each section is followed by a comment explaining key terms, concepts, ritual procedures, and mythic themes. The comments also offer comparisons with related schools of thought, indicate parallel texts and textual sources of verses in the Devi Gita, and briefly elucidate the historical and religious background, supplementing the remarks of the introduction.
Author : Rachel Fell McDermott
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231527873
Annually during the months of autumn, Bengal hosts three interlinked festivals to honor its most important goddesses: Durga, Kali, and Jagaddhatri. While each of these deities possesses a distinct iconography, myth, and character, they are all martial. Durga, Kali, and Jagaddhatri often demand blood sacrifice as part of their worship and offer material and spiritual benefits to their votaries. Richly represented in straw, clay, paint, and decoration, they are similarly displayed in elaborately festooned temples, thronged by thousands of admirers. The first book to recount the history of these festivals and their revelry, rivalry, and nostalgic power, this volume marks an unprecedented achievement in the mapping of a major public event. Rachel Fell McDermott describes the festivals' origins and growth under British rule. She identifies their iconographic conventions and carnivalesque qualities and their relationship to the fierce, Tantric sides of ritual practice. McDermott confronts controversies over the tradition of blood sacrifice and the status-seekers who compete for symbolic capital. Expanding her narrative, she takes readers beyond Bengal's borders to trace the transformation of the goddesses and their festivals across the world. McDermott's work underscores the role of holidays in cultural memory, specifically the Bengali evocation of an ideal, culturally rich past. Under the thrall of the goddess, the social, political, economic, and religious identity of Bengalis takes shape.
Author : Rachel Fell McDermott
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Devotional poetry, Bengali
ISBN : 9780195134339
This collection presents 145 brief Bengali lyric poems dedicated to the Hindu goddesses Kali and Uma. These poems were written from the early-18th century up to the contemporary period. They represent the Bengali tradition of goddess worship (Saktism).
Author : Tracy Pintchman
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2001-06-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791450074
Explores the identity of the Hindu Great Goddess and how it relates to the many goddesses worshipped in India.
Author : Pratapaditya Pal,Stephen P. Huyler,John E. Cort,Christian Luczanits,Debashish Banerji
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520288478
Accompanies the exhibition presented at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California, April 17-July 31, 2016.
Author : Hugh B. Urban
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 8120829328
Bhadriraju Krishnamurti (1928) is Professor and Head of the department of Linguistics at Osmania University, Hyderabad. He received a B.A. (Hons.) Degree (1948) in Telugu language and literature at Andhra University Waltair and an M.A. (1955) and Ph.D. (1957) in linguistics from the university of Pennsylvania U.S.A.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004646636
This volume presents manuscripts from the 'sectarian' Upaniṣads that have been translated and edited for the first time. The critical edition was prepared by Schoterman from three manuscripts, and later finalized with a translation, and introduction and an appendix in which four more (fragmentary) manuscripts are evaluated.
Author : Mary Storm
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317325567
An extensive study of self-sacrificial images in Indian art, this book examines concepts such as head-offering, human sacrifice, blood, suicide, valour, self-immolation, and self-giving in the context of religion and politics to explore why these images were produced and how they became paradigms of heroism.
Author : Gudrun Bühnemann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:937355901
Author : Rachel Fell McDermott
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Devotional poetry, Bengali
ISBN : 9780195134353
This text chronicles the rise and subsequent fortunes of goddess worship (Saktism) in the region of Bengal from the middle of the 18th century to the present. McDermott places the advent of the Sakta lyric in its historical context.
Author : Ram Swarup Singh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015046869809
On Tantric-Buddhist art and influence of Hindu mythology on Buddhist idols.
