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Author : A. K. Warder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Indic poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015058961494
Author : A. K. Warder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Indic poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015066056493
Author : Anthony Kennedy Warder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8120820282
Author : Anthony K. Warder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8120820282
Author : Anthony Kennedy Warder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Indic poetry
ISBN : LCCN:72908959
Author : Karl-Stéphan Bouthillette
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000032901
This is the first book fully dedicated to Indian philosophical doxography. It examines the function such dialectical texts were intended to serve in the intellectual and religious life of their public. It looks at Indian doxography both as a witness of inter- and intra-sectarian dialogues and as a religious phenomenon. It argues that doxographies represent dialectical exercises, indicative of a peculiar religious attitude to plurality, and locate these ‘exercises’ within a known form of ‘yoga’ dedicated to the cultivation of ‘knowledge’ or ‘gnosis’ (jñāna). Concretely, the book presents a critical examination of three Sanskrit doxographies: the Madhyamakahṛdayakārikā of the Buddhist Bhāviveka, the Ṣaḍdarśanasamuccaya of the Jain Haribhadra, and the Sarvasiddhāntasaṅgraha attributed to the Advaitin Śaṅkara, focusing on each of their respective presentation of the Mīmāṃsā view. It is the first time that the genre of doxography is considered beyond its literary format to ponder its performative dimension, as a spiritual exercise. Theoretically broad, the book reaches out to academics in religious studies, Indian philosophy, Indology, and classical studies.
Author : Anthony Kennedy Warder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Indic poetry
ISBN : OCLC:27964864
Author : Leonard van der Kuijp,James Burnell Robinson,Paul Harrison
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781559390446
Tibetan Literature addresses the immense variety of Tibet's literary heritage. An introductory essay by the editors attempts to assess the overall nature of 'literature' in Tibet and to understand some of the ways in which it may be analyzed into genres. The remainder of the book contains articles by nearly thirty scholars from America, Europe, and Asia—each of whom addresses an important genre of Tibetan literature. These articles are distributed among eight major rubrics: two on history and biography, six on canonical and quasi-canonical texts, four on philosophical literature, four on literature on the paths, four on ritual, four on literary arts, four on non-literary arts and sciences, and two on guidebooks and reference works.
Author : Andrew Ollett
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520968813
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Language of the Snakes traces the history of the Prakrit language as a literary phenomenon, starting from its cultivation in courts of the Deccan in the first centuries of the common era. Although little studied today, Prakrit was an important vector of the kavya movement and once joined Sanskrit at the apex of classical Indian literary culture. The opposition between Prakrit and Sanskrit was at the center of an enduring “language order” in India, a set of ways of thinking about, naming, classifying, representing, and ultimately using languages. As a language of classical literature that nevertheless retained its associations with more demotic language practices, Prakrit both embodies major cultural tensions—between high and low, transregional and regional, cosmopolitan and vernacular—and provides a unique perspective onto the history of literature and culture in South Asia.
Author : Elisa Ganser
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9789004467057
What is Dance? What is Theatre? What is the boundary between enacting a character and narrating a story? When does movement become tinted with meaning? And when does beauty shine alone as if with no object? These universal aesthetic questions find a theoretically vibrant and historically informed set of replies in the oeuvre of the eleventh-century Kashmirian author Abhinavagupta. The present book offers the first critical edition, translation, and study of a crucial and lesser known passage of his commentary on the Nāṭyaśāstra, the seminal work of Sanskrit dramaturgy. The nature of dramatic acting and the mimetic power of dance, emotions, and beauty all play a role in Abhinavagupta’s thorough investigation of performance aesthetics, now presented to the modern reader.
Author : Kristoffer Af Edholm,Stefan Larsson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9176351394
This book consists of seven chapters on the subject of poetry and itinerancy within the religious traditions of India, Tibet, and Japan from ancient to modern times. The chapters look, each from a different angle, at how itinerancy is reflected in religious poetry, what are the purposes of the wanderers' poems or songs, and how the wandering poets relate to local communities, sacred geography, and institutionalized religion. We encounter priest-poets in search of munificent patrons, renouncers and yogins who sing about the bliss and hardship of wandering alone in the wilderness, Hindu pilgrims and opponents of pilgrimage, antinomian Buddhist-Tantric poets from Bengal, and the originator of the haiku. We are led along roads travelled by many, as well as paths tread by few.
Author : David Damrosch
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691234557
Paperback reprint. Originally published: 2020.
Author : Valerie Stoker
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520965461
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. How did the patronage activities of India’s Vijayanagara Empire (c. 1346–1565) influence Hindu sectarian identities? Although the empire has been commonly viewed as a Hindu bulwark against Islamic incursion from the north or as a religiously ecumenical state, Valerie Stoker argues that the Vijayanagara court was selective in its patronage of religious institutions. To understand the dynamic interaction between religious and royal institutions in this period, she focuses on the career of the Hindu intellectual and monastic leader Vyasatirtha. An agent of the state and a powerful religious authority, Vyasatirtha played an important role in expanding the empire’s economic and social networks. By examining his polemics against rival sects in the context of his work for the empire, Stoker provides a remarkably nuanced picture of the relationship between religious identity and sociopolitical reality under Vijayanagara rule.
Author : Francesca Orsini,Katherine Butler Schofield
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783741021
Examining materials from early modern and contemporary North India and Pakistan, Tellings and Texts brings together seventeen first-rate papers on the relations between written and oral texts, their performance, and the musical traditions these performances have entailed. The contributions from some of the best scholars in the field cover a wide range of literary genres and social and cultural contexts across the region. The texts and practices are contextualized in relation to the broader social and political background in which they emerged, showing how religious affiliations, caste dynamics and political concerns played a role in shaping social identities as well as aesthetic sensibilities. By doing so this book sheds light into theoretical issues of more general significance, such as textual versus oral norms; the features of oral performance and improvisation; the role of the text in performance; the aesthetics and social dimension of performance; the significance of space in performance history and important considerations on repertoires of story-telling. The book also contains links to audio files of some of the works discussed in the text. Tellings and Texts is essential reading for anyone with an interest in South Asian culture and, more generally, in the theory and practice of oral literature, performance and story-telling.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438428376
What about Buddha's wife? We all know that Prince Siddhartha left his wife and infant son to begin his journey to enlightenment. The Pali canon does not mention the woman he left behind. Yasodharā enters the commentarial tradition around the first century CE and lives on in the folk tradition, growing from a shadowy figure to a nun and arahat (an Enlightened One), even gaining magical powers. In this book, Ranjini Obeyesekere offers a translation of two works from Sri Lanka on this intriguing figure. The Yasodharāvata (The Story of Yasodharā) is a folk poem, whose best-known verses are Yasodharā's lament over the departure of her husband. The Yasodharāpadānaya (The Sacred Biography of Yasodharā) is an account of Yasodharā as a nun capable of miracles, who has traveled through saṃsāra with the Bodhisattva, and who is praised by him. Obeyesekere places these works within their historical and literary context and provides a glossary of Buddhist terms.