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Author : Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy
Publisher : World Wisdom, Inc
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 0941532461
Ananda K. Coomaraswamy was engaged in the world not only as a scholarly expositor of traditional culture and philosophy, but also as a radical critic of contemporary life.
Author : Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781497675841
The renowned Sri Lankan metaphysician presents his enlightening insight into the essential kinship between Hinduism and Buddhism. In this probing work, Ananda K. Coomaraswamy examines the foundational myths and spiritual underpinnings of Hinduism and Buddhism. Discarding the Western narrative of philosophical divergence, Coomaraswamy instead explores the essential unity between these two major religions. In his perspective, one is merely an outgrowth of the other. Dividing the book into two parts, Coomaraswamy begins each section with an overview of each religion’s foundational myths. The section on Hinduism then covers concepts such as karma, maya, reincarnation, sacrifice, and caste. In the section on Buddhism, he demonstrates that Buddha never intended to start a new religion, but to deepen the spiritual understanding of the existing one.
Author : Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Mythology, Indic
ISBN : 8121502306
Illustrations: 73 B/w Illustrations Description: Particular significance attaches to Yaksas in Indian mythology, religion and art. Their almost universal presence in the earlier Indian religions, Hindu, Buddhist and Jaina, wherein they are invested with peculiar traits and powers, indicates their importance. Ananda Coomaraswamy's Yaksas is an attempt at bringing together the mass of information from literary and monumental sources about Yaksas and Yaksis, their origin, and development from the conceptual, mythological and iconographical points of view. Coomaraswamy has shown how this non- and pre-Aryan animistic concept originated and, in the historical times, dovetailed with the Hindu, Buddhist and Jaina religious systems to the extent that the concept of Yaksattva got closely bound up with the idea of reincarnation. In the preparation of this monograph, Coomaraswamy has extensively drawn upon the sectarian and semi-secular literature and has shown unmistakable evidences of the Yaksas' once honourable status, their benevolence toward men and the affection felt by men toward them. Coomaraswamy begins by tracing the origin of the word yaksa which is first found in Jaiminiya Brahmana, where it means nothing more than 'a wondrous thing.' In course of time Yaksas and Yaksis are often mentioned and their names are found in the Epics, Buddhist and Jaina works and even in sculpture. In Jaina books Yakkhas are often called Devas, where, as Sasana Devatas they are usually guardian angels. In Buddhist works they are sometimes represented as teachers of good morals and as guardian spirits. Of equal importance are the Yaksas and Yaksis in early Indian art and in the early examples (Bharhut, Sanci, Gandhara, etc.) they are frequently represented as Atlantes, supporters of buildings and superstructures. The early iconography of Yaksas, again, seems to have formed the foundation of later Hindu and Buddhist iconography. Coomaraswamy has traced a kind of Bhakti cult centering round the worship of Yaksas on the basis of the Yaksa caityas, the offerings to the Yaksas and has tried to show that the facts of Yaksa worship correspond almost exactly with those of the other Bhakti religions. Coming as it does from the pen of Ananda Coomaraswamy, this brilliant monograph is the acme of scholarship and brilliance and provides a mass of well-documented information. The work is divided into two parts, an Appendix giving Tale of a Yaksa found in the Divyavadana, alongwith 73 plates.
Author : Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781787208483
The late Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, curator of Indian art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, uniquely combined art historian, philosopher, orientalist, linguist, and expositor in his person. His knowledge of the arts and handcrafts of the Orient was unexcelled and his numerous monographs on Oriental art either established or revolutionized entire fields. He was also a great Orientalist, with an almost unmatched understanding of traditional culture. He covered the philosophic and religious experience of the entire premodern world, east and west, and for him primitive, medieval European, and classical Indian experiences of truth and art were only different dialects in a common language. Finally, Coomaraswamy was a provocative writer, whose erudition was expressed in a delightful, aphoristic style. The nine essays in this book are among his most stimulating. They discuss such matters as the true function of aesthetics in art, the importance of symbolism, and the importance of intellectual and philosophical background to the artist; they analyze the role of traditional culture in enriching art; they demonstrate that abstract art and primitive art, despite superficial resemblances, are completely divergent; and they deal with the common philosophy which pervades all great art, the nature of medieval art, folklore and modern art, the beauty inherent in mathematics, and the union of traditional symbolism and individual portraiture in premodern cultures.
Author : Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 101883737X
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Ray Livingston
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780816658190
The Traditional Theory of Literature was first published in 1962. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Through a study of works of the contemporary Indian scholar Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, as well as of other exponents of the ancient doctrine of the Perennial Philosophy, Professor Livingston develops and explicates a traditional theory of literature. Coomaraswamy, who died in 1947, published widely on a broad range of subjects in art, philosophy, literature, and other fields. Although he is relatively little known, those acquainted with is work acclaim him as one of the great thinkers of our time. His study and writing were devoted primarily to bridging the gap between Oriental and Western cultures. From the treasury of traditional learning which Coomaraswamy amassed in his profusion of books and articles, Professor Livingston has drawn those elements which contribute to an essential theory of literature. Although he quotes from some of Coomaraswamy's Oriental sources, he delineates the theory in an idiom that is more familiar to the West, as stated or implied in the works of Dante, Milton, and Blake, among others.
Author : Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Art critics
ISBN : UOM:39015014629227
Author : Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:559142928
Author : Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1494034735
This is a new release of the original 1923 edition.
Author : Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy
Publisher : Quinta Essentia
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1887752595
Coomaraswamy's final un-published essays, including: The Iconography of Sagittarius, Philo's Doctrine of the Cherubim, Concerning Sphinxes, and The Concept of Ether in Greek and Indian Cosmology, are complemented by the author's own illustrations from his personal archives.
Author : Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 0691017476
Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (1877-1947) was a pioneer in Indian art history and in the cultural confrontation of East and West. Finding a universal tradition in past cultures ranging from the Hellenic and Christian to the Indian, Islamic and Chinese, Coomaraswamy collated his ideas and symbols of ancient wisdom into essays. THE DOOR IN THE SKY is a collection of his writings on myth drawn from his METAPHYSICS and TRADITIONAL ART AND SYMBOLISM.
Author : Rama P. Coomaraswamy
Publisher : World Wisdom, Inc
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780941532983
Concentrating on the post-Vatican II revisions of its teachings, this book tells the story of the destruction of the Roman Catholic tradition, a defining event of the twentieth century.
Author : Sister Nivedita,Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
Publisher : editionNEXT.com
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-21
Category : Buddha (The concept)
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
In this book the author included and narrated some myths and stories from ancient Hindu and Buddhist literature. The book includes a good number of water colour illustrations which were created under the supervision of Abanindranath Tagore. Tagore himself drew some of the pictures in the book.
Author : Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015050672305
Revision of article published in the Indian historical quarterly, v. 14, 1938, under the title, Symbolism of the dome.
Author : Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
Publisher : Alpha Edition
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9353950341
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.