Theory Of Avatāra And Divinity Of Chaitanya

Author : Janmajit Roy
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Avatars (Religion).
ISBN : 8126901691

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Theory of Avatāra and Divinity of Chaitanya by Janmajit Roy Pdf

The Present Book Is A Comprehensive And Comparative Study Of The Origin And Development Of The Concept Of Avatèra In The Theological And Biographical Literature Of India: Vedic, Sanskrit, Pali And Bengali. It Seeks To Understand The Incarnated Divinity Of Chaitanya (1486Å1533) And The Socio-Religious And Psychological Factors Responsible For His Apotheosis During His Life-Time. The Study Also Shows How The Concept Of Avatèra, Though Un-Vedic In Origin, Has Absorbed Many Vedic Elements Of Solar Myth And Natural Allegory, Has Synthesized Various Elements From The Epico-Purè!Ic Tradition And Has Ultimately Blossomed Forth As An Eclectic Theory In The Bengal School Of Vai !Avism. It Further Shows That Both Vai !Avism And The Concept Of Avatèra Owe Their Origin To K !A Vèsudeva, The Great Synthesizer Of The Aryan And Non-Aryan Cultures In Ancient India And Ascribes The Theoretical Development Of The Concept Of Avatèra In The Medieval Period To Various Attempts Of Interpreting Chaitanya S Life And Personality. In This Study, Avatèravèda Does Not Merely Remain To Be A Theological Doctrine, But Turns Out, On In-Depth Scrutiny, To Be Also A Method Of Analysis And Interpretation Of Both History And Its Maker With Stress On Synthesis And Syncretism.The Study Dwells Upon Many Relevant Topics Like Relationship Between Avatèravèda And Vyêhavèda, Psychosomatic Symptoms Of Avatèrahood, Zoomorphism And Mythic Elements In The Stories Of The Ten Incarnations Of Vi !U, Historical Significance Of The Episode Of Kalki And Chronology Of The Mytho-Historic Avatèras With The Help Of The Purè!Ic Calendar Of The Four Ages.

Author : Chandrashekar B U
Publisher : Chandrashekar B U
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Astronomy In Ancient Indian Belief Systems by Chandrashekar B U Pdf

A perspective that origins of ancient Gods of India are based on sky constellations The ancient Gods of India have been worshipped through several millennia and have infused faith, spirituality, and mystique in humankind. The Gods come fully equipped with their divine vehicles, weapons and elaborate belief systems. Billions of devotees all around the world follow many of these beliefs even in this present era. The puzzling belief systems generate wonder/curiosity, and they pose questions. Where is Mount Mēru, where the churning of the ocean occurred? From this churning arose Kāmadhēnu, the holy cow and the pot of Amrita. What signifies Amrita, the heavenly nectar? Where are Amrita and Kāmadhēnu now? Where did the book of Ayurveda originate from? Why do we see Lord Vishnu in a sleeping posture on the Giant serpent Ādishēsha & Lakshmi Devi floating in an ocean? Why are rivers holy? How did Ganga travel from Heaven to Earth? What is Akasha Ganga’s meaning? Why do we celebrate Basant Panchami by flying kites? Why are Shiva and Parvati represented together in iconography with a single body? Why is Akshaya Tritiya called so? Whom does Keerthimukha, the demon head depicted on the Gopura/peak of a temple entrance represent? What is the strange hybrid fish/ crocodile/ creature coming out of Keerthimukha’s mouth? What does the Nataraja dance posture indicate? Why is the Lord of wealth Kubēra not worshipped anymore? Why is Shiva wearing the moon on his head and associated with his drum, the Damaru? Why does Lakshmi have eight forms (Ashtalakshmi)? Why is Vishnu called Padmanābha, The Lord Who Has A Lotus Shaped Navel? What is Thōrana, the set of mango leaves tied together hanging on the top of Indian doors? How really did all these ancient Gods of India and belief systems originate? Did the Indians alone perceive it? Did the beliefs of ancient civilizations In the Indus valley, Mesopotamian, Egyptian, etc. have shared origins? Can some of these answers be found in Astronomy? Yes, read this book to find out further!

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Apkallu Press
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Apocalypse of Enoch and Bhuśunda The Apocalypse of Enoch and Bhuśunda challenges the underlying assumptions of the classical roots of civilization by restoring the original context of creation mythology. In this second volume of A Chronology of the Primeval Gods and the Western Sunrise, ancient myths from multiple geographies are correlated to spikes in cosmic rays over the past 120,000 years – as documented in ice core data. The chronology and content of these myths tell us that the primary forces behind these cataclysms were the most ancient gods - hyper-nova at the Galactic Center associated with Sgr A*(The Dragon), Sgr West (The Beast) and Sgr East (Hiranyâksha and Hiranyakas'ipu), with secondary supernova seen as the birth of new, destructive gods. Ancient myth has documented the cataclysmic destruction of the world on at least twenty occasions with four major geo-polar migrations, which has resulted in a shift of the earth’s equator on at least one occasion. Multiple myths are shown to represent a view of the sky that can only be seen from the Antarctic region. Multiple versions of the myths of Orion are analyzed, showing clear linkages between the Vedic myth of Trisanku, the Book of Genesis, Senmut's Tomb, and the myths of Prajāpati Daksa representing the oldest version of the Orion myth – older than Trishanku and Genesis by 20,000 years! The stunning conclusion explains how the “Watchers” of Enoch were the Vedic descendants of Ila and Iksvaku. These descendants of the seventh Manu had been observing and recording the stars as a source of cataclysm for at least 15,000 years prior to Enoch, thus allowing Enoch to prophesize a ‘new heaven.’ That prophecy became the foundation for St John’s Book of Revelations, which is shown to be a description of a series of cataclysms attributed to Sgr West. The book offers a new theory for explaining geo-polar migration. That theory suggests small shifts in the location of the earth’s center of gravity underlie each migration, but that there are multiple causes for the shifts.

Author : Kitty Millet,Dorothy Figueira
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501316661

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Fault Lines of Modernity by Kitty Millet,Dorothy Figueira Pdf

This state of the art collection offers fresh perspectives on why intersections between literature, religion, and ethics can address the fault lines of modernity and are not necessarily the cause of modernity's 'faults.' From a diverse cohort of scholars from around the world, with appointments in comparative literature and other disciplines, the essays suggest that the imagined hegemony of a Judeo-Christian Western project is neither exclusively true nor productive. However, the essays also suggest that elements of the Western religious traditions are important vectors for understanding modernity's complicated relationship to the past.

Author : Steven Rosen
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498558341

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Sri Chaitanya’s Life and Teachings by Steven Rosen Pdf

This book focuses on one of the greatest saint/avatāras of all time: Śrī Chaitanya Mahāprabhu. This charismatic religious leader popularized song and dance as a yogic science and conveyed teachings as relevant today as they were in his native Bengal some five hundred years ago. This is the story of how his message spread throughout the world.

Author : Tony K Stewart
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199742264

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The Final Word by Tony K Stewart Pdf

The Gaudiya Vaisnava movement is one of the most vibrant religious groups in all of South Asia. Unlike most devotional communities that flourished in 15th-, 16th-, and 17th-century Bengal, however, the group had no formal founder. Today its devotees are uniform in their devotion to the historical figure of Krishna Caitanya (1486-1533), whom they believe to be not just Krishna incarnate, but Radha and Krishna fused into a single androgynous form. But Caitanya neither founded the community that coalesced around him nor named a successor. Tony Stewart seeks to discover how, with no central leadership, no institutional authority, and no geographic center, a religious community nevertheless comes to successfully define itself, fix its canon and flourish. He finds the answer in the brilliant hagiographical exercise in Sanskrit and Bengali titled the Caitanya Caritamrita (CC) of Krishnadasa Kaviraja.

Author : Barbara A. Holdrege
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317669104

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Bhakti and Embodiment by Barbara A. Holdrege Pdf

The historical shift from Vedic traditions to post-Vedic bhakti (devotional) traditions is accompanied by a shift from abstract, translocal notions of divinity to particularized, localized notions of divinity and a corresponding shift from aniconic to iconic traditions and from temporary sacrificial arenas to established temple sites. In Bhakti and Embodiment Barbara Holdrege argues that the various transformations that characterize this historical shift are a direct consequence of newly emerging discourses of the body in bhakti traditions in which constructions of divine embodiment proliferate, celebrating the notion that a deity, while remaining translocal, can appear in manifold corporeal forms in different times and different localities on different planes of existence. Holdrege suggests that an exploration of the connections between bhakti and embodiment is critical not only to illuminating the distinctive transformations that characterize the emergence of bhakti traditions but also to understanding the myriad forms that bhakti has historically assumed up to the present time. This study is concerned more specifically with the multileveled models of embodiment and systems of bodily practices through which divine bodies and devotional bodies are fashioned in Krsna bhakti traditions and focuses in particular on two case studies: the Bhagavata Purana, the consummate textual monument to Vaisnava bhakti, which expresses a distinctive form of passionate and ecstatic bhakti that is distinguished by its embodied nature; and the Gaudiya Vaisnava tradition, an important bhakti tradition inspired by the Bengali leader Caitanya in the sixteenth century, which articulates a robust discourse of embodiment pertaining to the divine bodies of Krsna and the devotional bodies of Krsna bhaktas that is grounded in the canonical authority of the Bhagavata Purana.

Author : Steven Rosen
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1994-11-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8120812352

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Vaisnavism by Steven Rosen Pdf

Author : His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Publisher : The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789171497307

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Teachings of Lord Caitanya (Third Edition) by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Pdf

Taking the role of His own devotee, Lord Sri Krsna appeared as Lord Caitanya about five centuries ago in Bengal, India, and began a revolution in spiritual consciousness that has profoundly affected the lives of millions worldwide. His conversations with the great scholars, kings, and mystics of the day form the basis of Teachings of Lord Caitanya, which is a summary study of the dialogues recorded in His biography, Sri Caitanya-caritamrta. The extensive references in Teachings of Lord Caitanya make it an invaluable compendium of devotional Indian philosophy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 950 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : India
ISBN : UOM:39015005106227

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The Indian Historical Quarterly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Vasudha Narayanan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781118688328

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The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Materiality by Vasudha Narayanan Pdf

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Materiality provides a thoughtfully organized, inclusive, and vibrant project of the multiple ways in which religion and materiality intersect. The contributions explore the way that religion is shaped by, and has shaped, the material world, embedding beliefs, doctrines, and texts into social and cultural contexts of production, circulation, and consumption. The Companion not only contains scholarly essays but has an accompanying website to demonstrate the work of performers, architects, and expressive artists, ranging from musicians and dancers to religious practitioners. These examples offer specific illustrations of the interplay of religion and materiality in everyday life. The project is organized from a comparative perspective, highlighting examples and case studies from traditions originating in both East and West. To summarize, the volume: Brings together the leading figures, theories and ideas in the field in a systematic and comprehensive way Offers an interdisciplinary approach drawing together religious studies, anthropology, archaeology, history, sociology, geography, the cognitive sciences, ecology, and media studies Takes a comparative perspective, covering all the major faith traditions

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 900 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : India
ISBN : IOWA:31858042636401

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Indian Culture by Anonim Pdf

Author : Miro Roman,Alice _ch3n81
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783035624052

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Play Among Books by Miro Roman,Alice _ch3n81 Pdf

How does coding change the way we think about architecture? This question opens up an important research perspective. In this book, Miro Roman and his AI Alice_ch3n81 develop a playful scenario in which they propose coding as the new literacy of information. They convey knowledge in the form of a project model that links the fields of architecture and information through two interwoven narrative strands in an “infinite flow” of real books. Focusing on the intersection of information technology and architectural formulation, the authors create an evolving intellectual reflection on digital architecture and computer science.

Author : N. V. George
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Avatars
ISBN : IND:30000061544395

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The Doctrine of Incarnation in Vaishnavism and Christianity by N. V. George Pdf

Author : Anne Murphy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781136707285

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Time, History and the Religious Imaginary in South Asia by Anne Murphy Pdf

Religious imaginary is a way of conceiving and structuring the world within the conceptual and imaginative traditions of the religious. Using religious imaginary as a reference, this book analyses temporal ideologies and expressions of historicity in South Asia in the early modern, pre-colonial and early colonial period. Chapters explore the multiple understandings of time and the past that informed the historical imagination in various kinds of literary representations, including historiographical and literary texts, hagiography, and religious canonical literature. The book addresses the contributing forces and comparative implications of the formation of religious and communitarian sensibilities as expressed through the imagination of the past, and suggests how these relate to each other within and across traditions in South Asia. By bringing diverse materials together, this book presents new commonalities and distinctions that inform a larger understanding of how religion and other cultural formations impinge on the concept of temporality, and the representation of it as history.