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Author | : Ronald L. Barrett |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2008-03-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0520941012 |
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For centuries, the Aghori have been known as the most radical ascetics in India: living naked on the cremation grounds, meditating on corpses, engaging in cannibalism and coprophagy, and consuming intoxicants out of human skulls. In recent years, however, they have shifted their practices from the embrace of ritually polluted substances to the healing of stigmatized diseases. In the process, they have become a large, socially mainstream, and politically powerful organization. Based on extensive fieldwork, this lucidly written book explores the dynamics of pollution, death, and healing in Aghor medicine. Ron Barrett examines a range of Aghor therapies from ritual bathing to modified Ayurveda and biomedicines and clarifies many misconceptions about this little-studied group and its highly unorthodox, powerful ideas about illness and healing.
Author | : Ronald L. Barrett |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2008-03-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520252187 |
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"Aghor Medicine moves seamlessly between an ethnography of religion and medical anthropology. The stories of suffering and renunciation, of collective experience that turn Indian hierarchy and discrimination upside down are quite marvelous. The writing is clear and direct and the interpretations balanced and scrupulously documented. Barrett has written one of the best accounts on local traditions "modernizing" in ways that combine indigenous significance with globally crucial changes that react against health and social inequalities."—Arthur Kleinman, Harvard University "Ronald Barrett's fine account of aghor medicine reveals essential characteristics of India's popular culture, and, since an ashram in California has an important role in the story, of American popular culture as well."—Charles Leslie, author of Death Row Letters (forthcoming)
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Author | : Jahn Hooks |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 47 |
Release | : 2016-07-17 |
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ISBN | : 1365245500 |
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This book is presenting a way to approach living in the grimy city and amongst heavy populations consumed with pollution as a healer, shaman, and alchemist. To joyously and fearlessly serve in the city and use the would be dangers of the city itself as a part of our spiritual practice is the will of the Urban Aghori. Ideas and simple effective practices are shared here that may assist in transforming the apparent mundane into your personal mandala.
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Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Aghoris |
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The followers of the Aghora path try to cultivate a state of mindand social practice totally non-discriminatory. Seeing the Divine ineverything and everybody, they transcend all category distinctions,all prescriptions and proscriptions of the normal social structuresuch as high and low, purity and pollution, pure and impure, or maleand female.In the 20th century, Aghoreshwar Mahaprabhu Baba Bhagwan Ram(1937-1992) was the greatest avadhut in the Aghora tradition. Heattained enlightenment at the age of fourteen or fifteen. People feltthat Baba truly loved everyone who went to him. Hundreds ofthousands of devotees, simple villagers, spiritual seekers and highdignitaries would flock around him.Baba s teachings were imparted more through everyday conversationsrather than through sermons. On his advice, his wordswere compiled into a book. Thus was written Aghor Vachan Shastrain Hindi and this book, its English translation.
Author | : Robert E. Svoboda |
Publisher | : Rupa Publications India Pvt Limited |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Aghorīs |
ISBN | : 9788171673421 |
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Author | : Sir Herbert Hope Risley |
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Total Pages | : 486 |
Release | : 1891 |
Genre | : Anthropometry |
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Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 1892 |
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Author | : Keith Dowman |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 479 |
Release | : 2010-03-31 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1438401485 |
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In Tibetan Buddhism, Mahamudra represents a perfected level of meditative realization: it is the inseparable union of wisdom and compassion, of emptiness and skillful means. These eighty-four masters, some historical, some archetypal, accomplished this practice in India where they lived between the eighth and twelfth centuries. Leading unconventional lives, the siddhas include some of the greatest Buddhist teachers; Tilopa, Naropa, and Marpa among them. Through many years of study, Keith Dowman has collected and translated their songs of realization and the legends about them. In consultation with contemporary teachers, he gives a commentary on each of the Great Adepts and culls from available resources what we can know of their history. Dowman's extensive Introduction traces the development of tantra and discusses the key concepts of the Mahamudra. In a lively and illuminating style, he unfolds the deeper understandings of mind that the texts encode. His treatment of the many parallels to contemporary psychology and experience makes a valualbe contribution to our understanding of human nature.
Author | : Swami Rama |
Publisher | : Himalayan Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0893891568 |
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