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Author | : Gudrun Bühnemann |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2021-11-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004492372 |
Download Maṇḍalas and Yantras in the Hindu Traditions Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In recent years maṇḍalas have attracted much interest among a wider public. The main focus of such interest has been directed toward Tibetan maṇḍalas, specimens of which have been included in numerous publications. But maṇḍalas are found across a wide spectrum of South Asian religious traditions, including those of the Hindus and Jains. Hindu maṇḍalas and yantras have hardly been researched. This book attempts to fill this gap by clarifying important aspects of maṇḍalas and yantras in specific Hindu traditions through investigations by renowned specialists in the field. Its chapters explore maṇḍalas and yantras in the Smārta, Pāñcarātra, Śaiva and Śākta traditions. An essay on the vāstupuruṣamaṇḍala and its relationship to architecture is also included. With 13 colour plates.
Author | : Wil Stegenga |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2009-08-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0486470814 |
Download Sacred Yantra Coloring Book Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An ancient Hindu meditation symbol, the yantra is a sacred design that represents the universe. Artfully composed of interlocking geometrics and other shapes, this splendid array of 30 images is an inspiring source for creative coloring.
Author | : Signe Cohen |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2024-02-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 143849663X |
Download I, Yantra Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
What does it mean to be human? I, Yantra examines ancient Indian narratives about robots and mechanically constructed beings to explore how their Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist authors approached this question. Making translations of many of these texts available in English for the first time, author Signe Cohen argues that they shed considerable light on South Asian religious notions of humanity, self, and agency. She also documents connections between ancient and modern responses to the ethical problems of what precisely constitutes a sentient being and what rights such a being should have. Situated at the intersection of humanities and bioethics, this cross-disciplinary study will be of interest to scholars of South Asian languages and literature as well as specialists in religion and technology.
Author | : Judith Cornell |
Publisher | : Quest Books |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2006-09-01 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 9780835608473 |
Download Mandala Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Mandala will guide readers of all levels through simple mandala exercises and easy-to-follow drawing techniques, incorporating meditation and guided visualization with lavish illustrations. By exploring the tradition of the sacred circle, readers will learn how to create their own unique and powerful works of sacred art and use the mandala symbol as a self-transformative tool that manifests and enhances their own spiritual consciousness. The new edition also includes a CD with meditations set to music and guided exercises.
Author | : Arvind Sharma |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004124667 |
Download Goddesses And Women In The Indic Religious Tradition Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Following the lead of a "hermeneutics of surprise" the book identifies, indeed, surprising new material, and offers unexpected new insights essential to the debate on the position of goddesses and women in ancient India.
Author | : Fredrick W. Bunce |
Publisher | : D.K. Print World Limited |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Download The Yantras of Deities and Their Numerological Foundations Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Book, Highlights The Essential Import Of The Innocuous-Looking, Yet Enigmatic, Diagrams Called Yantras Surfacing From The Occult Practices Of The Tantrics. It Examines A Range Of Tantric Yantras, With Their Varieties, Applications, Modes Of Construction And Above All Their Iconographic Features.
Author | : John Gray |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2017-03-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 135194312X |
Download Domestic Mandala Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A rich and fascinating ethnography of domestic architecture and activities among the high caste Chhetris of Kholagaun in Nepal, this book focuses on the spatial organization, everyday activities and ritual performances that generate and display Chhetri houses as 'mandalas', sacred diagrams that are both maps of the cosmos and machines for revelation. Describing the orientation and layout of the Chhetri house and surrounding compound; it shows how the orientation and distribution of everyday social activities with the domestic mandala shape people's experience of the enigmas of their lifeworld as householders; and analyses the double significance of rituals that take place in the domestic mandala. By treating the Nepali house as more than just the background of people's everyday life, the author reveals the Chhetri everyday lifeworld as a revelation of Hindu tantric cosmology, its enigmatic illusion, and the path to liberation from it. The themes addressed in the book make a unique contribution to the fields of anthropology, architecture and human geography.
Author | : David Gordon White |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2010-07-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0226895157 |
Download Sinister Yogis Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Since the 1960s, yoga has become a billion-dollar industry in the West, attracting housewives and hipsters, New Agers and the old-aged. But our modern conception of yoga derives much from nineteenth-century European spirituality, and the true story of yoga’s origins in South Asia is far richer, stranger, and more entertaining than most of us realize. To uncover this history, David Gordon White focuses on yoga’s practitioners. Combing through millennia of South Asia’s vast and diverse literature, he discovers that yogis are usually portrayed as wonder-workers or sorcerers who use their dangerous supernatural abilities—which can include raising the dead, possession, and levitation—to acquire power, wealth, and sexual gratification. As White shows, even those yogis who aren’t downright villainous bear little resemblance to Western assumptions about them. At turns rollicking and sophisticated, Sinister Yogis tears down the image of yogis as detached, contemplative teachers, finally placing them in their proper context.
Author | : John Nemec |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2011-07-22 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0199795452 |
Download The Ubiquitous Siva Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
John Nemec examines the beginnings of the non-dual tantric philosophy of the famed Pratyabhijna or "Recognition [of God]" School of tenth-century Kashmir, the tradition most closely associated with Kashmiri Shaivism. In doing so it offers, for the very first time, a critical edition and annotated translation of a large portion of the first Pratyabhijna text ever composed, the Sivadrsti of Somananda. In an extended introduction, Nemec argues that the author presents a unique form of non-dualism, a strict pantheism that declares all beings and entities found in the universe to be fully identical with the active and willful god Siva. This view stands in contrast to the philosophically more flexible panentheism of both his disciple and commentator, Utpaladeva, and the very few other Saiva tantric works that were extant in the author's day. Nemec also argues that the text was written for the author's fellow tantric initiates, not for a wider audience. This can be adduced from the structure of the work, the opponents the author addresses, and various other editorial strategies. Even the author's famous and vociferous arguments against the non-tantric Hindu grammarians may be shown to have been ultimately directed at an opposing Hindu tantric school that subscribed to many of the grammarians' philosophical views. Included in the volume is a critical edition and annotated translation of the first three (of seven) chapters of the text, along with the corresponding chapters of the commentary. These are the chapters in which Somananda formulates his arguments against opposing tantric authors and schools of thought. None of the materials made available in the present volume has ever been translated into English, apart from a brief rendering of the first chapter that was published without the commentary in 1957. None of the commentary has previously been translated into any language at all.
Author | : Sarah Tomlinson |
Publisher | : Shambhala Publications |
Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 2017-10-31 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 1611804957 |
Download Coloring Yantras Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A sophisticated and unique adult coloring book featuring 24 Yantras--sacred Indian geometric symbols--that can be used for meditation, contemplation, healing, and personal growth Bring meditative, healing, and creative power into your life with this coloring book of 24 sacred geometric symbols known as Yantras. Yantras are often associated with Indian deities, and each one contains its own specific energetic power--like protection, healing, wealth, and success. Sarah Tomlinson, a Yantrika (Yantra teacher and practitioner), yoga teacher, and artist offers these intricate Yantra archetypes to color for mindfulness, centering, stress-relief, empowerment, and for the joy of it. She briefly unpacks each Yantra--explaining the archetype, how it should be used, what energy it offers, what colors are associated with it, and where the mandala should be displayed for maximum power. She also offers a mantra or intention for each archetype.