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Author | : Gail Hinich Sutherland |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 1991-07-03 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1438421613 |
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Among the most ancient deities of South Asia, the yaksha straddle the boundaries between popular and textual traditions in both Hinduism and Buddhism and both benevolent and malevolent facets. As a figure of material plenty, the yaksis epitomized as Kubera, god of wealth and king of the yaks In demonic guise, the yaksis related to a large family of demonic and quasi-demonic beings, such as nagas, gandharvas, raks, and the man-eating pisaacas. Translating and interpreting texts and passages from the Vedic literature, the Hindu epics, the Puranas, Kālidāsa's Meghadūta, and the Buddhist Jātaka Tales, Sutherland traces the development and transformation of the elusive yaksfrom an early identification with the impersonal absolute itself to a progressively more demonic and diminished terrestrial characterization. Her investigation is set within the framework of a larger inquiry into the nature of evil, misfortune, and causation in Indian myth and religion.
Author | : Gail Hinich Sutherland |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1991-07-03 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780791406229 |
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Among the most ancient deities of South Asia, the yaksha straddle the boundaries between popular and textual traditions in both Hinduism and Buddhism and both benevolent and malevolent facets. As a figure of material plenty, the yaksis epitomized as Kubera, god of wealth and king of the yaks In demonic guise, the yaksis related to a large family of demonic and quasi-demonic beings, such as nagas, gandharvas, raks, and the man-eating pisaacas. Translating and interpreting texts and passages from the Vedic literature, the Hindu epics, the Puranas, Kālidāsa's Meghadūta, and the Buddhist Jātaka Tales, Sutherland traces the development and transformation of the elusive yaksfrom an early identification with the impersonal absolute itself to a progressively more demonic and diminished terrestrial characterization. Her investigation is set within the framework of a larger inquiry into the nature of evil, misfortune, and causation in Indian myth and religion.
Author | : Gail Hinich Sutherland |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780585076041 |
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Author | : Arthur Chute McGill |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Demonology |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Gail Hinich Sutherland |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 1991 |
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ISBN | : |
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Author | : Jean Ure |
Publisher | : Heinemann |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Children's stories, English |
ISBN | : 9780602261733 |
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Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Yakṣas (Buddhist deities) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Francis Chan |
Publisher | : David C Cook |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2013-04-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0781411033 |
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Revised & Updated Edition! God is love. Crazy, relentless, all-powerful love. Have you ever wondered if we're missing it? It's crazy, if you think about it. The God of the universe—the Creator of nitrogen and pine needles, galaxies and E-minor—loves us with a radical, unconditional, self-sacrificing love. And what is our typical response? We go to church, sing songs, and try not to cuss. Whether you've verbalized it yet or not, we all know something's wrong. Does something deep inside your heart long to break free from the status quo? Are you hungry for an authentic faith that addresses the problems of our world with tangible, even radical, solutions? God is calling you to a passionate love relationship with Himself. Because the answer to religious complacency isn't working harder at a list of do's and don'ts—it's falling in love with God. And once you encounter His love, as Francis describes it, you will never be the same. Because when you're wildly in love with someone, it changes everything. Learn more about Crazy Love at www.crazylovebook.com.
Author | : Alan M. Olson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Pingali Suranna |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0791482154 |
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The Demon's Daughter (Prabhavati-pradyumnamu) is a sixteenth-century novel by the south Indian poet Pingali Suranna, originally written in Telugu, the language of present-day Andhra Pradesh. Suranna begins with a story from classical Hindu mythology in which a demon plans to overthrow the gods. Krishna's son Pradyumna is sent to foil the plot and must infiltrate the impregnable city of the demons; Krishna helps ensure his success by having a matchmaking goose cause Pradyumna to fall in love with the demon's daughter. The original story focuses on the ongoing war between gods and anti-gods, but Pingali Suranna makes it an exploration of the experience of being and falling in love. In this, the work evinces a modern sensibility, showing love as both an individualized emotion and the fullest realization of a person, transcending social and cultural barriers. The translators include an afterword that explores the cultural setting of the work and its historical and literary contexts. Anyone interested in the literature and mythology of India will find this book compelling, but all readers who love a good story will enjoy this moving book. Velcheru Narayana Rao and David Shulman have provided an elegant translation that will serve well the contemporary reader who wishes to encounter a masterwork of world literature largely unknown in the West.