Man as Microcosm in Tantric Hinduism
Author | : Grace Edith Cairns |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Grace Edith Cairns |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Grace E. Cairns |
Publisher | : Riverdale Company Pub |
Total Pages | : 155 |
Release | : 1992-02-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780913215685 |
Author | : Gudrun Bühnemann |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2021-11-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004492372 |
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 | : Phyllis K. Herman |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2009-03-26 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1443807028 |
The Constant and Changing Faces of the Goddess: Goddess Traditions of Asia contains essays written by established scholars in the field that trace the multiplicity of Asian goddesses: their continuities, discontinuities, and importance as symbols of wisdom, power, transformation, compassion, destruction, and creation. The essays demonstrate that while treatments of the goddess may vary regionally, culturally, and historically, it is possible to note some consistencies in the overall picture of the goddess in Asia. The book provides a comprehensive treatment of the goddess, culminating in the selections that draw from research on Indian, Nepali, Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese traditions, seldom found in other works of similar subject. The volume will be useful for students in religious studies, gender studies, Asian studies, and women's studies. With the intent of making the volume truly broad in scope, an effort has been made to include works written by art historians, sociologists, anthropologists, and religious studies scholars. Culture cannot be separated from religion; they are intertwined as an organic whole, and variations manifest themselves in the rituals and daily lives of the people. In this sense, all the essays are interconnected: the goddess manifests in many forms and appeals to differing aspects of a particular culture as a paradigm of the divine feminine.
Author | : T. V. Gopal |
Publisher | : Universal-Publishers |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2000-07 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781581127324 |
Lord Krishna is hailed as a God. In fact, he was deified during his own life time. His deeds are an integral part of Indian folklore. His crowning glory is the Bhagavad Gita. It is considered as an eternal source of wisdom and spiritual guidance. Yet, his story is riddled with controversies and logical inconsistencies. As a result, there is a progressive decline in the faith accorded to Lord Krishna and his deeds. Today, Lord Krishna is more of a myth and his teachings are believed to be beyond the ken of ordinary mortals. The author opines that this is the result of projecting Lord Krishna as a reincarnate of the supreme being. We tend to obey his diktats rather than try and emulate him. This work is a scientific examination of the life of Lord Krishna as an evolution from a gifted child to what confirms to the attributes of the supreme being. It examines the societal framework under which this evolution was made both possible and imperative. Such an approach shifts the focus from the end-result to the process of arriving at the result. Lord Krishna is the end-result of an intellectually challenging societal process that was fuelled by a galaxy of eminent individuals. A rigorous practice of Raja Yoga and Manthra Yoga could have been the catalyst. The collective failures of intellect and the corrective measures resorted to eventually shaped the mind of an individual called Lord Krishna. The author hopes that a study of this kind would lead to the restructuring of societal frameworks leading to the production of better minds.
Author | : John Emigh |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | : 9780812213362 |
Growing out of a series of articles written over a 15 year period, and illustrated with over 100 photos, this volume offers a narrowed focus examination of various performing traditions that rely on the expressive power and imagination of masks. It explores the redefinition of self into "other," when the mask is worn, and examines actors and their performances in Papua New Guinea, Orissa, India, and Bali.
Author | : Jitāmitra Prasāda Siṃhadeba |
Publisher | : Virago Press |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
On antiquities from various excavated sites in Orissa mostly Hindu artefacts; a study.
Author | : Swami Bhajanananda |
Publisher | : Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math, India) |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2016-07-29 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 8175058404 |
Sri Ramakrishna is regarded variously as a saint, sage, spiritual leader, world teacher, prophet, Avatara of the present age and so on. Finding these terms unsatisfactory, the noted British author Christopher Isherwood described Sri Ramakrishna as a “phenomenon”. The present book published by Advaita Ashrama, a publication house of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math, India, is a modest attempt to understand that phenomenon in the context of world thought currents and in the light of authentic sources. According to Swami Vivekananda, “With the birth of Sri Ramakrishna the Golden Age has begun.” But today, such an assertion may appear preposterous, with no sign of such a beginning visible. Who was Sri Ramakrishna? What was the purpose of his advent? What is the true dimension of his personality? Was he an Avatara? What is the role of an Avatara? Devotees, followers, and admirers of Sri Ramakrishna encounter these questions at some juncture of their life's journey. And in answer to these questions lies the opening to the realm of an ineffable “Light”, which is the “Light of the Modern World”.
Author | : Swami Agehananda Bharati |
Publisher | : Weiser Books |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Christopher Key Chapple |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2020-04-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1438477953 |
In Living Landscapes, Christopher Key Chapple looks at the world of ritual as enacted in three faiths of India. He begins with an exploration of the relationship between the body and the world as found in the cosmological cartography of Sāṃkhya philosophy, which highlights the interplay between consciousness (puruṣa) and activity (prakṛti), a process that gives rise to earth, water, fire, air, and space. He then turns to the progressive explication of these five great elements in Buddhism, Jainism, Advaita, Tantra, and Haṭha Yoga, and includes translations from the Vedas and the Purāṇas of Hinduism, the Buddhist and Jain Sūtras, and select animal fables from early Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. Chapple also describes his own pilgrimages to the Great Stupa at Shambhala Mountain Center in Colorado, the five elemental temples (pañcamahābhūta mandir) in south India, and the Jaina cosmology complex in Hastinapur. An appendix with practical instructions that integrate Yoga postures with meditative reflections on the five elements is included.