EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

Book A Century in Asia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Catherine Clémentin-Ojha
  • Publisher : Editions Didier Millet
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9814155977
  • Pages : 241 pages

Download or read book A Century in Asia written by Catherine Clémentin-Ojha and published by Editions Didier Millet. This book was released on 2007 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Devoted to the study of societies of South, Southeast and East Asia, this book follows the creation and development of the Ecole Francaise d'Extr?-me-Orient (EFEO).

Book Publications de l Ecole fran  aise d Extr  me Orient

Download or read book Publications de l Ecole fran aise d Extr me Orient written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Publications de l Ecole fran  aise d Extr  me Orient

Download or read book Publications de l Ecole fran aise d Extr me Orient written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin de l Ecole fran  aise d Extr  me Orient

Download or read book Bulletin de l Ecole fran aise d Extr me Orient written by École française d'Extrême-Orient and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Publications de l Ecole fran  aise d Extr  me Orient

Download or read book Publications de l Ecole fran aise d Extr me Orient written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Publications de l E  cole fran  aise d Extr  me Orient

Download or read book Publications de l E cole fran aise d Extr me Orient written by École française d'Extrême-Orient and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book L Ecole fran  aise d Extr  me Orient

Download or read book L Ecole fran aise d Extr me Orient written by École française d'Extrême-Orient and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bilingual journal of the   cole fran  aise d Extr  me Orient

Download or read book Bilingual journal of the cole fran aise d Extr me Orient written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Publications de l   cole Fran  aise d Extr  me Orient

Download or read book Publications de l cole Fran aise d Extr me Orient written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Publications de l Ecole francaise d Extreme Orient

Download or read book Publications de l Ecole francaise d Extreme Orient written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Esoteric Theravada

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kate Crosby
  • Publisher : Shambhala Publications
  • Release : 2020-12-22
  • ISBN : 1611807948
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book Esoteric Theravada written by Kate Crosby and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking exploration of a practice tradition that was nearly lost to history. Theravada Buddhism, often understood as the school that most carefully preserved the practices taught by the Buddha, has undergone tremendous change over time. Prior to Western colonialism in Asia—which brought Western and modernist intellectual concerns, such as the separation of science and religion, to bear on Buddhism—there existed a tradition of embodied, esoteric, and culturally regional Theravada meditation practices. This once-dominant traditional meditation system, known as borān kammatthāna, is related to—yet remarkably distinct from—Vipassana and other Buddhist and secular mindfulness practices that would become the hallmark of Theravada Buddhism in the twentieth century. Drawing on a quarter century of research, scholar Kate Crosby offers the first holistic discussion of borān kammatthāna, illuminating the historical events and cultural processes by which the practice has been marginalized in the modern era.

Book Old Myths and New Approaches

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alexandra Haendel
  • Publisher : Monash University Publishing
  • Release : 2012-08-11
  • ISBN : 1921867280
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book Old Myths and New Approaches written by Alexandra Haendel and published by Monash University Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-11 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old Myths and New Approaches: Interpreting Ancient Religious Sites in Southeast Asia brings together recent research by leading experts on Southeast Asia in the pre-modern era. The authors examine sites from early and Angkor-period Cambodia and Vietnam, on the mainland, to temples in Java and Bali, and discuss many different aspects of these sites’ uses and functions. This comprehensive, innovative and interdisciplinary work will be invaluable to scholars and students of historical Southeast Asia.

Book Ancient Southeast Asia

Download or read book Ancient Southeast Asia written by John Norman Miksic and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Southeast Asia provides readers with a much needed synthesis of the latest discoveries and research in the archaeology of the region, presenting the evolution of complex societies in Southeast Asia from the protohistoric period, beginning around 500BC, to the arrival of British and Dutch colonists in 1600. Well-illustrated throughout, this comprehensive account explores the factors which established Southeast Asia as an area of unique cultural fusion. Miksic and Goh explore how the local population exploited the abundant resources available, developing maritime transport routes which resulted in economic and cultural wealth, including some of the most elaborate art styles and monumental complexes ever constructed. The book’s broad geographical and temporal coverage, including a chapter on the natural environment, provides readers with the context needed to understand this staggeringly diverse region. It utilizes French, Dutch, Chinese, Malay-Indonesian and Burmese sources and synthesizes interdisciplinary theoretical perspectives and data from archaeology, history and art history. Offering key opportunities for comparative research with other centres of early socio-economic complexity, Ancient Southeast Asia establishes the area’s importance in world history.

Book Pradyumna

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christopher R. Austin
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2019-09-04
  • ISBN : 0190054131
  • Pages : 432 pages

Download or read book Pradyumna written by Christopher R. Austin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-04 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the first full-scale English-language study of Pradyumna, the son of the Hindu god Krsna. Often represented as a young man in mid-adolescence, Pradyumna is both a handsome double of his demon-slaying father and the rebirth of Kamadeva, the God of Love. Sanskrit epic, puranic, and kavya narratives of the 300-1300 CE period celebrate Pradyumna's sexual potency, mastery of illusory subterfuges, and military prowess in supporting the work of his avatara father. These materials reflect the values of an evolving Brahminical and Vaisnava tradition that was deeply invested in the imperatives of family, patrilines, the violent but necessary defense of the social and cosmic order, and the celebration of beauty and desire as a means to the divine. Pradyumna's evolving narratives, almost completely absent from existing studies of Hindu mythology, provide a point of access to the development of Krsna bhakti and Vaisnava theism more broadly. Conversely, Jain sources cast Pradyumna as an exemplary figure through whom a pointed rejection of these values can be articulated, even while sharing certain of their elementary premises. Pradyumna: Lover, Magician, and Scion of the Avatara assembles these narratives, presents key Sanskrit materials in translation and summary form, and articulates the social, gender, and religious values encoded in them. Most importantly, the study argues that Pradyumna's signature two-handed maneuver--the audacious appropriation of a feminine partner, enabled by the emasculating destruction of her demonic male protector--communicates a persistent fantasy of male power expressed in the language of a mutually implicating sex and violence.

Book The Languages and Linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia

Download or read book The Languages and Linguistics of Mainland Southeast Asia written by Paul Sidwell and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-08-23 with total page 983 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The handbook will offer a survey of the field of linguistics in the early 21st century for the Southeast Asian Linguistic Area. The last half century has seen a great increase in work on language contact, work in genetic, theoretical, and descriptive linguistics, and since the 1990s especially documentation of endangered languages. The book will provide an account of work in these areas, focusing on the achievements of SEAsian linguistics, as well as the challenges and unresolved issues, and provide a survey of the relevant major publications and other available resources. We will address: Survey of the languages of the area, organized along genetic lines, with discussion of relevant political and cultural background issues Theoretical/descriptive and typological issues Genetic classification and historical linguistics Areal and contact linguistics Other areas of interest such as sociolinguistics, semantics, writing systems, etc. Resources (major monographs and monograph series, dictionaries, journals, electronic data bases, etc.) Grammar sketches of languages representative of the genetic and structural diversity of the region.

Book L   cole fran  aise d Extr  me Orient

Download or read book L cole fran aise d Extr me Orient written by École française d'Extrême-Orient and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Engendering the Buddhist State

Download or read book Engendering the Buddhist State written by Ashley Thompson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing from more than a decade of field and archival research, this monograph concerns Cambodian cultural history and historiography, with an ultimate aim of broadening and deepening bases for understanding the Cambodian Theravadin politico-cultural complex. The book takes the form of an interdisciplinary analysis of performative and representational strategies for constituting social collectivities, largely developed at Angkor. The analysis involves extended close readings of a wide range of cultural artefacts including epigraphic and manuscript texts, sculpture and ritual practices. The author proposes a critical re-evaluation of dominant paradigms of Cambodian historiography in view of engendering new histories, or hybrid histories, which make room for previously absent perspectives and voices, while developing new theoretical tools engaging with and partially derived from "indigenous" narrative practices in the broadest sense. In this history-making process the historical event is shown to never be entirely separable from its aesthetic representation. Particular attention is paid to the roles of sexual difference in such (re)constructions of history. The book presents a theory of power capable of accounting for the historical phenomena by which vernacular cultures appropriate, subvert and submit to cosmopolitan forces. It charts out a novel approach to the study of classical Southeast Asian materials, and is of interest to students and scholars of Asian Art, Religion and Philosophy, Buddhism and Southeast Asian History.