Download or read book The Mah bh rata written by Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mahabharata is the longest and, arguably, one of the greatest epic poems in any language. Intended to be a treatise on life itself, it embraces religion and ethics, polity and government, philosophy and the pursuit of salvation. With its central theme of universal destruction and the evils of war, the epic poem reveals not the exploits of heroes but of ordinary lives in search of the most fundamental of human desires: peace and reconciliation.

Download or read book When the Goddess was a Woman written by Alf Hiltebeitel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-07-27 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together Hiltebeitel's major essays on the the Mah?bh?rata, the R?m?ya?a, and the south Indian cults of Draupad? and K?tt???avar along with new articles written especially for this collection, this two volume work offers a comprehensive re-reading of the Indian epic tradition by the foremost scholar in Indian epic studies today.

Download or read book The Origins of Yoga and Tantra written by Geoffrey Samuel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-03-27 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yoga, tantra and other forms of Asian meditation are practised in modernized forms throughout the world today, but most introductions to Hinduism or Buddhism tell only part of the story of how they developed. This book is an interpretation of the history of Indic religions up to around 1200 CE, with particular focus on the development of yogic and tantric traditions. It assesses how much we really know about this period, and asks what sense we can make of the evolution of yogic and tantric practices, which were to become such central and important features of the Indic religious scene. Its originality lies in seeking to understand these traditions in terms of the total social and religious context of South Asian society during this period, including the religious practices of the general population with their close engagement with family, gender, economic life and other pragmatic concerns.

Download or read book Re ending the Mahabharata written by Naama Shalom and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a fresh perspective on the Mah?bh?rata based on an exploration of its ending, the Svarg?roha?a parvan. This book challenges two prevalent assumptions about the Mah?bh?rata: that its narrativeis inherently incapable of achieving a conclusion and that its ending, the Svarg?roha?a parvan, is an extraneous part of the text. While the exegetic traditions have largely tended to suppress, ignore, or overlook the importance of this final section, Shalom argues that the moment of the condemnation of dharma that occurs in the Svarg?roha?a parvan, expressed by the epic protagonist, Yudhi??hira, against his father, Dharma, is of crucial importance. It sheds light on the incessant preoccupation and intrinsic dismay towards the concept of dharma (the cardinal theme around which the epic revolves) expressed by Mah?bh?rata narrators throughout the epic, and is thus highly significant for understanding the Mah?bh?rata narrative as a whole.

Download or read book Jayam written by Badrinath N and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2024-01-24 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jayam’ contains 7 light paths that show us the route to Dharma. These 7 light paths have been derived from the timeless ‘Mahabharata,’ and are universally applicable to all of us engrossed in playing the game of life, wherein Dharma is the goal. The chances of us losing this game of life are high due to errors of assumed goodness and ignorance of the unknown rules of nature. These limitations and pitfalls are explored in ‘Jayam,’ thereby providing us insight into dharmic consciousness and a glimpse into our own personal Dharmic Quotient (DQ). The provision of the Dharma model, the Varna model, and the Swadharma model in the book offers the reader path-maps and philosophical frameworks that pave the way for smart dharmic living. Hence, this book focuses on the lessons for life, keeping Dharma as the core. Rather than revolving around role models, this book explores the Mahabharata to learn about the fallibility of human nature. Even the greats like Dharmaputra, Arjuna, Vithura, Draupadi, Dronacharya, Bheeshmacharya and others who aspired to be in dharma, had to battle their own shortcomings and external challenges, exhibiting varying percentages of dharmic strengths and weaknesses. Taking sides that one was greater than the other, prevents us from learning invaluable lessons from them."

Download or read book Ganesha Iconographic Conception Motif and Its Social Outlet written by Jitraphan Hajjavanija and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2008-12-19 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject Indology, grade: 1, University of Heidelberg (Klassiche Indologie), course: Seminar zur Vorlesung Hindu Mythologie, 18 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In this essay, I attempt to write about the importance and remarkable motif appearing in Gaṇeśa's myth and his Iconographic conception. Besides I try to give its interpretation and its social outlet function by using the same method which is from the book ทฤษฏีคติชนวิทยา วิธีวิทยาในการวิเคราะหตํานานและนิทานพื้นบาน1 by ศิราพร ณ ถลาง2 like I used In Thailand to study Folk literature. But the most importantly, one should consider that the interpretations in this essay, some of them was collected from the book concerning to Gaṇeśa's myth, some are my own interpretation and there is no right or wrong in the interpretation so "Let the myth speaks by itself" .

Download or read book Greater Magadha written by Johannes Bronkhorst and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a detailed analysis of the available cultural and chronological data, this book overturns traditional ideas about the cultural history of India and proposes a different picture instead. The idea of a unilinear development out of Brahmanism, in particular, is challenged.

Download or read book Women in the Hindu Tradition written by Mandakranta Bose and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-01-19 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book accounts for the origin and evolution of the nature and roles of women within the Hindu belief system. It explains how the idea of the goddess has been derived from Hindu philosophical ideas and texts of codes of conduct and how particular models of conduct for mortal women have been created. Hindu religious culture correlates philosophical speculation and social imperatives to situate femininity on a continuum from divine to mortal existence. This creates in the Hindu consciousness multiple - often contradictory - images of women, both as wielders and subjects of authority. The conception and evolution of the major Hindu goddesses, placed against the judgments passed by texts of Hindu sacred law on women’s nature and duties, illuminate the Hindu discourse on gender, the complexity of which is compounded by the distinctive spirituality of female ascetic poets. Drawing on a wide range of Sanskrit texts, the author explains how the idea of the goddess has been derived from Hindu philosophical ideas and also from the social roles of women as reflected in, and prescribed by, texts of codes of conduct. She examines the idea of female divinity which gave rise to models of conduct for mortal women. Instead of a one-way order of ideological derivation, the author argues that there is constant traffic between both ways the notional and the actual feminine. This book brings together for the first time a wide range of material and offers fresh stimulating interpretations of women in the Hindu Tradition.

Download or read book The Da an m Sa ny s s written by Matthew Clark and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an account of the organisation, practices and history of the Daśanāmī-Saṃnyāsīs, one of the largest sects of sādhu-s (‘holy men’) in South Asia, founded, according to tradtion, by the legendary philosopher Śaṅkarācārya.

Download or read book Tragic Views of the Human Condition written by Lourens Minnema and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cross-cultural comparisons between Western, primarily Greek and Shakespearean, and Hindu views of man and human nature.

Download or read book Religious Studies The Key Concepts written by Carl Olson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious Studies: The Key Concepts is an accessible, A-Z resource, defining and explaining key terms and ideas central to the study of religion. Exploring broad and recurring themes which are applicable in both eastern and western religions, cross-cultural examples are provided for each term to give a comprehensive overview of the subject. Subjects covered include: afterlife comparative religion festivals ethics gender monotheism world religions modernity pilgrimage theism secularization With cross referencing and further reading provided throughout, this book provides an inclusive map of the discipline, and is an essential reference for all students, academics and researchers.

Download or read book Images in Asian Religions written by Phyllis Granoff and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection offers a challenge to any simple understanding of the role of images by looking at aspects of the reception of image worship that have only begun to be studied, including the many hesitations that Asian religious traditions expressed about image worship. Written by eminent scholars of anthropology, art history, and religion with interests in different regions (India, China, Japan, and Southeast Asia), this volume takes a fresh look at the many ways in which images were defined and received in Asian religions. Buddha Dharma Kyokai Foundation Book on Buddhism and Comparative Religion

Download or read book The History of Indian Literature written by Albrecht Weber and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2000. This title is Volume 10 in the 14-volume series titled India: Language and Literature, one of the Trüber's Oriental Series. The lectures in this volume were presented to the narrow circle fellows in this field of study. This publication will now reach the wider circle of those interested and those researchers of the history of literature generally. The form in which these lectures appear is essentially the same in which they were delivered while incidental remarks are given as footnotes and new matter has been added.

Download or read book Bhagavad Gita written by Paramahamsa Nithyananda and published by eNPublishers. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 1516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bhagavan Shri Krsna Bhagavat Dharma written by Ashim Kumar Bhattacharyya and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-07-21 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shri Krsna and Bhgavat Dharma by Shri Jagadish Chandra Ghose written in Bengali discusses the teachings of Shri Krsna with quotes from various books of Shstras. Shri Krsna and Bhgavat Dharma discusses mainly four subjects: First the book considers Shri Krsna as Brahman, Ishvara or Bhagavn as is meant by "Ishvarah paramah Krsnah sacchidnandavigrahah" meaning "Krsna is Ishvara; He is Sat-Cit-nanda"; this has been supported by quotations from the Vednta, Purnas and Vaishnava Shstras. Second, the discussion is on Shri Krsna's divine love plays (Lil). Through these divine love plays the Bliss or nanda aspect of Shri Krsna, the Sat-Cit-nanda is expressed. These expressions are explained with quotes from the Purnas. Third, there is discussion about the main objectives of human life. Finally, the book explains what Shri Krsna taught His disciples Arjuna and Uddhava about His doctrines and Dharma using quotes extensively from Bhagavad Git and the Bhgavat. This English translation Bhagavn Shri Krsna and Bhgavat Dharma follows the format as closely as possible to the original Bengali book.

Download or read book I am a Chechen written by German Sadulaev and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-11-04 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Am a Chechen! offers a lyrical fusion of exotic legends, stories and memories of Chechnya: a land of wondrous beauty, site of genocides past and present, and the author's ancestral home. Haunted by memories of the land he deserted, Sadulaev tells the stories of those who stayed behind. He brings dead friends back to life again, revisiting their first loves, their passion for rock music, their quests for martyrdom. And he immerses us in the intoxicating beauty of his homeland's mountains, blossoms and the flocks of migratory swallows that fill its skies. This is an intensely personal journey through the carnage of the war, exploring the pain, the challenge, and above all the meaning of being a Chechen.

Download or read book Hindu Gods and Heroes Studies in the History of the Religion of India written by Lionel D. Barnett and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1922-01-01 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: