Category: Hinduism

By Alf Hiltebeitel

ISBN-10: 0226340538

ISBN-13: 9780226340531

The traditional Indian Sanskrit culture produced no textual content extra fascinating, or extra many times misunderstood or underappreciated, than the Mahabharata. Its intricacies have waylaid generations of students and ignited dozens of unresolved debates. In Rethinking the Mahabharata, Alf Hiltebeitel deals a special version for figuring out the nice epic. utilising a variety of literary and narrative concept, Hiltebeitel attracts on historic and comparative examine in an try and figure the spirit and strategies at the back of the epic's composition. He specializes in the schooling of Yudhisthira, sometimes called the Dharma King, and exhibits how the connection of this determine to others-especially his author-grandfather Vyasa and his spouse Draupadi-provides a thread throughout the bewildering array of frames and tales embedded inside of tales. Hiltebeitel additionally bargains a revisionist conception concerning the relationship and creation of the unique textual content and its relation to the Veda. No traditional reader's advisor, this quantity will light up many mysteries of this enigmatic masterpiece.This paintings is the fourth quantity in Hiltebeitel's research of the Draupadi cult. different volumes comprise Mythologies: From Gingee to Kuruksetra (Volume One), On Hindu Ritual and the Goddess (Volume Two), and Rethinking India's Oral and Classical Epics (Volume Three).

By Walter O. Kaelber

ISBN-10: 8170302374

ISBN-13: 9788170302377

This is often the main complete research but made up of tapas and of asceticism in the course of the Vedic interval. It additionally explains 3 different crucial elements of Vedic idea: sacrifice, homology, and data. those options, in addition to tapas and initiation symbolism, show the center of Vedic faith. for that reason, this learn offers a "history of Vedic religion," equipped round the significant construction blocks of that culture.

By Hugh B. Urban

ISBN-10: 0195139003

ISBN-13: 9780195139006

ISBN-10: 0195139011

ISBN-13: 9780195139013

ISBN-10: 1423762290

ISBN-13: 9781423762294

This booklet bargains the 1st English translation of a physique of hugely esoteric, mystical poetry and songs linked to the Khartabhajas, a Bengali sect dedicated to Tantrism. The interval from the past due 18th to the early nineteenth century, in which those lyrics have been written, was once an period of swap, experimentation, and transition from the older medieval kinds to the hot literary types of "modern" Bengal. The hugely unique songs offered listed below are a major a part of this transitional interval, reflecting the quest for brand new literary kinds and experimentation in new poetic types.

By Kabir

ISBN-10: 0891420398

ISBN-13: 9780891420392

By Reza Shah-Kazemi

ISBN-10: 0941532976

ISBN-13: 9780941532976

In our day while there's a lot strife among factions, this paintings illuminates the subject matter of transcendence as understood by means of the saints of the non secular traditions: Hinduism, Islam, and Christianity.

By (Hindu deity) Krishna; Bryant, Edwin Francis

ISBN-10: 0195148916

ISBN-13: 9780195148916

ISBN-10: 0195148924

ISBN-13: 9780195148923

ISBN-10: 0198034008

ISBN-13: 9780198034001

ISBN-10: 0199724318

ISBN-13: 9780199724314

ISBN-10: 1281158879

ISBN-13: 9781281158871

Within the West Krishna is essentially referred to as the speaker of the Bhagavad Gita. however it is the tales of Krishna's adolescence and his later exploits that experience supplied probably the most very important and frequent assets of non secular narrative within the Hindu spiritual panorama. This quantity brings jointly new translations of consultant samples of Krishna spiritual literature from quite a few genres -- classical, well known, neighborhood, sectarian, poetic, literary, and philosophical

By Richard H. Davis

ISBN-10: 1400851971

ISBN-13: 9781400851973

The Bhagavad Gita, maybe the main recognized of all Indian scriptures, is universally considered as one of many world’s non secular and literary masterpieces. Richard Davis tells the tale of this venerable and enduring booklet, from its origins in historical India to its reception at the present time as a religious vintage that has been translated into greater than seventy-five languages. The Gita opens at the eve of a potent conflict, while the warrior Arjuna is beaten by way of depression and refuses to struggle. He turns to his charioteer, Krishna, who counsels him on why he needs to. within the discussion that follows, Arjuna involves become aware of that the real conflict is for his personal soul.

Davis highlights where of this mythical discussion in classical Indian tradition, after which examines the way it has lived on in various settings and contexts. He appears to be like on the medieval devotional traditions surrounding the divine personality of Krishna and strains how the Gita traveled from India to the West, the place it stumbled on admirers in such figures as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Aldous Huxley. Davis explores how Indian nationalists like Mahatma Gandhi and Swami Vivekananda used the Gita of their struggle opposed to colonial rule, and the way modern interpreters reanimate and practice this classical paintings for audiences today.

An crucial biography of a undying masterpiece, this publication is a perfect advent to the Gita and its insights into the fight for self-mastery that all of us needs to salary.

By Patrick Laude, Barry McDonald

ISBN-10: 0941532453

ISBN-13: 9780941532457

The fast poems during this booklet mirror the non secular insights of a few of the best poets, saints, and sages identified to Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Islamic, and local American traditions.

By Leesa S. Davis

ISBN-10: 0826420680

ISBN-13: 9780826420688

This interesting and leading edge ebook explores the connection among the philosophical underpinnings of Advaita Vedanta, Zen Buddhism and the experiential trip of non secular practitioners. Taking the viewpoint of the wondering scholar, the writer highlights the experiential deconstructive techniques which are ignited whilst scholars' "everyday" dualistic proposal constructions are challenged through the non-dual nature of those teachings and practices.
Although Advaita Vedanta and Zen Buddhism are ontologically various, this special examine exhibits that during the dynamics of the perform state of affairs they're phenomenologically related.

Distinctive in scope and process Advaita Vedanta and Zen Buddhism: Deconstructive Modes of religious Inquiry examines Advaita and Zen as residing perform traditions during which foundational non-dual philosophies are proven "in motion" in modern Western perform events hence linking summary philosophical tenets to concrete residing event. As such it takes a tremendous step towards bridging the space among scholarly research and the experiential fact of those non secular practices.

ISBN-10: 113518979X

ISBN-13: 9781135189792

The Encyclopedia of Hinduism includes over 900 entries reflecting fresh advances in scholarship that have raised new theoretical and methodological matters in addition to determining new parts of research that have now not been addressed formerly. the controversy over the time period 'Hinduism' within the mild of post-Orientalist evaluations is only one instance of ways as soon as average educational frameworks were known as into query. Entries diversity from 150-word definitions of phrases and ideas to 5,000-word in-depth investigations of significant topics.

The Encyclopedia covers all elements of Hinduism yet departs from different works in together with extra ethnographic and modern fabric unlike an completely textual and old technique. It features a extensive variety of subject material similar to: historic advancements (among them 19th and 20th century reform and revival); geographical distribution (especially the diaspora); significant and minor events; philosophies and theologies; scriptures; deities; temples and sacred websites; pilgrimages; gala's; rites of passage; worship; non secular arts (sculpture, structure, song, dance, etc.); spiritual sciences (e.g. astrology); biographies of major figures; neighborhood and local traditions; caste and untouchability; feminism and women's faith; nationalism and the Hindu radical correct; and new spiritual activities. The background of analysis and the function of vital students prior and current also are discussed.

Accessibility to all degrees of reader has been a concern and no past wisdom is thought. even though, the in-depth higher entries and the layout of the paintings according to the newest scholarly advances implies that the amount may be of substantial curiosity to specialists.

The complete is cross-referenced and bibliographies connect to the bigger entries. there's a complete index.