Bali Sanskrit Institute — University of Mahendradatta, Denpasar, Indonesia, 2012. — 178 p. Vedic Rituals and Universal Peace, by S. Ch. Dash. Sanskrit: A Cultural Repository, by G. Misra. The Effect of Agnihotra and Psycho-cosmos Phenomena (The Logical Analysis of The Ritual of Agnihotra and Human Effort to Creating Harmony Around of The Cosmic System), by I K. Donder. Genesis...
Bali Sanskrit Institute — University of Mahendradatta, Denpasar, Indonesia, 2013. — 170 p. An Introduction to the Nañvàdakàrìkà of Udayana, by W. Toshihiro and S. C. Dash. A Quest For Spiritual Science, by S. C. Dash. Prànasùkta of The Atharvaveda (Xi. 4): A Cosmological Approach, by S. Das. Bhatrhari on Apabhramsa, by A. Dash. Inquiry into the Brahman — To Establish the...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014. — 320 p. This volume examines the multifarious dimensions that constitute the workings of the Hindu temple as an architectural and urban built form. Eleven chapters reflect on Hindu temples from multiple standpoints tracing their elusive evolution from wayside shrines as well as canonization into classical objects; questioning the role of...
Paris: Librairie de Firmin-Didot, 1887. — 792 p. Ouvrage illustré de 352 héliogravures d'après les photographies, plans et documents de l'auteur. Gustave Le Bon, né le 7 mai 1841 à Nogent-le-Rotrou et mort le 13 décembre 1931 à Marnes-la-Coquette, est un médecin, anthropologue, psychologue social, sociologue. Esprit universel, polygraphe, il est l'auteur de nombreux ouvrages...
Paris: Les Presses universitaires de France, 1968. — 201 p. Essence et réalité du régime des castes Définition du régime des castes Réalité du régime des castes Le régime des castes en Inde Les racines du régime des castes La spécialisation des castes et la ghilde L'opposition des castes et la famille La hiérarchie des castes et le sacerdoce La vitalité du régime La caste et la...
Routledge, 2016. — 344 p. The Sanskrit Mahabharata (which contains the Bhagavad Gita) is sorely neglected as a classic - perhaps the classic - of world literature, and is of particularly timely human importance in today's globalised and war-torn world. This book is a chronological survey of the Sanskrit Mahabharata's central royal patriline - a family tree that is also a list...
Leiden, Boston: Brill 2007. — 414 p. — (Studies in the Culture of Early India. Handbook of Oriental Studies, Section Two: India, Vol.19.) Greater Magadha, roughly the eastern part of the Gangetic plain of northern India, has so far been looked upon as deeply indebted to Brahmanical culture. Religions such as Buddhism and Jainism are thought of as derived, in one way or another,...
Second edition: Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1993. (Reprint: 2000.) This book elucidates the early Buddhist teachings and beliefs concerning meditaions and its role in the process to liberation. In a number of cases, the Buddhist canonical texts reject practices which they accept elsewhere. When these practices-sometimes rejected, sometimes accepted-correspond to what is known...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. — 432 p. "The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art" provides an extensive research resource to the burgeoning field of Asian aesthetics. Featuring leading international scholars and teachers whose work defines the field, this unique volume reflects the very best scholarship in creative, analytic, and comparative...
Rupa Publications, 2012. — 192 p. Written in the early twentieth century, "The Dance of Shiva" was a remarkable book for its time. It discussed in depth the unique nature of the Indian ethos, understood by so few in the Western world and misinterpreted by so many. A collection of fourteen lectures, these essays on Indian art and culture offer a lucid representation of the...
World Wisdom, 2011. — 180 p. Ananda Coomaraswamy (1877-1947) was one of the most famous scholars of Indian art, culture, and religion. He served for many years as the Keeper of Indian and Islamic Art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, establishing one of the most impressive collections of oriental artifacts in the world. He introduced the essence of ancient Indian art and its...
Paris: Librairie Armand Colin, 1930. — 184 p. C’est une entreprise presque désespérée que de tracer une esquisse de l’histoire de la civilisation de l’Inde ancienne. Tant de travaux depuis plus d’un siècle ont embrassé les ensembles les plus vastes ou épuisé à la loupe les problèmes les plus menus, tant de probabilités, d’approximations, d’hypothèses aussi ont été émises, que...
University of California Press, 2017. — 300 p. In Hindu Pluralism, Elaine M. Fisher complicates the traditional scholarly narrative of the unification of Hinduism. By calling into question the colonial categories implicit in the term “sectarianism,” Fisher’s work excavates the pluralistic textures of precolonial Hinduism in the centuries prior to British intervention. Drawing...
London: William Marchant & Co., 1914. — 96 p. Fizi-Rahamin B. (Shahinda) Indian music (In English) History of Indian Music. Sur-Addhya (Law of Tones). Raao-Addhya (Law of Tunes). Ast-Addhya (Law of Musical Instruments). Tales of Indian Music.
University of Chicago Press, 2016. — 296 p. The Kamasutra is best known in the West for its scandalous celebration of unbridled sensuality. Yet, there is much, much more to it; embedded in the text is a vision of the city founded on art and aesthetic pleasure. In Foucault and the "Kamasutra" , Sanjay K. Gautam lays out the nature and origin of this iconic Indian text and...
Presented to the author by the staff of the Oriental Institute, Utrecht University, on the occasion of his 70th birthday. — Leiden : Brill, 1975. — X, 540 p. — ISBN: 90-04-04228-8 and 90-04-04233-4. Contents: The Concept of a personal God in ancient Indian religious thought. The Hindu Trinity. Viṣṇu’s name Aniruddha . A note on Indra in Purāṇic literature. Śiva in...
Princeton University Press, 2013. — 288 p. Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955) was an established Urdu short story writer and a rising screenwriter in Bombay at the time of India's partition in 1947, and he is perhaps best known for the short stories he wrote following his migration to Lahore in newly formed Pakistan. Today Manto is an acknowledged master of twentieth-century Urdu...
Columbia University Press, 2014. — 396 p. Once known as "Pariahs," Dalits are primarily descendants of unfree agrarian laborers. They belong to India's most subordinated castes, face overwhelming poverty and discrimination, and provoke public anxiety. Drawing on a wealth of previously untapped sources, this book follows the conception and evolution of the "Pariah Problem" in...
University of California Press, 2019. — 216 p. Impersonations: The Artifice of Brahmin Masculinity in South Indian Dance centers on an insular community of Smarta Brahmin men from the Kuchipudi village in Telugu-speaking South India who are required to don stri-vesam (woman’s guise) and impersonate female characters from Hindu religious narratives. Impersonation is not simply a...
New York: Britannica Educational Publishing / Rosen Educational Services, 2011. — 344 p. The culture of India has been shaped not only by its long history, unique geography and diverse demography, but also by its ancient heritages, which were formed during the Indus Valley Civilization and evolved further during the Vedic age, rise and decline of Buddhism, the Golden age,...
Paris: Librairie ancienne Honoré Champion, Librairie de la Société de l’Histoire de France, 1928. — 79 p. Sommaire: L’Inde et le Monde Humanisme bouddhique Civilisation brahmanique Civilisation bouddhique Orient et Occident. Essai sur l’humanisme Eastern humanism
Paris: Librairie ancienne Honoré Champion, Librairie de la Société de l’Histoire de France, 1928. — 184 p. Sommaire: L’Inde et le Monde Humanisme bouddhique Civilisation brahmanique Civilisation bouddhique Orient et Occident. Essai sur l’humanisme Eastern humanism
Paris: Librairie ancienne Honoré Champion, Librairie de la Société de l’Histoire de France, 1928. — 79 p. Sommaire: L’Inde et le Monde Humanisme bouddhique Civilisation brahmanique Civilisation bouddhique Orient et Occident. Essai sur l’humanisme Eastern humanism
Paris: Les Éditions Payot, 1934. — 268 p. ´ Table des matières: Préface Du pathétique des bas-fonds Les hors-la-loi. - Bas-fonds de l'Inde. - Les Castes. - Les Parias. - Préjugés contre les gens de couleur. - Lacrymae rerum sunt. Euphémismes charitables. Les races hors-caste et les classes opprimees L'ancienne armature. - Reconstitution du système brahmanique. - Les Doms. - Les...
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press. 1892. — 433 p. Introduction to the Grihya-Sutras. Gobhila Grihya-Sutra. Hiranyakesi Grihya-Sutra. Apastamba Grihya-Sutra. Apastamba Yagna-Paribhasha-Sutras Transliteration of Oriental Alphabets adopted for the Translations of the Sacred Books of the East.
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 320 p. For scholars of ancient Indian religions, the wandering mendicants who left home and family for a celibate life and the search for liberation represent an enigma. The Vedic religion, centered on the married household, had no place for such a figure. Much has been written about the Indian ascetic but hardly any scholarly attention has been...
Abinaya Arts, Madurai: 2012. - 64 p. (In English) Scan 400 dpi OCR A brief description is provided (in some places with historical information and photographs) of the most significant Hindu temples in the state of Tamil Nadu: Chennai .Sri Parthasarathy Temple .Sri Kapaleeswarar Temple .Sri Marundeeswarar Temple .Sri Karumaariamman Temple Mahabalipuram .Shore Temple .Sri...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 336 p. What does it mean to be a Brahmin, and what could it mean to become one? Over the years, intellectuals and dogmatists have offered plenty of answers to the first question, but the latter presents a cultural puzzle, since normative Brahminical ideology deems it impossible for an ordinary individual to change caste without first undergoing...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. — 426 p. — ISBN: 0374105839 From Nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen, The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian Culture, History and Identity brings together an illuminating selection of writings on contemporary India. India is an immensely diverse country with many distinct pursuits, vastly different convictions, widely divergent...
Pustak Mahal, 2010. — 296 p. Dictionary of Indology presents the history of Indian Scriptures, Languages, Literature and Humanities in all the forms, colours and dimensions; not graphically but alphabetically; from the most primitive time to the recent past; through detailed description of and references to, almost all the books available and the authors known in both Vedic and...
University of California Press, 2018. — 312 p. The Hegemony of Heritage makes an original and significant contribution to our understanding of how the relationship of architectural objects and societies to the built environment changes over time. Studying two surviving medieval monuments in southern Rajasthan - the Ambika Temple in Jagat and the Ékalingji Temple Complex in...
Routledge, 2019. — 423 p. — (Routledge Library Editions: Hinduism). — ISBN10: 036714901X, 13 978-0367149017. Indian art, increasingly popular in the west, cannot be fully appreciated without some knowledge of the religious and philosophical background. This book, first published in 1985, covers all aspects of Hindu iconography, and explains that its roots lie far back in the...
University of Washington Press, 2019. — 312 p. In the early 2000s, as India was emerging as a global superpower, a key development project off the southern Indian coast was thwarted by intense opposition. The construction of a new shipping canal angered Hindu nationalists who sought to protect what they saw as the land bridge built by Hanuman and his monkey army in the Indian...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. — 640 p. As David White explains in the Introduction to Tantra in Practice, Tantra is an Asian body of beliefs and practices that seeks to channel the divine energy that grounds the universe, in creative and liberating ways. The subsequent chapters reflect the wide geographical and temporal scope of Tantra by examining thirty-six...
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003 — 372 p. For those who wonder what relation actual Tantric practices bear to the "Tantric sex" currently being marketed so successfully in the West, David Gordon White has a simple answer: there is none. Sweeping away centuries of misunderstandings and misrepresentations, White returns to original texts, images, and ritual...
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2009 — 352 p. Since the 1960s, yoga has become a billion-dollar industry in the West, attracting housewives and hipsters, New Agers and the old-aged. But our modern conception of yoga derives much from nineteenth-century European spirituality, and the true story of yoga’s origins in South Asia is far richer, stranger, and more...
University Of Chicago Press, 1998. — 614 p. "The Alchemical Body" excavates and centers within its Indian context the lost tradition of the medieval Siddhas. Working from previously unexplored alchemical sources, David Gordon White demonstrates for the first time that the medieval disciplines of Hindu alchemy and hatha yoga were practiced by one and the same people, and that...
Oxford University Press, 2001. — 200 p. The annual festivals that are central to the south Indian religious tradition are among the largest religious gatherings found anywhere in the world. Most are located at Hindu temples, but some are at Buddhist, Christian, or Islamic centers, and many involve people or symbols from more than one religious tradition. To an observer, the...
Princeton University Press, 1972. — 282 p. — (Edited by Joseph Campbell). A landmark work that demystifies the rich tradition of Indian art, "Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization" analyzes key motifs found in legend, myth, and folklore taken directly from the Sanskrit. It provides a comprehensive introduction to visual thinking and picture reading in Indian art and...
Princeton University Press, 1972. — 282 p. — (Edited by Joseph Campbell). A landmark work that demystifies the rich tradition of Indian art, "Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization" analyzes key motifs found in legend, myth, and folklore taken directly from the Sanskrit. It provides a comprehensive introduction to visual thinking and picture reading in Indian art and...
Princeton University Press, 1972. — 282 p. — (Edited by Joseph Campbell). A landmark work that demystifies the rich tradition of Indian art, "Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization" analyzes key motifs found in legend, myth, and folklore taken directly from the Sanskrit. It provides a comprehensive introduction to visual thinking and picture reading in Indian art and...
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