An Epic and Puranic Bibliography (up to 1985) Annotated and with Indexes
| Author | : Heinrich von Stietencron |
| Publisher | : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag |
| Total Pages | : 1116 |
| Release | : 1992 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9783447030281 |
Epic And Puranic Bibliography
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Sallekhana
| Author | : Christopher Key Chapple |
| Publisher | : DK Printworld (P) Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 284 |
| Release | : 2022-09-23 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 8124611793 |
Jainism regards life to be eternal. Recognizing that the soul can never die, but merely takes a new body, a careful tradition welcoming death through intentional fasting developed more than two thousand years ago. A legal challenge Rajasthan was put forward in 2013, suggesting that this practice is harmful and coercive and targets women in particular. For a short while SallekhanÀ, which means the “thinning of existence,” was declared illegal. In response to this controversy, three conferences were convened by the International School for Jain Studies to explore the legal, religious, and medical aspects of this practice. Experts discussed the long history of the practice, attested to in epigraphs throughout India; the ways in which fasting to death has become an acceptable practice in the Western world; and contemporary instances of its observance in India. This volume presents an interdisciplinary approach to thinking about the end of life, from biomedical, historical, religious, and legal perspectives.
Theory and Practice of Yoga : 'Essays in Honour of Gerald James Larson
| Author | : Knut A. Jacobsen |
| Publisher | : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe |
| Total Pages | : 494 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9788120832329 |
This collection of original essays providesfascinating insights into yoga as a historical and pluralistic phenomenon flourishing in a variety of religious and philosophical contexts. They cover a wide variety of traditions and topics related to yoga: Classical yoga, Samkhya, Tantric yoga, Bhakti yoga, the Guru, Indic Islamic traditions of yoga, yoga and asceticism in contemporary India, and the reception of yoga in the West. The essays are written by eighteen professors in the field of the history of religions, most of them former graduate students of Gerald James Larson, Rabindranath Tagore Professor Emeritus, Indiana University, Bloomington and Professor Emeritus, Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, an internationally acclaimed scholar on the history of religions and the philosophies of India, and one of the world's foremost authorities on the Samkhya and Yoga traditions. The publication is in honour of him.
The Study of Hinduism
| Author | : Arvind Sharma |
| Publisher | : Univ of South Carolina Press |
| Total Pages | : 352 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Hinduism |
| ISBN | : 9781570034497 |
In this text, leading scholars from around the world take stock of two centuries of international intellectual investment in Hinduism. Since the early 19th century, when the scholarly investigation of Hinduism began to take shape as a modern academic discipline, Hindu studies has evolved from its concentration on description and analysis to an emphasis on understanding Hindu traditions in the context of the religion's own values, concepts and history. Offering an assessment of the current state of Hindu studies, the contributors to this volume identify past achievements and chart the course for what remains to be accomplished in the field.
Genealogy of the South Indian Deities
| Author | : Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg |
| Publisher | : Psychology Press |
| Total Pages | : 394 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Gods, Hindu |
| ISBN | : 9780415344388 |
For the first time, the work Genealogy of the South Indian Deitiesof the first Protestant missionary to India, Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg (1682-1719), is made accessible to an English readership. Originally published in 1713, the text reveals Ziegenbalg's ethos in the emerging European Enlightenment and his willingness to learn from the South Indians. The text contains the original voices of knowledgeable South Indians from various religious backgrounds and presents South India in a vivid, direct and unfiltered way. In this volume Daniel Jeyaraj edits and presents the German original in an English translation. This is followed by a detailed textual analysis, a glossary and an appendix. This book is invaluable for anyone interested in reliable information about the interactions of Europeans with Hindu and Tamil religion and culture.
Geology and Medicine
| Author | : C.J. Duffin |
| Publisher | : Geological Society of London |
| Total Pages | : 294 |
| Release | : 2017-07-06 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1786202832 |
The development of the geological and medical sciences shows overlap through numerous historical threads, some of which are investigated here by an international authorship of geologists, historians and medical professionals. Some of the medical men considered here are the relatively well known Steno, Parkinson, William Hunter and Peter Duncan, as well as several more obscure individuals such as Sperling, Hodges, Lemoine, Siqués and a number of Italians. Their work included foundational geological studies, aspects of hydrogeology and the nature of fossils. The therapeutic use of geological materials has been practised since ancient times. A suite of magico-medicinal stones, some purportedly harvested from the bodies of fabulous animals, have ancient folklore roots and were worn as protective amulets and incorporated into medicines. Medicinal earths were credited with wide-ranging medicinal properties. Geology and Medicine: Historical Connections will be of particular interest to Earth scientists, medical personnel, historians of science and the general reader with an interest in science.
