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Author | : Elizabeth Ten Grotenhuis |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Art |
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The first broad study of Japanese mandalas to appear in a Western language, this volume interprets mandalas as sanctified realms where identification between the human and sacred occurs. The author investigates eighth- to seventeenth-century paintings from three traditions: Esoteric Buddhism, Pure Land Buddhism, and the kami-worshipping (Shinto) tradition. Explaining why certain fundamental Japanese mandalas look the way they do and how certain visual forms came to embody the sacred, ten Grotenhuis presents works that show a complex mixture of Indian Buddhist elements, pre-Buddhist Chinese elements, Chinese Buddhist elements, and indigenous Japanese elements.
Author | : Harvey P. Alper |
Publisher | : Motilal Banarsidass Publ. |
Total Pages | : 554 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9788120807464 |
Author | : Vesna Wallace |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2001-08-16 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0198028482 |
The Kalacakratantra, the latest and most comprehensive Buddhist Tantra available in its original Sanskrit, has never been the topic of a full scale scholarly study. This fascinating volume fills that gap, concentrating on the inner Kalackaratantra and discussing the nature of human beings.
Author | : Steven Leuthold |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 533 |
Release | : 2010-12-16 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1136854541 |
Cross-Cultural Issues in Art provides an engaging introduction to aesthetic concepts, expanding the discussion beyond the usual Western theorists and Western examples. Steven Leuthold discusses both contemporary and historical issues and examples, incorporating a range of detailed case studies from African, Asian, European, Latin American, Middle Eastern and Native American art. Individual chapters address broad intercultural issues in art, including Art and Culture, Primitivism and Otherness, Colonialism, Nationalism, Art and Religion, Symbolism and Interpretation, Style and Ethnicity, A Sense of Place, Art and Social Order, Gender, and the Self, considering these themes as constructs that frame our understanding of art. Cross-Cultural Issues in Art draws upon ideas and case studies from cultural and critical studies, art history, ethno-aesthetics and area studies, visual anthropology, and philosophy, and will be useful for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in these fields.
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Total Pages | : 1104 |
Release | : 1998-04 |
Genre | : India |
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Author | : Giuseppe Zigaina |
Publisher | : Exile Editions, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780920428757 |
Author | : June McDaniel |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0791487652 |
Exploring the folk religion of India and the role of girls and women within it, author June McDaniel focuses on the brata (vrata) ritual in which moral lessons are taught and goddesses are revealed. Bratas are performed to gain such goals as a healthy family, a good husband, and a happy life. They are also performed so that the performers (bratinis) develop such virtues as devotion, humility, and compassion.This book presents data from fieldwork, along with brata stories, songs, poems, and ritual activities. It discusses Bengali folk religion, offers an example of ritual worship in folk Hinduism, and surveys a variety of bratas. The author analyzes the similarities and differences among these rituals in low-caste village life and in high-caste Hindu tradition, and notes that the development of these rituals involves a form of continuing divine revelation with women as the primary transmitters. Bratas act to maintain traditional Hindu values, but also emphasize the power of women, whose virtues can save their husbands from hell worlds and their families from disasters.
Author | : Pamela J. Asquith |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Aesthetics, Japanese |
ISBN | : 0700704450 |
Documents the great diversity in how people perceive their natural environment and how they come to terms with nature, be it through brute force, rituals or idealization. The main message of the book is that 'nature' and the 'natural' are concepts very much conditioned by their context.
Author | : Carlo Emanuele Ruspoli |
Publisher | : Palibrio |
Total Pages | : 729 |
Release | : 2012-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1463317689 |
Acudiendo a una petición de ayuda astral del Dalai Lama, Fray Gian Galeazzo Ruspoli tendrá que viajar a unos monasterios remotos del Tíbet para esclarecer una amenaza de tiempos lejanos y enfrentarse a un enemigo que nadie nunca ha visto. El robo de un artefacto único y misterioso, tendrá que ser resuelto por el Gran Prior de Pisa acompañado por un Lama médico. El autor, Carlo Emanuele Ruspoli, es un historiador hechizado por su extraordinaria religión y cultura milenaria, y reclama la devolución del Tíbet a los Tibetanos. La saga de El Profeso está compuesta de momento por: El Profeso, Asesinato en el Letrán, Muerte de Profesos, El Profeso en Tíbet y, en preparación: El Profeso y el diablo. El protagonista Gian Galeazzo está inspirado en la extraordinaria figura de Galeazzo Marescotti, héroe de Bolonia y absolutamente retratada en otra de sus novelas históricas, titulada: El Confaloniero.
Author | : Gitanjali Thapar |
Publisher | : Blue Rose Publishers |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2024-07-05 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
The book Echoes of Tradition : Exploring Girish Karnad’s Theatrical Pilgrimage is an amalgamation of the Indian theatre tradition and the modern sensibility. It explores the mythological framework, the historic and the folk traditions as used in the works of Girish Karnad. Rooted in the rich cultural and theatrical sensibility the book presents the indigenous and the contemporary aesthetics as woven in the plays of Girish Karnad. The western dramaturgical structure infused with the modern theatrical tradition along with the use of myths and folklore refers to the complexities of the present age and apprehension about future. The book encapsulates Karnad’s experiments with the technique and his how his plays forge a bond between the past and the present.