Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Essential Hinduism
Author: Steven RosenPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313071551
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
As a world religion, Hinduism remains one of the most elusive for many. Its teachings, beliefs, practices, and history are reviewed here by an expert hoping to introduce readers to the world of Hinduism. While there are many forms of Hinduism, and offshoots as well, the complex nature of this faith makes it elusive to many. This straightforward overview, focusing on Vaishnavism-the most common form of Hinduism—is ideal for those who wish to learn more about this ancient tradition.. Beginning with chapters about the foundations of Hinduism, Rosen clearly lays out what is otherwise a complicated history. Providing Hindu terms alongside English translations, he is able to bring the faith alive for readers unacquainted with its varieties and its tenets. Moving on to chapters about practices, including festivals, teachings, chanting, eating habits and more, Rosen brings Hinduism to life in vivid detail.
The Introduction to Hegel's Philosophy of Fine Art
Author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Writing Self, Writing Empire
Author: Rajeev KinraPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520286464
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s new open access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Writing Self, Writing Empire examines the life, career, and writings of the Mughal state secretary, or munshi, Chandar Bhan “Brahman” (d. c.1670), one of the great Indo-Persian poets and prose stylists of early modern South Asia. Chandar Bhan’s life spanned the reigns of four different emperors, Akbar (1556-1605), Jahangir (1605-1627), Shah Jahan (1628-1658), and Aurangzeb ‘Alamgir (1658-1707), the last of the “Great Mughals” whose courts dominated the culture and politics of the subcontinent at the height of the empire’s power, territorial reach, and global influence. As a high-caste Hindu who worked for a series of Muslim monarchs and other officials, forming powerful friendships along the way, Chandar Bhan’s experience bears vivid testimony to the pluralistic atmosphere of the Mughal court, particularly during the reign of Shah Jahan, the celebrated builder of the Taj Mahal. But his widely circulated and emulated works also touch on a range of topics central to our understanding of the court’s literary, mystical, administrative, and ethical cultures, while his letters and autobiographical writings provide tantalizing examples of early modern Indo-Persian modes of self-fashioning. Chandar Bhan’s oeuvre is a valuable window onto a crucial, though surprisingly neglected, period of Mughal cultural and political history.
Be Still, It Is the Wind That Sings
Author: Arthur OsbornePublisher:
ISBN: 9788188018031
Category : Hindu philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 475
Book Description
This is an anthology of articles and poems that Arthur Osbourne, (founder of The Mountain Path in 1964) contributed to the journal under his own name and various pseudonyms complements an earlier volume, For Those with Little Dust. Included is a longer work on the 'Question of Progress' as well as 16 hitherto unpublished poems. Taken together, they form a powerful testament of the clarity and dedication he brought to bear upon his chosen task as a devotee of Sri Ramana Maharshi.
The Song Celestial Or Bhagavad-Gîtâ (from the Mahâbhârata)
Author: The Music of the Waters
Author: Laura Alexandrine SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ocean
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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The Mahabharata
Author: Aurobindo GhosePublisher:
ISBN: 9788170588573
Category : Hinduism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In this volume have been collected all of Sri Aurobindo's independent prose writings on the Mahabharata, as well as his translations of passages from the epic. (Writings on and translations of the Bhagavad Gita are not included.) The principal prose work is an essay written in Baroda entitled, Notes on the Mahabharata , in which Sri Aurobindo put forward the idea that the original Mahabharata of Vyasa, consisting of some 24,000 verses, could be disengaged from later enlargements, accretions and additions by means of a detailed textual study. Three examples of this textual criticism have been found in Sri Aurobindo's notebooks. They are published here under the heading Detailed Notes. Two of them are appearing here for the first time. A few paragraphs on the Mahabharata from A Defence of Indian Culture have been included as an appendix. These repesent Sri Aurobindo's later thinking on the epic.
World Faiths
Author: S.A. NigosianPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 134913502X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 525
Book Description
World Faiths is a brief introduction to the major world religions. The book provides detailed coverage of the historical development of different religious traditions, and, for each religion, presents issues of faith from the perspective of the believer.
The Worship of Augustus Caesar
Author: Alexander Del MarPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description