Category: Hinduism

By Bradley L. Herling

ISBN-10: 1135501882

ISBN-13: 9781135501884

Publish 12 months note: First released April 1st 2009
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How did the Bhagavadgata first develop into an item of German philosophical and philological inquiry? How have been its foundational recommendations at the beginning interpreted inside German highbrow circles, and what does this episode within the heritage of cross-cultural come across educate us in regards to the prestige of comparative philosophy this present day?

This ebook addresses those questions via a cautious learn of the figures who learn, translated and interpreted the Bhagavadgata round the flip of the 19th century in Germany: J.G. Herder, F. Majer, F. Schlegel, A.W. Schlegel, W. von Humboldt, and G.W.F. Hegel. Methodologically, the learn attends to the highbrow contexts and prejudices that framed the early reception of the textual content. however it additionally delves deeper through investigating the way in which those frameworks inflected the development of the Bhagavadgata and its foundational strategies throughout the scholarly acts of excerpting, anthologization, and translation.

Overall, the venture contributes to the pluralization of Western philosophy and its historical past whereas at the same time arguing for a endured severe alertness in cross-cultural comparability of philosophical and non secular worldviews."

By Piotr Demianovich Ouspensky

Looking for the impressive Fragments of an Unknown instructing stands as one of many nice vintage texts of man’s everlasting look for which means and being. whilst Piotr Demianovich Ouspensky (1878-1947) met Gurdjieff in St. Petersburg in 1915, he used to be uniquely ready to resonate to the latter’s name, and was once to develop into essentially the most very important humans to aid unfold Gurdjieff’s rules on the planet. He used to be already a well-liked journalist and complete author who had written numerous books on esoteric traditions (his seminal Tertium Organum was once released in 1912). He had simply again from his personal broad seek within the East, the place he encountered a few “teachers” yet had now not chanced on what he was once having a look for—an esoteric institution, with a real instructor. In Gurdjieff he famous the sort of instructor, and have become a pupil. Later he distanced himself from Gurdjieff, for purposes which are hinted at within the current ebook and somewhere else, yet which stay mysterious. Ouspensky himself grew to become an incredible instructor, in a kind derived virtually solely from Gurdjieff. He attracted many scholars in London, and later in New Jersey the place he moved in 1941. He endured to paintings at the broad notes he had made in the course of his interval learning at once with Gurdjieff (1915-1924). almost immediately ahead of he died, he accomplished the current booklet, which was once according to those notes.

By Heinrich Robert Zimmer

ISBN-10: 1400866847

ISBN-13: 9781400866847

This booklet translates for the Western brain the most important motifs of India's legend, fantasy, and folklore, taken without delay from the Sanskrit, and illustrated with seventy plates of Indian artwork. it really is essentially an creation to image-thinking and picture-reading in Indian paintings and notion, and it seeks to make the profound Hindu and Buddhist intuitions of the riddles of existence and dying recognizable no longer only as Oriental yet as common components.

By Vinay Lal, Borin Van Loon

ISBN-10: 184046626X

ISBN-13: 9781840466263

Hindusm is expounded to be the world's oldest faith. but the notice 'Hindu' is of overseas 18th-century starting place. Hindusm is outlined as a polytheistic faith, yet Mahatma Gandhi famously declared that you will be a Hindu with out believing in any god. Hindusm seems to deal with unending contradictions. it's a faith at the least as a lot of delusion as of historical past - it has no ancient founder, no unmarried authoritative e-book, and few important doctrines. This ebook bargains a consultant to this awesome various religion. It untangles the complexities of Hindusm's gods and goddesses, its caste approach and its perspectives on intercourse, daily life and asceticism. Why do Hindus revere the cow? needs to Hindus be vegetarian? It explores the hyperlinks with and changes from Buddhism, Jainism and different religions, and describes the resurgence of Hindu extremism, the phenomenon of Bollywood and the in a foreign country Hindu diaspora.

ISBN-10: 0307419894

ISBN-13: 9780307419897

Stephen Mitchell is well known for his skill to make historical masterpieces thrillingly new, to step in the place many have attempted sooner than and create models which are definitive for our time. His celebrated model of the Tao Te Ching is the most well-liked variation in print, and his translations of Jesus, Rilke, Genesis, and task have gained the hearts of readers and critics alike. Stephen Mitchell now brings to the Bhagavad Gita his reward for respiring new existence into sacred texts.

The Bhagavad Gita is universally stated as one of many world's literary and non secular masterpieces. it's the middle textual content of the Hindu culture and has been precious via American writers from Emerson and Thoreau to T. S. Eliot, who referred to as it the best philosophical poem after the Divine Comedy. there were greater than 200 English translations of the Gita, together with many efficient literal models, yet now not one in all them is a superlative literary textual content in its personal right.

Now all that has replaced. Stephen Mitchell's Bhagavad Gita sings with the readability, the power, and the depth of the unique Sanskrit. it's going to, as William Arrowsmith stated of Mitchell's translation of The Sonnets to Orpheus, "instantly make another rendering obsolete."

By Vinay Lal, Borin Van Loon

ISBN-10: 1848318804

ISBN-13: 9781848318809

"Introducing Hinduism" deals a advisor to the most important philosophical, literary, mythological and cultural traditions of this terribly diversified religion. It untangles the complexities of Hinduism's gods and goddesses, its caste method and its perspectives on intercourse, daily life and asceticism. This paintings solutions questions together with: Why do Hindus revere the cow? needs to Hindus be vegetarian? and lots more and plenty more...

By A. V. Srinivasan

ISBN-10: 1622095774

ISBN-13: 9781622095773

This identify is a part of a nine quantity set of latest paperbacks released by way of Parijata courses, Periplus Line LLC (www.periplusbooks.com), 1999 -2009. every one book is 5.25" tall x 4.25" - complete colour disguise - b&w illustrations - Sanskrit transliteration & English translation - step by step directions with creation and record of fabrics. How-to handbooks for Hindu ceremonies of worship for: Ganapati (Ganesha); Shiva; Lakshmi; Rama; Soorya; Durga, Krishna, Saraswati, the Navagrahas (Nine Planets).

By Kenneth Russell Valpey

ISBN-10: 0203099893

ISBN-13: 9780203099896

ISBN-10: 0415383943

ISBN-13: 9780415383943

There's a regular and growing to be scholarly, besides as popular curiosity in Hindu faith – specially devotional (bhakti) traditions as types of non secular perform and expressions of divine embodiment. linked to this can be the eye to sacred pictures and their worship. Attending Krishna's snapshot extends the dialogue on Indian photographs and their worship, bringing ancient and comparative dimensions and contemplating Krishna worship within the context of modernity, either in India and the West. It specializes in one particular worship culture, the Chaitanya Vaishnava culture of the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries, because it develops and sustains itself in particular locales. through utilising the comparative type of ‘religious truth’, the book provides a entire realizing of a residing non secular tradition. It effectively demonstrates the knowledge of devotion as a technique of participation with divine embodiment within which worship of Krishna’s photograph is imperative.

By Rachel Fell Mcdermott

ISBN-10: 0520232399

ISBN-13: 9780520232396

ISBN-10: 0520232402

ISBN-13: 9780520232402

ISBN-10: 1417522720

ISBN-13: 9781417522729

Encountering Kal? explores probably the most notable divinities the realm has seen--the Hindu goddess Kal?. She is concurrently understood as a blood-thirsty warrior, a goddess of formality ownership, a Tantric sexual associate, and an all-loving, compassionate mom. well known and scholarly curiosity in her has been at the upward thrust within the West lately. Responding to this phenomenon, this quantity specializes in the complexities all for studying Kal? in either her indigenous South Asian settings and her more moderen Western incarnations. utilizing scriptural background, temple structure, political violence, feminist and psychoanalytic feedback, autobiographical mirrored image, and the goddess's contemporary guises on the web, the participants pose questions suitable to our figuring out of Kal?, as they light up the issues and supplies inherent in each act of cross-cultural interpretation.

By Stewart Edward White

ISBN-10: 1419194429

ISBN-13: 9781419194429

Touch, as i've got acknowledged, is an issue of person event and definition. it's was hoping that the books and the former pages have no less than given the reader a foundation for his personal effect. It doesn't subject how diverse--and divergent--these impressions should be. Their worth is in picturing to every an aim during which he could have religion. Now it's attainable to be much less imprecise. Granted an aim, how are we to move approximately attaining it? How are we to accomplish this touch?