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1000 full moons: the Satabhiseka celebration of Guru Muni Narayana Prasad

1000 full moons: the Satabhiseka celebration of Guru Muni Narayana Prasad

Prasad, Guru Muni Narayana

ISBN: 9788124611579, 8124611572

This book is an anthology of 21 articles and poems, written by the students and admirers of Guru Muni Narayana Prasad like Swami Tyageswaran, Swami Tanmaya, Swami Vyasa Prasad, Scott Teitsworth, Deborah Buchanan, Andy Larkin and a few other bright minds/scholars, on the occasion of his 80th birthday. It has serious philosophical essays, fond reminisces and a few poems along with some interestin...

Many threads of Hinduism: selected essays, tr. by Alo Shome

Many threads of Hinduism: selected essays, tr. by Alo Shome

Chattopadhyaya, Bankim Chandra

ISBN: 9789351365471, 9351365476

The book brings together some of Bankim's important writings on religion, Hinduism in particular, and includes his thoughts on the Vedas, nationalism, the origins of religion, the conflict between one god and many gods, and the need for mass education.

Materials, methods and symbolism in the Pichhvai painting tradition of Rajasthan

Materials, methods and symbolism in the Pichhvai painting tradition of Rajasthan

Lazaro, Desmond Peter

ISBN: 9788188204373, 8188204374

The author lovingly documents the entire process of learning the craft, the significance of various colours, positions adopted while preparing them, alchemical changes, myths with which the process is associated, and, not least, the link with Hindu philosophy and tantric practice. It carefully documents a craft: the elaborate and marvellous nature of which may easily bypass the casual observer ...

The Greek God Helios & the Indian deity Surya: a study in the dissemination of Sun God imagery

The Greek God Helios & the Indian deity Surya: a study in the dissemination of Sun God imagery

Bopearachchi, Osmund

ISBN: 9788194829416, 8194829410

This book examines, in the light of numerous iconographies, the syncretism of three deities associated with the sun, the Indian Surya, the Greek Helios, and the Iranian Mithra. The Gandharan statue of the Bodhisattva Siddhartha in the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, wearing a headdress depicting the sun god in the guise of a Bodhisattva, performing the adhayamudra (the gesture of fearlessness)...

Mchod rten gyi dpe ris blo gsar mgul rgyan bzhugs Bon stupas illustrations and explanations

Mchod rten gyi dpe ris blo gsar mgul rgyan bzhugs Bon stupas illustrations and explanations

Menyag Geshe Namdak Tsukphu

The book is based on bzo rig gsal ba'i rgyan composed by Ven. Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche. The book in indespensible for the students and scholar of Bon and Buddhism in general and stupas in particular interesting point to note is that stupas assumes an important seat in the religious life on Bonpos, Buddhists and the Hindus. Each seems to have different sources to narrate?

Mchod rten gyi dpe ris blo gsar mgul rgyan bzhugs Bon stupas, illustrations and explanations

Mchod rten gyi dpe ris blo gsar mgul rgyan bzhugs Bon stupas, illustrations and explanations

Menyag Geshe Namdak Tsukphu

The book is based on bzo rig gsal ba'i rgyan composed by Ven. Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche. The book is indespensible for the students and scholar of Bon and Buddhism in general and Stupas in particular. Interesting point to note is that stupas assumes an important seat in the religious life of Bonpos, Buddhists and the Hindus. Each seems to have different sources to narrate?.;

Hindu religion art and architecture

Hindu religion art and architecture

Dash, K. Prakash

ISBN: 9789388162692, 9388162692

Mediaeval Sinhalese art: being a monograph on medieval Sinh alese arts and crafts, mainly as surviving in the eighteenth century, with an account of the structure of society and...

Mediaeval Sinhalese art: being a monograph on medieval Sinh alese arts and crafts, mainly as surviving in the eighteenth century, with an account of the structure of society and...

Coomaraswamy, Ananda Kentish

ISBN: 9788121510929, 8121510929

...the status of the craftsmen, 2nd ed.;;;;;Sinhalese art is essentially Indian, but possesses this especial interest, that it is in many ways of an earlier character, and more truly Hindu--though Buddhist in intention--than any Indian art surviving on the mainland so late as the beginning of the nineteenth century. The minor arts, and the painting, are such as we might expect to have been asso...

Meditations: yogas, gods, religions, foreword by David Frawley

Meditations: yogas, gods, religions, foreword by David Frawley

Ram Swarup (1920-1998)

ISBN: 9788185990644, 8185990646

The exploration of consciousness is an ancient and unique specialization of Hindu spirituality which sees consciousness as the very ground and being of the entire universe. Consciousness is the key word for the Hindu mind and meditation is the main methodology to develop it. There is a new interest in spirituality today, evidenced by the popularity of Yoga and meditation worldwide but it appear...

In the service of Krishna: illustrating the lives of eighty-four Vaishnavas from a 1702 manuscript, foreword by Amit Ambalal

In the service of Krishna: illustrating the lives of eighty-four Vaishnavas from a 1702 manuscript, foreword by Amit Ambalal

Bachrach, Emilia

ISBN: 9789385360558, 9385360558

The Pushtimarg, or the Path of Grace, is a Hindu tradition whose ritual worship of the deity Krishna has developed in close relationship to a distinct genre of early modern Hindi prose hagiography. This volume introduces readers to the most popular hagiographic text of the Pushtimarg-the Chaurasi Vaishnavan ki Varta, or Narratives of Eighty Four Vaishnavas, which tells the sacred life stories o...

Mental health and Hindu psychology

Mental health and Hindu psychology

Swami Akhilananda

ISBN: 9788121511476, 812151147X

The author shows how to reach mental health by applying the classic techniques and explains how a stable and healthy mind is the starting point for the spiritual quest.

Hinduism and Buddhism

Hinduism and Buddhism

Coomaraswamy, Anand K.

ISBN: 9789391985097, 9391985092

This book is divided into two parts with copious notes added to each part. In the first part, dealing with Hinduism, the author has examined in detail the fundamental concepts like karma, maya, reincarnation, the darsanas, the sacrifice, social order, etc., and in the second part, dealing with Buddhism, he shows that in essentials it was the same as Hinduism and that Buddha did not strive `to e...

Migration between India and Nepal: a socio-cultural study

Migration between India and Nepal: a socio-cultural study

Chattopadhyaya, Haraprasad

ISBN: 9788171020485, 8171020488

Contents: (i) early political connection of Nepal with India (ii) Early movement of the Buddhists into Nepal, followed by the Hindus and the Jains (iii) Migration of people from India into Nepal and vice versa.

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Varahi Vajravarahi in the Tantras: no goddess such as this

Varahi Vajravarahi in the Tantras: no goddess such as this

Kanoria, Vandana

ISBN: 9789392280061, 9392280068

This book explores one of the lesser known goddesses of the Hindu pantheon who while retaining her status in India transforms into a major goddess of Tantric Buddhism. Varahi, a sow headed goddess, starting out as one in the group of goddesses called Saptmatrikas, in time grows into an important goddess especially in the Tantras. When Buddhism travelled from India to the East and North, she tra...

Minor Hindu deities in Andhra Pradesh: proceedings of the national seminar

Minor Hindu deities in Andhra Pradesh: proceedings of the national seminar

Naidu, P Neerajakshulu (ed)

ISBN: 9788176467902, 8176467901

This volume contains 20 latest research papers by scholars of repute on minor Hindu deities like Surya, Hanuman, Garuda, Vishwaksena, Sudarsanamurti, Revanta, Virabhadra, Ganesa, Chandesa, Mahissasuramardini, Karttikeya and folk deities.

Modern Hinduism and the genealogies of self-rule

Modern Hinduism and the genealogies of self-rule

Scott, J. Barton

ISBN: 9789386552693, 9386552698

This book reveals: how Protestant technologies of asceticism became entangled with Hindu spiritual practices to create an ideal of the 'self-ruling subject' crucial to both nineteenth-century reform culture and the early twentieth-century anti-colonialism in India.

Suralakshmi Villa

Suralakshmi Villa

Chakravarti, Aruna

ISBN: 9789389109399, 9389109396

The author blends the narrative of the novel with history, legend, music, religion, folklore, rituals and culinary practices of both Hindus and Muslims, and creates a fascinating tapestry which reveals the syncretic nature of Bengal and her people.

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