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Author : Richard K. Payne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 45,53 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199351589
Throughout human history, and across many religious cultures, offerings are made into fire. The essays collected in Homa Variations provide detailed studies of this practice, known in the tantric world as the "homa," from its inception up to the present.
Author : Richard Karl Payne
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Page : pages
File Size : 31,18 MB
Release : 2015
Category : RELIGION
ISBN : 9780199351602
Throughout human history, and across many religious cultures, offerings are made into fire. The essays collected in 'Homa Variations' provide detailed studies of this practice, known in the tantric world as the 'homa, ' from its inception up to the present.
Author : Marko Geslani
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 28,72 MB
Release : 2018-06-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0190862890
Scholars of Vedic religion have long recognized the centrality of ritual categories to Indian thought. There have been few successful attempts, however, to bring the same systematic rigor of Vedic Scholarship to bear on later "Hindu" ritual. Excavating the deep history of a prominent ritual category in "classical" Hindu texts, Geslani traces the emergence of a class of rituals known as santi, or appeasement. This ritual, intended to counteract ominous omens, developed from the intersection of the fourth Veda - the oft-neglected Atharvaveda - and the emergent tradition of astral science (Jyotisastra) sometime in the early first millennium, CE. Its development would come to have far-reaching consequences on the ideal ritual life of the king in early-medieval Brahmanical society. The mantric transformations involved in the history of santi led to the emergence of a politicized ritual culture that could encompass both traditional Vedic and newer Hindu performers and practices. From astrological appeasement to gift-giving, coronation, and image worship, Rites of the God-King chronicles the multiple lives and afterlives of a single ritual mode, unveiling the always-inventive work of the priesthood to imagine and enrich royal power. Along the way, Geslani reveals the surprising role of astrologers in Hindu history, elaborates conceptions of sin and misfortune, and forges new connections between medieval texts and modern practices. In a work that details ritual forms that were dispersed widely across Asia, he concludes with a reflection on the nature of orthopraxy, ritual change, and the problem of presence in the Hindu tradition.
Author : Yuli Huang
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 26,82 MB
Release : 2023-03-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 2832519040
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Page : 24 pages
File Size : 21,45 MB
Release : 1962-07-24
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The Kenya Gazette is an official publication of the government of the Republic of Kenya. It contains notices of new legislation, notices required to be published by law or policy as well as other announcements that are published for general public information. It is published every week, usually on Friday, with occasional releases of special or supplementary editions within the week.
Author : Chandan Sengupta
Publisher : Chandan Sukumar Sengupta
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 21,66 MB
Release :
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 935419723X
This volume of publications is titled “Karma Yoga”. “Karma” is a Sanskrit word derived from the root “Kri” to do, and the primary meaning of the word therefore is performing duties or accomplishing some actions. There exists some other secondary significance of the word, but in Karma – Yoga, it is action that is the subject of enquiry. The Gita recognises the fact that work is the natural sanction of nature, man is incessantly changing frequently, animals are changing while keeping pace with evolutionary tendencies, plants, tiny organisms and germs are changing and even minerals are also changing.
Author : Chandan Sengupta
Publisher : Chandan Sukumar Sengupta
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 27,26 MB
Release :
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9357680640
This book is published independently by author with an aspiration of exposing people to the age old philosophy of Yoga through incorporation of the core principle of the Vedic concepts and ideals in this publication. The core of the philosophy is addressed by some real life examples duly collected from different instances. Nonviolence moves on alongside Peace and paves a path of progress in the path of spiritual journey. It also ensures a confluence towards the initiation of balanced social living. We cannot claim any historical importance of events displayed in this publication. Integral Yoga impregnated with peace and nonviolence has its presence, along with some sort of limitations at different living entity, in all life forms. Different chapters of The Bhgvadgita display affinity of discussion towards different faculties of Yoga and Meditation; various aspects of Peace and Nonviolence are another beauty of the Holy Scripture. For making the considerations better and widely applicable an effort is made to bring out the doctrines related to Peace and Nonviolence from restricted confinements of Religion. Majority of discussion move around the convergence of Sankhya, Yoga and Vedantic Philosophy. Most widely discussed one of these is Karma Yoga (the Yoga of Performance, Actions and Perfections) in detail. It is actually not possible to pass through any one faculty of Yoga without experiencing integration of other aspects of Yoga. Because of that reason The Bhagvadgita implies thoughts upon integration of all the streams of philosophy for framing a time tested guide to be adopted by fellow aspirants.
Author : Caleb Swift Carter
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 24,28 MB
Release : 2022-05-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0824893093
Shugendō has been an object of fascination among scholars and the general public, yet its historical development remains an enigma. This book offers a provocative reexamination of the social, economic, and spiritual terrain from which this mountain religious system arose. Caleb Carter traces Shugendō through the mountains of Togakushi (Nagano Prefecture), while situating it within the religious landscape of medieval and early modern Japan. His is the first major study to view Shugendō as a self-conscious religious system—something that was historically emergent but conceptually distinct from the prevailing Buddhist orders of medieval Japan. Beyond Shugendō, his work rethinks a range of issues in the history of Japanese religions, including exclusionary policies toward women, the formation of Shintō, and religion at the social and geographical margins of the Japanese archipelago. Carter takes a new tack in the study of religions by tracking three recurrent and intersecting elements—institution, ritual, and narrative. Examination of origin accounts, temple records, gazetteers, and iconography from Togakushi demonstrates how practitioners implemented storytelling, new rituals and festivals, and institutional measures to merge Shugendō with their mountain’s culture while establishing social legitimacy and economic security. Indicative of early modern trends, the case of Mount Togakushi reveals how Shugendō moved from a patchwork of regional communities into a translocal system of national scope, eventually becoming Japan’s signature mountain religion.
Author : Chandan Sengupta
Publisher : Chandan Sukumar Sengupta
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,36 MB
Release :
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9359879487
This volume of Essays on The Gita will cover up the doctrines and rituals explained differently by Sage Veda Vyasa various chapters. Different names for this part are coined by saints and Philosophers time to time. It is also true that we are willingly or unwillingly move through instances when mind and intellect get indulge in arbitrations related to our definite role in society. The Yoga of Knowledge and Actions are also closely linked up when we move on to execute some activities, claim some rights and perform some duties. We cannot claim that this volume will provide vivid translation of the Holy Scripture titled The Bhagavadgita; even it is not confirmed that descriptions, comments or narratives of all types duly proposed by different narrators are converged before preparing this document. It has some sort of linkages to the modern context and the context of Epics to work out relevance of the Holy Scripture. This book will also reflect relevance of The Bhagavadgita on the basis of its applicability and justifications. We can put us easily at the place of the fellow warrior if entire society is considered as a battle field; there requires a time tested guidance upon which one can rely perfectly for working out a solution; for establishing balance of mind and intellect; for regulating senses with the help of quality segments of Ego (AHAM); for feeling the presence of the Supreme Master besides all kinds of material as well as living manifestations. Realising the omnipresence of Brahman and acknowledging presence of such masterly guide at all instances of creation is the real objective to be accomplished during life span of a human. It can be accomplished under abled guidance of a Divine master.
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Page : 12 pages
File Size : 18,74 MB
Release : 1974-04-19
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The Kenya Gazette is an official publication of the government of the Republic of Kenya. It contains notices of new legislation, notices required to be published by law or policy as well as other announcements that are published for general public information. It is published every week, usually on Friday, with occasional releases of special or supplementary editions within the week.