Brill's Encyclopedia of Jainism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Brill's Encyclopedia of Jainism write by John A. Cort. This book was released on 2020. Brill's Encyclopedia of Jainism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Brill's Encyclopedia of Jainism makes available up-to-date research on main aspects of the Jain traditions in original essays written by some of the world's foremost scholars on Jainism. The encyclopedia is thematic and seeks to present a balanced and impartial view of Jainism with a focus on both historical and contemporary traditions and institutions. The articles address topics such as the human condition, pantheons, historical perspectives, regional cultures, renunciation, lay society, ritual, devotion, visual and material culture, time and space, literature, and philosophy and logic.
Brill's Encyclopedia of Religions of Indigenous People of South Asia
Brill's Encyclopedia of Religions of Indigenous People of South Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Brill's Encyclopedia of Religions of Indigenous People of South Asia write by . This book was released on 2020-06. Brill's Encyclopedia of Religions of Indigenous People of South Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Brill's New Pauly
Brill's New Pauly - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Brill's New Pauly write by Hubert Cancik. This book was released on 2002. Brill's New Pauly available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fifteen volumes (Antiquity, 1-15) are devoted to Greco-Roman antiquity and cover more than two thousand years of history, ranging from the second millennium BC to early medieval Europe. Five volumes (Classical Tradition, I-V) are uniquely concerned with the long and influential aftermath of antiquity and the process of continuous reinterpretation and revaluation of the ancient heritage, including the history of classical scholarship.
Yoga Powers
Yoga Powers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Yoga Powers write by Knut A. Jacobsen. This book was released on 2011-09-30. Yoga Powers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book offers a number of new insights in the history of yoga powers in the South Asian religious traditions, analyzes the position of the powers in the salvific process and in conceptions of divinity, and explores the rational explanations of the powers provided by the traditions.
Jain Rāmāyaṇa Narratives
Jain Rāmāyaṇa Narratives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jain Rāmāyaṇa Narratives write by Gregory M. Clines. This book was released on 2022-04-28. Jain Rāmāyaṇa Narratives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Jain Rāmāyaṇa Narratives: Moral Vision and Literary Innovation traces how and why Jain authors at different points in history rewrote the story of Rāma and situates these texts within larger frameworks of South Asian religious history and literature. The book argues that the plot, characters, and the very history of Jain Rāma composition itself served as a continual font of inspiration for authors to create and express novel visions of moral personhood. In making this argument, the book examines three versions of the Rāma story composed by two authors, separated in time and space by over 800 years and thousands of miles. The first is Raviṣeṇa, who composed the Sanskrit Padmapurāṇa (“The Deeds of Padma”), and the second is Brahma Jinadāsa, author of both a Sanskrit Padmapurāṇa and a vernacular (bhāṣā) version of the story titled Rām Rās (“The Story of Rām”). While the three compositions narrate the same basic story and work to shape ethical subjects, they do so in different ways and with different visions of what a moral person actually is. A close comparative reading focused on the differences between these three texts reveals the diverse visions of moral personhood held by Jains in premodernity and demonstrates the innovative narrative strategies authors utilized in order to actualize those visions. The book is thus a valuable contribution to the fields of Jain studies and religion and literature in premodern South Asia.
