Author: Ludwik Sternbach
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Category : Poets, Indic
Languages : en
Pages : 698

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Author: Andrea Acri
Publisher: ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute
ISBN: 9814818860
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 450

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As a continent lying to the east of Europe, Asia has been malleable to different spatial and temporal imaginations and politics. Recent scholarship has highlighted how the seemingly self-contained regional configurations of West and Central Asia, South and Southeast Asia, and East Asia carved by the Area Studies paradigm reflect changing (geo)political and economic interests than historical or cultural roots. This volume advances the question as to what Asia is, and as to whether there existed one or many Asia(s). It seeks to explore Asian societies as interconnected formations through trajectories/networks of circulation of people, ideas, and objects in the longue durée. Moving beyond the divides of Area Studies scholarship and the arbitrary borders set by late colonial empires and the rise of post-colonial nation-states, this volume maps critically the configuration of contact zones in which mobile bodies, minds, and cultures interact to foster new images, identities, and imaginations of Asia.

Author: Alastair Gornall
Publisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1787355152
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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Rewriting Buddhism is the first intellectual history of premodern Sri Lanka’s most culturally productive period. This era of reform (1157–1270) shaped the nature of Theravada Buddhism both in Sri Lanka and also Southeast Asia and even today continues to define monastic intellectual life in the region. Alastair Gornall argues that the long century’s literary productivity was not born of political stability, as is often thought, but rather of the social, economic and political chaos brought about by invasions and civil wars. Faced with unprecedented uncertainty, the monastic community sought greater political autonomy, styled itself as royal court, and undertook a series of reforms, most notably, a purification and unification in 1165 during the reign of Parakramabahu I. He describes how central to the process of reform was the production of new forms of Pali literature, which helped create a new conceptual and social coherence within the reformed community; one that served to preserve and protect their religious tradition while also expanding its reach among the more fragmented and localized elites of the period.

Author: Annette Schmiedchen
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004284451
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 566

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In Herrschergenealogie und religiöses Patronat, Annette Schmiedchen analyses some 250 inscriptions from the time of the early medieval royal dynasties of the Rāṣṭrakūṭas, Śilāhāras, and Yādavas, who reigned in central India from the 8th to the 13th centuries. The information derived from copper-plate charters and stone inscriptions primarily consists of genealogies of the ruling kings as well as of data regarding their religious foundations and endowments and the donations of other members of society. Annette Schmiedchen shows how genealogical accounts were modified to legitimize individual claims to power, and she convincingly proves that the 10th and 11th centuries were a period of religious change, which witnessed a shift in patronage patterns and a closer link between Vedic Brahmanism and Hindu temple worship.

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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 642

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Has appendices.

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Category : Theosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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Author: British Library
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 450

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Author: Biswajit Sinha
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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 556

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Bibliography of Ph.D theses in Indian language and literature; includes catalog of bibliographies and dictionaries.

Author: Ludwik Sternbach
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Category : Poets, Sanskrit
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1294

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