Author: Anna Aleksandra Ślączka
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900415843X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
This book is a thorough study, based on both the textual and archaeological data, of the three important temple consecration rituals of the Hindu tradition.
Temple Consecration Rituals in Ancient India
Author: Anna Aleksandra Ślączka
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900415843X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
This book is a thorough study, based on both the textual and archaeological data, of the three important temple consecration rituals of the Hindu tradition.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900415843X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
This book is a thorough study, based on both the textual and archaeological data, of the three important temple consecration rituals of the Hindu tradition.
Consecration Rituals in South Asia
Author: István Keul
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004337180
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The essays in the volume Consecration Rituals in South Asia address the ritual procedures that accompany the installation of temple images in Shaiva, Vaishnava, Buddhist and Jain contexts, in various traditions and historical periods.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004337180
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The essays in the volume Consecration Rituals in South Asia address the ritual procedures that accompany the installation of temple images in Shaiva, Vaishnava, Buddhist and Jain contexts, in various traditions and historical periods.
The Ancient Indian Royal Consecration
Author: J. C. Heesterman
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3112415264
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
No detailed description available for "The Ancient Indian Royal Consecration".
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3112415264
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
No detailed description available for "The Ancient Indian Royal Consecration".
Ancient Indian Rituals and Their Social Contents
Author: Narendra Nath Bhattacharyya
Publisher: London : Curzon Press ; Totowa [N.J.] : Rowman and Littlefield
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Publisher: London : Curzon Press ; Totowa [N.J.] : Rowman and Littlefield
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Prayer and Blessing
Author: Jan Gonda
Publisher: Brill Archive
ISBN: 9789004089952
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Publisher: Brill Archive
ISBN: 9789004089952
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Prayer and Blessing
Author: Gonda
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004645713
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004645713
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Feeding the Dead
Author: Matthew R. Sayers
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199896437
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
The author calls attention to the importance of the Vedic domestic ritual codes in the creation of what has come to be known as "classical Hinduism."
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199896437
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
The author calls attention to the importance of the Vedic domestic ritual codes in the creation of what has come to be known as "classical Hinduism."
The Broken World of Sacrifice
Author: J. C. Heesterman
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226323015
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
In this book, J. C. Heesterman attempts to understand the origins and nature of Vedic sacrifice—the complex compound of ritual practices that stood at the center of ancient Indian religion. Paying close attention to anomalous elements within both the Vedic ritual texts, the brahmanas, and the ritual manuals, the srautasutras, Heesterman reconstructs the ideal sacrifice as consisting of four moments: killing, destruction, feasting, and contest. He shows that Vedic sacrifice all but exclusively stressed the offering in the fire—the element of destruction—at the expense of the other elements. Notably, the contest was radically eliminated. At the same time sacrifice was withdrawn from society to become the sole concern of the individual sacrificer. The ritual turns in on the individual as "self-sacrificer" who realizes through the internalized knowledge of the ritual the immortal Self. At this point the sacrificial cult of the fire recedes behind doctrine of the atman's transcendence and unity with the cosmic principle, the brahman. Based on his intensive analysis Heesterman argues that Vedic sacrifice was primarily concerned with the broken world of the warrior and sacrificer. This world, already broken in itself by the violence of the sacrificial contest, was definitively broken up and replaced with the ritrualism of the single, unopposed sacrificer. However, the basic problem of sacrifice—the riddle of life and death—keeps breaking too surface in the form of incongruities, contradictions, tensions, and oppositions that have perplexed both the ancient ritual theorists and the modern scholar.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226323015
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
In this book, J. C. Heesterman attempts to understand the origins and nature of Vedic sacrifice—the complex compound of ritual practices that stood at the center of ancient Indian religion. Paying close attention to anomalous elements within both the Vedic ritual texts, the brahmanas, and the ritual manuals, the srautasutras, Heesterman reconstructs the ideal sacrifice as consisting of four moments: killing, destruction, feasting, and contest. He shows that Vedic sacrifice all but exclusively stressed the offering in the fire—the element of destruction—at the expense of the other elements. Notably, the contest was radically eliminated. At the same time sacrifice was withdrawn from society to become the sole concern of the individual sacrificer. The ritual turns in on the individual as "self-sacrificer" who realizes through the internalized knowledge of the ritual the immortal Self. At this point the sacrificial cult of the fire recedes behind doctrine of the atman's transcendence and unity with the cosmic principle, the brahman. Based on his intensive analysis Heesterman argues that Vedic sacrifice was primarily concerned with the broken world of the warrior and sacrificer. This world, already broken in itself by the violence of the sacrificial contest, was definitively broken up and replaced with the ritrualism of the single, unopposed sacrificer. However, the basic problem of sacrifice—the riddle of life and death—keeps breaking too surface in the form of incongruities, contradictions, tensions, and oppositions that have perplexed both the ancient ritual theorists and the modern scholar.
From Material to Deity
Author: Shingo Einoo
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
This Collection Of Essays Based On The Study Of Vedic And Post-Vedic Texts, By Japanese Scholars Deals With The Subject Of Pratisha Ritual The Most Important Ritual In Hinduism Through Which An Image Changes From Material To A Deity.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
This Collection Of Essays Based On The Study Of Vedic And Post-Vedic Texts, By Japanese Scholars Deals With The Subject Of Pratisha Ritual The Most Important Ritual In Hinduism Through Which An Image Changes From Material To A Deity.
On Human Sacrifices in Ancient India
Author: Rājendralāla Mitra (Raja)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Human sacrifice
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Human sacrifice
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description