Author: Swami Mahanidhi
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Category : Samadhi
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Collective biographies and Vaishnava pilgrims in Vrindavan.

Author: Karṇapūra
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Category : Krishna (Hindu deity)
Languages : en
Pages : 380

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Classical Sanskrit poetry on Krishna (Hindu deity).

Author: Dr Kristina Myrvold
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1409480844
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 186

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The Death of Sacred Texts draws attention to a much neglected topic in the study of sacred texts: the religious and ritual attitudes towards texts which have become old and damaged and can no longer be used for reading practices or in religious worship. This book approaches religious texts and scriptures by focusing on their physical properties and the dynamic interactions of devices and habits that lie beneath and within a given text. In the last decades a growing body of research studies has directed attention to the multiple uses and ways people encounter written texts and how they make them alive, even as social actors, in different times and cultures. Considering religious people seem to have all the motives for giving their sacred texts a respectful symbolic treatment, scholars have paid surprisingly little attention to the ritual procedures of disposing and renovating old texts. This book fills this gap, providing empirical data and theoretical analyses of historical and contemporary religious attitudes towards, and practices of text disposals within, seven world religions: Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism. Exploring the cultural and historical variations of rituals for religious scriptures and texts (such as burials, cremations and immersion into rivers) and the underlying beliefs within the religious traditions, this book investigates how these religious practices and stances respond to modernization and globalization processes when new technologies have made it possible to mass-produce and publish religious texts on the Internet.

Author: Viśvanātha Cakravartī
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Category : Puranas
Languages : en
Pages : 916

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Includes Sanskrit text of Bhāgavatapurānạ with translation of commentary.

Author: Locanadāsa
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Category : Vaishnavites
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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English translation of verse biography of Chaitanya, 1486-1534, Vaishnava saint from Bengal.

Author: Jīva Gosvāmī
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Category : Krishna (Hindu deity)
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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Prose English translation of Sanskrit poem on Krishna (Hindu deity).

Author: Swami Mahanidhi
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Category : Hindu mythology
Languages : ru
Pages : 196

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On the cult and pilgrim centre of Rādhā, Hindu deity in Vrindāvan, India.

Author: Dr Ravi M Gupta
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1472425510
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 257

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In the sixteenth century, the saint and scholar Sri Caitanya set in motion a wave of devotion to Krishna that began in eastern India and has now found its way around the world. Caitanya taught that the highest aim of life is to develop selfless love for God Krishna, the blue-hued cowherd boy who spoke the Bhagavad Gita. Although only a handful of poetry is attributed to Caitanya, his devotional theology was expounded and systematized by his followers in a vast array of poetical, philosophical, and ritual literature. This book provides a thematic study of Caitanya Vaishnava philosophy, introducing key thinkers and ideas in the early tradition, using Sanskrit and Bengali sources that have seldom been studied in English. The book addresses major areas of the tradition, including epistemology, ontology, aesthetics, ethics, and history, and every chapter includes relevant readings from primary sources.

Author: Rūpagosvāmī
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 500

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Play on Radha and Krishna, Hindu deities.

Author: Måns Broo
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Category : Chaitanya (Sect)
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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