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Sankaradeva His Life Preachings and Practices

• Author : Jyoti Prasad Rajkhowa
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2003
• Genre : Vaishnavism
• Pages : 462
• ISBN : UVA:X004826907

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Sankaradeva, 1449-1569, Assamese Vaishnavite religious leader.

Dar an

• Author : Diana L. Eck
• Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
• Release Date : 2007
• Genre : Hindu symbolism
• Pages : 115
• ISBN : 8120832663

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The experience of the divine in India merges the three components of sight, performance, and sound. This book is about the power and importance of seeing in the Hindu religious tradition. In the Hindu view, not only must the gods keep their eyes open, but so must we, in order to make contact with them, to reap their blessings, and to know their secrets. When Hindus go to temple, their eyes meet the powerful, eternal gaze of the eyes of God. It is called Darsan, Seeing the divine image, and it is the single most common and significant element of Hindu worship. This book explores what darsan means. This is also a book about the divine image in the Hindu tradition. What do Hindus see in the images of the gods? What is meant by these multi-armed gods, with their various weapons, emblems, and animals? How are these images made and consecreted? How are they treated in a ritual context? In exploring the nature of the divine image, this book not only considers the images of the gods, but also the Hindu temple and the Hindu place of pilgrimage.

Shadows of the Puppet

• Author : Mediha F. Saliba
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 1996
• Genre : Indonesia
• Pages : 276
• ISBN : UOM:39015042137714

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In 1939 Java, Indonesia, Henriette a Dutch-Indonesian, is seventeen when WWII breaks out. Having led a life dictated by the Dutch elite, she is not prepared for the brutality of war. In the midst of the dark shadows of war, Henriette falls in love with a dashing young Arab, only to find her life complicated with more culture clashes. This is a sensitive story of love, fear, pain, and forgiveness.

Buddhist Saints in India

• Author : Reginald A. Ray
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release Date : 1999-09-30
• Genre : Religion
• Pages : 527
• ISBN : 0195350618

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The issue of saints is a difficult and complicated problem in Buddhology. In this magisterial work, Ray offers the first comprehensive examination of the figure of the Buddhist saint in a wide range of Indian Buddhist evidence. Drawing on an extensive variety of sources, Ray seeks to identify the "classical type" of the Buddhist saint, as it provides the presupposition for, and informs, the different major Buddhist saintly types and subtypes. Discussing the nature, dynamics, and history of Buddhist hagiography, he surveys the ascetic codes, conventions and traditions of Buddhist saints, and the cults both of living saints and of those who have "passed beyond." Ray traces the role of the saints in Indian Buddhist history, examining the beginnings of Buddhism and the origin of Mahayana Buddhism.

Genre in Asian Film and Television

• Author : F. Chan
• Publisher : Springer
• Release Date : 2011-03-29
• Genre : Performing Arts
• Pages : 255
• ISBN : 9780230301900

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Genre in Asian Film and Television takes a dynamic approach to the study of Asian screen media previously under-represented in academic writing. It combines historical overviews of developments within national contexts with detailed case studies on the use of generic conventions and genre hybridity in contemporary films and television programmes.