Receptacle Of The Sacred

Author : Jinah Kim
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520273869
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Receptacle of the Sacred written by Jinah Kim and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-04-12 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In considering medieval illustrated Buddhist manuscripts as sacred objects of cultic innovation, Receptacle of the Sacred explores how and why the South Asian Buddhist book-cult has survived for almost two millennia to the present. A book “manuscript” should be understood as a form of sacred space: a temple in microcosm, not only imbued with divine presence but also layered with the memories of many generations of users. Jinah Kim argues that illustrating a manuscript with Buddhist imagery not only empowered it as a three-dimensional sacred object, but also made it a suitable tool for the spiritual transformation of medieval Indian practitioners. Through a detailed historical analysis of Sanskrit colophons on patronage, production, and use of illustrated manuscripts, she suggests that while Buddhism’s disappearance in eastern India was a slow and gradual process, the Buddhist book-cult played an important role in sustaining its identity. In addition, by examining the physical traces left by later Nepalese users and the contemporary ritual use of the book in Nepal, Kim shows how human agency was critical in perpetuating and intensifying the potency of a manuscript as a sacred object throughout time.

Author : Jinah Kim
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520954882
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Receptacle of the Sacred written by Jinah Kim and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-04-12 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In considering medieval illustrated Buddhist manuscripts as sacred objects of cultic innovation, Receptacle of the Sacred explores how and why the South Asian Buddhist book-cult has survived for almost two millennia to the present. A book "manuscript" should be understood as a form of sacred space: a temple in microcosm, not only imbued with divine presence but also layered with the memories of many generations of users. Jinah Kim argues that illustrating a manuscript with Buddhist imagery not only empowered it as a three-dimensional sacred object, but also made it a suitable tool for the spiritual transformation of medieval Indian practitioners. Through a detailed historical analysis of Sanskrit colophons on patronage, production, and use of illustrated manuscripts, she suggests that while Buddhism’s disappearance in eastern India was a slow and gradual process, the Buddhist book-cult played an important role in sustaining its identity. In addition, by examining the physical traces left by later Nepalese users and the contemporary ritual use of the book in Nepal, Kim shows how human agency was critical in perpetuating and intensifying the potency of a manuscript as a sacred object throughout time.

Author : Timothy Scott
Publisher : Fons Vitae Judaism
ISBN 13 : 9781891785368
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Symbolism of the Ark written by Timothy Scott and published by Fons Vitae Judaism. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compendium of religious symbols and their meanings, this scholarly reference is relevant to a wide variety of spiritual and metaphysical interests, including Judeo-Christian theology, Jungian psychology, ancient mythology, mystical and occult traditions, and New Age practices. Building on the pioneering labors of René Guénon and Ananda Coomaraswamy, the study mines the symbolism of the Bible--particularly the stories of Noah's ark and the Ark of the Covenant--for comparison with other traditions.

Author : Douglas Allen
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824037208
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Myth and Religion in Mircea Eliade written by Douglas Allen and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an interesting study with a great deal of information on Eliade's main themes and a detailed account of his understanding of myth.

Author : Bryan Rennie
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791447307
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Changing Religious Worlds written by Bryan Rennie and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assesses Mircea Eliade's contribution to the contemporary understanding of religion and the academic study of religion.

Author : Muhammad U. Faruque
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000892654
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From the Divine to the Human written by Muhammad U. Faruque and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-28 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring the work of leading contemporary Muslim philosophers and theologians, this book grapples with various forms of evil and suffering in the world today, from COVID-19 and issues in climate change to problems in palliative care and human vulnerability. Rather than walking down well-trodden paths in philosophy of religion which often address questions of evil and suffering by focusing on divine attributes and the God-world relationship, this volume offers another path of inquiry by focusing on human vulnerability, potential, and resilience. Addressing both the theoretical and practical dimensions of the question of evil, topics range from the transformative power of love, virtue ethics in Sufism and the necessity of suffering, to the spiritual significance of the body and Islamic perspectives on embodiment. In doing so, the contributors propose new perspectives based on various pre-modern and contemporary materials that can enrich the emerging field of the global philosophy of religion, thereby radically transforming contemporary debates on the nature of evil and suffering. The book will appeal to researchers in a variety of disciplines, including Islamic philosophy, religious studies, Sufism, and theology.

Author : Kevin Trainor
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190632925
Total Pages : 689 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Buddhist Practice written by Kevin Trainor and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This Handbook provides a state-of-the-art exploration of several key dynamics in current studies of the Buddhist tradition with a focus on practice. Embodiment, materiality, emotion, and gender shape the way most Buddhists engage with their traditions, in contrast to popular representations of Buddhism as spiritual, disembodied, and largely devoid of ritual. This volume highlights how practice often represents a fluid, dynamic, and strategic means of defining identity and negotiating the challenges of everyday life. Essays explore the transformational aims of practices that require practitioners to move, gesture, and emote in prescribed ways, including the ways that scholars' own embodied practices are integral to their research methodology. The chapters are written by acknowledged experts in their respective subject areas and taken together offer an overview of current thinking in the field. The volume is of particular value to scholars who seek an orientation to current perspectives on important conceptual, theoretical, and methodological concerns that are shaping the field in areas outside their primary expertise. The inclusion of substantial, up-to-date bibliographies also makes the volume an important guide to current scholarship"--

Author : Andrea Jain
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199390258
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selling Yoga written by Andrea Jain and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Premodern and early modern yoga comprise techniques with a wide range of aims, from turning inward in quest of the true self, to turning outward for divine union, to channeling bodily energy in pursuit of sexual pleasure. Early modern yoga also encompassed countercultural beliefs and practices. In contrast, today, modern yoga aims at the enhancement of the mind-body complex but does so according to contemporary dominant metaphysical, health, and fitness paradigms. Consequently, yoga is now a part of popular culture. In Selling Yoga, Andrea R. Jain explores the popularization of yoga in the context of late-twentieth-century consumer culture. She departs from conventional approaches by undermining essentialist definitions of yoga as well as assumptions that yoga underwent a linear trajectory of increasing popularization. While some studies trivialize popularized yoga systems by reducing them to the mere commodification or corruption of what is perceived as an otherwise fixed, authentic system, Jain suggests that this dichotomy oversimplifies the history of yoga as well as its meanings for contemporary practitioners. By discussing a wide array of modern yoga types, from Iyengar Yoga to Bikram Yoga, Jain argues that popularized yoga cannot be dismissed--that it has a variety of religious meanings and functions. Yoga brands destabilize the basic utility of yoga commodities and assign to them new meanings that represent the fulfillment of self-developmental needs often deemed sacred in contemporary consumer culture.

Author : Daniel Kimball Whitaker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Southern Quarterly Review written by Daniel Kimball Whitaker and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Benjamin Fiske Barrett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
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Download or read book A Course of Lectures on the Doctrines of the New Jerusalem Church written by Benjamin Fiske Barrett and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: