(Ilmumisaeg: 27-May-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781032638485)
This companion volume focuses on the application and practical ramifications of Indian ethics. Here Indian dharma ethics is moved from its preeminent religious origins and classical metaethical proclivity to, what Kant would call, practi...Loe edasi...
Sâdhus is a typology made in a photography studio, Denis Rouvre photographs the Sadhu people - a religious ascetic, mendicant or any holy person in Hinduism and Jainism who has renounced the worldly life....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Jan-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197549889)
Since the earliest encounters between tantric traditions and Western scholars, the representation of tantra has typically emphasizd the antinomian, decadent aspects, which created a one-dimensional understanding, and hampered the study of the field....Loe edasi...
Purushottama Bilimoria, Cogen Bohanec, Rita D. Sherma
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Dec-2024, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781032430768)
This volume is one of the first wide-ranging academic surveys of the major types and categories of Jain praxis. It covers a breadth of scholarly viewpoints that reflect both the variegation in terms of spiritual practices within the Jain tradition...Loe edasi...
This book is an analysis of the philosophical chapters of the Tattvarthadhigama (TA), a foundational text for the Jaina tradition and the first text that presented the Jaina worldview in a clear and systematic way. The book also includes th...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Nov-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691199269)
The extraordinary multiplicity of religions and religious cultures in India, chronicled over two thousand yearsFrom its earliest recorded history, India was a place of remarkable and varied religious activity, ranging from elaborate...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Aug-2024, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9781438496627)
Argues that ancient yantra (robot) tales reveal how their Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain authors thought about the nature of humanity and our role in a cosmos filled with divine and natural forces. What does it mean to be human? I, Y...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Jul-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Manohar Publishers and Distributors, ISBN-13: 9789394262768)
Through an analysis of archaeological and literary data, this book explores two interrelated themes: the socio-economic and cultic processes that resulted in the decline of Indian Buddhism in its last strongholds Bihar and Bengal towards the end of t...Loe edasi...
The Jain community in India, though small in number, is very important in the economic and social life of the country. Jain history becomes more important when we find that the community anticipated new commercial practices adopted by European tra...Loe edasi...
