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This book presents for the first time a collection of the major studies on Hindu law and Dharmasastra by Ludo Rocher, one of the brightest lights of American academia. This collection of essays serves as an invaluable introduction to Rocher's distinctive and important contributions to the field of Indology.

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South India is a land of many temples and shrines, each of which has preserved a local tradition of myth, folklore, and ritual. As one of the first Western scholars to explore this tradition in detail, David Shulman brings together the stories associated with these sacred sites and places them in the context of the greater Hindu religious tradition

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Tantra is an Asian body of beliefs and practices that seeks to channel the divine energy in creative and liberating ways. This book looks at the wide geographical scope of Tantra by examining thirty-six texts from China, India, Japan, Nepal, and Tibet, since the seventh century and representing Buddhist, Hindu, Jain, and Islamic experiences.

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The anthology collects the best writing of the Hindu mystical tradition, including both ancient and modern texts. The book features wisdom from such people as Ramakrishna, Ramana Maharshi, and the devotional poetry of Mirabai, Ramprasad and others.

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Based on a dialogue between Bhagavan Krishna and Prince Arjuna on the eve of a great battle, it is held to be the essence of Hindu spirituality, sacred literature and yoga, as well as exploring the great universal themes of courage, honour, death, love, virtue and fulfilment.

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Reprint: Originally published as The Continuum Companion to Hindu Studies. London: Continuum, 2011.

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Popular Hinduism is shaped, above all, by worship of a multitude of powerful divine beings - a superabundance indicated by the proverbial total of 330 million gods and goddesses. This title combines ethnographic case studies with comparative anthropological analysis and draws on textual and historical scholarship as well.

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A comprehensive reference guide to Hindu Studies. It covers all the most pressing and important themes and categories in the field - areas that have continued to attract interest historically as well as topics of research. It features a series of indispensible research tools, including a detailed list of resources, chronology and diagrams.

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Most Americans know about the "Hare Krishnas" only from encounters in airports or from tales of their activities in the East Village and Haight-Ashbury in the 1960s. This entertaining and sensitive book deepens our knowledge by tracing the paths of those Western Hare Krishnas who eventually traveled to or lived in India. The charismatic leader of t

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Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney examines the historical transformations of the concept of self and other in Japan by inquiring into the meanings assigned to the monkey and the ""special status"" people (often referred to as ""outcasts""), who produce the monkey performances still popular in Japan.

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In a meditation on Siva - based on original Sanskrit texts, many heretofore not translated - Stella Kramrisch ponders the metaphysics, ontology, and myths of Siva from the Vedas to the Puranas.

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Shows that traditionalism and modernity reinforce each other among the priests at the Minakshi Temple. This book also shows that the priests have become more 'professional' and modern-minded while also insisting on the legitimacy of tradition. It concludes by critiquing the analysis of modernity and tradition in social science.

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Attracted by his stillness, quietness and teachings, thousands sought his guidance on issues ranging from the nature of God to daily life.

This book brings together many of the conversations Maharshi had with his followers in an intimate portrait of his beliefs and teachings.

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'The Upanisads' is the Hindu equivalent of the Christian New Testament. It is a collection of spiritual treatises written in Sanskrit between 800 and 400 BCE. This title focuses on understanding the inner meaning of the religion. It explicates its crucial doctrines - rebirth, the law of karma, and the means of conquering death.

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The themes and issues explored in this text cover moral decision-making, worship, myth and history, the role of women, attitudes to nature, sacred writings, beliefs about human nature, rites of passage, sacred place and the depiction of the divine. This volume addresses Hinduism.

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A detailed guide to Samkhya Vedic philosophy and how to break free from the cycles of rebirth