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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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The Hare Krishna Movement is popularly associated with groups of chanting, saffron-robed followers, whose colourful appearance on the streets of western cities became increasingly commonplace after the Movement's emergence in 1965. But there is much more to the Krishna phenomenon, and this book focuses on what the Movement is all about.

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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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This study analyzes the role of asceticism, icons, and the guru in South India. Tracing the development of Hindu monastic orders, the author analyzes the growth of these institutions from educational establishments to centers of traditional socio-religious authority, centering her argument on the phenomenon of guru whole-body relics.

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The Hindu Self and its Muslim Neighbors sketches the contours of relations between Hindus and Muslims in Bengal. The central argument is that these relations are marked by various patterns of amicability and antipathy which emerge at dynamic intersections between Hindu self-understandings and social shifts on contested landscapes.

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Composed between 800 and 950 AD, this work is one of the best-known of all works in Sanskrit literature. A collection of fables, maxims and sayings in verse, it combines a variety of writings from earlier authors in one volume - created to provide guidance, wisdom and political advice to the reader.

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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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Contributes to an understanding of tantra's mysteries. Without minimising its sexual dimensions, this book argues that within tantra the body is more than a sexual entity, it is a vehicle for the spirituality that is fundamental to people's minds. This book is useful to students of South Asian cultures and societies, and of comparative philosophy.

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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 book is a thematic study of Tagores conceptual project of harmonizing the one and its many across several fields such as spirituality, aesthetics, social existence, and others.

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White retraces the strange and circuitous journey of Patanjali's Yoga Sutra from its ancient origins to today, bringing to life the improbable cast of characters whose interpretations and misappropriations led to its revered place in contemporary popular culture.

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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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This book explores Patajalis Yoga Stra from a contemporary scholarly perspective. Chapters in this book explore questions regarding its metaphysics, epistemology, and praxis. Contributors to this volume guide us in a philosophical journey through this text that will be of interest to scholars and yoga practitioners alike.

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One of Indias greatest epics, theRamayanapervades the countrys moral and cultural consciousness. With her magnificent translation and superb introduction, Arshia Sattar has successfully bridged both time and space to bring this ancient classic to modern English readers.

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The last and most intriguing book of the Ramayana, the Uttara is rendered here by Arshia Sattar in vivid, sensuous detail.Accompanied by her thoughtful essays that explore the moral complexity of this most enduring of epics, this translation crystallizes Sattars deep and intimate knowledge of the Ramayana in a way that is utterly compelling.

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The last and most intriguing book of the Ramayana, the Uttara is rendered here by Arshia Sattar in vivid, sensuous detail.Accompanied by her thoughtful essays that explore the moral complexity of this most enduring of epics, this translation crystallizes Sattars deep and intimate knowledge of the Ramayana in a way that is utterly compelling.

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