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Georgette Boner |
Alice Boner Diaries |
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| Apart from an insight into Alice Boner's keen observation of Indian temple-architecture and art the present selection of her diary entries also depict the struggles of Alice Boner, the artist. In her work she strove to represent the spirit of India which her intensive experiences of over 40 years in the country revealed to her. Her experiences also included contact with personalities of the calibre of Rabindranath Tagore, Swami Laxman Joo, Sarojini Naidu, Ustad Alauddin Khan, and her admiration... |
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Alice Boner |
Principles of Composition in Hindu Sculpture |
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Alice Boner |
Vastusutra Upanishad: The Essence of Form in Sacred Art |
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| About the Author: The Vastusutra Upanisad, ascribed to Rsi Pippalada of Prasna Upanisad, is the first known Atharvavedic text on image-making. The book contains a critical edition of the text, an English translation and copious notes elucidating its meaning. Its chapters are devoted to a discussion of the following subjects: stones, compositional diagram, carving, disposition of the parts of the image, the basic emotions connected with images, and the total composition of the image panel.... |
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Bettina Baumer |
Mysticism in Shaivism and Christianity |
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| If mysticism is hard to define, what is it then? Or, why have mystics often spoken about what they have realized — notwithstanding the ‘unspeakability’ of a spiritual experience? And, yet more significantly, how can a meeting point of different religious traditions be discovered at the mystical level?
Focussing on these and other related questions, eminent scholars from varying religious traditions here explore the nature of mystical experience in two of the world’s major traditions:... |
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Bettina Baumer, Ed. & Tr. |
Silparatnakosa of Sthapaka Niranjana Mahapatra |
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| The Silparatnakosa is a 17th century Orissan text composed by Sthapaka Niranjana Mahapatra describing all the parts of the temple types of Orissa such as the Manjusri and Khakara. It also contains a section on sculpture on image-making (Pratimalaksana). This text though much later than the temples described reflects the still living tradition and it contributes much to clarify the terminology of Orissan temple architecture.The text has been edited from three palmleaf MSS and translated with... |
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Photographs By Susanne Hawkes |
Sacred Trees and Indian Life |
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| This book is about the abiding bond that exists between trees and everyday life in India: especially between sacred trees and everyday life. As it subsists today, it may not be so easily visible, for one`s attention is diverted by other things, and the air in any case is filled with too much noise, a surfeit of human greed. About the Author:
Susanne Hawkes is a freelance photographer. As an old friend of India, she has travelled and photographed extensivelyin the country,and continues to... |
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Sadananda Das |
Samarasya |
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| The present volume is a tribute to Dr. Bettina Baumer an eminent scholar of Indology and Religious studies in general and of Kashmir Saivism in particular and one of the important exponents of interreligious dialouge.It contains 32 essays which are divided into three sections representing the main fields of study of Bettina Baumer.Section 1 Indian Philosophy and SpiritualitySection II Indian Arts and AestheticsThe last section on Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue
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Dr.Dinanath Pathy |
Nilabdhi |
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| The essays in commemoration of Pandit Nilamani Mishra, an eminent Scholar and Curator of Sanskrit Palmleaf manuscripts in the Orissa State Museum cover a wide range of researchers from Art to Philosophy, History of Literature, Archaeology to Anthropology and Religion to Social Sciences. Noted scholars from Orissa and outside through their specific contributions have focussed on different Cultural Studies. This volume in its totality makes a meaningful presence in the field of scholarship and... |
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