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Patrick Olivelle |
The Asrama System |
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| The lesser known and explored of the two pillars of Hinduism- asrama and varna-asrama is the name given to a system of four distinct and legitimate ways of leading a religious life: as a celibate student, a married householder, a forest hermit, and a world renouncer. In this, the first full-length study of the asrama system, Olivelle uncovers its origin and traces its subsequent history. He examines in depth its relationship to other institutional and doctrinal aspects of the Brahmanical world... |
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Patrick Olivelle |
Dharma: Studies in its Semantic, Cultural and Religious History |
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| This is the first scholarly book devoted to the study of the term dharma with in the broad scope of Indian cultural and religious history. Most generalizations about Indian culture and religion upon close scrutiny turn out to be inaccurate. An exception undoubtedly is the term dharma. This term and the notions underlying it clearly constitute the most central feature of Indian civilization down the centuries, irrespective of linguistic, sectarian, or regional differences.
The nineteen papers... |
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Patrick Olivelle |
Asoka: In History and Historical Memory |
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| The current volume, which contains the presentations at a symposium sponsored by the South Asia Institute and the Department of Asian Studies of the University of Texts at Austin (February 4, 2006) is intended to advance the study of Asoka both as history and historical memory.
The authors of these papers take as historically significant not only the "historical truth" of Asoka but also the ways in which Asoka presents himself and his political, nationalistic, and religious purposes by... |
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Patrick Olivelle (Ed.) |
Dharma: Studies in its Semantic, Cultural and Religious History |
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| This is the first scholarly book devoted to the study of the term dharma with in the broad scope of Indian cultural and religious history. Most generalizations about Indian culture and religion upon close scrutiny turn out to be inaccurate. An exception undoubtedly is the term dharma. This term and the notions underlying it clearly constitute the most central feature of Indian civilization down the centuries, irrespective of linguistic, sectarian, or regional differences. The nineteen papers... |
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Patrick Olivelle (Annot., Text & Tr.) |
Dharmasutras |
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| The Dharmasutras are the four surviving works of the ancient Indian expert tradition on the subject of dharma, or the rules of behavior a community recognizes as binding on its members.
Written in a pithy and aphoristic style and representing the culmination of a long tradition of scholarship, the Dharmasutras record intense disputes and divergent views on a wide variety of religious and social issues. These unique documents give us a glimpse of how people, especially Brahmin males, were... |
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Patrick Olivelle (Editor) |
Rules and Regulations of Brahmanical Asceticism |
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| Rules and Regulations of Brahmanical Asceticism is the critical edition and translation of a twelfth-century Sanskrit text written by Yadava Prakasa, whose life and activities are of historical interest because, according to tradition, he was the teacher of the great Vaisnava theologian Ramanuja. This text is the oldest and most comprehensive example of medieval Sanskrit literature devoted to examining the duties of ascetics. Yadava Prakasa is the only one who explicitly examines the thorny... |
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Patrick Olivelle (Tr.) |
Upanisads: Worlds Classics |
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| The author has translated this literature from the original language, Sanskrit. The author has also given the meanings of the verses. In the introduction, the author has written the background during which the Upanishads were written. The author has told us the social structure of India during that time and also the history and chronology.Upanishads are one of the sacred scripture of Hinduism. Upanishads is a treasure of spiritual philosophy. In the Upanishads, it is written about the creation... |
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Tr. Patrick Olivelle |
The Five Discourses on Worldly Wisdom by Visnusarman |
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Patrick Olivelle |
Vasudevasrama Yatidharmaprakasa |
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Patrick Olivelle |
Renunciation in Hinduism (2 Vols.) |
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Early Upanisads |
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Patrick Olivelle |
Dharmasutra Parallels |
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| The Dharmasutra Parallels present in a synoptic layout of the passages in the four Dharmasutras of Apastamba. Gautama, Baudhayana, and Vasistha the deal with identical topics. The Dharmasutras represent the oldest extant codification of Law in ancient India. A close study of these early legal treatises is essential if we are to understand not only the legal but also the cultural and religious history of the three or four centuries prior to the common era, a period that saw the beginnings of... |
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Brian Black |
Priests, Kings, and Women in the Early Upanisads: The Character of the Self in Ancient India |
$20.49 $15.37 |
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| "Black's book is well researched and intelligent... Most impressive is his ability to bring out the concrete and the social in these narratives, including issues of wealth, prestige, regional rivalry, and gender relations." - Journal of the American Oriental Society "...[an] innovative and stimulating account of early Indian thought." - History of Religions "This is an outstanding book." - Patrick Olivelle, editor of Between the Empires: Society in India... |
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