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Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty |
The Origins of Evil in Hindu Mythology |
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In this pertinent and valuable study O'Flaherty answers the crucial questions such as , what solutions did the Hindus offer to the problems of evil? How did these arise and develop historically? And, how if at all can these various solutions be subsumed under a unified world veiw?
The problem of evil, in particular the question of theodicy, has long been overlooked or misunderstood by Indologists, who have maintained that there is no problem of evil in Indian thought, or that it was "solved"... |
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Wendy Doniger |
Hindu Myths: A Sourcebook Translated from the Sanskrit (Penguin Classics) (Paperback) |
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Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty |
The Rig Veda: An Anthology of One Hundred Eight Hymns |
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Gathers Vedic hymns about creation, death, sacrifice, ritual and the various gods and characters of Indian mythology.About the Author:'Wendy Doniger is the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions in the Divinity School at the University of Chicago, where she is also a professor of South Asian languages and civilizations. |
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Wendy Doniger |
Purana Perennis |
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Wendy Doniger |
Splitting the Difference |
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Wendy Doniger recounts and compares a vast range of stories of women and men who are doubled, whose bodies are split or divided. Her comparisons show that ultimately differences in gender are more significant than differences in culture; Greek and Indian stories of doubled women resemble each other more than they do tales of doubled men in the same culture. In casting Hindu and Greek mythologies as shadows of each other, Doniger shows that culture is sometimes but the shadow of gender.About the... |
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Wendy Doniger |
Kamasutra |
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The KAMASUTRA is the oldest extant Hindu textbook or erotic love. it is about the art of living-about finding a partner, maintaing power in a marriage, committing adultery, living as or with a courtesan, using drugs - and also about the position in sexual intercourse. The lively and entertaining introduction by Wendy Doniger discusses the history of the text and its reception in India and Europe, analyses its attitudes towards gender and sexual violence and sets it in the context of ancient... |
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W.D. O`Flaherty |
Karma and Rebirth in the Classical Indian Tradition |
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Karma is perhaps the most famous concept in Indian philosophy, but there is no comprehensive study of its various meanings or philosophical implications. Under the sponsorship of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council, leading American Indologists met on several occasions to discuss their ideas about karma. The result is this volume. This book will have a considerable impact upon the teaching of Indian philosophy. At the very least, it demonstrates... |
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Carmel Berkson |
Elephanta |
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Three descriptive essays and numerous fascinating photographs, taken especially for this volume, allow the reader to experience a major monument of Indian art: the sixth century temple cave on Elephanta Island, in Bombay harbor, and its extraordinary stone sculptures. The authors and the photographer capture the atmosphere of the cave and the spirit of the sculptures, which portray the relentless energy and paradoxical power of Shiva, greatest of all Hindu gods. The photographs are particularly... |
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