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Author : K. L. Chanchreek
Release : 2004
Genre : Jainism
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Book Synopsis Jaina Worship and Rituals by : K. L. Chanchreek
Download or read book Jaina Worship and Rituals written by K. L. Chanchreek. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Caroline Humphrey
Release : 1994
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis The Archetypal Actions of Ritual by : Caroline Humphrey
Download or read book The Archetypal Actions of Ritual written by Caroline Humphrey. This book was released on 1994. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humphrey and Laidlaw present a new and radical general theory of ritual by drawing on an ethnographically rich account of the ritual worship of the Jains of western India. Ritual, they argue, is not a logically separate type of activity, but rather a quality that can be attributed to a wide range of everyday activities. In exploring the issue of what is distinctive about actions which are ritualized, this book makes an ambitious and controversial contribution to social and religious anthropology.
Author : Ellen Gough
Release : 2021-10-11
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis Making a Mantra by : Ellen Gough
Download or read book Making a Mantra written by Ellen Gough. This book was released on 2021-10-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jainism originated in India and shares some features with Buddhism and Hinduism, but it is a distinct tradition with its own key texts, art, rituals, beliefs, and history. One important way it has often been distinguished from Buddhism and Hinduism is through the highly contested category of Tantra: Jainism, unlike the others, does not contain a tantric path to liberation. But in Making a Mantra, historian of religions Ellen Gough refines and challenges our understanding of Tantra by looking at the development over two millennia of a Jain incantation, or mantra, that evolved from an auspicious invocation in a second-century text into a key component of mendicant initiations and meditations that continue to this day. Typically, Jainism is characterized as a celibate, ascetic path to liberation in which one destroys karma through austerities, while the tantric path to liberation is characterized as embracing the pleasures of the material world, requiring the ritual use of mantras to destroy karma. Gough, however, argues that asceticism and Tantra should not be viewed in opposition to one another. She does so by showing that Jains perform “tantric” rituals of initiation and meditation on mantras and maṇḍalas. Jainism includes kinds of tantric practices, Gough provocatively argues, because tantric practices are a logical extension of the ascetic path to liberation.
Author : Paul Dundas
Release : 2002
Genre : Jainism
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Book Synopsis The Jains by : Paul Dundas
Download or read book The Jains written by Paul Dundas. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This revised and expanded edition takes account of new research into Jainism as carried out over the last ten years."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Narendra K. Wagle
Release : 1999
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis Approaches to Jaina Studies by : Narendra K. Wagle
Download or read book Approaches to Jaina Studies written by Narendra K. Wagle. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
