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Author : Johannes Bronkhorst
Release : 1998
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 513/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Two Sources of Indian Asceticism by : Johannes Bronkhorst
Download or read book The Two Sources of Indian Asceticism written by Johannes Bronkhorst. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: how spiritual healing works and how colours, tones, crystals and massage
Author : Carl Olson
Release : 2015
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 319/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Indian Asceticism by : Carl Olson
Download or read book Indian Asceticism written by Carl Olson. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the history of Indian religions, the ascetic figure is most closely identified with power. A by-product of the ascetic path, power is displayed in the ability to fly, walk on water or through dense objects, read minds, discern the former lives of others, see into the future, harm others, or simply levitate one's body. These tales give rise to questions about how power and violence are related to the phenomenon of play. Indian Asceticism focuses on the powers exhibited by ascetics of India from ancient to modern time. Carl Olson discusses the erotic, the demonic, the comic, and the miraculous forms of play and their connections to power and violence. He focuses on Hinduism, but evidence is also presented from Buddhism and Jainism, suggesting that the subject matter of this book pervades India's major indigenous religious traditions. The book includes a look at the extent to which findings in cognitive science can add to our understanding of these various powers; Olson argues that violence is built into the practice of the ascetic. Indian Asceticism culminates with an attempt to rethink the nature of power in a way that does justice to the literary evidence from Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain sources.
Author : Kenneth G. Zysk
Release : 1998
Genre : Health & Fitness
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Book Rating : 285/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Asceticism and Healing in Ancient India by : Kenneth G. Zysk
Download or read book Asceticism and Healing in Ancient India written by Kenneth G. Zysk. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rich Indian medical tradition is usually traced back to Sanskrit sources, the earliest of which cannot much antedate the common era. In this book Kenneth Zysk shows that Buddhist scriptures some centuries older than this contain abundant information about medical practice, and are our earliest evidence for a rational approach to medicine in India. He argues that Buddhism and the medical tradition were mutually supportive: that Buddhist monks and people associated with them contributed to the development of medicine, while their skills as physical as well as spiritual healers enhanced their reputation and popular support. Drawing on a wide range of textual, archaeological, and secondary sources, Zysk first presents an overview of the history of Indian Medicine in its religious context. He then examines primary literature from the Pali Buddhist Canon and from the Sanskrit treatises of Bhela, Caraka, and susruta. By close comparison of these two bodies of literature Zysk convincingly shows how the theories delineated in the medical classics actually became practice.
Author : M.G. Bhagat
Release : 1976
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Book Synopsis Ancient Indian Asceticism by : M.G. Bhagat
Download or read book Ancient Indian Asceticism written by M.G. Bhagat. This book was released on 1976. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Johannes Bronkhorst
Release : 1993
Genre : Body, Mind & Spirit
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Book Synopsis The Two Traditions of Meditation in Ancient India by : Johannes Bronkhorst
Download or read book The Two Traditions of Meditation in Ancient India written by Johannes Bronkhorst. This book was released on 1993. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book elucidates the early Buddhist teachings and beliefs concerning meditaions and its role in the process to liberation. In a number of cases, the Buddhist canonical texts reject practices which they accept elsewhere. When these practices-sometimes rejected, sometimes accepted-correspond to what is known about non-Buddhist practices, the conculsion in then proposed that they are non-Buddhist practices which have somehow found their way into the Buddhist texts. A similar procedure enables one to choose between conflicting beliefs.
