Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls
The Indian state of West Bengal is home to one of the world's most vibrant traditions of goddess worship. The year's biggest holidays are devoted to the goddesses Durga and Kali, with lavish rituals, decorated statues, fireworks, and parades. In Offering Flowers, Feeding Skulls, June McDaniel provides a broad, accessibly written overview of Bengali goddess worship. McDaniel identifies three major forms of goddess worship, and examines each through its myths, folklore, songs, rituals, sacred texts, and practitioners. In the folk/tribal strand, which is found in rural areas, local tribal goddesses are worshipped alongside Hindu goddesses, with an emphasis on possession, healing, and animism. T...
Land and Local Kingship in Eighteenth-Century Bengal
This book examines the politics and culture of eastern India's landed chiefs.
Source Book Modern Hinduism
Published in the year 2004, Source Book Modern Hinduism is a valuable contribution to the field of Asian Studies.
From Prosperity to Decline
Impact of trade on the economy of Bengal in 18th century.
Kundamala of Dinnaga
None
Eternal Garden
Ernst's research, based on rare Persian manuscripts preserved in Sufi shrines in the medieval town of Khuldabad, a major center of pilgrimage in the Indian Deccan, reveals the mystical teachings and practices of the Chishti Sufi order as taught by the ecstatic Shaykh Burhan al-Din Gharib (d. 1337) and his disciples. The book clarifies the diverse historiographical approaches found in an array of narratives. It redefines major topics in the often emotionally charged study of religion and history in South Asia, and it raises provocative theses on much-argued topics such as the basis of Islamic political power in South Asia and the alleged roles of Sufis as warriors and missionaries.
An Anthology of Buddhist Tantric Songs
Offers a translation, examination and commentary of the Caryapada' collection of tantric songs of the 8th to 12th centuries. This study collects songs known as 'Caryagiti', 'songs of realization', or more literally 'songs of right action', referring to the edition discovered in 1907 at the Nepal Royal Library. This is a translation, examination and commentary of the 'Caryapada' collection of tantric songs of the 8th to 12th centuries by one of the world's leading scholars. The subject of this study is a small (49 padas) collection of songs known as 'Caryagiti','
