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Illness and Immortality
Illness and Immortality examines a medieval Sanskrit text, the Netra Tantra, which is devoted to health and healing through a yogic practice dedicated to the chanting of mantras, the building of mandalas, and meditation. Patricia Sauthoff examines the role of such ritual elements in rites to alleviate illness and death. She includes analysis of the various forms of the deity Amrtesa or Mrtyuñjaya (Conqueror of Death), the nature of mantra, and the relationship between the tantric practitioner and the patient. This work explores what is meant by immortality within the medieval context and how one goes about attaining it. It asks how ritual alleviates illness, what role the deity plays in hea...
Puṣpikā: Tracing Ancient India Through Texts and Traditions
Puspika 2 is the outcome of the second International Indology Graduate Research Symposium and presents the results of recent research by young scholars into pre-modern South Asian cultures with papers covering a variety of topics related to the intellectual traditions of the region. Focusing on textual sources in the languages in which they were composed, different disciplinary perspectives are offered on intellectual history, linguistics, philosophy, literary criticism and religious studies.
Literary Cultures in Early Modern North India
Literary Cultures in Early Modern North India: Current Research grows out of over a 40-year tradition of the triennial International Conferences on Early Modern Literatures in North India (ICEMLNI), initiated to share 'Bhakti in current research.' This volume brings together a selection of contributions from some of the leading scholars as well as emerging researchers in the field originally presented at the 13th ICEMLNI (University of Warsaw, 18-22 July 2018). Considering innovative methodologies and tools, the volume presents the current state of research on early modern sources and offers new inputs into our understanding of this period in the cultural history of India. This collection of...
Puspika: Tracing Ancient India Through Texts and Traditions
Puspika 2 is the outcome of the second International Indology Graduate Research Symposium and presents the results of recent research by young scholars into pre-modern South Asian cultures with papers covering a variety of topics related to the intellectual traditions of the region. Focusing on textual sources in the languages in which they were composed, different disciplinary perspectives are offered on intellectual history, linguistics, philosophy, literary criticism and religious studies.
Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies
The Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary resource, which frames and contextualises the rapidly expanding fields that explore yoga and meditative techniques. The book analyses yoga and meditation studies in a variety of religious, historical and geographical settings. The chapters, authored by an international set of experts, are laid out across five sections: Introduction to yoga and meditation studies History of yoga and meditation in South Asia Doctrinal perspectives: technique and praxis Global and regional transmissions Disciplinary framings In addition to up-to-date explorations of the history of yoga and meditation in the Indian sub...
Death Strikes: The Emperor of Atlantis
Mixing dystopian sci-fi, mythic fantasy, and zombie horror, Death Strikes: The Emperor of Atlantis, is a graphic novel based on a suppressed opera written in 1943 by Peter Kien and Viktor Ullmann, two prisoners at the Terezín concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. The authors did not live to see their masterpiece performed. Set in an alternative universe where Atlantis never sank but instead became a technologically advanced tyranny, the power-mad buffoonish Emperor declares all-out war—everyone against everyone. Death goes on a labor strike, creating a hellscape where everyone fights, but no one dies. Can the spirit of Life stop this terror with the power of love? Includes designs from th...
Live Work Work Work Die
A scathing, sardonic exploration of Silicon Valley tech culture, laying bare the greed, hubris, and retrograde politics of an industry that aspires to radically transform society for its own benefit At the height of the startup boom, journalist Corey Pein set out for Silicon Valley with little more than a smartphone and his wits. His goal: to learn how such an overhyped industry could possibly sustain itself as long as it has. But to truly understand the delirious reality of the tech entrepreneurs, he knew he would have to inhabit that perspective—he would have to become an entrepreneur himself. Thus Pein begins his journey—skulking through gimmicky tech conferences, pitching his over-th...
Historia del yoga
Gran parte de lo que se dice sobre el yoga es engañoso. Tomemos dos ejemplos: no tiene cinco mil años de antigüedad, como comúnmente se afirma, ni significa exclusivamente «unión». En el que es quizá el texto más famoso, los Yoga Sutras de Patañjali, el objetivo es la separación, aislar la conciencia de todo lo demás. Y la evidencia más temprana de la práctica se remonta a unos dos mil quinientos años. Los estudiosos hoy conocen mucho más sobre la historia del yoga, pero su investigación puede ser difícil de consultar y suele estar dirigida más a especialistas que a lectores generales. Historia del yoga ofrece una visión panorámica de la evolución del yoga desde sus orígenes más antiguos hasta el presente, de forma asequible a todo tipo de lectores. Se puede leer de manera cronológica o utilizarse como guía de referencia para la historia y la filosofía. Cada sección breve aborda un elemento, citando textos tradicionales y poniendo sus enseñanzas en contexto. La intención es mantener las cosas claras sin simplificar en exceso.
Flamenco Dancers
A female photographer’s life will be forever changed after she encounters the mysterious clan of flamenco dancers from Spain. A multi-million-dollar art heist, a murder and meeting the ‘man of your dreams’ can definitely change a young woman’s life, you know? (a newspaper review of the novel that sold-out numerous limited editions in bookstores) THIS WEEK: CULTURE: Performing Arts / Books Read It: Familiar Fodder By Patricia Sauthoff FLAMENCO DANCERS By CB McCarty Flamenco Dancers opens with a New Mexican pulp attitude and continues through its mysterious murder tale full of Fiestas and flamenco. Santa Fe’s Canyon Road, the Plaza and northern New Mexico's surrounding ruins make for the perfect backdrop, and adding to the atmosphere is an accompanying CD. Forty-two Santa Fe musicians were taped by songwriter McCarty to make the soundtrack that complements his fictitious tale. Between a carefully crafted murder mystery, reminiscent of Tony Hillerman, and the smooth beats of artists like Jono Manson, Susan Holmes and Ruben Romero, Flamenco Dancers is a story to read, and hear, again and again.
Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media
Identifies specific print and broadcast sources of news and advertising for trade, business, labor, and professionals. Arrangement is geographic with a thumbnail description of each local market. Indexes are classified (by format and subject matter) and alphabetical (by name and keyword).
