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Used - isbn: 0791404463 - isbn13: 9780791404461 State University of New York Press

ISBN10: 0791404463, ISBN13: 9780791404461, [publisher: State University of New York Press] Softcover Used Condition: Good This book provides a fresh and careful translation from the Sanskrit of this fifteen-hundred-year-old text. This book answers the following questions among others: Is this document "scripture?", How is it that this text mediates the presence of the Goddess?, What can we make of contemporary emphasis on oral recitation of the text rather than study of its written form?
[prescott, AZ, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1991]
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State University of New York Press, Date: 1991-04-23. Paperback. Used:Good. 1991. State University of New York Press ISBN 0791404463 9780791404461 [US]

State University of New York Press, Date: 1991-04-22. paperback. New. 6x0x9. 1991. State University of New York Press ISBN 0791404463 9780791404461 [US]

ISBN10: 0791404463, ISBN13: 9780791404461, [publisher: SUNY Press Apr 1991] Softcover Neuware - Coburn provides a fresh and careful translation from the Sanskrit of this fifteen-hundred-year-old text. Drawing on field work and literary evidence, he illuminates the process by which the Dev¿-M¿h¿tmya has attracted a vast number of commentaries and has become the best known Goddess-text in modern India, deeply embedded in the ritual of Goddess worship (especially in Tantra). Coburn answers the following questions among others: Is this document 'scripture ' How is it that this text mediates the presence of the Goddess What can we make of contemporary emphasis on oral recitation of the text rather than study of its written form One comes away from Coburn's work with a sense of the historical integrity or wholeness of an extremely important religious development centered on a 'text.' The interaction between the text and later philosophical and religious developments such as those found in Advaita Vedanta and Tantra is quite illuminating.Relevant here are the issues of the writtenness and orality/aurality of 'scripture,' and the various ways by which a deposit of holy words such as the Dev¿-M¿h¿tmya becomes effective, powerful, and inspirational in the lives of those who hold it sacred.
[Einbeck, Germany] [Publication Year: ...
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State University of New York Press, Date: 1991. Paperback. New. 9.25x6.00x0.50 inches. 1991. State University of New York Press ISBN 0791404463 9780791404461 [GB]

ISBN10: 0791404463, ISBN13: 9780791404461, [publisher: State University Press of New York (SUNY)] Softcover New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.
[Fairford, GLOS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1991]

ISBN10: 0791404463, ISBN13: 9780791404461, [publisher: State University Press of New York (SUNY)] Softcover New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.
[Wood Dale, IL, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1991]

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