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So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right.
ISBN10: 019873350X, ISBN13: 9780198733508, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover Book is in Used-VeryGood condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting. 1.96 [Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2020]
ISBN10: 019873350X, ISBN13: 9780198733508, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Hardcover Hardcover. Traditions of asceticism, yoga, and devotion (bhakti), including dance and music, developed in Hinduism over long periods of time. Some of these practices, notably those denoted by the term yoga, are orientated towards salvation from the cycle of reincarnation and go back several thousand years. These practices, borne witness to in ancient texts called Upaniads, as well as in other traditions, notably early Buddhism and Jainism, are the subject of thisvolume in the Oxford History of Hinduism. Practices of meditation are also linked to asceticism (tapas) and its institutional articulation in renunciation (sanyasa). There is a range of practicesor disciplines from ascetic fasting to taking a vow (vrata) for a deity in return for a favour. There are also devotional practices that might involve ritual, making an offering to a deity and receiving a blessing, dancing, or visualization of the master (guru). The overall theme--the history of religious practices--might even be seen as being within a broader intellectual trajectory of cultural history. In the substantial introduction by the editor this broad history issketched, paying particular attention to what we might call the medieval period (post-Gupta) through to modernity when traditions had significantly developed in relation to each other. The chapters inthe book chart the history of Hindu practice, paying part ...
ISBN10: 019873350X, ISBN13: 9780198733508, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover Book is in Used-Good condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain limited notes and highlighting. 1.96 [Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2020]
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