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Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-08-19 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

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Ancient ideas on sacred sound find a very tangible and lively expression in the practice of kirtan, which is a broad term referring to various forms of devotion
Ahimsa in the Indic Traditions
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Pages: 215
Authors: Jeffery D. Long
Categories: Religion
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Ahiṃsā in the Indic Traditions: Explorations and Reflections, edited by Jeffery D. Long and Steven J. Rosen, examines the diversity of nonviolent (ahimsa-ori
Thinking with the Yoga Sutra of Patañjali
Language: en
Pages: 232
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Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-05-20 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

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This book explores Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra from a contemporary scholarly perspective. Chapters in this book explore questions regarding its metaphysics, epis
Sacred Sound
Language: en
Pages: 234
Authors: Alanna Kaivalya
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The mantra and kirtan (call-and-response devotional chants) of yoga practice sometimes get short shrift in the West because they aren’t well understood. These
The Vedantic Relationality of Rabindranath Tagore
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Authors: Ankur Barua
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-10-25 - Publisher: Lexington Books

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This book is a thematic study of the poet-thinker Rabindranath Tagore’s conceptual project of harmonizing the one and its many. Tagore’s writings, in Bengal