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Release from life-- release in life : Indian perspectives on individual liberation / [edited by] Andreas Bigger...[et al.].

Title
Release from life-- release in life : Indian perspectives on individual liberation / [edited by] Andreas Bigger...[et al.].
Publication
Bern ; New York : P. Lang, c2010.

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Additional Authors
Bigger, Andreas.
Description
viii, 339 p.; 23 cm.
Summary
"Festschrift in honour of Peter Schreiner."
Series Statement
Worlds of south and inner Asia ; v. 1
Uniform Title
Worlds of south and inner Asia ; v. 1.
Subject
  • Liberation theology > India
  • Rites and ceremonies > India
  • Philosophy, Indic
  • Hinduism > Doctrines
  • Spiritual life > Hinduism
  • Salvation > Hinduism
  • India > Religion
Genre/Form
Kongress.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographic references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Does Bhartrhari Accept the Possibility of Liberation lebend oder sterbend? / Greg Bailey ---- surya ivaparah: Exemplary Deaths in the Mahabharata / John Brockington --- Release through Death in Valmiki's Narrative / Mary Brockington --- Getting out -- Letting in: bhakti Models of Liberation / Maya Burger --- The Ethical Significance of Living by Gleaning (unchavrtti) in the Mahabharata /James L. Fitzgerald --- To Be Liberated while Still Alive or to Die in Order to Be Liberated -- in the Jnana, Karma and Bhakti Yoga of the Bhagavadgita -- According to Different Text Layers / Mislav Jezic --- "One happy family": Gemeinschaft uber den Tod hinaus. Zu den Todesritualen der Parsen Mumbais / Dorothea Luddeckens --- Something Like Liberation: prakrtilaya (Absorption in in the Cause/s of Creation) in Yoga and Samkhya / Angelika Malinar --- Jivanmukti in Modern India: A Reassessment of Its Postulated Precedence over videhamoksa / Nicola Pozza --- "We Are in the World in Order to Exchange": Mortuary Exchange and Memorialization Feasts among Dalits in Gujarat (Western India) / Shalini Randeria --- How to Come out of Samadhi? / Peter Schreiner --- Liberation in Life and after Death in Early Saiva Mantramargic Texts: The Problem of Jivanmukti / Olga Serbaeva Saraogi --- Sterben und Erlosung in den Upanisads und im Bhagavatapurana / Renate Sohnen-Thieme --- "Erlost leben -- oder sterben, um befreit zu werden?" Religionswissenschaftliche Praliminarien und Spiegelungen / Christoph Uehlinger --- Sterben verhindern, um zu leben: Sozialutopie und personliche Umkehr im Roman 'Die Hutte' von Jay Prakas Kardam / Heinz Werner Wessler --- Utkranti: From Epic Warrior's Apotheosis to Tantric Yogi's Suicide / David Gordon White --- " ... und dann wurde er einer der Arahants ..." -- Erzahlungen uber den Werdegang zu Lebzeiten Erloster im Majjhimanikaya / Caroline Widmer.
ISBN
  • 3034303319
  • 9783034303316
OCLC
655682261
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library