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I, yantra : exploring self and selflessness in ancient Indian robot tales
- Title
- I, yantra : exploring self and selflessness in ancient Indian robot tales / Signe Cohen.
- Author
- Cohen, Signe
- Publication
- Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2024]
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 281 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Argues that ancient yantra (robot) tales reveal how their Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain authors thought about the nature of humanity and our role in a cosmos filled with divine and natural forces"--
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- The history of automata in the West -- Interlude : Yavanas and the creation of automata -- Robots in the Royal Garden -- Body of flesh, body of wood, body of stone : humans, androids, and gods in Hinduism -- Mechanical gardens and a craving for flying machines : androids in Jainism -- I, yantra : androids in Buddhism -- The Buddha, the emperor, and the killer robot -- Interpreting Indian robot tales.
- ISBN
- 9781438496610
- 1438496613
- 9781438496634 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2023023656
- OCLC
- on1392164002
- SCSB-14725355
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library