Imagining karma : ethical transformation in Amerindian, Buddhist, and Greek rebirth / / Gananath Obeyesekere |
Autore | Obeyesekere Gananath |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley ; ; Los Angeles ; ; London : , : University of California Press, , [2002] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (480 p.) |
Disciplina | 291.2/37 |
Collana | Comparative studies in religion and society |
Soggetto topico |
Reincarnation - Buddhism
Reincarnation Religious ethics |
Soggetto non controllato |
amerindian tradition
buddhism buddhist tradition canada classicists cosmology cross cultural scholarship cultural relativism cultural stories death empedocles ethics greek tradition human condition indic civilizations indologists intellectual context karma melanesia methodological framework nietzsche personal transformation philosophy pindar plato pythagoras rebirth reincarnation siberia textbooks weber west africa wittgenstein |
ISBN |
0-520-93630-2
1-59734-669-1 |
Classificazione | BE 2460 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE -- ABBREVIATIONS -- 1. Karma and Rebirth in Indic Religions: Origins and Transformations -- 2. Non-Indic Theories of Rebirth -- 3. The Imaginary Experiment and the Buddhist Implications -- 4. The Buddhist Ascesis -- 5. Eschatology and Soteriology in Greek Rebirth -- 6. Rebirth and Reason -- 7. Imprisoning Frames and Open Debates: Trobriander, Buddhist, and Balinese Rebirth Revisited -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783075303321 |
Obeyesekere Gananath
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Imagining karma : ethical transformation in Amerindian, Buddhist, and Greek rebirth / / Gananath Obeyesekere |
Autore | Obeyesekere Gananath |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley ; ; Los Angeles ; ; London : , : University of California Press, , [2002] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (480 p.) |
Disciplina | 291.2/37 |
Collana | Comparative studies in religion and society |
Soggetto topico |
Reincarnation - Buddhism
Reincarnation Religious ethics |
Soggetto non controllato |
amerindian tradition
buddhism buddhist tradition canada classicists cosmology cross cultural scholarship cultural relativism cultural stories death empedocles ethics greek tradition human condition indic civilizations indologists intellectual context karma melanesia methodological framework nietzsche personal transformation philosophy pindar plato pythagoras rebirth reincarnation siberia textbooks weber west africa wittgenstein |
ISBN |
0-520-93630-2
1-59734-669-1 |
Classificazione | BE 2460 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE -- ABBREVIATIONS -- 1. Karma and Rebirth in Indic Religions: Origins and Transformations -- 2. Non-Indic Theories of Rebirth -- 3. The Imaginary Experiment and the Buddhist Implications -- 4. The Buddhist Ascesis -- 5. Eschatology and Soteriology in Greek Rebirth -- 6. Rebirth and Reason -- 7. Imprisoning Frames and Open Debates: Trobriander, Buddhist, and Balinese Rebirth Revisited -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910813931003321 |
Obeyesekere Gananath
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Languages and nations [[electronic resource] ] : the Dravidian proof in colonial Madras / / Thomas R. Trautmann |
Autore | Trautmann Thomas R |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (322 pages) |
Disciplina | 410 |
Soggetto topico |
Dravidian philology - History - 19th century
Orientalism - History - 19th century Indologists - India - Madras - History - 19th century |
Soggetto non controllato |
asian languages
british india college of fort st george colonialism colonies dravidian languages dravidian philology empire ethnology francis whyte ellis grammar history of language imperialism india indo aryan indo european indologists language analysis language families language linguistics madras malayo polynesian nation state nation nonfiction orientalism panini prakrit ptolemy romani sanskrit south india sumatran tolkappiyar vedic |
ISBN |
1-282-35771-9
9786612357718 0-520-93190-4 1-60129-523-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- 1. Explosion in the Grammar Factory -- 2. Pāṇini and Tolkāppiyar -- 3. Ellis and His Circle -- 4. The College -- 5. The Dravidian Proof -- 6. Legacies -- 7. Conclusions -- Appendix A. The Legend of the Cow-Pox -- Appendix B. The Dravidian Proof -- Bibliography -- Index |
Altri titoli varianti | Languages & nations |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784406703321 |
Trautmann Thomas R
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