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Ganesh

Studies of an Asian God

Robert L. Brown (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
358 Seiten
1991
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-0-7914-0657-1 (ISBN)
CHF 52,90 inkl. MwSt
This book examines the complete Ganesh for the first time. Here is the God in his multiple forms from the different geographical areas in Asia. Particularly important are chapters that deal with his Buddhist and Tantric forms. The controversial question of his origins is also thoroughly discussed.

Robert L. Brown is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Adjunct Curator of the Pacific Asia Museum.

Foreword
A. K. Narain

Acknowledgments

Note on Transliteration

Introduction
Robert L. Brown

1.  Ganesa: A Protohistory of the Idea and the Icon
A. K. Narain

2.  Ganesa: Myth and Reality
M. K. Dhavalikar

3.  Ganesa's Rise to Prominence in Sanskrit Literature
Ludo Rocher

4.  Ganesa as Metaphor: The Mudgala Purana
Phyllis Granoff

5.  Images of Ganesa in Jainism
Maruti Nandan Tiwari and Kamal Giri

6.  The Wives of Ganesa
Lawrence Cohen

7.  "Vatapi Ganapatim": Sculptural, Poetic, and Musical Texts in a Hymn to Ganesa
Amy Catlin

8.  Ganesa in Southeast Asian Art: Indian Connections and Indigenous Developments
Robert L. Brown

9.  The Tantric Ganesa: Texts Preserved in the Tibetan Canon
Christopher Wilkinson

10. Ganesa in China: Methods of Transforming the Demonic
Lewis R. Lancaster

11. Literary Aspects of Japan's Dual-Ganesa Cult
James H. Sanford

List of Contributors

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 6.8.1991
Reihe/Serie SUNY series in Tantric Studies
Zusatzinfo Total Illustrations: 0
Verlagsort Albany, NY
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 490 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Hinduismus
ISBN-10 0-7914-0657-1 / 0791406571
ISBN-13 978-0-7914-0657-1 / 9780791406571
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