Open boundaries: Jain communities and culture in Indian history

1.Introduction: Contested Jain Identities of Self and Other /John E. Cort1 --2.Haribhadra's Analysis of Patanjala and Kula Yoga in the Yogadrstisamuccaya /Christopher Key Chapple15 --3.Becoming Gautama: Mantra and History in Svetambara Jainism /Paul Dundas31 --4.Hemacandra and Sanskrit Poetics...

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Subtitles:Jain communities and culture in Indian history
Contributors: Cort, John E. 1953- (Other)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Albany, NY State University of New York Press (c)1998
In:Year: 1998
Series/Journal:SUNY series in Hindu studies
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Jainism
Further subjects:B Collection of essays
B India Civilization Jaina influences
B Civilization ; Jaina influences
B RELIGION ; Jainism
B Jainism
B Electronic books
B History
B Jainism History
B India
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Summary:1.Introduction: Contested Jain Identities of Self and Other /John E. Cort1 --2.Haribhadra's Analysis of Patanjala and Kula Yoga in the Yogadrstisamuccaya /Christopher Key Chapple15 --3.Becoming Gautama: Mantra and History in Svetambara Jainism /Paul Dundas31 --4.Hemacandra and Sanskrit Poetics /Gary A. Tubb53 --5.Erotic Excess and Sexual Danger in the Civakacintamani /James Ryan67 --6.Who Is a King? Jain Narratives of Kingship in Medieval Western India /John E. Cort85 --7.Sweetmeats or Corpses? Community, Conversion, and Sacred Places /Michael W. Meister111 --8.Ritual Culture and the Distinctiveness of Jainism /Lawrence A. Babb139 --9.Sramanas Against the Tamil Way: Jains as Others in Tamil Saiva Literature /Indira Viswanathan Peterson163 --10.Jain and Hindu "Religious Women" in Early Medieval Tamilnadu /Leslie C. Orr187 --11.The Story of the Disappearing Jains: Retelling the Saiva-Jain Encounter in Medieval South India /Richard H. Davis213.
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-255) and index. - Description based on print version record
ISBN:0585069700