RT Book
T1 Refiguring the body: embodiment in South Asian religions
A2 Holdrege, Barbara A.
A2 Holdrege, Barbara A.
A2 Pechilis, Karen
A2 Pechilis, Karen
LA English
PP Albany
PB State University of New York Press
YR 2016
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/879086653
AB Beyond Modern Assumptions: Alternative Models from Religious TraditionsAgainst an Exclusively Metaphorical Hermeneutic; The Rejection of Sat-kāya-dṛṣṭi and the Realization of Dharma-kāya; Challenges for Contemporary Body Theories; Notes; References; 2 Body, Self, and Embodiment in the Sanskrit Classics of Āyurveda; Self and Somatic Well-being; The Material Body and the Embodied Self; Self-cultivation; The Cosmic Physiology; Dharma and Body; Notes; References; 3 Bodily Gestures and Embodied Awareness: Mudrā as the Bodily Seal of Being in the Trika Śaivism of Kashmir; Mudrā as Mimetic Image
AB Introduction: Body Matters in South Asia; The Essays; Part 1: Material Bodies, Embodied Selves, and Perfected Embodiments; Part 2: Divine Bodies and Devotional Bodies; Part 3: Gendered and Engendering Bodies; Contributions to Re-figuring Body Theories; Beyond Human Embodiment; Transforming Human Bodily Identities; Notes; References; Part 1: Material Bodies, Embodied Selves, and Perfected Embodiments; 1 Perfected Embodiment: A Buddhist-Inspired Challenge to Contemporary Theories of the Body; The Materialist, Descriptivist Limitations of Contemporary Body Theories
AB Recollecting Abhinavagupta's Bodily BearingNotes; References; 4 Bodied, Embodied, and Reflective Selves: Theorizing Performative Selfhood in South Indian Performance; Scholarly Constructions of the Self; A Theory of Performative Selfhood: Beyond Rasa Theory; Effects of Possession on the Bodied, Embodied, and Reflective Selves; Training the Performing Self in South Indian Classical Dance; Conclusion: Constructing the Lingering Self; Notes; References; Part 2: Divine Bodies and Devotional Bodies; 5 Observations on the Bodies of the Gods in the Mahābhārata
AB Sādhaka-Rūpa: Fashioning a Body of DevotionRe-figuring the Psychophysiology; Engaging Kṛṣṇa's Mesocosmic Forms; Siddha-Rūpa: Realizing a Body of Bliss; Two Bodies: Sādhaka-Rūpa and Siddha-Rūpa; Līlā-Smaraṇa and Realization of the Siddha-Rūpa; The Physical Signs of Enraptured Devotion; Notes; References; 7 To Body or Not to Body: Repulsion, Wonder, and the Tamil Saint Kāraikkāl Ammaiyār; What She Said; What He Said; Concluding Remarks; Notes; References; 8 Bodies of Desire, Bodies of Lament: Marking Emotion in a South Indian Vaiṣṇava Messenger Poem; Rāma's Love-Madness and the Royal Goose
AB The Visual Accessibility and Multiplicity of the Gods' BodiesVigraha: Gods and Human Bodies; Mūrti: Condensed Presence; Mūrti and Yoga; Concluding Remarks; Notes; References; 6 Bhakti and Embodiment: Bodies of Devotion and Bodies of Bliss in Kṛṣṇa Bhakti; Bhakti and Embodiment; The Gauḍīya Discourse of Embodiment; Ananta-rūpa: The Limitless Forms of Kṛṣṇa; Brahman, Paramātman, and Bhagavān; Bhagavān's Self-Referral Play with His Śaktis; The Absolute Body of Bhagavān; The Source and Container of Avatāras; The Gauḍīya Challenge to Advaita Vedānta and Pātañjala Yoga; Mesocosmic Forms of Kṛṣṇa
NO Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed
CN BL65.B63
SN 9781438463162
SN 1438463162
K1 Human Body : Religious aspects
K1 Buddhism : South Asia
K1 Hinduism : South Asia
K1 RELIGION ; Comparative Religion
K1 Buddhism
K1 Hinduism
K1 Human body ; Religious aspects
K1 Religion
K1 South Asia : Religion : South Asia
K1 South Asia : Religion
K1 South Asia
K1 Electronic books : Electronic books
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