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A wide-ranging analysis of the Moksopaya, the Indian literary classic that teaches through storytelling how to enjoy an active, successful, worldly life in a spiritually enlightened way.

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Author:   Christopher Key Chapple ,  Arindam Chakrabarti
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9781438458670

ISBN 10:   1438458673
Pages:   325
Publication Date:   01 December 2015
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Tracy Pintchman 1. The Icon of Yoga: Patanjali as Nagarāja in Modern Yoga Stuart Ray Sarbacker 2. God's Eyes: The Manufacture, Installation, and Experience of External Eyes on Jain Icons John E. Cort 3. North Indian Materialities of Jesus Mathew N. Schmalz 4. Celebrating Materiality: Garbo, a Festival Image of the Goddess in Gujarat Neelima Shukla-Bhatt 5. The Goddess's Shaligrams Tracy Pintchman 6. The Camphor Flame in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction James McHugh 7. Metal Hands, Cotton Threads, and Color Flags: Materializing Islamic Devotion in South India Afsar Mohammad 8. Monastic Matters: Bowls, Robes, and the Middle Way in South Asian Theravada Buddhism Bradley Clough 9. Letting Holy Water and Coconuts Speak for Themselves: Tamil Catholicism and the Work of Selva Raj Selva J. Raj and Corinne Dempsey List of Contributors Index

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Christopher Key Chapple is Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology at Loyola Marymount University. He is the author or editor of many books, including Yoga and the Luminous: Patanjali's Spiritual Path to Freedom and Reconciling Yogas: Haribhadra's Collection of Views on Yoga, both also published by SUNY Press. Arindam Chakrabarti is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. His books include Mahabharata Now: Narration, Aesthetics, Ethics (coedited with Sibaji Bandyopadhyay).

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