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1 online resource |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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 |
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Beyond Modern Assumptions: Alternative Models from Religious TraditionsAgainst an Exclusively Metaphorical Hermeneutic; The Rejection of Sat-kāya-dq̣ṛṭi 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 |
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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 |
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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 Kq̣ṛṇa Bhakti; Bhakti and Embodiment; The Gauḍīya Discourse of Embodiment; Ananta-rūpa: The Limitless Forms of Kq̣ṛṇa; 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 Kq̣ṛṇa |
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Sādhaka-Rūpa: Fashioning a Body of DevotionRe-figuring the Psychophysiology; Engaging Kq̣ṛṇa'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 Vaiṛṇava Messenger Poem; Rāma's Love-Madness and the Royal Goose |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Human body -- Religious aspects.
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Human body -- Religious aspects. |
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South Asia -- Religion.
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South Asia. |
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Religion. |
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Buddhism -- South Asia.
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Buddhism. |
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Hinduism -- South Asia.
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Hinduism. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Holdrege, Barbara A., 1950- editor.
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Pechilis, Karen, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Refiguring the body Albany : State University of New York Press, 2016 9781438463155 (DLC) 2016007753 |
| ISBN |
9781438463162 (electronic book) |
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1438463162 (electronic book) |
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9781438463155 (hardcover) (alkaline paper) |
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1438463154 (hardcover) (alkaline paper) |
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