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Tales for the Dying : The Death Narrative of the Bhāgavata-Purāna.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY Series in Hindu StudiesPublisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2003Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (215 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780791487457
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Tales for the DyingDDC classification:
  • 294.5/92
LOC classification:
  • BL1140.4.B437 -- J37 2003eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- TALES FOR THE DYING -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- A NOTE ON TRANSLATION AND TRANSLITERATION -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION: MANY WAYS OF DYING -- 1. EXAMINATIONS OF THE PAST -- 2. THE SEMIOTICS OF SEPARATION -- 3. NARRATIVES OF ABSENCE -- 4. THE DOMINION OF DEATH -- 5. STRI NARAKA DVARA- WOMAN AS THE GATEWAY TO HELL -- 6. THE RASA DANCE AND THE GATEWAY TO HEAVEN -- 7. FINAL PARTINGS -- NOTES -- Introduction: Many Ways of Dying -- Chapter 1: Examinations of the Past -- Chapter 2: The Semiotics of Separation -- Chapter 3: Narratives of Absence -- Chapter 4: The Dominion of Death -- Chapter 5: Stri Naraka Dvara--Woman as the Gateway to Hell -- Chapter 6: The Rasa Dance and the Gateway to Heaven -- Chapter 7: Final Partings -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- A -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Summary: Explores death and dying in the Bhagavata-Purana and in the Indian religious imagination using insights from myth, semiotics, and depth psychology as well as the Indian commentarial tradition.
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Intro -- TALES FOR THE DYING -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- A NOTE ON TRANSLATION AND TRANSLITERATION -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION: MANY WAYS OF DYING -- 1. EXAMINATIONS OF THE PAST -- 2. THE SEMIOTICS OF SEPARATION -- 3. NARRATIVES OF ABSENCE -- 4. THE DOMINION OF DEATH -- 5. STRI NARAKA DVARA- WOMAN AS THE GATEWAY TO HELL -- 6. THE RASA DANCE AND THE GATEWAY TO HEAVEN -- 7. FINAL PARTINGS -- NOTES -- Introduction: Many Ways of Dying -- Chapter 1: Examinations of the Past -- Chapter 2: The Semiotics of Separation -- Chapter 3: Narratives of Absence -- Chapter 4: The Dominion of Death -- Chapter 5: Stri Naraka Dvara--Woman as the Gateway to Hell -- Chapter 6: The Rasa Dance and the Gateway to Heaven -- Chapter 7: Final Partings -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- A -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

Explores death and dying in the Bhagavata-Purana and in the Indian religious imagination using insights from myth, semiotics, and depth psychology as well as the Indian commentarial tradition.

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