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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (3): 563–583.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Hala Halim As part of the endeavor to seek out nonmetropolitan forms of comparatism, this article addresses the trilingual periodical Lotus: Afro-Asian Writings that was published by the Afro-Asian Writers’ Association from the late 1960s until the early 1990s. Lotus , the article argues...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (3): 404–412.
Published: 01 December 2021
... . The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press , 1989 . Haim Sylvia G. “ Arabic Antisemitic Literature: Some Preliminary Notes, ” Jewish Social Studies 17 no. 4 ( 1955 ): 307 – 12 . Halim Hala . “ Lotus...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1986) 6 (2): 1–2.
Published: 01 August 1986
... anti-Tamil violence Suddenly this image of a lotus-eaters paradise was in the recorded history of the island. While an intense shattered in July 1983 when a violent pogrom against the guerilla campaign for a separate Tamil homeland had created Tamil minority took place...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2007) 27 (1): 186–202.
Published: 01 May 2007
...) and by Ananda Wickremaratne, suggests that he was Manual of Budhism (1853), and the posthumous invited to do so because of popular interest in publication of Eugene Burnouf’s Le lotus de la Buddhism.10 His fi rst book, the highly infl uen- bonne loi, which appeared...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 293–308.
Published: 01 August 2022
..., common Sufi tropes, alluded to the divinity beyond what could be apprehended as sensual experience. At the same time, Chanda is of the “padmini type” exalted by classical Indic poets and aestheticians, the “lotus woman” considered the supremely perfect heroine or nayika in India's Kāmaśāstra literature...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (3): 356–364.
Published: 01 December 2010
...,” with no obvious con- ordering of the psychic faculty symbolized by nection to breath control. the lotus flower, elsewhere correlated with the Nevertheless, our author continues explor- psychic centers known as cakras...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (3): 465–469.
Published: 01 December 2012
..., the di- ing on the “fuzziness” of that category in the versity of colonial policy, the nature and history process — Hala Halim revisits the Afro- Asian of colonial contact, and the varied nature of the journal Lotus, finding in that archive an early...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (3): 476–491.
Published: 01 December 2024
... these descriptions precisely by imagining oneself into the story of another, in this case, the Buddha: in resonant pool of reflecting mind— thrum and hum rocked lotus-stalk a stirring hits in me and mind: care clamps, yet sprung unsteadiness. in resonant pool of reflecting mind— each thing gentles, cool...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (3): 437–446.
Published: 01 December 2024
... on”; cintayāmi , “I reflect on”; smarāmi , “I remember” [a word I shall be discussing at some length]). Take for instance the following stanza: Even now in my mind I meditate [ dhyāyāmi ] on her: gold bangles adorn her wrists and her lotus-face surpasses the moon. Graceful, she shuts her eyes, worn out...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1994) 14 (2): 86–103.
Published: 01 August 1994
... in cen- most important such schemes in the post-Second tral Africa, of the “Lotus Group.” Organizing World War era were the Bulawayo-based African around a monthly magazine called Lotus, the group...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2004) 24 (2): 33–44.
Published: 01 August 2004
... clearly in which are like charming lotuses, are dropping tears.] the distribution of the textual variants. Here the Longer Recension has more difficult readings On the basis of twenty sample places already proc- than the somewhat clumsily rhyming versions of the essed, it can be observed...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 96–110.
Published: 01 May 2019
... . 14. Widdess, Rāgas of Early Indian Music ; Bor, Raga Guide ; Leante, “Lotus and the King.” 15. Miner, “ Raga in the Early Sixteenth Century.” 16. Ebeling, Ragamala Painting ; Gangoly, Rāgas . 17. Laksmidhara wrote the Prakrit grammar Sadbhashacandrika ; he...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2004) 24 (2): 45–59.
Published: 01 August 2004
.... To pinpoint the exact nature of this new- poet’s flagrant disregard for tradition. First of all, a ness can seem an elusive prospect. Given the long- woman’s breasts should be firm like lotus buds, not soft standing primacy of Sanskrit as the medium of like blooming lotuses. The images in the next line...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (3): 610–620.
Published: 01 December 2010
... Vishnu, while a lotus springs from the god’s and his hood in order to protect him from a navel and the four-­headed Brahman is seen great storm.27 Another story reports that when emerging from the flower.29 Queen Maya Devi gave birth to the future Bud- While the cult of snakes...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (2): 260–278.
Published: 01 August 2014
... of the Struggle for Hyderabad . New Delhi : Lotus Roli , 2010 . Jalal Ayesha . Democracy and Authoritarianism in South Asia . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1995 . ———. The Pity of Partition: Manto’s Life, Time, and Work across the India-Pakistan Divide . Princeton, NJ : Princeton...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1994) 14 (1): 14–23.
Published: 01 May 1994
...-conditioned DCM Toyota converted cent of government jobs for the backward castes. into a tacky celluloid-inspired ruth and sporting the Though it cautiously welcomed the decision and BJP’s election symbol of a lotus was the most bra- only asked for the inclusion of the economic zen mixing of religion...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2006) 26 (3): 367–376.
Published: 01 December 2006
... Miyake Setsu- image of the “Four Sages” for this occasion, with Mi rei to consider the promotion of Western philo- copies of the Great Learning, the Doctrine of the sophical thought in Japan to be among his top Mean, the Analects, the Yi Jing, the Lotus Sutra...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (3): 410–419.
Published: 01 December 2010
... come to light.   appearance of a lotus-­shaped motif, as appear One such funerary bed was made for an anony- of on ninth-­century Manichaean miniature paint- mous merchant, who lived and died in sixth-   Comparative ings...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2007) 27 (2): 463–478.
Published: 01 August 2007
... Delacour and Pé- as some attributes are specifi c to him: the two nélope Riboud proposed to recognize him as archers Usha and Pratyusha, symbols of dawn Indra, because the elephant is usually this god’s and sunset, and the lotus flowers in the Sun vahana (mount).25 But further restoration...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2007) 27 (1): 26–40.
Published: 01 May 2007
... of Malay-Indonesian and rat: The Archaeology, History, and Legends of a South- Middle-Eastern “Ulama” in the Seventeenth and Eigh- ern Thai Town (Bangkok: White Lotus, 2001). teenth Centuries (Leiden: KITLV, 2004). 38 organize their daily lives according to the rules support one...