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...C. Mackenzie Brown Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 The Myths of Narasimha and Vāmana: Two Avatars in Cosmological Perspective . By Deborah A. Soifer . Albany : State University of New York Press , 1991 . xii, 321 pp. $49.50 (cloth); $16.95 (paper...

...Barbara E. Thornbury Avatars of Vengeance: Japanese Drama and the Soga Literary Tradition . By Laurence R. Kominz . Ann Arbor : Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan , 1995 . xiii, 282 pp. $42.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998...

... continuity of China's Marxist-Leninist tradition from the 1950s to the 1980s. To China's officialdom, Liu will represent the ultimate integrity of the Party apparatus, an avatar of the self-cultivated rectitude of the “clean official.” Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1981 1981 1...

..., was called the People of India, a name that had been used for several rather notorious colonial ethnographic projects. Intrigued, I began to examine this most recent avatar of the People of India. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 List of References Aijazuddin Ahmad...

...: Pantheon, 1949), has consummately explored the multiple expressions of this mythic figure. The books that have explored this phenomenon most lucidly in recent years are John Hick's edited volume, The Myth of God Incarnate (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1977), and Geoffrey Parrinder's Avatar...

... for all orthodox Christians, the avatar is quite clearly peripheral to many Hindus, particularly the nondualists. Parrinder asserts that "the concept of avatars is an unnecessary complication, if not a betrayal, of the non-dualism of the Upanishads" (p. 48); in several modern movements it is clearly...

... of Narasimha and Vdmana: Two Avatars in Cosmological Perspective. By D E B O R A H A. SOIFER. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991. xii, 321 pp. $49-50 (cloth); $16.95 (paper). In exploring the myths of two somewhat neglected Avataras of the god Visnu, this book provides a number of discerning...

... the links of the chain separate. Still, great force is required to accomplish even this. The laṅgar itself is considered sacred, has a number of other ritual functions in the cult, and is regarded as an avatār of Śiva's snake. 46 Dogs used to be a part of the procession in Jejuri. In most cases...

... this language, Dravidianist orators and politicians project their leaders as embodiments and “avatars” of gods and ancient kings, an association that is reinforced in other media such as images, processions, ceremonial arches, music, pilgrimages, lighting displays, darshans , prasadam (in the form of shawls...

... social life, national and colonial law, and political struggles transformed the way that all people considered future times. Arguments to the effect that traditional women did not have it so bad and that their avatars exaggerated their suffering under the old regime disregards the fact that freedoms...

... holographic simulation software to scan Mao's and five other dead seniors’ brains to create their “digital avatars” in cyberspace, effectively bringing the dead back to cyber life. Yet the resurrection of Mao soon leads to an unprecedented political crisis. Just when people are thrilled by the realization...

... Persian; Bāgobahāra , 1869 – 1872 , from Duncan Forbes' Urdu translation. 6 The end of the “ingrajī avatār” of Marathi literature is usually taken to be in 1874, when the first number of Kṛṣṇaśāstri Cipaḷūṇkar's Nibandhamālā appeared. Stylistically this may be valid, but in the field...

... From what I have been able to discover on the subject it appears to me that scholars would support the view that present day saintly figures in Hinduism belong to the traditions of guru, ascetic, avatar, and saint in fact, that they are a blending of all: hence it will be worthwhile to glance...

... in Hindu mythology. Certainly Clifford Hospital has chosen in Bali a figure worthy of a book-length study. In Vedic texts Bali is the demon enemy who defeats the gods only to be tricked by Visnu (in his dwarf avatar). In later puranic myths, he is the examplar of that characteristically Hindu paradox...

... himself in order to evade capture.) In my view, Shinzei saw Nobuyori as An Lushan and Yang Guifei rolled into one: the minister who manipulated the emperor's affections for his own political benefit. In some of the chigo tales, the chigo is revealed in the end as an avatar of some supernatural...

... incarnate, come to earth for the salvation of men, and thus an avatar like the Buddha, Rama, or Krishna. Isherwood is among the believers, and he writes as one. The result is that his new biography of the "Master" is not the critical account which his Western intellectual training and Vedantic studies might...

... medical sciences. Each substantive chapter is bookended by (refreshingly brief) mythological stories of gods, planets, and avatars. Each story provokes a different rumination on Western forms of knowledge and the state(s) of the contemporary world. Some of these include: Why must we see everything...

... officialdom, Liu will represent the ultimate integrity of the Party apparatus, an avatar of the self-cultivated rectitude of the "clean official." Tombs and Dark Houses: Ideology, Intellects, and Proletarians in the Study of Contemporary Indian Islam PETER B. MAYER Pages 481-502 Each upsurge of Hindu-Muslim...

...Tamar C. Reich The monograph begins (pp. 1–2) by noting that the protagonists of the Mahābhārata are fathered by niyoga , a practice defined as an āpaddharma. Later, in discussing a specific episode, Bowles further proposes that through its development of the theme of avatar, divine...

... of objects ironically forms “a sublimation of material essences” (p. 321). Chapter 1 introduces readers to the charismatic figure of Sathya Sai Baba (b. 1926), a contemporary self-coined guru-avatar , who syncretically blends Indic religiosities. Sathya Baba presents himself as a divine incarnation...