Primary Sources and Asian Pasts /

This conference volume unites a wide range of scholars working in the fields of history, archaeology, religion, art, and philology in an effort to explore new perspectives and methods in the study of primary sources from premodern South and Southeast Asia. The contributions engage with primary sourc...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Amy Paris, Langenberg (Contribuidor, contribtor.), Bisschop, Peter C. (Editor ), Bryan J., Cuevas (Contribuidor, contribtor.), Cecil, Elizabeth A. (Editor ), Csaba, Dezső (Contribuidor, contribtor.), Elizabeth A., Cecil (Contribuidor, contribtor.), Emmanuel, Francis (Contribuidor, contribtor.), Hans T., Bakker (Contribuidor, contribtor.), James L., Fitzgerald (Contribuidor, contribtor.), Janice, Stargardt (Contribuidor, contribtor.), Laxshmi Rose, Greaves (Contribuidor, contribtor.), Max, Deeg (Contribuidor, contribtor.), Miriam T., Stark (Contribuidor, contribtor.), Peter C., Bisschop (Contribuidor, contribtor.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2020]
Colección:Beyond Boundaries ; 8
Temas:
To 1500
Gupta age.
Gupta-Alter.
Kulturelle Produktion.
Quellenkritik.
Source criticism.
Transdisziplinarität.
cultural production.
transdisciplinarity.
RELIGION / Comparative Religion.
Asia > History > Sources.
Asia > History > To 1500.
Asie > Histoire > Sources.
Asie > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1500.
Asia
Electronic books.
History
Sources
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Primary Sources and Asian Pasts: Beyond the Boundaries of the "Gupta Period"
  • Part I: Narrative Form and Literary Legacies
  • Why So Many 'Other' Voices in the 'Brahmin' Mahābhārata?
  • After the Mahābhārata: On the Portrayal of Vyāsa in the Skandapurāṇa
  • The "Best Abode of Virtue": Sattra Represented on a Gupta-Period Frieze from Gaṛhwa,̄ Uttar Pradesh
  • The Skandapurāṇa and Bāṇa's Harṣacarita
  • Part II: Political Landscapes and Regional Identity
  • Describing the Own Other: Chinese Buddhist Travelogues Between Literary Tropes and Educational Narratives
  • Imperial Languages and Public Writings in Tamil South India: A Bird's-Eye View in the Very Longue Durée
  • Landscapes, Linkages, and Luminescence: First-Millennium CE Environmental and Social Change in Mainland Southeast Asia
  • Sri Ksetra, 3rd Century BCE to 6th Century CE: Indianization, Synergies, Creation
  • Part III: Religion, Ritual, and Empowerment
  • The Meaning of the Word ārya in Two Gupta-Period Inscriptions
  • Four Syllables for Slaying and Repelling: A Tibetan Vajrabhairava Practice from Recently Recovered Manuscripts of the "Lost" Book of Rwa (Rwa pod)
  • Love, Unknowing, and Female Filth: The Buddhist Discourse of Birth as a Vector of Social Change for Monastic Women in Premodern South Asia
  • A Natural Wonder: From Liṅga Mountain to Prosperous Lord at Vat Phu
  • Index

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