The iconic female: goddesses of India, Nepal and Tibet
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Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Clayton, Vic. (Australia) Monash Univ. Press 2008
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Item Description:"Monash Asia Institute"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-224) and index
Contextualising the goddess / Ian Mabbett and Jayant Bhalchandra Bapat -- Archaeology of the goddess: an Indian paradox / Angelo Andrea Di Castro -- Pārvatī as creator of māyā or victim of māyā: the role of Gaṇeśa's mother in the Gaṇeśapurāṇa / Greg Bailey -- When Reṇukā was not a goddess / Rashmi Desai -- The Lajjāgaurī: mother, wife, or yoginī / Jayant Bhalchandra Bapat -- Devī and tantric practice / John R. Dupuche -- The ḍākinī in Tibetan hagiography / David Templeman -- Devī's lion herders: bards and bardic goddesses and the moral regulation of power in late-medieval Rajasthan / Max Harcourt -- Songs in the presence of Mammai Mātājī / Effy George -- The Khāḍādevī Temple of modern Mumbai: communal harmony and the Koḷī goddess / Marika Vicziany and Jayant Bhalchandra Bapat
Physical Description:XIV, 230 S. Ill. 21 cm

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