| Description |
xi, 358 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
SUNY series in tantric studies |
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SUNY series in tantric studies.
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| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Gaṇeśa : a protohistory of the idea and the icon / A.K. Barain -- Gaṇeśa : myth and reality / M.K. Dhavalikar -- Gaṇeśa's rise to prominence in Sanskrit literature / Ludo Rocher -- Gaạneśa as metaphor : the Mudgala Purāṇa / Phyllis Granoff -- Images of Gaṇeśa in Jainism / Maruti Nandan Tiwari and Kamal Giri -- The wives of Gaṇeśa / Lawrence Cohen -- "Vātāpi Gaṇapatim" : sculptural, poetic, and musical texts in a hymn to Gaṇesá / Amy Catlin -- Gaṇeśa in Southeast Asian art : Indian connections and indigenous developments / Robert L. Brown -- The Tantric Gaṇeśa : texts preserved in the Tibetan canon / Christopher Wilkinson -- Gaṇeśa in China : methods of transforming the demonic / Lewis R. Lancaster -- Literary aspects of Japan's dual-Gaṇeśa cult / James H. Sanford. |
| Subject |
Gaṇeśa (Hindu deity)
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Asia -- Religion.
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| Added Author |
Brown, Robert L., Jr., 1944-
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| ISBN |
0791406571 paperback |
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