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 The
Himalayan Masters: A Living Tradition:
Pandit
Tigunait skillfully weaves the teachings of the sages into
a fabric of absorbing and delightful stories, so that the
reader easily understands what might, in another context,
look like formidable philosophy. In addition, he makes it
practical, down-to-earth, and applicable to the conditions
of modern life. He effortlessly renders the ancient
teachings for contemporary students. A yogi who came of
age in the traditional culture of India and studied widely
with a number of teachers, he has been living and teaching
in the United States for almost two decades.
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Tradition of the Himalayan Masters: Pandit
Tigunait skillfully weaves the teachings of the sages into
a fabric of absorbing and delightful stories, so that the
reader easily understands what might, in another context,
look like formidable philosophy. In addition, he makes it
practical, down-to-earth, and applicable to the conditions
of modern life. He effortlessly renders the ancient
teachings for contemporary students. A yogi who came of
age in the traditional culture of India and studied widely
with a number of teachers, he has been living and teaching
in the United States for almost two decades.
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 Daughters
of the Goddess: The Women Saints of India: This
fine investigation presents six contemporary women saints
of India who are considered to be the exemplification of
the feminine aspect of the divine, living incarnations of
the "Divina Mother" or "the Goddess."
Johnsen, a longtime student of religion and spirituality,
not only interviewed these women but also lived and walked
among them in the United States and in India.
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 Storytellers,
Saints, and Scoundrels: Folk Narrative in Hindu Religious
Teaching (Contemporary Ethnography): This book
makes folklore accessible and interesting. The
subject--stories recounted by hindu holymen and why and
how they are told--is fascinating. Ethnographic
information on the hindu religion and culture is brillant
and full of life and humor. Kirin Narayan was also my
University of Wisconsin-Madison anthropology professor and
she was awesome!
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The
Graceful Guru
This collection of nine all new essays looks at the phenomenon of the female
guru both in its original Indian context, where Hindu women leaders have been
unusual but not unknown, and as it has evolved on the American scene. Each
chapter is devoted to a particular female guru, ranging from the fifth-century
Tamil saint Karaikkal Ammaiyar to Gurumayi, who today presides over the
worldwide movement of Siddha Yoga, headquartered in the Catskill resort town of
South Fallsburg, New York.
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 The
Madness of the Saints: Ecstatic Religion in Bengal
: In The Madness of the Saints, June McDaniel
undertakes the first comprehensive study of religious
ecstasy in Bengal, examining the texts that describe it,
the people who experience it, and the traditions that
support it. |
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