Tara in Hinduism
author: Bikas Kumar Bhattacharya
edition: 2003, Eastern Book Linkers
pages: 414
ISBN-10: 8178540215
Topic: Hinduism
Fourth part - Textual Interpretations
This page describes Textual Interpretations from in the book: Tara in Hinduism by Bikas Kumar Bhattacharya. This book represents a study of the Goddess Tara (तारा, tārā) and collects various standpoints regarding her cult from both Buddhist and Brahmanical sources. This page contains an online preview of the full text and summarizes technical terms. It is part of the series “Fourth part”.
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You can look up the meaning of the phrase “Textual Interpretations” according to 183 books dealing with Hinduism. The following list shows a short preview of potential definitions.
Hindu Pluralism [by Elaine M. Fisher]
In short, Appayya s primary concern, beyond Madhva s alleged carelessness with source criticism, is that the integrity of the boundaries—or the operative rules—of Mimamsa hermeneutics not be compromised through haphazard textual interpretations....
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A History of Indian Philosophy Volume 1 [by Surendranath Dasgupta]
Throughout his commentary on the Brahma-sutras, there is ample evidence that he was contending against some other rival interpretations of a dualistic tendency which held that the Upanishads partly favoured the Samkhya cosmology of the existence of prakriti. That these were actual textual interpretations of the Brahma-sutras is proved by the fact that Shankara in some places tries to show that these textual constructions were faulty....
Read full contents: Part 5 - Vedanta and Shankara (788-820 A.D.)
Bhesajjakkhandhaka (Chapter on Medicine) [by Hin-tak Sik]
Interpretation based on knowledge of both medical traditions has not been available to date, and the present study is probably the first to do this. This interpretation should give greater illumination of the data so that readers can comprehend the detail better. Moreover, this method can be applied to investigate medical particulars in other Buddhist texts too. Another advantage of this study is related to the organisation and identification of the drugs and diseases....
Read full contents: Contributions of this Study
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