Hardcover, no dust jacket. Ex-library. Boards are bowed and edge worn. Rubbed and scuffed boards. 537 pages. This item is at our location in Eugene, Oregon.

Hindu Polytheism (Bollingen Series LXXIII {73}) (Pantheon Books)

Alain Daniélou

Religion & Spirituality

Bollingen Foundation

Alain Daniélou was an accomplished pianist, dancer, player of the Indian vînâ, painter, linguist and translator, photographer, and world traveler. To these attainments he has added The Way to the Labyrinth, translated into English by Marie-Claire Cournand. Born of a haute-bourgeoise French family--his mother an ardent Catholic, his father an anticlerical leftwing politician, his older brother a cardinal--Daniélou spent a solitary childhood. Escaping from his family milieu, he went to Paris, where he fell in with avant-garde, bohemian, sexually liberated circles, among whose luminaries were Cocteau, Diaghilev, Max Jacob, and Maurice Sachs. But however fervently he plunged into various activities, he felt some other destiny awaited him. After a number of journeys, some of them highly adventurous, he found his real home in India. He spent twenty years there, fifteen of them in Benares on the banks of the Ganges. There he immersed himself in the study of Sanskrit, Hindu philosophy, music, and the art of the ancient temples of Northern India, and converted to the Hindu religion. But times changed, and soon after India gained its independence, he returned to live again in Europe and devoted much of his great energy to the encouragement of traditional musics from around the world.

Way to the Labyrinth: Memories of East and West

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

New Directions Publishing

Social Science, Greek Studies, Sexual Studies

Shiva and Dionysus: The religion of nature and Eros

Inner Traditions International

Alain Danielou approaches the history of India through the enduring institutions of its culture that have shaped its destiny. His synthesis and narration create a thoroughly engaging and readable journey through time, with a level of detail and comprehensiveness that is truly a marvel. Winner of the Broquette-Gonin Prix de l'Academie Francaise.

A Brief History of India: Translated from the French [Paperback] [Jan 01, 2003] Alain Danielou and Kenneth Hurry

Inner Traditions India

Kama Sutra: le breviaire de l'amour, traite d'erotisme (Sciences humaines)

DU ROCHER

This study of Hindu mythology explores the significance of the most prominent Hindu deities as they are envisioned by the Hindus themselves, Referred to by its adherents as the "eternal religion" Hinduism recognizes for each age and each country a new form of revelation-and for each person, according to his or her stage of development, a different path of realization. This message of tolerance and adaptability, the very heart of Hindu polytheism, resounds clearly throughout Alain Danielou's work. Photographic plates by Raymond Burnier further illustrate the many facets of Hindu teaching and grace the significance of the Gods of the Vedas, as well as Vishnu, Shiva, Brahma, Kali, Shakti, and other deities.

The Myths and Gods of India: The Classic Work on Hindu Polytheism

Hinduism

Motilal Banarsidass

The first part of the book traces the history of Indian music and the continuity of its theory and practice for more than two thousand years. It is based on many years' research into the vast ancient Sanskrit literature of music. These valuable technical treatises, which lie in the form of scarcely catalogued manuscripts throughout the public and private libraries of India, had hitherto remained unemplored. Part Two transcribes and studies in detail 50 typical Raga-s. Each is preceded by a Sanskrit poem in translation which depicts the atmosphere; then follows an analysis of the scale, covering its intervals and expression, a study of the theme with its characteristic motives and finally a typical development. The present work is based on the author's two-volume Northern Indian Music published in London (but not America) some ten years ago, but long out of print and much sought after by students. It was described by Colin Mason in the Manchester Guardian as "of immense value to any practical musician" and "an invaluable addition to the very scanty literature of fascinating and neglected subject". This new version contains a number of additional Raga-s; the earlier text has been extensively revised and many music examples redrawn for greater clarity and accuracy. Some abridgement has taken place, but only of material which appeared originally for the benefit of Indian readers unfamiliar with Western staff notation, those able to read Sanskrit, and specialists in Sanskrit literature. The book provides modern composers outside India with a source of new inspiration and enables practising musicians to play and study some of the endlessly variegated modes for which Indian music is unique.

Ragas of Northern Indian Music

Munshiram Manoharlal

What is modal music? Why did the ancients consider music the key of sciences, related to metaphysics? Are there many 'musics', as there are many languages? Is there a relation between Indian music, jazz, cante jondo, Gregorian chant? How should we understand African music? What are the relations between music and religion? And between music and magic, or therapy? This collection of texts, covering a wide range of subjects, concerns the amateur music lover as well as the professional musician. The renowned musicologist Alain Danielous explains here clearly and simply the profound concepts relating music to its essential roots.

Sacred Music: Its Origins, Powers, and Future - Traditional Music in Today's World

Atmananda

Ram Alexander

Humor & Entertainment

Indica Books

Manimekhalaï: The Dancer with the Magic Bowl

Aleph Book Company

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