<p>Drawing from Eastern and Western literatures, Heinrich Zimmer presents a selection of stories linked together by their common concern for the problem of our eternal conflict with the forces of evil. Beginning with a tale from the Arabian Nights, this theme unfolds in legends from Irish paganism, medieval Christianity, the Arthurian cycle, and early Hinduism. In the retelling of these tales, Zimmer discloses the meanings within their seemingly unrelated symbols and suggests the philosophical wholeness of this assortment of myth.</p>

The King and the Corpse: Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evil

History

Heinrich Zimmer

Ancient Civilizations

Princeton University Press

A landmark work that demystifies the rich tradition of Indian art, Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization analyzes key motifs found in legend, myth, and folklore taken directly from the Sanskrit. It provides a comprehensive introduction to visual thinking and picture reading in Indian art and thought. Ultimately, the book shows that profound Hindu and Buddhist intuitions on the riddles of life and death are universally recognizable.

Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization (Works by Heinrich Zimmer, 6)

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

<p>Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization</p>

Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization

Joseph, Campbell

Motilal Banarsidass

A monumental work, Philosophies of India is divided into three main sections: The Highest Good, a discussion of Eastern and Western thought and their meeting and of the foundations of Indian Philosophy, The Philosophies of Time, Being the Philosophies of Success, Of Pleasure and of Duty, Finally The Philosophies of Eternity, This forms the Major Portion of the Work, Explaining Jainism, Sankhya and Yoga, Brahmanism, Buddhism and Tantra.

Philosophies of India

Politics & Social Sciences

Joseph Cambell

Philosophy

Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Pvt. Ltd.

This book interprets for the Western mind the key motifs of India`a legends myth, and folklore, taken directly from the sanskrit, and illustrated with seventy plates of Indian art. It is primarily an introduction to image thinking and picture reading in Indian art and thought and it seeks to make the profound Hindu and Buddhist intuitions of the riddles of life and death recongnizable not merely as Oriental but as universal elements.

Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilisation

Drawing from Eastern and Western literatures, Heinrich Zimmer presents a selection of stories linked together by their common concern for the problem of our eternal conflict with the forces of evil. Beginning with a tale from the Arabian Nights, this theme unfolds in legends from Irish paganism, medieval Christianity, the Arthurian cycle, and early Hinduism. In the retelling of these tales, Zimmer discloses the meanings within their seemingly unrelated symbols and suggests the philosophical wholeness of this assortment of myth.

Literature & Fiction

The King and the Corpse: Tales of the Soul's Conquet of Evil

The Present work is intended not as a handbook bus as an introduction to its subject, to be read from beginning to end. Each section is preparation for the next. Chapter I, presenting as it does a brief historical outline of the transformation of Indian art as well as a key to the symbology of the forms, can be used as a guide during the first perusal of the pictures. For the reader then wishing to find quickly the several portions of text referring to any specific group of monuments, a copious index has been supplied, together with textual referrences in the Description of Plates and cross-references in the footnotes. Marginal references to the Plates, furthermore, accompany the text. These should make possible an easy and rapid correlation of the materials of the two volumes.  The first two groups of Plates in the text volume illustrate, for the most part, the anthropology and comparative observations of the text. Included among them, however, are a few photographs that are indispensable to Dr. Zimmer s argument but do not meet the aesthetic standard of the Plates volume. On the other hand, the final cluster of text Plates constitutes. An independent pictorial appendix, illustrating the miniature and Rajput art of the eleventh to nineteenth centuries A.D. Dr. Zimmer s notes on this subject had not been developed beyond preliminary jottings, and could not be incorporated in any major section of the text. But since there is actually a rather special, very delicate, lyric quality about these paintings on palm leaf and paper, which sets them apart, somewhat, from the tradition of the stone monuments, it is not inappropriate that they should be given a separate place.

Art of Indian Asia (2 Vols.): Its Mythology and Transformation

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The King and the Corpse: Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evil

Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization (Works by Heinrich Zimmer, 6)

Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization

Philosophies of India

Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilisation

The King and the Corpse: Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evil

The King and the Corpse: Tales of the Soul's Conquet of Evil

Art of Indian Asia (2 Vols.): Its Mythology and Transformation