Cultural Horizons of India
author: Musashi Tachikawa
edition: 1990, International Academy of Indian Culture and Aditya Prakashan
pages: 2743
Topic: History
Bhuvana-samksepa: Saiva cosmology in Indonesia
This chapter describes Bhuvana-samksepa: Saiva cosmology in Indonesia located on page 102 of volume Volume 5 in the book Cultural Horizons of India compiled by Musashi Tachikawa. This book comprises 50 years of research material of Lokesh Chandra and represents a thorough study of the ancient culture of India, dealing with Tantra, Buddhism, Art, Archaeology, Language and Literature in 7 volumes.
Volume 5 includes the writings of Prof. Lokesh Chandra on the philosophic, artistic, and poetic traditions of Southeast Asia. It further deals with the Bhuvana-samksepa: a text of Saiva cosmology in Old Javanese with Sanskrit stanzas.
This book covers the research articles and general surveys of Professor Lokesh Chandra. For example, this chapter describes Bhuvana-samksepa: Saiva cosmology in Indonesia. Everything together represents a huge collection of writings related to languages such as Sanskrit, Iranian, Sino-Japanese, Tibetan, Thai, Greek, Latin, Celtic, and Slavic..
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Diaspora of Bhuta (Daiva) worshipping cult—India and Indonesia [by Shilpa V. Sonawane]
Agama Hinduism followed by Hindus in Bali Indonesia. It is called a collection of the writings of many Hindu worship schools Agamas (IAST: agama). Abtek literally means tradition or "What Inn" The texts of Agama describe cosmology, the theory of knowledge, philosophical doctrines, concepts of meditation and practices, four types of yoga, mantra, temple construction and ways to do things. Up to six times....
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Vietnamese Buddhist Art [by Nguyen Ngoc Vinh]
The most ambitions attempts at recreating such as cosmology may have been Champa, Funan, Cambodia, Java, and Thailand. The king of these countries were representing as god-kings of mountain Meru and the monuments built in these countries as be seen as their seat of power and a replica of the centre of the universe. Those monuments were also expressed as Mandala....
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Sanskrit sources of Kerala history [by Suma Parappattoli]
This Vasudeva is known to have written another prose in Sanskrit called Samksepa-Bharata [Sanksepabharata], in which he states that the work was written under orders of king Ravi Varma. The verse is:— jagadanandayan gobhih shatam margam sanatanam prakashah shrikaro raja ravivarma virajate || Sankararama Sastri identified Ravi Varma with the names alike who ruled after Umayamma Rani, on the presumption that the two works had been composed in two successive reigns....
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