Cultural Horizons of India
author: Musashi Tachikawa
edition: 1990, International Academy of Indian Culture and Aditya Prakashan
pages: 2743
Topic: History
Imperial Ming jar with Sanskrit mantras
This chapter describes Imperial Ming jar with Sanskrit mantras located on page 131 of volume Volume 6 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 6 includes studies that have been finalised during the last five years. The first chapter deals with pensive images seated in half-locked posture (hankaza) found in China, Korea and Japan.
This book covers the research articles and general surveys of Professor Lokesh Chandra. For example, this chapter describes Imperial Ming jar with Sanskrit mantras. 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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Triveni Journal
Khushwant Singh; Gayatri Mantra. GAYATRI MANTRA tc " GAYATRI MANTRA " In another column I write every week I raised the question why is the Gayatri Mantra regarded as the Mantra of all mantras, to be repeated 108 times (why 108, I have not been able to find out) every day and what exactly does it mean. I received a flood of mail, books and cassettes on the subject. I asked every Hindu I met to explain it to me word by word. The closest I came to understand it was from Dr....
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Rivers in Ancient India (study) [by Archana Sarma]
The term Veda comprises both the Mantra and the Brahmana. Veda is the name given to Mantra and Brahmana jointly. Sayanacarya, in the introduction to his commentary on the Rigvedasamhita, observes—the name Veda is given to the vast body of literature made up of Mantra and Brahmana jointly. ‘Mantras or ‘Samhitas which are collections of hymns, prayers, benedictions, incantations, sacrificial formulae called Nivids and Litanies....
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Stupas in Orissa (Study) [by Meenakshi Chauley]
Vajrayana enunciated a deep esoteric system of sadhanas with emphasis on Krtyas, Mantras and Mandalas. The primitive pantheon was, consequently, enlarged into a highly elaborated one with AdiBuddha, Dhyani-B uddha (Tathagath) and the latter emanations in the form of a host of divine Bodhisattvas and female divinities each of them was given a scared bija-mantra, or rather they were conceived as the concrete manifestation of the transformation of these germ syllables....
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