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In this book the author describes the Ancestors Ceremonies as practiced in the Taiwanese Catholic Church. The author¿s point is to demonstrate how the Chinese symbolic universe made a deep translation of the ¿new¿ symbolic system represented by the Catholic doctrine. At the same time the effort of the Catholic Church in order to adapt the Gospel message to the local situation built up a particular phenomenon that the author defined as cul...

Der Kopenhagener Hindikurs führt in 46 Lektionen kontextualisiert in die Strukturen des Hindi ein, was einen kommunikativen Grammatikunterricht ermöglicht. Im ersten Teil (L 1-23) liegt der Schwerpunkt auf dem Nominalsystem, grundlegenden Verbalkonstruktionen sowie der Syntax des einfachen Satzes. Die Kontexte entstammen dem Leben der Autoren und ihrer Mitmenschen und laden Lehrer und Lerner dazu ein, sich auf Hindi auszutauschen. Die den Übun...

Der Kopenhagener Hindikurs führt in 46 Lektionen kontextualisiert in die Strukturen des Hindi ein, was einen kommunikativen Grammatikunterricht ermöglicht. Der zweite Teil (L 24-46) gilt dem Verbalsystem in seiner Gesamtheit und der komplexen Syntax - also dem, was im Deutschen die Nebensatzsyntax ausmacht. Die Kontexte entstammen dem Leben der Autoren und ihrer Mitmenschen und laden Lehrer und Lerner dazu ein, sich auf Hindi auszutauschen. Di...

The trajectory of the Dhari Devi Temple epitomises the idea of catastrophes as watersheds. In particular, flood disasters have accompanied transformation processes of the site located on Alaknanda River in the Indian Himalayas. As early as 1894, a flash flood had a significant impact on the site and the identity of the deity. Local flood legends gained new topicality with the planning of a hydroelectric power plant in the vicinity. They b...

Students of Sanskrit can choose among several good manuals. Whichever they may choose, learning Sanskrit is a daunting task. This book is not an alternative textbook for learning Sanskrit. Instead, it is to accompany these textbooks and written in the hope to make Sanskrit learning easier by explaining words and grammatical forms from an Indo-European point of view. Consider, for example Old Indian ad which means ¿to eat¿, but is also his...

In both the Vedic and the classical periods, a special elite class of people existed that were called Brahmins. In a rough manner, one might say that their material wellbeing depended on dak¿i¿¿ in the Vedic period and on d¿na in the classical one. Broadening the perspective beyond dak¿i¿¿ and d¿na, this book is on all sorts of giving in the context of pre-modern India, using Vedic, Sanskrit, Buddhist and, to a much lesser extent, Roman ...

What role media content and technologies play in processes of change is an ongoing and multi-layered discussion. Therein, advertising and gender have an extraordinary position. In the context of advertising production in urban India, this book deals with the understanding of social change in the early 2010s. Through an inquiry of the production of advertising created for commercial and/or social purposes, the perceptions of advertising produce...

In Tamil Nadu, the nine-night autumnal Navar¿tri festival can be viewed as a celebration of feminine powers in association with the goddess. This book explores Navar¿tri as it is celebrated in the South Indian temple town of Kanchipuram. It investigates the local mythologies of the goddess, two temple celebrations, and the domestic ritual practice known as kolu (doll displays). The author highlights three intersecting themes: namely the p...

A thousand-year-old Ayurvedic manuscript containing the Compendium of Süruta was announced to the scholarly world in 2007. The Nepalese manuscript, since adopted by UNESCO as part of the Memory of the World, reveals the state of classical Indian medicine in the ninth century. It enables us to study the changes in this medical classic that have taken place from the ninth to the nineteenth century, when printed texts began to dominate the d...

Die chronologische Einordnung von Texten kann für Authentizitätsforschung und Exegese entscheidend sein. Die Datierung schriftsprachlicher chinesischer Quellen kann u. a. durch Imitation antiker Vorbilder und unklare Urheberschaft erschwert werden. Dieses Buch untersucht erstmals die Entwicklung und Anwendung computergestützter Methoden für die Datierung chinesischsprachiger Quellen. Dabei ermöglicht eine lexembasierte Methode, der stilis...

This volume is dedicated to Maya Burger, professor emerita at the Faculty of Arts, University of Lausanne. It gathers contributions by friends, colleagues, and former students that echo the multiple dimensions of her work. Organised in four parts, Indology, History of Religions, History of Orientalism, and Hindi and Translation, these contributions explore different examples of encounters with ¿significant others¿. Analysing original hist...

Yi Seong-gye (1335-1408) began life as an obscure warrior of Koreäs borderlands, but rose to overthrow the 500-year Goryeo dynasty and become King Taejo, who founded the 518-year Joseon dynasty, Koreäs final royal lineage and the longest lasting Confucian dynasty in history. King Taejös momentous life intersected with watershed East Asian developments: the collapse of the Mongol Empire in Korea, the rise of Chinäs brilliant Ming dynasty,...

In the early modern period, the Sants emerged in North India as devotees of a formless interior god. The volume introduces seven Sant authors living in Rajasthan in the period from the first half of the sixteenth to the eighties of the seventeenth century. It explores their complex cultural background, their literary conventions, and their sectarian network, and presents samples of their poetry in the original Hindi with English translati...

In the series Püpik¿. Tracing Ancient India through Texts and Traditions: Contributions to Current Research in Indology, the proceedings of the International Indology Graduate Research Symposium (IIGRS) are published. Püpik¿ is a peer-reviewed series that provides early-career scholars with a platform to share the results of their research on pre-modern South Asian cultures. This is the 6th volume in the series, containing thirteen articl...

One of the leading proponents of the radical linguistic reforms in 20th century China, Wei Jiangong remains hardly known in the West. This book describes how Wei, who was rooted in traditional philology and conceptualizing language as a tool, helped to promulgate a standard language, led the compilation of the world¿s most popular dictionary, and helped to drive script reform. While these measures were characterized as violent intervent...

For many centuries, Hindu temples and shrines have been of great importance to South Indian religious, social and political life. Aside from being places of worship, they are also pilgrimage destinations, centres of learning, political hotspots, and foci of economic activities. In these tem-ples, not only the human and the divine interact, but they are also meeting places of different members of the communities, be they local or coming fr...

The proposed volume addresses issues of linguistic variation - a phenomenon central to the study of language use - in regards to the major official language of India: Hindi. It combines multiple theoretical and pragmatic approaches to a variety of linguistic phenomena conceptualised under the name of 'Hindi', and attempts to obtain a more accurate portrayal of the changing reality behind this versatile taxonomic unit. In doing so, this volume ...

It is impossible to imagine human history without emotions. But what is known about theoretical emotion knowledge in premodern South India? This volume offers a first systematic examination of emotion knowledge as found in Tamil treatises and commentaries written from the 11th to 17th century. By following different theoretical strands, it sheds light on the questions that were raised by various emotion theorists, as well as their agenda ...