Inviting Death : Historical Experiments on Sepulchral Hill
Inviting Death : Historical Experiments on Sepulchral Hill
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Author: S Settar
Page Count: 285 pages
Published Date: 10 Sep 2016
Publisher: Primus Books
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9789380607429
Download Link: inviting death historical experiments on sepulchral hill
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One of the foremost communities to have paid serious attention to death are the Jainas of India. Indeed, their preoccupation with it has been so intense that without understanding their philosophy of death, It is almost impossible to make out their notion of life. The Jainas did not consider death a subject of intellectual excercise; they held it as a force that permeates the social, religious and philosophical sinews of life. The codified rules of the art of inviting death, descriptive accounts of Puranic and historical personalities who embraced it, and an interesting body of epigraphical and archaeological remains, provide a rich corpus of information on those who voluntarily terminated their lives. Inviting Death presents this history spread over a millennium and half, on the Samidhi-betta or the Sepulchral Hill or Sravana Belogola, the foremost of the Digambara Jaina centres in the world."
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Inviting Death : Historical Experiments on Sepulchral Hill. S Settar
Author: S Settar
Page Count: 285 pages
Published Date: 10 Sep 2016
Publisher: Primus Books
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9789380607429
Download Link: inviting death historical experiments on sepulchral hill
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One of the foremost communities to have paid serious attention to death are the Jainas of India. Indeed, their preoccupation with it has been so intense that without understanding their philosophy of death, It is almost impossible to make out their notion of life. The Jainas did not consider death a subject of intellectual excercise; they held it as a force that permeates the social, religious and philosophical sinews of life. The codified rules of the art of inviting death, descriptive accounts of Puranic and historical personalities who embraced it, and an interesting body of epigraphical and archaeological remains, provide a rich corpus of information on those who voluntarily terminated their lives. Inviting Death presents this history spread over a millennium and half, on the Samidhi-betta or the Sepulchral Hill or Sravana Belogola, the foremost of the Digambara Jaina centres in the world."
Read online Inviting Death : Historical Experiments on Sepulchral Hill Buy and read online Inviting Death : Historical Experiments on Sepulchral Hill Download and read Inviting Death : Historical Experiments on Sepulchral Hill for pc, mac, kindle, readers Download to iPad/iPhone/iOS, B&N nook Inviting Death : Historical Experiments on Sepulchral Hill ebook, pdf, djvu, epub, mobi, fb2, zip, rar, torrent