The Sword and the Flute Kali and Krsna: Dark Visions of the Terrible and the Sublime in Hindu Mythology: 4 (Hermeneutics: Studies in the History of Religions) - Softcover

Kinsley, David R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520035100 ISBN 13: 9780520035102

Verlag: University of California Press, 1978

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Book by Kinsley David

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"In glimpsing Kali's sword and hearing Krsna's flute, Kinsley has superbly presented these deities as human experience, and his book will likely be more useful to undergraduates in discerning the meaning of Hindu spirituality in the face of its polytheism than many more erudite treatments. . . . A very readable book backed by sound scholarship."--"Choice

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Krsna and Kali are two of Hinduism's most popular deities, representing dramatically different truths about the nature of the sacred. The cruel and terrible Kali is thought to be born of wild, aboriginal roots. She is the goddess of thieves and often associated with human blood sacrifice. Krsna, in contrast, is the divine lover and inimitable prankster who plays a bewitching flute to draw all to him. But Kali and Krsna have much more in common than their contrasting personalities suggest. Kinsley shows that Krsna's flute can be interchangeable with Kali's sword, revealing important perceptions of the divine in the Hindu tradition.

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• Verlag: University of California Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0520035100
• ISBN 13: 9780520035102
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 175