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Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization

By Heinrich Robert Zimmer

Book information

Year
1972
ISBN
0691017786, 9780691017785
LCC
BL2003 .Z5 1972
Open Library ID
OL22394627M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
23 MB (23939116 bytes)
Pages
282\299
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This book interprets for the Western mind the key motifs of India's legend, myth, and folklore, taken directly from the Sanskrit, and illustrated with seventy plates of Indian art. It is primarily an introduction to image-thinking and picture-reading in Indian art and thought, and it seeks to make the profound Hindu and Buddhist intuitions of the riddles of life and death recognizable not merely as Oriental but as universal elements.

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