AuthorCampbell, Joseph, 1904-1987
TitleMyths of light : Eastern metaphors of the eternal / by Joseph Campbell ; edited and with a foreword by David Kudler
Imprint California : New World Library, 2012
Descript xxiii, 166 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

CONTENT

Introduction : the humbling of Indra -- The birth of Brahman -- Interpreting oriental myth -- West and East -- I and thou -- The myth of the lights -- The ever-burning sacrifice -- The jiva's journey -- The mystical tradition in India -- Raja yoga-the serpent of the cakras -- Yoga of the body, mind and heart -- The round of sorrow -- Birth and rebirth -- The horror -- The world soul -- My -- Destroyers and creators -- The individual in oriental myth -- The mask and the actor -- Agents of the eternal -- The imagery of rebirth yoga -- The journey to the sun's door -- Hearing the intermediate state : the Tibetan book of the dead -- Creativity in oriental myth -- Avatars of light-Indian art -- Light and dark-East Asian art -- Vessels to the farther shore -- Jainism : the path of withdrawal -- Hinduism--the pursuit and escape of dharma -- Impersonal divinity -- Dharma and sat -- The stages of life -- Buddhism--the flower of the world -- The life of the Buddha -- Ferryboats -- Envoy : the tiger in the depths -- The cry of the Buddha child -- The tigers and the goats


SUBJECT

  1. Mythology
  2. Asian
  3. Asia -- Religion

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Arts Library : Thai Studies Collectionท BL1033 C188M 2012 CHECK SHELVES