Shiva and the Primordial Tradition - format ePub

Alain Daniélou présente notre appareil auditif, plus exactement notre système audio-mental, comme percevant les sons non pas comme des ondes vibratoires mais comme une succession de coups résultant d'une...

L'auteur s'appuie sur sa connaissance de la musique orientale pour élaborer une critique de notre système musical et appeler à certaines réformes. Il réagit contre la déformation apportée par Bach au...

Il y a aujourd'hui 850 millions d'hindous en Inde et un milliard de par le monde. Une personne sur sept sur notre planète est donc hindoue. De nombreux clichés persistent néanmoins dans notre esprit quant...

Shiva and Dionysus are the Hindu and Greek gods of magical power, intoxication, ecstatic sexuality, and transcendence who initiate us into communion with the creative forces of life. Revealing the earliest...

Based on original Sanskrit sources, this book gives an authentic account of the methods of yoga in its different forms, including the challenging "left-hand" paths, as well as practices best suited to...

According to the early writings of the Shaiva tradition--still alive in India and dating back at least 6,000 years--the arbitrary ideologies and moralistic religions of modern society signal the last...

Daniélou's powerful rebuttal to the conventional view of India's history, which calls for a massive reevaluation of the history of humanity• Explores historical occurrences from each major time period...

The world's oldest and most widely read guide to the pleasures and techniques of sex, the Kama Sutra was compiled in the fourth century A.D. by a Brahmin and religious scholar name Vatsyayana, who worked...

What is the Nature of the social order that unquestionably produced one of the greatest and longest lasting civilizations known to humankind? Alain Daniélou, distinguished Orientalist, musicologist, and...

The study of Hindu mythology explores the significance of the most prominent Hindu dieties as they are envisioned by the Hindus themselves. Referred to by its adherents as the "eternal religion," Hinduism...

A collection of Daniélou's writings that builds a bold and cogent defense of India's caste system• Looks at the Hindu caste system not as racist inequality but as a natural ordering of diversity• Reveals...

Music has always been esteemed for its power to speak directly to our higher consciousness, a power founded in the purity of simple harmonic ratios. In this book, Alain Danielou traces the development...

Beginning with an overview of the symbolism of creative forces in general, The Phallus first examines the representation of male fertility in such forms as the menhirs or standing stones of prehistoric...

An extensive examination of the underpinnings of the Shaivite Tradition • Reveals the influence of Shaivism on the Western world • Discusses Shaivism’s understanding of sacred sexuality • Presents the...

Le bétail des dieux est l'un des sept contes du livre d'Alain Daniélou, Les fous de dieu, contes gangétiques. Publié en 1975, il sera réédité en 1983 sous le titre Le bétail des dieux et autres contes...

Pour Alain Daniélou, l'Occident a perdu sa propre tradition et éloigné l'homme de la nature et du divin. Il nous fait découvrir ici que les rites et les croyances du monde occidental ancien sont très...

" Par sa situation, son système social et la continuité de sa civilisation, l'Inde constitue une sorte de musée.Son histoire n'est pas une chronologie, une série de récits de batailles, de conquêtes ou...

Alain Daniélou, défini par Bernard Pivot comme « un marginal qui a réussi », raconte dans ces pages son parcours singulier. Après une enfance austère après d’une mère très catholique, Alain Daniélou se...

Après la destruction des cités de l'Indus par les Aryens, l'écriture disparut officiellement de l'Inde pendant plus d'un millénaire. Les textes scientifiques, philosophiques et religieux de l'ancienne...

Grâce à son système social des castes qui permet la coexistence des races, des cultures, des religions, l'Inde a été le refuge de tous les peuples persécutés. On y rencontre les plus anciennes communautés...

Cinq contes sont ici réunis, ils s'inscrivent dans la région du Latium, au sud de Rome. Image tutélaire de l'oeuvre d'Alain Daniélou, le Labyrinthe est aussi le nom du lieu-dit où il élut domicile à son...

Alain Daniélou et le photographe suisse Raymond Burnier ont fait de longs séjours d’étude aux sanctuaires de Khajuraho, de Bhuvaneshvar, de Konarak, mais aussi dans de nombreux sites moins connus de l'Inde...

En plaçant les différents récits rassemblés dans ce volume sous le signe du tantrisme, Alain Daniélou fait entrer le lecteur dans le monde des Sadhous et des Sannyasis, ces moines errants, détenteurs...

La musique du Cambodge et du Laos constitue un système musical particulier et très riche, provenant d’un fonds autochtone mom-khmer, ainsi que d’influences indiennes classiques, malayo-indonésiennes,...

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Ce livre apporte un tableau aussi inattendu que fascinant du vrai visage d’une société millénaire, de sa structure, de ses conceptions, de sa morale, de ses disciplines, qui nous transportent dans un...

1936 : Alain Daniélou et son compagnon suisse, le photographe Raymond Burnier, décident d'effectuer un tour du monde. Ce voyage dure plus d'une année et les mène de New York à Hollywood, d'Honolulu à...

Depuis la lointaine préhistoire, le phallus a été considéré comme la source de toute vie, le symbole de la puissance génératrice, l'image du principe créateur, et sa vénération se trouve à l'origine de...

« Devant l'avilissement d'une pensée religieuse devenue purement dogmatique, puritaine et sociale, non seulement en Occident mais dans l'Inde moderne elle-même, il semble que la redécouverte d'une mythologie...

Alain Daniélou présente notre appareil auditif, plus exactement notre système audio-mental, comme percevant les sons non pas comme des ondes vibratoires mais comme une succession de coups résultant d'une...

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