Essays about: "Sanskrit"

Found 5 essays containing the word Sanskrit.

  1. 1. Prana

    University essay from KTH/Arkitektur

    Author : Jennifer Kananke-Hewage; [2020]
    Keywords : sustainable lifestyle; sustainable food production; nature; recreation;

    Abstract : Earth is an living organism where every living creature is an important part of a bigger whole. Our ancestors lived in symbiosis with the nature, today we are trying to tame the nature. Cities are expanding and the nature is being pushed into the periferi. READ MORE

  3. 2. Hathayoga in history and practice : Classical hathayoga in modern Varanasi

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Fakulteten för samhälls- och livsvetenskaper; Karlstads universitet/Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)

    Author : Gitte Poulsen; [2013]
    Keywords : Hathayoga; Rajayoga; Varanasi;

    Abstract : Abstract: The study investigates the field of haṭha yoga as it is described in the medieval Haṭhayogapradīpikā, a work on yoga composed in Sanskrit from the Nāth tradition. The study have then compared these practices, practitioners and the attitudes towards them, with interviews conducted in modern Varanasi, India. READ MORE

  4. 3. Redundant Personal Pronouns in Narrative Sanskrit : A Statistical Investigation

    University essay from Institutionen för orientaliska språk

    Author : Johan Lepistö; [2009]
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  5. 4. In Splendid Isolation : A Deconstructive Close-Reading of a Passage in Janet Frame's "The Lagoon"

    University essay from Sektionen för humaniora (HUM)

    Author : Susanne Sörensen; [2006]
    Keywords : Janet Frame; The Lagoon; New Zealand; deconstruction; Derrida; post-colonial studies; scala naturae; chain of being; caste; karma; original sin; Hinduism; Sanskrit;

    Abstract : In reading the literary criticism on Janet Frame's work it soon turns out that Frame was deconstructive before the concept was even invented. Thus, deconstruction is used in this essay to close-read a passage in the title story of her collection of short stories, The Lagoon (1951). READ MORE

  6. 5. "It´s a matter of balance and harmony" : the Ayurvedic concept of health and illness

    University essay from Röda Korsets Högskola

    Author : Tina Ohlsén; [1996]
    Keywords : Ayurveda; treatment; transcultural nursing;

    Abstract : This paper reviews selected work, published between 1944 and 1995, on the subject of Ayurveda. The aim of the review was to explore the ethnohistory of Ayurveda and the attached concept of health and illness, out of a transcultural perspective. Ayurveda is a medical tradition practiced throughout South Asia. READ MORE