Wendy Doniger O''Flaherty
Biographic Data
| ID | 205405 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wendy Doniger O''Flaherty |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wendy Doniger |
| FAMILY NAME | O''Flaherty |
| SIGNATURE | FLAHERTY W D O |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Tales of Sex and Violence: Folklore, Sacrifice and Danger in the Jaiminiya Brahmana
Tales of Sex and Violence: Folklore, Sacrifice, and Danger in the Jaiminiya Brahmana
Tales of Sex and Violence: Folklore, Sacrifice, and Danger in the Jaiminiya Brahmana
Dreams, Illusions and Other Realities
Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty . . . weaves a brilliant analysis of the complex role of dreams and dreaming in Indian religion, philosophy, literature, and art. . . . In her creative hands, enchanting Indian myths and stories illuminate and are illuminated by authors as different as Aeschylus, Plato, Freud, Jung, Kurl Godel, Thomas Kuhn, Borges, Picasso, Sir Ernst Gombrich, and many others. This richly suggestive book challenges many of our fundamental…
Women, Androgynes, and Other Mythical Beasts
The Last Meal of the Buddha
UPWARDS OF A DOZEN SCHOLARS' in the past century have commented on what the Buddha ate at his Last Meal, ca. B.c. 483, and the puzzling mystifications in the evidence. The meal was served to him and his suite of monks by his host the metal-worker Cunda at Pava, a village that lay near Kusinara where the Mahaparinirvana-the Great Decease as the Davidses translated it-was scheduled to take place some hours later. The canonical Pali Text says that C…
Karma and Rebirth in Classical Indian Traditions
Women, Androgynes, and Other Mythical Beasts
An important, provocative and original work, of great interest to Indian scholars, historians of religions, psychologists and historians of ideas, but accessible also to the cultivated reader. Even if one does not always agree with the author's interpretation, one cannot but admire her vast and precise learning, her splendid translations and exegesis of so many, and so different, Sanskrit texts, and her uninhibited, brilliant, and witty prose.-Mi…
Women, Androgynes and Other Mythical Beasts
Dionysus and Siva: Parallel Patterns in Two Pairs of Myths
Sacred Cows and Profane Mares in Indian Mythology
Hinduism: New Essays in the History of Religions
Contributions to an Equine Lexicology with Special Reference to Frogs
Asceticism and Eroticism in the Mythology of Siva
The Origin of Heresy in Hindu Mythology
Asceticism and Sexuality in the Mythology of Śiva. Part I
Asceticism and Sexuality in the Mythology of Śiva. Part II
Women, Androgynes and Other Mythical Beasts
Tales of Sex and Violence: Folklore, Sacrifice, and Danger in the Jaiminiya Brahmana
Sacred Cows and Profane Mares in Indian Mythology
Tales of Sex and Violence: Folklore, Sacrifice, and Danger in the Jaiminiya Brahmana
The Last Meal of the Buddha
UPWARDS OF A DOZEN SCHOLARS' in the past century have commented on what the Buddha ate at his Last Meal, ca. B.c. 483, and the puzzling mystifications in the evidence. The meal was served to him and his suite of monks by his host the metal-worker Cunda at Pava, a village that lay near Kusinara where the Mahaparinirvana-the Great Decease as the Davidses translated it-was scheduled to take place some hours later. The canonical Pali Text says that C…
Asceticism and Sexuality in the Mythology of Śiva. Part I
The Origin of Heresy in Hindu Mythology
Asceticism and Sexuality in the Mythology of Śiva. Part II
Asceticism and Sexuality in the Mythology of Śiva. Part I
Asceticism and Sexuality in the Mythology of Śiva. Part II
The Origin of Heresy in Hindu Mythology
Asceticism and Eroticism in the Mythology of Siva
Hinduism: New Essays in the History of Religions
Contributions to an Equine Lexicology with Special Reference to Frogs
Sacred Cows and Profane Mares in Indian Mythology
Dionysus and Siva: Parallel Patterns in Two Pairs of Myths
Women, Androgynes, and Other Mythical Beasts
An important, provocative and original work, of great interest to Indian scholars, historians of religions, psychologists and historians of ideas, but accessible also to the cultivated reader. Even if one does not always agree with the author's interpretation, one cannot but admire her vast and precise learning, her splendid translations and exegesis of so many, and so different, Sanskrit texts, and her uninhibited, brilliant, and witty prose.-Mi…
Women, Androgynes and Other Mythical Beasts
The Last Meal of the Buddha
UPWARDS OF A DOZEN SCHOLARS' in the past century have commented on what the Buddha ate at his Last Meal, ca. B.c. 483, and the puzzling mystifications in the evidence. The meal was served to him and his suite of monks by his host the metal-worker Cunda at Pava, a village that lay near Kusinara where the Mahaparinirvana-the Great Decease as the Davidses translated it-was scheduled to take place some hours later. The canonical Pali Text says that C…
Karma and Rebirth in Classical Indian Traditions
Dreams, Illusions and Other Realities
Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty . . . weaves a brilliant analysis of the complex role of dreams and dreaming in Indian religion, philosophy, literature, and art. . . . In her creative hands, enchanting Indian myths and stories illuminate and are illuminated by authors as different as Aeschylus, Plato, Freud, Jung, Kurl Godel, Thomas Kuhn, Borges, Picasso, Sir Ernst Gombrich, and many others. This richly suggestive book challenges many of our fundamental…
Women, Androgynes, and Other Mythical Beasts
Tales of Sex and Violence: Folklore, Sacrifice, and Danger in the Jaiminiya Brahmana
Tales of Sex and Violence: Folklore, Sacrifice, and Danger in the Jaiminiya Brahmana
Tales of Sex and Violence: Folklore, Sacrifice and Danger in the Jaiminiya Brahmana
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