Jyoti Sahi
Biographic Data
| ID | 701682 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jyoti Sahi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jyoti |
| FAMILY NAME | Sahi |
| SIGNATURE | SAHI J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Independent Researcher, Silvepura 560090, India |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Biblical Themes through Indian Visual Art
This chapter analyzes biblical themes in Indian art viewed through the personal lens of an Indian artist concerned with the way other Indian artists imagined scenes from the Bible. Biblical events pictured in an Indian cultural and geographic context range from the sixteenth-century Mughal miniatures in Akbar’s atelier to post-Independence modern Indian art. Biblical narratives are not only translated into Indian languages but also are embodied i…
The Open Well as Symbol of the Meeting of Heaven and Earth
As an Indian artist working in the field of cross-cultural visual theology, I have taken the open well as a common feature of the landscape where I live as a motif that I can connect with the biblical story of Jesus meeting the woman at the well. This leads to a discussion around the symbolic significance of the water of life. The landscape provides natural elements that are both particular and local but also universal in their cultural significa…
Dialogue and the Imagination
As an Indian Christian artist, I have reflected on Jesus’s dialogue with the Woman at the Well . Here we see the relation of Jesus to cultures beyond the Jewish one. The Biblical text has many layers of meaning. In Indian aesthetics, we learn of the ‘Dhvani’ or ‘implied meaning’ of a text. This implied meaning is discovered by the imagination, and is the basis for a re-interpretation of the text in our modern context of religious diversity, and e…
Yoga and the Wounded Heart
The following essay is an exploration—both verbal and pictorial—of what I have called the "yoga of the heart" in relation to a process of healing and creativity
Mammon and Myth
The Child and the Serpent
Dialogue and the Imagination
As an Indian Christian artist, I have reflected on Jesus’s dialogue with the Woman at the Well . Here we see the relation of Jesus to cultures beyond the Jewish one. The Biblical text has many layers of meaning. In Indian aesthetics, we learn of the ‘Dhvani’ or ‘implied meaning’ of a text. This implied meaning is discovered by the imagination, and is the basis for a re-interpretation of the text in our modern context of religious diversity, and e…
The Child and the Serpent
Mammon and Myth
Yoga and the Wounded Heart
The following essay is an exploration—both verbal and pictorial—of what I have called the "yoga of the heart" in relation to a process of healing and creativity
Dialogue and the Imagination
As an Indian Christian artist, I have reflected on Jesus’s dialogue with the Woman at the Well . Here we see the relation of Jesus to cultures beyond the Jewish one. The Biblical text has many layers of meaning. In Indian aesthetics, we learn of the ‘Dhvani’ or ‘implied meaning’ of a text. This implied meaning is discovered by the imagination, and is the basis for a re-interpretation of the text in our modern context of religious diversity, and e…
The Open Well as Symbol of the Meeting of Heaven and Earth
As an Indian artist working in the field of cross-cultural visual theology, I have taken the open well as a common feature of the landscape where I live as a motif that I can connect with the biblical story of Jesus meeting the woman at the well. This leads to a discussion around the symbolic significance of the water of life. The landscape provides natural elements that are both particular and local but also universal in their cultural significa…
Biblical Themes through Indian Visual Art
This chapter analyzes biblical themes in Indian art viewed through the personal lens of an Indian artist concerned with the way other Indian artists imagined scenes from the Bible. Biblical events pictured in an Indian cultural and geographic context range from the sixteenth-century Mughal miniatures in Akbar’s atelier to post-Independence modern Indian art. Biblical narratives are not only translated into Indian languages but also are embodied i…
Art (5 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · History (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Buddhism (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Narrative (2 works)