Tales for the Dying explores the centrality of death and dying in the narrative of the Bhagavata-Purana, India's great text of devotional theism, canonized as an integral part of the Vaisnava bhakti tradition. The text grapples with death through an imaginative meditation, one that works through the presence and power of narrative. The story of the Bhagavata-Purana is spoken to a king who is about to die, and it enables him to come to terms with his own passing. The work does not isolate dying as an issue; it treats it on many levels.

This book discusses how images of dying in the...

Tales for the Dying explores the centrality of death and dying in the narrative of the Bhagavata-Purana, India's great text of devotional theism, canonized as an integral part of the Vaisnava bhakti tradition. The text grapples with death through an imaginative meditation, one that works through the presence and power of narrative. The story of the Bhagavata-Purana is spoken to a king who is about to die, and it enables him to come to terms with his own passing. The work does not isolate dying as an issue; it treats it on many levels.

This book discusses how images of dying in the...

An enjoyable journey and spiritual pilgrimage to other lands. Explore the splendor and subtle wonders to be found at Notre Dame, the Cathedral of Amiens, Lourdes, the Vatican, Assisi, and the Acropolis. Visit India and the author's good friends Sai Baba and Swami Jnanananda; meditate in the Great Pyramid of Egypt; then see Israel and the Holocaust Museum. Rick Jarow's fluency in four languages has permitted him to become absorbed in the "inner" culture of many of the lands he has visited. He is a Fellow in the South Asian Department of Columbia University as an instructor of Oriental...