Dating to the first half of the first millennium bce, the "Katha Aranyaka" is a ritualistic and speculative text that deals with a dangerous Vedic ritual that provides its sponsor with a new body after death. In a new, never-before published critical edition, Michael Witzel, using available manuscripts and, primarily, a color facsimile of a restored five-hundred-year-old Kashmiri birch bark manuscript preserved at Tubingen since 1895, presents this work which transitions the Vedic ritual into the philosophy of the Upanishads. The text is preceded by an extensive introduction in English...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Padagogik - Allgemein, Note: 2,0, Helmut-Schmidt-Universitat - Universitat der Bundeswehr Hamburg, Veranstaltung: Argumentation und Erklarung als Gestaltungsmuster fur akademische Texte, 9 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das Anfertigen von schriftlichen Arbeiten ist essenzieller Bestandteil eines jeden Studiums. Das Erlernen des wissenschaftlichen Arbeitens ist Inhalt vieler Seminare, mit dem Ziel die erworbenen Fertigkeiten und Techniken durch das Anfertigen einer Diplomarbeit zum Ende des Studiums unter Beweis zu...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Padagogik - Interkulturelle Padagogik, Note: 2,0, Helmut-Schmidt-Universitat - Universitat der Bundeswehr Hamburg (Professur fur Allgemeine Padagogik unter Berucksichtigung ihrer systematischen und philosophischen Grundlagen), Veranstaltung: Ethnopadagogik als interkulturelle Padagogik, 7 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Zu den Grundbegriffen der Erziehung zahlen die intentionale, die funktionale und die extensionale Erziehung. Die Umsetzung dieser Grundbegriffe, im Besonderen des Begriffs der funktionalen Erziehung in...

Found in many different religious cultures, the practice of making votive offerings into fire dates back to the earliest periods of human history. Throughout the tantric world, this kind of ritual offering practice is known as the homa. With roots in Vedic and Zoroastrian rituals, the tantric homa was formed in early medieval India. Since that time tantric Buddhist practitioners transmitted it to East and Central Asia, and more recently to Europe and the Americas. Today, Hindu forms of the homa are being practiced outside of India as well.

Despite this historical and cultural range, the...

Found in many different religious cultures, the practice of making votive offerings into fire dates back to the earliest periods of human history. Throughout the tantric world, this kind of ritual offering practice is known as the homa. With roots in Vedic and Zoroastrian rituals, the tantric homa was formed in early medieval India. Since that time tantric Buddhist practitioners transmitted it to East and Central Asia, and more recently to Europe and the Americas. Today, Hindu forms of the homa are being practiced outside of India as well.

Despite this historical and cultural range, the...