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Dreams, Illusions and Other Realities

2 reviews
Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty

University of Chicago Press, 1984

The Cunning of Reason/Happily Ever After??
This text aims to retell and analyze Sanskrit tales of dream and illusion, primarily from the YogaVasishtha, a work described by scholar and yogi H.P. Shastri as the inner story of the Ramayana. How well it succeeds in this task depends upon one's sympathy with mythological thinking. The stories concern kings and yogis dreaming their way into alternate realities; the questions raised concern ...

The Rig Veda: An Anthology of One Hundred Eight Hymns (Classic)

15 reviews
Anonymous

Penguin Classics, 1982

Ian Myles Slater on A Notable Translation
Amazon listing for this book has at times contained a possibly confusing abundance of Wendys. Keeping it simple; Wendy Doniger used Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty on her earlier books, and uses Wendy Doniger for books published after her divorce; a few older printings of some of them have "Wendy O'Flaherty" on them somewhere. Hence the variants, which can leave some works (like this one) in ...

The Oresteia
Aeschylus

University Of Chicago Press, 1989

"Streamlined in its storytelling and voluptuous in its use of language."?Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times [from a review of the Court Theater production]

The Laws of Manu (Penguin Classics)

13 reviews
Anonymous

Penguin Books, 1991

Ian Myles Slater on: Laying Down the Law?
The 1991 Penguin Classics translation of "The Laws of Manu," by Wendy Doniger (thus on the cover; earlier known as Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty, and often so listed) and Brian Smith, is one of two relatively recent translations of the text. The other is "The Law Code of Manu: A New Translation," by Patrick Olivelle, in the Oxford World's Classics (2004), which was also published elsewhere with a new ...

Women, Androgynes, and Other Mythical Beasts
Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty

University Of Chicago Press, 1982

"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 ...

The Origins of Evil in Hindu Mythology (Hermeneutics: Studies in the History of Religions)
Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty

University of California Press, 1980

Textual Sources for the Study of Hinduism (Textual Sources for the Study of Religion)

1 review

University Of Chicago Press, 1990

biased garbage
If you would like to read about how to denigrate hinduism, wendy doniger is your woman. She has in all her books insulted hinduism. Her lack of intellectual background or cultural understanding and pure racial bias are very obvious in her writings.

Karma and Rebirth in Classical Indian Traditions

Motilal Banarsidass,, 1999

Karma is perhaps the central concept in Indian Philosophy, but there is no comprehensive study of its various meanings or philosophical implications. Leading American Indologists met on several occasions to discuss their ideas about Karma. The result is this useful thought-provoking volume.

Siva: The Erotic Ascetic (Galaxy Books)

5 reviews
Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty

Oxford University Press, USA, 1981

Amazing
This wonderful review of the literature of Siva, by far one of the most interesting and misunderstood of the Indic gods, is already a classic. The contrasts between asceticism and eroticism are carefully and precisely laid out, without the quackery of popular psychological babble. The stories are well translated, with full notes, in such a way as to leave the ambiguities of the original ...

Other People's Myths: The Cave of Echoes

3 reviews
Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty

Macmillan Pub Co, 1990

Storytelling.....
In OTHER PEOPLE'S MYTHS, Wendy O'Flaherty says "God created people because he loves stories." O'Flaherty teaches History of Religion at the University of Chicago. She says not everyone will approach her book with the same level of interest. The orthodox religious may find it sacriligious while hard-core secular humanists may find it too "religious." However, she believes some secular humanists ...

Hindu Myths: A Sourcebook Translated from the Sanskrit (Penguin Classics)

13 reviews
Anonymous

Penguin Classics, 1975

Grossly inaccurate and condescending
For those who want to truly learn about hinduism, I would recommend the Bhagavad Gita translations. Versions by Ram Dass, Eknath Easwaran, Parmahansa Yogananda are quite good though there is no replacement for the original text in Sanskrit. Also, I would recommend David Frawley's Gods, Sages and Kings: Vedic Secrets of Ancient Civilization. I will not even dwell into the details of the book ...

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