
Heinrich Robert Zimmer (1890-1943) was an Indologist & historian of South Asian art. He began his career studying Sanskrit & linguistics at the Univ. of Berlin where he graduated in 1913. Between 1920-24 he lectured at the Univ. of Greifswald, moving to Heidelberg to fill the Chair of Indian Philology. In 1938 he was dismissed by the Nazis. He emigrated to England where between 1939-40 he taught at Balliol College, Oxford. In 1942 he moved to NY to accept a Visiting Lecturer position in Philosophy at Columbia Univ. One of his students during this time period was Joseph Campbell. He died there, of pneumonia, in 1943. His method was to examine religious images using their sacred significance as a key to their psychic transformation. His use of (Indian) philosophy & religious history to interpret art was at odds with traditional scholarship. His vast knowledge of Hindu mythology & philosophy (particularly Puranic & Tantric works) gave him insights into the art, insights that were appreciated by Campbell among others. Campbell edited many of Zimmer's writings after his death. The psychiatrist C,G, Jung also developed a long-standing relationship with Zimmer, & edited a volume of Zimmer's entitled Der Weg zum Selbst (the two men 1st met in 1932, after which Zimmer, along with Richard Wilhelm, became one of the few male friends of Jung). Zimmer is credited by many for the popularizing of South Asian art in the West.
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Drawing from Eastern and Western literatures, Heinrich Zimmer presents a selection of stories linked together by their common concern for the problem of our eternal conflict with the forces of evil. Beginning with a tale from the Arabian Nights, this theme unfolds in legends from Irish paganism, medieval Christianity, the Arthurian cycle, and early Hinduism. In the retelling of these tales, Zimmer discloses the meanings within their seemingly unrelated symbols and suggests the philosophical wholeness of this assortment of myth.
A landmark work that demystifies the rich tradition of Indian art, Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization analyzes key motifs found in legend, myth, and folklore taken directly from the Sanskrit. It provides a comprehensive introduction to visual thinking and picture reading in Indian art and thought. Ultimately, the book shows that profound Hindu and Buddhist intuitions on the riddles of life and death are universally recognizable.
The volume is divided into four sections: The introduction places the position of the Buddhist Tantras within Mahayana Buddhism and recalls their early literary history, especially the Guhyasamahatantra; the section also covers Buddhist Genesis and the Tantric tradition. The foundations of the Buddhist Tantras are discussed and the Tantric presentation of divinity; the preparation of disciples and the meaning of initiation; symbolism of the mandala-palace Tantric ritual and the twilight language. This section explores the Tantric teachings of the inner Zodiac and the fivefold ritual symbolism of passion. The bibliographical research contains an analysis of the Tantric section of the Kanjur exegesis and a selected Western Bibliography of the Buddhist Tantras with comments.
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The Present work is intended not as a handbook bus as an introduction to its subject, to be read from beginning to end. Each section is preparation for the next. Chapter I, presenting as it does a brief historical outline of the transformation of Indian art as well as a key to the symbology of the forms, can be used as a guide during the first perusal of the pictures. For the reader then wishing to find quickly the several portions of text referring to any specific group of monuments, a copious index has been supplied, together with textual referrences in the Description of Plates and cross-references in the footnotes. Marginal references to the Plates, furthermore, accompany the text. These should make possible an easy and rapid correlation of the materials of the two volumes.The first two groups of Plates in the text volume illustrate, for the most part, the anthropology and comparative observations of the text. Included among them, however, are a few photographs that are indispensable to Dr. Zimmer s argument but do not meet the aesthetic standard of the Plates volume. On the other hand, the final cluster of text Plates constitutes. An independent pictorial appendix, illustrating the miniature and Rajput art of the eleventh to nineteenth centuries A.D. Dr. Zimmer s notes on this subject had not been developed beyond preliminary jottings, and could not be incorporated in any major section of the text. But since there is actually a rather special, very delicate, lyric quality about these paintings on palm leaf and paper, which sets them apart, somewhat, from the tradition of the stone monuments, it is not inappropriate that they should be given a separate place.
"The book is as vital today as it was the year it was written, still unmatched for the eloquence of its recognition and celebration of this inspiration of Indian art." --From the forewordThis pioneering work opened C. G. Jung's eyes to the psychological and spiritual significance of the Indian mandala, and it remains the clearest introduction to the essence of Indian art and yoga for both the specialist and general reader. Heinrich Zimmer (1890-1943) was the first to identify the radical difference between Western classical and Indian art. His revolutionary approach to understanding the stylized, often sexual, sacred symbols of India was simply to take them on their own terms as techniques of spiritual transformation.
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Eine Reise durch das mystische Indien: Der Indologe und Geschichtswissenschaftler Heinrich Zimmer (1890-1943) schl�sselt die Entstehung des Yoga und Buddhismus auf und spannt hierbei einen Bogen von der indischen zur abendl�ndischen Kulturgeschichte. Heinrich Zimmer galt als einer der renommiertesten deutschen Indologen. Nach ihm wurde der 2010 neu geschaffene Lehrstuhl f�r "Indian Philosophy and Intellectual History" an der Universit�t Heidelberg benannt.
Aus dem "Indien erzählt sich den Mythos vom Könige Mutschukunda, dem vorzeitlichen Helden, der über Weltalter hin in einer Höhle schlief. Sein Vater Mandhatar kam auf wunderbare Weise zur Welt und ward vom Götterkönige Indra selbst mit seinem göttlichen Finger genährt; zu indragleicher Größe unter den Königen der Menschen bestimmt, sog er sich an dem Zeigefinger des Gottes groß, denn keine Mutter nährte ihn, da er von keiner Mutter kam. Ihn mußte sein Vater hundert Herbste lang austragen, bis er ihm aus der linken Flanke der Kinderlose hatte versehentlich das Zauberwasser ausgetrunken, das Priester für seine Frau bereitet hatten, auf daß sie fruchtbar werde."
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Samkhya y Yoga, se consideran en la India los dos aspectos gemelos de una sola disciplina. Samkhya ofrece una exposición teórica de la naturaleza humana, analiza su cooperación en el estado de unión (bandha) y su separación en la liberación (moksa). Y el Yoga describe las técnicas prácticas para obtener la liberación o kaivalya.
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Heinrich Zimmer: Indische Sphären: Yoga und BuddhismusErstdruck: München, R. Oldenbourg, 1935.Neuausgabe.Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth.Berlin 2017.Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas Schultz-Overhage unter Verwendung des Bildes: Odilon Redon, Buddha, 1905.Gesetzt aus der Minion Pro, 11 pt.
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Excerpt from Die Romanischen Literaturen und Sprachen mit Einschluss des KeltischenI. Die Literatur vor der sprachlichen Trennung vom Irischen II. Ossian und Fingal Ill Die Blütezeit der schottisch grilischen Poesie.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Excerpt from Pelagius in IrlandGerade als die vollständig abgeschlossene Arbeit (s. 1  216) in den Druck gehen sollte, kam ich durch Erwägungen, die S. 219 bis 226 vorgelegt sind, zu der à berzeugung, dafs der durch den alten Katalog des 9. Jahrhunderts für die S. Gallener Stiftsbiblio their nachgewiesene Kommentar des Pelagius sich wahrscheinlich in einer der dort erhaltenen Handschriften befinde. Ein Blick in die bereitwilligst auf die Greifswalder Universitätsbibliothek über lassene Handschrift bestätigte mir, dafs ich in der That eine in St. Gallen im 9. Jahrhundert geschriebene Handschrift der irischen à berlieferung des seit dem 6. Jahrhundert in der kontinentaleu abendländischen Kirche verschwundenen unverstümmelton Pelagius kommentars vor mir hatte. Die S. 227  276 geführte Untersuchung über diese Handschrift und die S. 280  448 gegebene vollständige Kollation mit der unter dem Namen des Hieronymus gehenden kontinentalen à berlieferung des Kommentars ergänzen den ersten Theil meiner es ist nunmehr Jeder in Stand gesetzt, sich ein Bild zu machen sowohl von der ursprünglichen Gestalt des Werkes als auch von seinen Schicksalen im 5.  9. Jahrhundert in der Heimath des Häresiarchen und auf dem Kontinent.
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Excerpt from Randglossen Eines Keltisten zum Schulstreik in Posen-Westpreussen und zur OstmarkenfrageKaspar Zeuss, vor der Grammatica Celtica geschrieben hat und das sich schlicht  die Deutschen und die Nachbarstämme (münchen nennt, kurz ich müsste nicht der sein, der ich durch Geburt und Erziehung bin, wenn nicht meine Gedanken bei dem, was ich in Keltenlanden so sah, manchmal an die Ost grenze des Deutschtums abgeschweift wären, wo das deutsche Volkstum mit dem Slaventum seit einem Jahrtausend ringt, um als der nächstberechtigte Erbe alte Gebiete, in denen zu Tacitus' Zeiten und noch später hochbegabte und kraftstrotzende ostgermanische Völker des vandilischen Bruderstammes sassen, wieder zu gewinnen. Der Gedanke jedoch, für meine Person mit Wort oder Schrift in diesen Kampf einzugreifen, ist mir bis her nie gekommen, sonst würde dem ja' auch das  3180' sofort gefolgt sein. Dies Jahr soll es aber nicht bei meinem Scherflein fiir das, Reichsdeutsche Weihnachtsbäumchen' verbleiben. Die in dem Kampf in den Ostmarken Preussens leider nicht nur von den offenen Feinden des Deutschtums seit einiger Zeit be liebten Verdrehungcn, die das dem Menschenverstand Begreif liche übersteigen, haben mir die Feder in die Hand gedrü mögen nachfolgende Zeilen darlegen, was die katholische Kirche unter Verhältnissen wie die in unserer Ostmark kann, wenn sie will, und was Preussen und das Deutsche Reich nach dem Vorbilde der älteren Nationalstaaten Frankreich und England gegen die inner halb seiner Ostgrenzen wohnenden slavischen Volkselemente unter nehmen darf und muss, wenn das Deutschtum daselbst nicht seiner seits die Waffen strecken will. Schmargendorf-halensee, den 24. Dezember 1906. Bei Berlin.
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Excerpt from Die Nominalsuffixe A und À in den Germanischen Sprachen Den Rath zur Veröffentlichung habe ich gegeben und trage die Verantwortung dafür. Die Grunde, welche mich bestimmten, waren im Wesentlichen folgende. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Ramana Maharshi (1879-1950) gilt als einer der größten Advaita-Lehrer aller Zeiten. Er lehrte Selbstergründung (atma-vichara). Bereits im Alter von 17 Jahren verwirklichte er das Selbst und lebte fortan am Berg Arunachala in Südindien, wo ihn Menschen aus allen Kulturen und Erdteilen besuchten. Einige lebten bei ihm und viele sahen in ihm ihren Sat-Guru. Dieses Buch ist die erste Biografie über Ramana Maharshi im deutschen Sprachraum und das letzte Werk des bedeutenden Indologen Heinrich Zimmer. C.G. Jung hat es 1944, ein Jahr nach Zimmers Tod, herausgebracht. Die Neuauflage entspricht der Erstauflage und enthält u.a. einen ausführlichen Artikel von C.G. Jung über den großen Heiligen vom Berg Arunachala.
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