<p>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.</p>

The King and the Corpse: Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evil

History

Heinrich Zimmer

Ancient Civilizations

Princeton University Press

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.

Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization (Works by Heinrich Zimmer)

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

On Dreams and the East

C.G. JUNG

Philosophies of India (Routledge Library Editions: Buddhism)

Routledge

The Celtic Church in Britain and Ireland

The present work is a translation of an article written by Professor Zimmer for the tenth volume of the Realencyclopädie für protestantische Theologie und Kirche. It was a good idea to make Zimmer's work accessible to a wider circle of English students, and it is pleasant to notice that the idea originated with Dr. Whitley Stokes, who on other occasions has shown himself a vigorous opponent of many of Zimmer's theories. The present work contains a sketch of the fortunes of the Celtic Churches in the British isles to about 1200, i.e. until they became completely merged in the Roman organization. This sketch is marked by all the qualities which we are accustomed to associate with Zimmer's work—great learning, a firm grasp of complicated relations, and an extraordinary gift of ingenious combination. A considerable portion of the book is occupied with a masterly analysis of the Patrick legend. Zimmer does not actually abolish St. Patrick, but he leaves very little indeed of the traditional saint. He shows that the ordinary view of him as a great and successful missionary who, in the middle of the fifth century, converted an entirely heathen land to Christianity, and founded a strong Church based on diocesan episcopacy, is utterly inconsistent with all the known facts, with the statements of Patrick himself in the Confessio and Epistle to Coroticus (which Zimmer now accepts as genuine, though he did not always do so), with Prosper's statement that Palladius (with whom Zimmer identifies Patrick) was sent 'ad Scotos credentes in Christum,' with the silence of Bede, with the existence of a strong Irish Church in the sixth century which, though episcopal in character, was monastic and not diocesan in its organization. He shows, moreover, how the Patrick legend, with its gift of primacy to Armagh, was the price which the South of Ireland, where the legend originated, offered to the North of Ireland to induce it to follow the example of the South and submit to Rome in the matters of the Easter cycle and the tonsure. But for these and many other points of interest we must refer our readers to the work itself. The translation is on the whole well done, and the authorities are cited in the notes to a greater extent than was possible in the original article. There are some awkward expressions and one or two slips in matters of detail which might with advantage be corrected in a new edition. —The Church Quarterly Review, Volume 56 [1903]

Celtic Church in Britain and Ireland

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Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization

Joseph, Campbell

Motilal Banarsidass

A monumental work, Philosophies of India is divided into three main sections: The Highest Good, a discussion of Eastern and Western thought and their meeting and of the foundations of Indian Philosophy, The Philosophies of Time, Being the Philosophies of Success, Of Pleasure and of Duty, Finally The Philosophies of Eternity, This forms the Major Portion of the Work, Explaining Jainism, Sankhya and Yoga, Brahmanism, Buddhism and Tantra.

Philosophies of India

Politics & Social Sciences

Joseph Cambell

Philosophy

Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Pvt. Ltd.

This book interprets for the Western mind the key motifs of India`a legends myth, and folklore, taken directly from the sanskrit, and illustrated with seventy plates of Indian art. It is primarily an introduction to image thinking and picture reading in Indian art and thought and it seeks to make the profound Hindu and Buddhist intuitions of the riddles of life and death recongnizable not merely as Oriental but as universal elements.

Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilisation

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.

Literature & Fiction

The King and the Corpse: Tales of the Soul's Conquet of Evil

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