God Inside Out: Ељiva's Game of Dice, Don Handelman, , 1997, 0195108450, 9780195108453, 219 pages. This book offers a new exploration of the mythology of god Siva, who spends his time playing dice with his wife, to whom he habitually loses. The result of the game is our world, which turns the god inside-out and changes his internal composition. Hindus maintain that Siva is perpetually absorbed in this game, which is recreated in innumerable stories, poems, paintings, and sculptural carvings. This notion of the god at play, argue Handelman and Shulman, is one of the most central and expressive veins in the metaphysics elaborated through the centuries, in many idioms and modes, around the god. The book comprises three interlocking essays; the first presents the dice-game proper, in the light of the texts and visual depictions the authors have collected. The second and third chapters take up two mythic "sequels" to the game. Based on their analysis of these sequels, the authors argue that notions of "asceticism" so frequently associated with Siva, with Yoga, and with Hindu religion are, in fact, foreign to Hinduism's inherent logic as reflected in Siva's game of dice. They suggest an alternative reading of this set of practices and ideas, providing startling new insights into Hindu mythology and the major poetic texts from the classical tradition..

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Breaking Boundaries with the Goddess New Directions in the Study of ЕљДЃktism : Essays in Honor of Narendra Nath Bhattacharyya, Cynthia Ann Humes, Rachel Fell McDermott, 2009, Shaktism, 386 pages. Narendra Nath Bhattacharyya, 1934-2001, Indian indologist; contributed articles..

The Muckunda Murals in the Tyagarajasvami Temple, Tiruvarur , V. K. Rajamani, David Shulman, 194, Mar 16, 2012, , 148 pages. The Tyagarajasvami Temple in Tiruvarur, a major historic site in the heart of the Tamil country, has preserved among its many treasures a set of ceiling paintings from the 17th ....

Discourses on Siva Proceedings of a Symposium on the Nature of Religious Imagery, [held April 27 - May 1, 1981, at the South Asia Regional Studies Department of the University of Pennnsylvania, Philadelphia], Michael W. Meister, 1984, Art, 362 pages. .

Encyclopaedia of gods and goddesses , Nagendra Kumar Singh, 2001, Religion, . .

The Man Who Was a Woman and Other Queer Tales from Hindu Lore , Devdutt Pattanaik, 2002, Religion, 165 pages. A god transforms into a nymph and enchants another god. A king becomes pregnant. A prince discovers on his wedding night that he is not a man. Another king has children who ....

Tantric Visions of the Divine Feminine The Ten MahДЃvidyДЃs, David R. Kinsley, 1998, Hindu goddesses, 318 pages. What is one to make of a group of goddesses that includes a goddess who cuts her own head off, a goddess who sits on a corpse while pulling the tongue of a demon, or a goddess .... Unto Siva consciousness a brief saga of Lord Siva as the presiding deity of prosperity and national integration, incorporating his experiments with sex, Anayath Pisharath Mukundan, 1992, Religion, 88 pages. On Siva (Hindu deity)..

Syllables of sky studies in South Indian civilization, David Dean Shulman, Vēlcēru Nārāyaṇarāvu, 1995, , 478 pages. This collection of essays by outstanding scholars of introduces the work of Velcheru Narayana Rao, who has revolutionized our understanding of classical literary ....

God Shiva, Devi and tantric cult (to be traced to Vedas, Upanishadas, and the Indus Valley civilisation), Purna Kanta Gogai, 2001, Religion, 169 pages. .

Nataraja, the dancing god , Projesh Banerji, 1985, Art, 143 pages. .

Ељiva in the Forest of Pines an essay on sorcery and self-knowledge, Don Handelman, David Dean Shulman, Mar 18, 2004, Religion, 246 pages. The sequel to God Inside Out: Siva's Game of Dice (OUP, 1997). The story of Daruvana is the richest and most complex of all narratives about Siva, and provides scope fr ....

The Divine Consort RДЃdhДЃ and the Goddesses of India, John Stratton Hawley, Donna Marie Wulff, 1982, Religion, 414 pages. "Papers presented at a conference held June 1978 at Harvard University, sponsored by the Center for the Study of World Religions.".

The Sacred Marriage of a Hindu Goddess , William P. Harman, Jan 1, 1992, Religion, 232 pages. supplemented by a commentary; both seek to emphasize how the teaching is.

Science, Order, and Creativity , David Bohm, F. David Peat, 2000, Science, 316 pages. .

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This book offers a new exploration of the mythology of the Hindu god Siva, who spends his time playing dice with his wife, to whom he habitually loses. The result of the game is our world, which turns the god inside-out and changes his internal composition. Hindus maintain that Siva is perpetually absorbed in this game, which is recreated in innumerable stories, poems, paintings, and sculptural carvings. This notion of the god at play, arguee Handelman and Shulman, is one of the most central and expressive veins in the metaphysics elaborated through the centuries, in many idioms and modes, around the god.

The book comprises three interlocking essays; the first presents the dice-game proper, in the light of the texts and visual depictions the authors have collected. The second and third chapters take up two mythic "sequels" to the game. Based on their analysis of these sequels, the authors argue that notions of "asceticism" so frequently associated with Siva, with Yoga, and with Hindu religion are, in fact, foreign to Hinduism's inherent logic as reflected in Siva's game of dice. They suggest an alternative reading of this set of practices and ideas, providing startling new insights into Hindu mythology and the major poetic texts from the classical Sanskrit tradition.

This book is about cosmology, it presents a new and suggestive way of seeing the Hindu world as it unfolds from the inside though the media od play. Siva is palying dice and as he plays he seperates into male and female, and as he plays and looses the moon, the sun the mouintains and thus creates the world.

David Dean Shulman (born January 13, 1949 in Waterloo, ) is an Indologist and regarded as one of the world’s foremost authorities on the languages of India. His research embraces many fields, including the in South India, Indian poetics, Tamil , Dravidian linguistics, and . He is also a published poet in Hebrew, a literary critic, a cultural anthropologist, and a peace activist. He was formerly Professor of Indian Studies and Comparative Religion at The Hebrew University, , and professor in the Department of Indian, Iranian and Armenian Studies,[1] and now holds an appointment as Renee Lang Professor of Humanistic Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He has authored or co-authored more than 20 books on various subjects ranging from temple and temple poems to essays that cover the wide spectrum of the cultural history of South India.[2]

In 1967, on graduating from Waterloo high school, he won a National Merit Scholarship, and emigrated to Israel, where he enrolled at Hebrew University. He graduated in 1971 with a B.A. degree in Islamic History, specializing in . His interest in Indian studies was inspired by a friend, the English economic historian Daniel Sperber, and later by the philologist, and expert in , Chaim Rabin.[2]

He gained his doctorate in Tamil and Sanskrit, with a dissertation on 'The Mythology of the Tamil Saiva Talapuranam', at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (1972–1976) under John R. Marr, which involved field work in . He was appointed instructor, then lecturer in the department of Indian Studies and Comparative Religion at Hebrew University, and became a full professor in 1985. He was a MacArthur Fellow from 1987 to 1992. In 1988 he was elected member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He was Director of the Jerusalem Institute of Advanced Studies for six years (1992–1998). He actively supports the Clay Sanskrit Library, for which he is preparing, with Yigal Bronner, a forthcoming volume.[3]

More recently he has been active as a leader of international campaigns to defend the Palestinians under threat of eviction from such villages as in the South Hills,[7] and especially from , where they are at risk of being dispossessed of their houses and property by the Elad, and by archaeologists who wish to raze the area and establish Jewish settlement and an archaeological zone on what they believe to be the underlying 'City of David'.[8][9]

In 2007, he published a book-length account, entitled Dark Hope: Working for Peace in Israel and Palestine, of his years working, and often clashing with police and settlers, to deliver food and medical supplies to Palestinian villages, while building peace in the . The distinguished Israeli novelist A. B. Yehoshua called it:

One of the most fascinating and moving accounts of Israeli-Palestinian attempts to help, indeed to save, human beings suffering under the burden of occupation and terror. Anyone who is pained and troubled by what is happening in the Holy Land should read this human document, which indeed offers a certain dark hope.[10]

Israel, like any other society, has violent, sociopathic elements. What is unusual about the last four decades in Israel is that many destructive individuals have found a haven, complete with ideological legitimation, within the settlement enterprise. Here, in places like Chavat Maon, , Tapuach, and Hebron, they have, in effect, unfettered freedom to terrorize the local Palestinian population: to attack, shoot, injure, sometimes kill - all in the name of the alleged sanctity of the land and of the Jews' exclusive right to it.[12][13]

Shulman's book addresses here what he calls a ‘moral conundrum’: how Israel, ‘once a home to utopian idealists and humanists, should have engendered and given free rein to a murderous, also ultimately suicidal, ,’ and asks if the ‘humane heart of the Jewish tradition’ always contain the ‘seeds of self-righteous terror’ he observed among settlers. He finds within himself an intersection of hope, and empathy, and ‘the same dark forces that are active among the most predatory of the settlers’, and it is this which provides him with ‘a reason to act’[14] against what he regards as 'pure, rarefied, unadulterated, unreasoning, uncontainable human evil'. He does not excuse Arabs in the book,[15] but focuses on his own side's culpability, writing: 'I feel responsible for the atrocities committed in my name, by the Israeli half of the story. Let the Palestinians take responsibility for those committed in their name'.[16] Writing of efforts by the IDF and members of hard-core settlements at Susya, Ma'on, Carmel and elsewhere who, having settled on Palestinian land in the hills south of Hebron, endeavour to evict the local people in the many khirbehs of a region where several thousand pacific Palestinian herders and farmers dwell in rock caves and live a 'unique life' of biblical colour,[17] Shulman comments, according to Margalit, that:-

Nothing but malice drives this campaign to uproot the few thousand cave dwellers with their babies and lambs. They have hurt nobody. They were never a security threat. They led peaceful, if somewhat impoverished lives until the settlers came. Since then, there has been no peace. They are tormented, terrified, incredulous. As am I.[18]

In Kashmir Shaivsm the Oneness, the Absolute Supreme totality of God Consciousness is conveyed by the sacred word Shiva. Brahman (Vedanta), Paramatman (Samkhya), and Purushottama are used in other systems. The etymology of the Sanskrit word Shiva is ‘auspicious’ and ‘good’ – so we understand that Shiva is that which will benefit.

Shiva is also seen as the Destroyer. He destroys ignorance that stands in the way of the seeker of enlightenment. The path to enlightenment is arrayed with pain when we hang on to illusions that bind us in the temporal illusory hologram. In his form Shiva is the consummate ascetic, he is draped with snakes as ornaments and he enjoys the company of ghouls and demons. Everything is the One, even the darkside.

In the Mahabharata, Krishna is said to have performed intense great austerities to Lord Shiva so that the Pandavas - Yudhishthira, Arjuna, Bhima, and the twins - will be protected and win the battle at Kurukshetra. When these austerities were exhausted and used up, Shiva responded to the offerings of the other side. The propitiating enemy warrior impressed Lord Shiva by placing his own body into the sacrificial fire to Shiva. Thus in a terrible night massacre the children of the Pandavas are slaughtered in their sleep.

The stories of Lord Shiva are numerous, inspiring and fascinating. In one tale, Shiva plays the game of dice with his consort beautiful brilliant Parvati. The dice game symbolizes the pouring forth of the universe as manifestations of the Creator’s Being throughout the Cycles of Time. The creator ‘sacrifices’ oneness into multiplicity for the purpose of Play. This pouring forth of the temporal illusory hologram is the original sacrificial act. http://eduln.org/247.pdf http://eduln.org/1909.pdf http://eduln.org/2879.pdf http://eduln.org/1875.pdf http://eduln.org/1996.pdf http://eduln.org/761.pdf http://eduln.org/2243.pdf http://eduln.org/41.pdf http://eduln.org/1634.pdf http://eduln.org/703.pdf http://eduln.org/2709.pdf http://eduln.org/1081.pdf http://eduln.org/511.pdf http://eduln.org/7.pdf