ABSTRACT
First published in 1997. The International Institute for Asian Studies (lIAS) is pleased to introduce a new series 'Studies from the International Institute for Asian Studies'. This present volume, India and Beyond; Aspects of Literature Meaning, Ritual and Thought, contains more than 30 contributions from well-established scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds. These essays are in honour of one of the founding fathers of the lIAS, Frits Staal, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and South Asian Languages, University of California at Berkeley. This volume is edited by Dick van der Meij, editor of the Indonesian-Netherlands Cooperation in Islamic Studies Programme at Leiden University.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part XII|1 pages
Metrical Verse in the Psalms
part XIII|17 pages
The Losing of Tapas
chapter XXVII|27 pages
The Social and Intellectual Origins of Hubert and Mauss's Theory of Ritual Sacrifice
part XXX|16 pages
On Mantras and Frits Staal
part XXXI|14 pages
Tibetan Expertise in Sanskrit Grammar (3): on the Correct Pronunciation of the Ineffable
part XXXIV|18 pages
Theology and the Academic Study of Religion in the United States