Author: Brown, Robert L. ; editor:
Title: Ganesh : Studies of an Asian God
Description: Albany [NY], State University of New York, 1991. orig. boards. xi,358 pp., 23x15cm, Series: SUNY Series in Tantric Studies.. Minor rubbing. Rubberstamp to top page-edge. VG. ¶ Contents : Ganesa : a protohistory of the idea and the icon / A.K. Barain -- Ganesa : myth and reality / M.K. Dhavalikar -- Ganesa’s rise to prominence in Sanskrit literature / Ludo Rocher -- Ganesa as metaphor : the Mudgala Purana / Phyllis Granoff -- Images of Ganesa in Jainism / Maruti Nandan Tiwari and Kamal Giri -- The wives of Ganesa / Lawrence Cohen -- "Vatapi Ganapatim" : sculptural, poetic, and musical texts in a hymn to Ganesá / Amy Catlin -- Ganesa in Southeast Asian art : Indian connections and indigenous developments / Robert L. Brown -- The Tantric Ganesa : texts preserved in the Tibetan canon / Christopher Wilkinson -- Ganesa in China : methods of transforming the demonic / Lewis R. Lancaster -- Literary aspects of Japan’s dual-Ganesa cult / James H. Sanford.

Keywords: Hinduism, Hindu Deities, Ganesh, History of Religion, Comparative, India South Asia, , ,