South Asia: Identity and Cultural Diversity
2014 / Volume 1 / Issue 1
South Asia – this, according to many, curious mixture of different ethnicities, languages, beliefs, customs, religions and so forth – as always in its development during the centuries has been marked by a deep impulse to spiritual, intellectual, and cultural integrity. The different aspects of this identity (national, ethnic, religious, social) unfold and manifest themselves in a specific way today in the context of a dynamic political, social and economic changes in the countries of the region and throughout the world.
The pilot issue of the electronic journal, devoted to South Asia, provides a platform for the interpretations in various critical perspectives of the complex and manifold manifestations of identity and diversity in this cultural area. It has initiated a dialogue and exchange of ideas between like-minded people, joint together by their common in-depth interest in mythology, philosophy, religion, economy, art and literature of India as a cultural centre of South Asia.
Editor-in-chief: Prof. Dr. Milena BratoevaEditors: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Galina Rausseva-Sokolova
Dr. Valentina Todorova-Marinova,
Aleksandar Bogdanov
ISSN: 2367-6256
Contents
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From the Editor-in-Chief
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Из лабиринта на източното провербиално пространство: зоонимът кон в източните пословици
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The Man and the Cosmos according to the ideas of ancient Aryans
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Nandadas: The Song of the Black Bee
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India: What can it teach us?
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Кūṭiyāṭṭam: The Pinnacle in the Tradition of Ritual Theatre
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Hindi and Telugu Drama and Theatre after 1960: Western Influence and Experimentation
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Ātmán and the five ways of self realization: the mirror
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Daśakuśala: on the psychology of the moral conduct in Mahāyāna Buddhism (according to Āryaśūra’s Pāramitāsamāsa)
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Three persian dictionaries, compiled in the XVIIth century in India : Farhang-e Jahāngīrī, Borhān-e qāṭeʿ and Farhang-e Rašīdī
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The Mytheme of the Eternal Fight between Thunderer and Dragon in the Context of the Indo-aryan and Bulgarian Mythology
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Sanskrit Buddhist Literature and its Transformation into Pure Fiction in the Works of Aśvaghoṣa
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Sattvikabhinaya: The Most Hidden Mode of Expression in Traditional Indian Theater and Dance Drama
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India – Economic System
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Transformation and Identification in teyyāṭṭam
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Kālidāsa’s Vikramorvaśīya: Translation of the Prologue and Act I
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Mirror of Time – The Eternity of Tibetan Buddhist Literature