I, Yantra - Exploring Self and Selflessness in Ancient Indian Robot Tales

Argues that ancient yantra (robot) tales reveal how their Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain authors thought about the nature of humanity and our role in a cosmos filled with divine and natural forces.

About the author

Signe Cohen is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Missouri. She is the author of Textual Criticism and Sacred Texts and Text and Authority in the Older Upaniads and the editor of The Upaniads: A Complete Guide.

Product details

• Authors: Signe Cohen, Cohen Signe
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2024
• EAN: 9781438496610
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-9661-0
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Science Fiction, Fantasy, RELIGION / Buddhism / History, LITERARY CRITICISM / Science Fiction & Fantasy, RELIGION / Jainism, RELIGION / Hinduism / History, Buddhism, India, History of Religion, Hinduism, Asian History, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Jainism, HISTORY / Asia / South / India