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Popular Books on Odissi Dance & Music

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Odissi (Dances of India) The repertoire, training and technique of today's Odissi is explained with a clarity that students of dance and aficionados of Indian performing arts will find of great value in understanding this lyrical art form. http://amzn.to/1QoInBy Odissi Music Evolution Revival and Techniques This is the first work on Odissi Music in English. Odissi dance is receiving growing recognition all over the world as an important classical dance system of India. Odissi music is a cognate of Odissi dance in every sense of the term. To use Odissi music as the accompanying music with an Odissi dance number or even to replace Odissi music with some other local variety in ones repertoire one must be acquainted with the genesis, the cultural ethos and the technical subtleties associated with both Odissi http://amzn.to/21Fs0YF Odissi did exist as a distinctive style of dance about 2,000 years ago when Natyashastra, one of the ancient Indian treatises

Lakulish statue at Khiching Kichakeswari Temple

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Lakulish was a prominent Shaivite revivalist, reformist and preceptor of the doctrine of the Pashupatas, one of the oldest sects of Shaivism. According to a tradition stated in the Linga Purana, Lakulisha is considered as the 28th and the last avatar of Shiva and the propounder of Yoga system.Around the 1st century CE, the Lakulisha cult was established with iconographic representation of Shiva appearing with a club. Two hundred years later, Lakulisha was accepted as an avatara of Shiva   Pashupata Shaivism Greek Impact on Lakulisha Pashupata Doctrine Pashupata Sampradaya Pashupata Siddhant of Lakulisha Lakulish Yoga

World Cancer Day Quotes Inspiration February 4

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World Cancer Day is marked on February 4 to raise awareness of cancer and to encourage its prevention, detection, and treatment. World Cancer Day was founded by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) to support the goals of the World Cancer Declaration, written in 2008. The primary goal of the World Cancer Day is to significantly reduce illness and death caused by cancer by 2020. A truly global event taking place every year on 4 February, World Cancer Day unites the world’s population in the fight against cancer. World Cancer Day If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or fight like hell. - Lance Armstrong World Cancer Day Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer. - Warren Beatty World Cancer Day Cancer victims who don't accept their f