Frits Staal

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Average rating: 3.77 · 129 ratings · 16 reviews · 26 distinct worksSimilar authors
Discovering the Vedas: Orig...

3.67 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions
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Rules Without Meaning: Ritu...

4.20 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1990 — 6 editions
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Exploring Mysticism: A Meth...

3.88 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1975 — 9 editions
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Discovering the Vedas: Orig...

3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions
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Agni: The Vedic Ritual of t...

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Over zin en onzin in filoso...

3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1986
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Drie bergen en zeven rivieren

3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions
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Jouer avec le feu: Pratique...

liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1990
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Universals: Studies in Indi...

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1988 — 3 editions
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Advaita and Neoplatonism: A...

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“The oral tradition speaks loud and clear, but for visual representations we must wait for the Buddhist era, after the Vedic period.”
Frits Staal, Discovering the Vedas: Origins, Mantras, Rituals, Insight

“If there is one thing the Vedas are not, it is books: they are oral compositions in a language that was used for ordinary communication; and were handed down by word of mouth like that language itself.”
Frits Staal, Discovering the Vedas: Origins, Mantras, Rituals, Insight



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