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Essays on Indian Aesthetics and Selected Sanskrit Studies<\/em> <\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

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Ren\u00e9 Daumal translated by Louise Landes Levi<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Ren\u00e9 Daumal,<\/a> best known for his novel Mount Analogue<\/em>,<\/a> unfinished at his death in 1944 (other works in English include A Night of Serious Drinking, The Power of the Word<\/em> andYou’ve Always Been Wrong<\/em>) was an autodidact, a non-academic Sanskritist. Following youthful hallucinatory experiments with poet Roger Gilbert-Lecomte (Black Mirror<\/em>) and initial instruction in Sanskrit with R\u00e9ne Gu\u00e9non, he embarked on a solitary study surpassing his teacher and formulated his own Sanskrit dictionary La Langue Sanskrite: grammaire, poesie, theatre<\/em>, facsimile edition Ganesha Press, 1985. He was secretary to Uday Shankar, whose troupe presented the aesthetic canons of India, in performance for the first time in the West, in Paris and New York, 1931-1933. Daumal translated essential texts on Sanskrit composition and the first chapter of Bharata Natya Sastra<\/em>, the world\u2019s first treatise on the Dramatic Arts, ca 4th<\/sup> century. He wrote numerous essays on Sanskrit poetics and their relation to spiritual practice, the first to recognize the value of these texts for the artists and social and cultural dynamics of the 20th<\/sup> century. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What people are saying about RASA<\/mark><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

<\/strong>“The Sanskrit studies are Daumal’s<\/em> most important work.”<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Claudio Rugafiori, in conversation.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“<\/mark>Rasa<\/em> appeared in 1982 and has not left my side for nearly forty years. It remains the only indispensable book in English on the poets of old India, their transformative poetry & their pioneer insights into language. Ren\u00e9 Daumal was the West\u2019s first heroic student of yoga and the arts, his essays a pinnacle of the 20th century\u2019s avant-garde. We\u2019re lucky to have Louise Landes Levi\u2019s translations back in print.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Andrew Schelling, Poet & translator. Dropping the Bow: Poems of Ancient India, Old Tale Road, Some Unquenchable Desire: Sanskrit poems of the Buddhist Hermit Bhartrihari.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click here for Andrew Schelling’s review of Rasa<\/strong>: Wrathful Guardian: The India Essays of Ren\u00e9 Daumal<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Click here for Kathleen Ferrick Rosenblatt’s review of Rasa<\/em> <\/strong>in Parabola, winter 1982<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cFor all practitioners of the sacred arts of India, Ren\u00e9 Daumal\u2019s Rasa<\/em> is required reading. Illuminated with insight and inspiration by translator Louise Landes Levi, Rasa<\/em> is a portal, a pathway to understanding the aesthetic theory underlying all Indian arts. As a musician, singer, poet, and writer, Levi has the unique affinity and experience to bring this work to light.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Barbara Framm, dance-master & exponent Bharata Natya & Odissi. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s good to see this pioneering paradigmatic classic on Sanskrit and Indian culture in print again. Louise Landes Levi deserves a medal!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Peter Lamborn Wilson, Temporary Autonomous Zone,
Pirate Utopias, Critique of the Image (editor).<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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translations are uniquely valuable
transcending ordinary literature.
breathing new life, reaching out,
disseminating \u2026
making the obscure comprehensible! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

first tibetan\/ english dictionary
alex. csoma koros 1834<\/p>\n\n\n\n

then sanskrit\/ english dictionary
monier- williams 1899
then tibetan\/ sanskrit\/ english dictionary
sarat chandra das 1889<\/p>\n\n\n\n

dictionaries
like birds whispering in our ears,
afford the luxury of clarity
to translators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

translators
make the unknown knowable
the subtle \u2026 clear \u2026
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that\u2019s why dear Louise Landes Levi and Rene Daumal are so important.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Paul Leake. <\/strong>
Tabla master, scholar<\/strong> and author<\/strong>:
SYMPTOMS OF BLISS<\/em>:  a book of poems\u2014forthcoming from Cool Grove Press<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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