MLARTC_FM.part 1.qxp

Although late, the Dhanur Vedic text in Agni Puranaprovides us with an important record of the earlier technical system of marti ...

Beginning with the noblest of weapons (bow and arrow), the text de- scribes practical techniques. There are ten lower-body poses ...

In keeping with the encyclopedic nature of the puranas, other sections of the Agni Puranainclude information related to the use ...

sourcebooks or written records of knowledge (traditionally palm-leaf grandam [manuscripts]), weapons, and the gurukkal(masters; ...

Madras University library manuscript collection), and a few have appeared in print, such as Rangabhyasam(published by the Madras ...

skritized texts, like Marmmayogam,that are the kalarippayattu practi- tioner’s handbook of empty-hand practical fighting applica ...

below the nipple, but the lack of a standard measure corresponding to the name in the text would mean that an experienced practi ...

Hart, George L. 1975. The Poems of Ancient Tamil: Their Milieu and Their Sanskrit Counterparts.Berkeley: University of Californi ...

that it defies all attempts at simple characterization. The production of mar- tial literature began with early chronicles and a ...

The following survey of Japanese martial art literature, therefore, is of necessity somewhat tentative. It concentrates on works ...

experiences and systematized their fighting arts remain our best sources for understanding the development and essential charact ...

ture of heroes and villains, these tales continue to entertain and to provide story lines for creative retellings in theater, pu ...

(1572–1662). Kôyô gunkanconsists of various texts that purport to record details of the military organization, tactics, training ...

of them have been published (see reprints in Imamura 1982, etc.; Sasamori 1965). These documents provide the most detailed and t ...

The earliest extant martial art treatises are Heihô kadensho [56] (Our Fam- ily’s Tradition of Swordsmanship, 1632) by Yagyû Mun ...

inkblots within which modern readers (businessmen, perhaps) can discover many possible meanings. Many other formerly secret mart ...

of imperturbability, the immovable wisdom that allows the mind to move freely, with spontaneity and flexibility, even in the fac ...

the development of a strong military (kyôhei [87]). In 1891, it ordered compulsory training in European-style military calisthen ...

See alsoArchery, Japanese; Budô, Bujutsu, and Bugei; Japan; Kendô; Koryû Bugei, Japanese; Religion and Spiritual Development: Ja ...

Suzuki, Daisetz T. 1959. Zen and Japanese Culture.Rev. ed. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Takano Sasaburô. 1984. Kendô.1 ...