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Puspika: Tracing Ancient India Through Texts and Traditions

Author : Giovanni Ciotti,Alastair Gornall,Paolo Visigalli
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 227 pages
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Release : 2014-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782974154

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Puspika: Tracing Ancient India Through Texts and Traditions by Giovanni Ciotti,Alastair Gornall,Paolo Visigalli Pdf

Puspika 2 is the outcome of the second International Indology Graduate Research Symposium and presents the results of recent research by young scholars into pre-modern South Asian cultures with papers covering a variety of topics related to the intellectual traditions of the region. Focusing on textual sources in the languages in which they were composed, different disciplinary perspectives are offered on intellectual history, linguistics, philosophy, literary criticism and religious studies.

Puṣpikā

Author : Robert Leach,Jessie Pons
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2015
Category : India
ISBN : 1782979395

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Puṣpikā by Robert Leach,Jessie Pons Pdf

Third volume of studies on the texts, languages and literary, philosophical and religious traditions of South Asia.

Puṣpikā: Tracing Ancient India Through Texts and Traditions

Author : Nina Mirnig,Peter-Daniel Szanto,Michael Williams
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782970446

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Puṣpikā: Tracing Ancient India Through Texts and Traditions by Nina Mirnig,Peter-Daniel Szanto,Michael Williams Pdf

It is perhaps commonplace to say that India is one of the world's richest and most enticing cultures. One thousand years have passed since Albiruni, arguably the first "Indologist", wrote his outsider's account of the subcontinent and two hundred years have passed since the inception of Western Indology. And yet, what this monumental scholarship has achieved is still outweighed by the huge tracts of terra incognita: thousands of works lacking scholarly attention and even more manuscripts which still await careful study whilst decaying in the unforgiving Indian climate. In September 2009 young researchers and graduate students in this field came together to present their cutting-edge work at the first International Indology Graduate Research Symposium, which was held at Oxford University. This volume, the first in a new series which will publish the proceedings of the Symposium, will make important contributions to the study of the classical civilisation of the Indian sub-continent. The series, edited by Nina Mirnig, Péter-Dániel Szántó and Michael Williams, will strive to cover a wide range of subjects reaching from literature, religion, philosophy, ritual and grammar to social history, with the aim that the research published will not only enrich the field of classical Indology but eventually also contribute to the studies of history and anthropology of India and Indianised Central and South-East Asia.

Pu?pik? V

Author : Heleene De Jonckheere,Marie-Hélène Gorisse,Agnieszka Rostalska
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789252859

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Pu?pik? V by Heleene De Jonckheere,Marie-Hélène Gorisse,Agnieszka Rostalska Pdf

This volume is the outcome of the Ninth International Indology Graduate Research Symposium held at Ghent University in September 2017, the fifth publication of proceedings from this series of symposiums. Like previous volumes, the current edition presents the results of recent research by early-career scholars into the texts, languages, as well as literary, philosophical and religious traditions of South Asia. The articles here collected offer a broad range of disciplinary perspectives on a wide array of subject. In addition, in the lines of the well-established tradition of research in Jainism at Ghent University, this edition has a more specific “Jains and the others” main theme. The purpose of such a theme is to contribute to determine the input of Jainism in the broader framework of South Asian traditions, as well as to invite the reader to think beyond boundaries of religious or cultural identity. In this dynamic, two papers deal with Jain adaptations of famous Puranic narratives and two others with the relation between textual tradition and soteriological practices in Jainism. In concert, other innovative papers elaborate on Puranic and k?vya literature, include technical discussions on linguistics and engage in philosophical studies. Finally, set in the historical context of the hosting institution, this volume opens with a history of Indology in Belgium.

Pu?pik?: Tracing Ancient India Through Texts and Traditions

Author : Robert Leach,Jessie Pons
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782979425

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Pu?pik?: Tracing Ancient India Through Texts and Traditions by Robert Leach,Jessie Pons Pdf

Puṣpikā 3 is the outcome of the third and fourth International Indology Graduate Research Symposiums held in Paris and Edinburgh in 2011 and 2012. This volume presents the results of recent research by early-career scholars into the texts, languages and literary, philosophical and religious traditions of South Asia. The articles offer a broad range of disciplinary perspectives on a wide array of subjects including classical and medieval philosophy, esoteric knowledge and practices in the Vedas, Kālidāsa's great poem Meghadūta ('The Cloud Messenger'), soteriology in a 17th century Jain text, identity, orality and the songs of the Bauls in 20th century Bengal, and Sanskrit pedagogy.

Pu?pik?: Tracing Ancient India Through Texts and Traditions

Author : Robert Leach,Jessie Pons
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782979401

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Pu?pik?: Tracing Ancient India Through Texts and Traditions by Robert Leach,Jessie Pons Pdf

Puṣpikā 3 is the outcome of the third and fourth International Indology Graduate Research Symposiums held in Paris and Edinburgh in 2011 and 2012. This volume presents the results of recent research by early-career scholars into the texts, languages and literary, philosophical and religious traditions of South Asia. The articles offer a broad range of disciplinary perspectives on a wide array of subjects including classical and medieval philosophy, esoteric knowledge and practices in the Vedas, Kālidāsa's great poem Meghadūta ('The Cloud Messenger'), soteriology in a 17th century Jain text, identity, orality and the songs of the Bauls in 20th century Bengal, and Sanskrit pedagogy.

Puṣpikā: Tracing Ancient India Through Texts and Traditions

Author : Heleene De Jonckheere,Marie-Hélène Gorisse,Agnieszka Rostalska
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789252835

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Puṣpikā: Tracing Ancient India Through Texts and Traditions by Heleene De Jonckheere,Marie-Hélène Gorisse,Agnieszka Rostalska Pdf

This volume is the outcome of the Ninth International Indology Graduate Research Symposium held at Ghent University in September 2017, the fifth publication of proceedings from this series of symposiums. Like previous volumes, the current edition presents the results of recent research by early-career scholars into the texts, languages, as well as literary, philosophical and religious traditions of South Asia. The articles here collected offer a broad range of disciplinary perspectives on a wide array of subject. In addition, in the lines of the well-established tradition of research in Jainism at Ghent University, this edition has a more specific “Jains and the others” main theme. The purpose of such a theme is to contribute to determine the input of Jainism in the broader framework of South Asian traditions, as well as to invite the reader to think beyond boundaries of religious or cultural identity. In this dynamic, two papers deal with Jain adaptations of famous Puranic narratives and two others with the relation between textual tradition and soteriological practices in Jainism. In concert, other innovative papers elaborate on Puranic and kāvya literature, include technical discussions on linguistics and engage in philosophical studies. Finally, set in the historical context of the hosting institution, this volume opens with a history of Indology in Belgium.

Puṣpikā: Tracing Ancient India Through Texts and Traditions

Author : Giovanni Ciotti,Alastair Gornall,Paolo Visigalli
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782974161

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Puṣpikā: Tracing Ancient India Through Texts and Traditions by Giovanni Ciotti,Alastair Gornall,Paolo Visigalli Pdf

Puspika 2 is the outcome of the second International Indology Graduate Research Symposium and presents the results of recent research by young scholars into pre-modern South Asian cultures with papers covering a variety of topics related to the intellectual traditions of the region. Focusing on textual sources in the languages in which they were composed, different disciplinary perspectives are offered on intellectual history, linguistics, philosophy, literary criticism and religious studies.

Puspika: Tracing Ancient India Through Texts and Traditions

Author : Nina Mirnig,Peter-Daniel Szanto,Michael Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2013-12-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1842173855

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Puspika: Tracing Ancient India Through Texts and Traditions by Nina Mirnig,Peter-Daniel Szanto,Michael Williams Pdf

It is perhaps commonplace to say that India is one of the world's richest and most enticing cultures. One thousand years have passed since Albiruni, arguably the first "Indologist", wrote his outsider's account of the subcontinent and two hundred years have passed since the inception of Western Indology. And yet, what this monumental scholarship has achieved is still outweighed by the huge tracts of terra incognita: thousands of works lacking scholarly attention and even more manuscripts which still await careful study whilst decaying in the unforgiving Indian climate. In September 2009 young researchers and graduate students in this field came together to present their cutting-edge work at the first International Indology Graduate Research Symposium, which was held at Oxford University. This volume, the first in a new series which will publish the proceedings of the Symposium, will make important contributions to the study of the classical civilisation of the Indian sub-continent. The series, edited by Nina Mirnig, Péter-Dániel Szántó and Michael Williams, will strive to cover a wide range of subjects reaching from literature, religion, philosophy, ritual and grammar to social history, with the aim that the research published will not only enrich the field of classical Indology but eventually also contribute to the studies of history and anthropology of India and Indianised Central and South-East Asia.

Puspika: Tracing Ancient India Through Texts and Traditions

Author : Nina Mirnig,Peter-Daniel Szanto,Michael Williams
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781842173855

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Puspika: Tracing Ancient India Through Texts and Traditions by Nina Mirnig,Peter-Daniel Szanto,Michael Williams Pdf

It is perhaps commonplace to say that India is one of the world's richest and most enticing cultures. One thousand years have passed since Albiruni, arguably the first "Indologist", wrote his outsider's account of the subcontinent and two hundred years have passed since the inception of Western Indology. And yet, what this monumental scholarship has achieved is still outweighed by the huge tracts of terra incognita: thousands of works lacking scholarly attention and even more manuscripts which still await careful study whilst decaying in the unforgiving Indian climate. In September 2009 young researchers and graduate students in this field came together to present their cutting-edge work at the first International Indology Graduate Research Symposium, which was held at Oxford University. This volume, the first in a new series which will publish the proceedings of the Symposium, will make important contributions to the study of the classical civilisation of the Indian sub-continent. The series, edited by Nina Mirnig, Péter-Dániel Szántó and Michael Williams, will strive to cover a wide range of subjects reaching from literature, religion, philosophy, ritual and grammar to social history, with the aim that the research published will not only enrich the field of classical Indology but eventually also contribute to the studies of history and anthropology of India and Indianised Central and South-East Asia.

The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Emotions in Classical Indian Philosophy

Author : Maria Heim,Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad,Roy Tzohar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350167797

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The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Emotions in Classical Indian Philosophy by Maria Heim,Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad,Roy Tzohar Pdf

Drawing on a rich variety of premodern Indian texts across multiple traditions, genres, and languages, this collection explores how emotional experience is framed, evoked, and theorized in order to offer compelling insights into human subjectivity. Rather than approaching emotion through the prism of Western theory, a team of leading scholars of Indian traditions showcases the literary texture, philosophical reflections, and theoretical paradigms that classical Indian sources provide in their own right. The focus is on how the texts themselves approach those dimensions of the human condition we may intuitively think of as being about emotion, without pre-judging what that might be. The result is a collection that reveals the range and diversity of phenomena that benefit from being gathered under the formal term “emotion”, but which in fact open up what such theorisation, representation, and expression might contribute to a cross-cultural understanding of this term. In doing so, these chapters contribute to a cosmopolitan, comparative, and pluralistic conception of human experience. Adopting a broad phenomenological methodology, this handbook reframes debates on emotion within classical Indian thought and is an invaluable resource for researchers and students seeking to understand the field beyond the Western tradition.

Rewriting Buddhism

Author : Alastair Gornall
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787355156

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Rewriting Buddhism by Alastair Gornall Pdf

Rewriting Buddhism is the first intellectual history of premodern Sri Lanka’s most culturally productive period. This era of reform (1157–1270) shaped the nature of Theravada Buddhism both in Sri Lanka and also Southeast Asia and even today continues to define monastic intellectual life in the region. Alastair Gornall argues that the long century’s literary productivity was not born of political stability, as is often thought, but rather of the social, economic and political chaos brought about by invasions and civil wars. Faced with unprecedented uncertainty, the monastic community sought greater political autonomy, styled itself as royal court, and undertook a series of reforms, most notably, a purification and unification in 1165 during the reign of Parakramabahu I. He describes how central to the process of reform was the production of new forms of Pali literature, which helped create a new conceptual and social coherence within the reformed community; one that served to preserve and protect their religious tradition while also expanding its reach among the more fragmented and localized elites of the period.

In Dialogue with Classical Indian Traditions

Author : Brian Black,Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351011112

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In Dialogue with Classical Indian Traditions by Brian Black,Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad Pdf

Dialogue is a recurring and significant component of Indian religious and philosophical literature. Whether it be as a narrative account of a conversation between characters within a text, as an implied response or provocation towards an interlocutor outside the text, or as a hermeneutical lens through which commentators and modern audiences can engage with an ancient text, dialogue features prominently in many of the most foundational sources from classical India. Despite its ubiquity, there are very few studies that explore this important facet of Indian texts. This book redresses this imbalance by undertaking a close textual analysis of a range of religious and philosophical literature to highlight the many uses and functions of dialogue in the sources themselves and in subsequent interpretations. Using the themes of encounter, transformation and interpretation – all of which emerged from face-to-face discussions between the contributors of this volume – each chapter explores dialogue in its own context, thereby demonstrating the variety and pervasiveness of dialogue in different genres of the textual tradition. This is a rich and detailed study that offers a fresh and timely perspective on many of the most well-known and influential sources from classical India. As such, it will be of great use to scholars of religious studies, Asian studies, comparative literature and literary theory.

The Ocean of Inquiry

Author : Michael S. Allen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780197638958

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The Ocean of Inquiry by Michael S. Allen Pdf

"Advaita Vedåanta is one of the best-known schools of Indian philosophy, but much of its history-a history closely interwoven with that of medieval and modern Hinduism-remains surprisingly unexplored. This book focuses on a single remarkable work and its place within that history: The Ocean of Inquiry, a vernacular compendium of Advaita Vedåanta by the North Indian monk Niâscaldåas (ca. 1791 - 1863). Though not well known today, Niâscaldåas's work was once referred to by Vivekananda (himself a key figure in the shaping of modern Hinduism) as the most influential book in India. The present book situates The Ocean of Inquiry as a representative of both a neglected genre (vernacular Vedåanta) and a neglected period (ca. 17th-19th centuries) in the history of Indian philosophy. It argues that the rise of Advaita Vedåanta to a position of prestige began well before the period of British rule in India, and that vernacular texts like The Ocean of Inquiry played an important role in popularizing Vedåantic teachings. It also offers a new appraisal of the period of late Advaita Vedåanta, arguing that it should not be seen as one of barren scholasticism. For thinkers like Niâscaldåas, intellectual "inquiry" (vicåara) was not an academic exercise but a spiritual practice-indeed, it was the central practice on the path to liberation. The book concludes by arguing that without understanding both vernacular Vedåanta and the scholasticism of the period, one cannot fully understand the emergence of modern Hinduism"--

A Buddhist Ritual Manual on Agriculture

Author : Gergely Hidas
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9783110620498

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A Buddhist Ritual Manual on Agriculture by Gergely Hidas Pdf

This volume is the first in-depth study of a recently discovered Sanskrit dharani spell text from around the 5th century CE surviving in two palm-leaf and three paper manuscript compendia from Nepal. This rare Buddhist scripture focuses on the ritual practice of thaumaturgic weather control for successful agriculture through overpowering mythical Nagas. Traditionally, these serpentine beings are held responsible for the amount of rainfall. The six chapters of the Vajratundasamayakalparaja present the vidyadhara spell-master as a ritualist who uses mandalas, mudras and other techniques to gain mastery over the Nagas and thus control the rains. By subjugating the Nagas, favourable weather and good crops are guaranteed. This links this incantation tradition to economic power and the securing of worldly support for the Buddhist community.