Essays on Indian Philosophy

Essays on Indian Philosophy

Author: Jitendra Nath Mohanty

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13:

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This Collection Of Essays By Prof. J.N. Mohanty Traces His Reflections On Indian Philosophy And A Range Of Other Issues, Over A Span Of Forty Years.


American Indian Thought

American Indian Thought

Author: Anne Waters

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Published: 2003-12-02

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 9780631223047

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This book brings together a diverse group of American Indian thinkers to discuss traditional and contemporary philosophies and philosophical issues. Covers American Indian thinking on issues concerning time, place, history, science, law, religion, nationhood, and art. Features newly commissioned essays by authors of American Indian descent. Includes a comprehensive bibliography to aid in research and inspire further reading.


Hermeneutics and Tradition in the Saṃdhinirmocana-sūtra

Hermeneutics and Tradition in the Saṃdhinirmocana-sūtra

Author: John Powers

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 9789004098268

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This volume deals with the complex interrelationship between theories of scriptural interpretation and Buddhist notions of tradition and authority with respect to the Sam dhinirmocana-s tra, the main scriptural source of the Yogacara school of Indian Buddhism. Of particular concern is the political dimension of Buddhist thought as reflected in this text, speculation on how the sutra might have been written in order to influence power relations in the Buddhist community, and how its arguments are structured in accordance with Buddhist ideas of tradition and authority.This study looks at the text from a number of perspectives, including several current methodological models, philological analysis, and historical considerations. The purpose of this approach is to provide a multi-faceted analysis of this complex work.


Indian Philosophy in English

Indian Philosophy in English

Author: Nalini Bhushan

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2011-09-01

Total Pages: 673

ISBN-13: 0199773033

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This book publishes, for the first time in decades, and in many cases, for the first time in a readily accessible edition, English language philosophical literature written in India during the period of British rule. Bhushan's and Garfield's own essays on the work of this period contextualize the philosophical essays collected and connect them to broader intellectual, artistic and political movements in India. This volume yields a new understanding of cosmopolitan consciousness in a colonial context, of the intellectual agency of colonial academic communities, and of the roots of cross-cultural philosophy as it is practiced today. It transforms the canon of global philosophy, presenting for the first time a usable collection and a systematic study of Anglophone Indian philosophy. Many historians of Indian philosophy see a radical disjuncture between traditional Indian philosophy and contemporary Indian academic philosophy that has abandoned its roots amid globalization. This volume provides a corrective to this common view. The literature collected and studied in this volume is at the same time Indian and global, demonstrating that the colonial Indian philosophical communities were important participants in global dialogues, and revealing the roots of contemporary Indian philosophical thought. The scholars whose work is published here will be unfamiliar to many contemporary philosophers. But the reader will discover that their work is creative, exciting, and original, and introduces distinctive voices into global conversations. These were the teachers who trained the best Indian scholars of the post-Independence period. They engaged creatively both with the classical Indian tradition and with the philosophy of the West, forging a new Indian philosophical idiom to which contemporary Indian and global philosophy are indebted.


Essays in Indian Philosophy, Religion and Literature

Essays in Indian Philosophy, Religion and Literature

Author: Piotr Balcerowicz

Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 526

ISBN-13: 9788120819788

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The issues discussed in the essays pertain to various aspects of Indian culture. Analysis of the Vedic pantheon is juxtaposed with comparative approach to Indian mythology Examination of different historical and textual layers of vedic exegesis is enriched by reflection on sanskrit epics and Puranas. Insightful pursuance of various semantic development combined with Bhartrhari`s philosophy of language and complexities and are interwoven with on the one hand the question of reationality and philosophic discourse as reflected on Indian dialectical traditiona Ganeri, Shoryu katsura, Ernst Prets and the vedantic hermeneutics and with on the other the issue of individual freedom against the soteriological background.


Essays on Indian Philosophy

Essays on Indian Philosophy

Author: Raj Kumar

Publisher: Discovery Publishing House

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9788171417049

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Objective of this series of essays on Indian History and Culture is to select contributions which could interest, educate and inspire our readers. Attempt has been made to make available to our readers best literature written by renowned scholars, through the ages, to enable our students, teachers, policymakers and our general readers to analyse the themes, they are interested in, in proper historical perspectives. This will enable them to think, write and dream of a developed India of twenty first century. How far the study of our history, religion, culture, economy, philosophy, music, science, law, education, technology, trade, art, architecture, etc. can provide to us inputs for a bright brilliant and vibrant India, is one of the major concern of these volume. There is a crisis of character all around, how far this exercise in Indian History and Culture can stem the tide of corruption, criminalization of politics and ills of the consumerist culture is one of our aims in compiling this series of volumes.


Free Will, Agency, and Selfhood in Indian Philosophy

Free Will, Agency, and Selfhood in Indian Philosophy

Author: Matthew R. Dasti

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 019992273X

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Focusing on the rich and variegated cluster of Indic philosophical traditions as they developed from the late Vedic period up to the pre-modern period, this book offers an understanding, according to each school, of the nature of free will and agency.


Essays on Hinduism

Essays on Hinduism

Author: Karan Singh

Publisher: Ratna Sagar

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9788170701736

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Authored by Dr Karan Singh, the book discusses the basis of Hinduism, outlining the message of the Upanishads and the Bhagwad Gita.