In Dialogue with Classical Indian Traditions (eBook, ePUB)

Encounter, Transformation and Interpretation
Redaktion: Black, Brian; Ram-Prasad, Chakravarthi

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Dialogue is a recurring and significant component of Indian religious and philosophical literature. This book undertakes 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351011112
• Artikelnr.: 56831576

Autorenporträt

Brian Black is Lecturer in Religious Studies in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University, UK. His research interests include Indian religions, comparative philosophy, the use of dialogue in Indian religious and philosophical texts, and Hindu and Buddhist ethics. He is author of the book The Character of the Self in Ancient India: Priests, Kings, and Women in the Early Upani¿ads. Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad is Fellow of the British Academy, and Distinguished Professor of Comparative Religion and Philosophy at Lancaster University, UK. He has published several books, including Advaita Metaphysics and Epistemology, Knowledge and Liberation in Classical Indian Thought, and Divine Self, Human Self: The Philosophy of Being in Two G¿t¿ Commentaries. His most recent book is Human Being, Bodily Being: Phenomenology from Classical India.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, Brian Black and Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad Part 1: Encounter 1 Sources of Indian secularism? Dialogues on Politics and Religion in Hindu and Buddhist Traditions, Brian Black 2 Dialogues with Solitary Buddhas, Naomi Appleton 3 Refutation or Dialogue?
äkara's Treatment of the Bh
gavatas, J.G. Suthren Hirst 4 'We Resort to Reason': The Argumentative Structure in Ve
katòan
tha's Sesìvaram
m
mòs
, Elisa Freschi 5 'Speakers of Highest Truth': Philosophical Plurilogues About Brahman in the Early Upani
ads, Jessica Frazier Part 2: Transformation 6 Outer and Inner Dialogues as Transformative Disciplines in the Yogav
si
ha, James Madaio 7 Being Human, Dialogically, Lynn Thomas 8 Dialoguing the V
rkari Tradition, Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach 9 Convincing the King: Jain Ministers and Religious Persuasion through Dialogue, Jonathan Geen Part 3: Interpretation 10 Careful Attention and the Voice of Another, Maria Heim 11 Mah
bh
rata Dialogues on Dharma and Devotion with K
a and Hanum
n, Bruce M. Sullivan 12 Models of Royal Piety in the Mah
bh
rata: The Case of Vidura, Sanatsuj
ta and Vidur
, James M. Hegarty 13 Dialogue in Extremis: V
lin in the V
lm
ki R
m
yana, Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad; Afterword, Laurie L. Patton