Sucharita Adluri

Textual Authority in Classical Indian Thought (eBook, ePUB)

Ramanuja and the Vishnu Purana

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Theistic Vedanta originated with Ramanuja (1077-1157) was an initiate of the Srivaisnava sectarian tradition in South India. One of the processes by which the authority of the Srivaisnavas was consolidated was Ramanuja's synthesis of popular Hindu devotionalism with the philosophy of Vedanta.

This book demonstrates that by incorporating a text often thought to be of secondary importance - the Visnu Purana (1st-4th CE) - into his reading of the Upanisads, which were the standard of orthodoxy for Vedanta philosophy, Ramanuja was able to interpret Vedanta within the theistic context of Srivaisnavism. It contributes new insights to broader issues in religious studies such as canon expansion, commentarial interpretation, tradition-building, and the comparative study of scripture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317625261
• Artikelnr.: 41834711

Autorenporträt

Sucharita Adluri is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Comparative Religion at Cleveland State University. Her research interests include Sanskrit Commentary and Intellectual History and the History of Religions of South India.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. The Individual Self, Cosmology, and the Divine Body in the Ved
rthasägraha 3. Brahman, Individual Self, and Ignorance in the
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ya 4. S
khya-Yoga, K
a, and the Foremost Devotee in the Bhagavadg
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