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Author: Oliver Hector de Alwis Wijesekera Publisher: ISBN: Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 400
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ABOUT THE BOOK:The author is an acknowledged Indologist, from Sri Lanka to win international recognition for his scholarly contributions to Vedic Studies and Buddhism. In the essays brought together in this volume, he discusses various aspects of the
Author: Oliver Hector de Alwis Wijesekera Publisher: ISBN: Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 400
Book Description
ABOUT THE BOOK:The author is an acknowledged Indologist, from Sri Lanka to win international recognition for his scholarly contributions to Vedic Studies and Buddhism. In the essays brought together in this volume, he discusses various aspects of the
Author: Daniel Anderson Arnold Publisher: Columbia University Press ISBN: 9780231132817 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 332
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In Buddhists, Brahmins, and Belief, Dan Arnold examines how the Brahmanical tradition of Purva Mimamsa and the writings of the seventh-century Buddhist Madhyamika philosopher Candrakirti challenged dominant Indian Buddhist views of epistemology. Arnold retrieves these two very different but equally important voices of philosophical dissent, showing them to have developed highly sophisticated and cogent critiques of influential Buddhist epistemologists such as Dignaga and Dharmakirti. His analysis--developed in conversation with modern Western philosophers like William Alston and J. L. Austin--offers an innovative reinterpretation of the Indian philosophical tradition, while suggesting that pre-modern Indian thinkers have much to contribute to contemporary philosophical debates. In logically distinct ways, Purva Mimamsa and Candrakirti's Madhyamaka opposed the influential Buddhist school of thought that emphasized the foundational character of perception. Arnold argues that Mimamsaka arguments concerning the "intrinsic validity" of the earliest Vedic scriptures are best understood as a critique of the tradition of Buddhist philosophy stemming from Dignaga. Though often dismissed as antithetical to "real philosophy," Mimamsaka thought has affinities with the reformed epistemology that has recently influenced contemporary philosophy of religion. Candrakirti's arguments, in contrast, amount to a principled refusal of epistemology. Arnold contends that Candrakirti marshals against Buddhist foundationalism an approach that resembles twentieth-century ordinary language philosophy--and does so by employing what are finally best understood as transcendental arguments. The conclusion that Candrakirti's arguments thus support a metaphysical claim represents a bold new understanding of Madhyamaka.
Author: Richard Francis Gombrich Publisher: Equinox Publishing (UK) ISBN: Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 262
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Argues that the Buddha was one of the most brilliant and original thinkers of all time. This book intends to serve as an introduction to the Buddha's thought, and hence even to Buddhism itself. It also argues that we can know far more about the Buddha than it is fashionable among scholars to admit.
Author: Alexander Wynne Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134097417 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 171
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Based on the early Brahminic literature, the author asserts the origin of the method of meditation learned by the Buddha from his two teachers and identifies some authentic teachings of the Buddha on meditation.
Author: Beni Madhab Barua Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe ISBN: 9788120807969 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 488
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The present work is designed to survey the evolution of philosophical thought in the Vedic and post-Vedic periods preceding the rise of Jainism and Buddhism. The author has traced up the development of early Indian philosophy on divergent lines on the basis of the Rgveda, Atharvaveda, Aranyakas, the older Upanisads and the allied literature. The author has exploited the original Indian sources and in defiance of several scholiasts has proved that the process of early Indian thought evolution is neither unscientific nor unsystematic. The work throws abundant light upon a very obscure and highly important period of Indian thought. It is also a very useful study for ascertaining the immediate background of Buddhistic philosophy.
Author: Rita Langer Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134158734 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 256
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Drawing on early Vedic sutras and Pali texts as well as archaeological and epigraphical material, this book provides a thorough analysis of the rituals and social customs surrounding death in the Theravada tradition of Sri Lanka.
Author: Andrew J. Nicholson Publisher: Columbia University Press ISBN: 0231149875 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 282
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Some postcolonial theorists argue that the idea of a single system of belief known as "Hinduism" is a creation of nineteenth-century British imperialists. Andrew J. Nicholson introduces another perspective: although a unified Hindu identity is not as ancient as some Hindus claim, it has its roots in innovations within South Asian philosophy from the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries. During this time, thinkers treated the philosophies of Vedanta, Samkhya, and Yoga, along with the worshippers of Visnu, Siva, and Sakti, as belonging to a single system of belief and practice. Instead of seeing such groups as separate and contradictory, they re-envisioned them as separate rivers leading to the ocean of Brahman, the ultimate reality. Drawing on the writings of philosophers from late medieval and early modern traditions, including Vijnanabhiksu, Madhava, and Madhusudana Sarasvati, Nicholson shows how influential thinkers portrayed Vedanta philosophy as the ultimate unifier of diverse belief systems. This project paved the way for the work of later Hindu reformers, such as Vivekananda, Radhakrishnan, and Gandhi, whose teachings promoted the notion that all world religions belong to a single spiritual unity. In his study, Nicholson also critiques the way in which Eurocentric concepts—like monism and dualism, idealism and realism, theism and atheism, and orthodoxy and heterodoxy—have come to dominate modern discourses on Indian philosophy.
Author: Herman W. Tull Publisher: State University of New York Press ISBN: 143842244X Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 196
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In this book, the author seeks access to Karma's origins by following several clues suggested by the doctrine's earliest formulation in the Upanistexts (circa 600-500 B.C.) These clues lead back to the mythical and ritual structures firmly established in the Brahmana texts, texts concerned with the rituals that chronologically and conceptually precede the UpanisThe rise of the karma doctrine is tied to the increasing dominance in late Vedic thought of the cosmic man (Purusa/Prajapati) mythology and its ritual analogue the "building of the fire altar" (agnicayana).
Author: Richard K. Payne Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199351589 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 449
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Throughout human history, and across many religious cultures, offerings are made into fire. The essays collected in Homa Variations provide detailed studies of this practice, known in the tantric world as the "homa," from its inception up to the present.
Author: Oliver Hector de Alwis Wijesekera
Author: Oliver Hector de Alwis Wijesekera
Author: Daniel Anderson Arnold
Author: Richard Francis Gombrich
Author: Alexander Wynne
Author: L. Cousins
Author: Beni Madhab Barua
Author: Rita Langer
Author: Andrew J. Nicholson
Author: Herman W. Tull
Author: Richard K. Payne