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Om-Shanti: Studie en Academie Materiaal
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I Am (K)Not the Body
by
Pradeep Apte
Introduction
I had a collection of handwritten notes that were prepared while going through two books, the ‘Guru Vachaka Kovai’ (the garland of Guru’s sayings) and ‘Padamalai’. These are teachings of Bhagwan Sri Ramana Maharshi recorded in Tamil verse by his disciple Muruganar made generously available to the whole world in English by Mr. David Godman and his team. I had the feeling ‘I am not the body’ when I held these books in hand even before I had read them. Thus I started taking down notes with this idea in mind and this collection is the outcome of that effort. This soft copy was only recently prepared as I felt that many spiritual aspirants may find them useful as I did.
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Om-Shanti: Studie en Academie Materiaal
Boekbespreking Vedas
Embodying the Vedas
Traditional Vedic Schools of Contemporary
Maharashtra. De Gruyter 2017
Borayin Larios
This book probes the backbone of what makes Hinduism the world’s oldest living tradition: the unbroken chain of transmission of Vedic texts composed over 3,000 years ago, originating circa 1750-1200 BCE. What does the process of that transmission look like? What does it take to apprentice to learn the Vedic corpus? Why is there an emphasis on precise ritual enunciation of these utterances even above and beyond their semantic meaning? Join me as I talk with Dr. Borayin Larios, Assistant Professor at the Institute for South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies (Vienna) about his work on the traditional “gurukula” education and training of Brahmins. Based on his study of 25 contemporary Vedic schools across the state of Maharashtra, we discover how contemporary Brahmin males learn with scrupulous care how to recite, memorize and ultimately embody the Vedas.
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Pradyumna
Lover, Magician and Scion of the
Avatara, Oxford University Press 2019
Christopher Austin
This is the first sustained study of an important figure in Hindu narrative, one largely obscure to readers and scholars alike: Krsna's son Pradyumna. In this book Austin traces the evolution of Pradyumna's persona, placing it in historical context, across its iterations over time. He highlights the very gendered features of Pradyumna's Oedipal tale.
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The Goddess and the Sun in Indian Myth
Power, Preservation and Mirrored Mahatmyas
in the Markandeya Purana, Routledge 2020
Raj Balkaran
Why are the myths of the Indian Great Goddess, Durgā, found in the Mārkandeya Purāna framed by myths glorifying the Sun, Sūrya? And why do these glorifications mirror each other in both content and form? In exploring these questions, this book argues for an ideological ecosystem at work in the Mārkandeya Purāna privileging worldly (pravrtti) values, of which Indian kings, the Goddess (Devī), the Sun (Sūrya) and sage Mārkandeya himself are paragons.
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The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Vedanta
Bloomsbury Academic 2020
Ayon Maharaj
This book brings together a distinguished team of scholars from philosophy, theology, and religious studies to provide the first in-depth discussion of Vedanta and the many different systems of thought that make up this tradition of Indian philosophy. Emphasizing the historical development of Vedantic thought, it includes chapters on numerous classical Vedantic philosophies as well as the modern Vedantic views of Sri Ramakrishna, Sri Aurobindo, and Romain Rolland. The volume offers careful hermeneutic analyses of how Vedantic texts have been interpreted, and it addresses key issues and debates in Vedanta, including religious diversity, the nature of God, and the possibility of embodied liberation. Venturing into cross-philosophical and cross-cultural territory, it also brings Vedanta into dialogue with Saiva Nondualism as well as contemporary Western analytic philosophy. Highlighting current scholarly controversies and charting new paths of inquiry, this is an indispensable research guide for anyone interested in the past, present, and future of Vedanta and Indian philosophy.
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Maya in the Bhagavata Purana
Human Suffering and Divine Play
Oxford University Press 2020
Gopal K. Gupta
The idea of Maya pervades Indian philosophy. It is enigmatic, multivalent, and foundational, with its oldest referents found in the Rig Veda. This book explores Maya's rich conceptual history, and then focuses on the highly developed theology of Maya found in the Sanskrit Bhagavata Purana, one of the most important Hindu sacred texts. Gupta examines Maya's role in the Bhagavata's narratives, paying special attention to its relationship with other key concepts in the text, such as human suffering (duhkha), devotion (bhakti), and divine play (lila). In the Bhagavata, Maya is often identified as the divine feminine, and has a far-reaching influence. For example, Maya is both the world and the means by which God creates the world, as well as the facilitator of God's play, paradoxically revealing him to his devotees by concealing his majesty. While Vedanta philosophy typically sees Maya as a negative force, the Bhagavata affirms that Maya also has a positive role, as Maya is ultimately meant to draw living beings toward Krishna and intensify their devotion to him.
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The Skandapurana Project
The Varáha Cycle and the Andhaka Cycle Continued
Vol. V Adhyayas 96 - 112, Brill 2021
Peter Christiaan Bisschop and Yuko Yokochi
This interview features the authors and their work on the monumental Skandapurāna project. Started in the 1990's, the project is aimed at creating a critical edition of the Skandapurāna along with documenting its variations over time as well producing important studies of the text. Their latest installment of this project (Volume 5, featuring Chapters 92-112 of the Skandapurāna, with an introduction and annotated English synopsis) addresses the incorporation of Vaisnava mythology in the text.
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The Visnu Purana
Ancient Annals of the God with Lotus Eyes
Australian National University 2021
McComas Taylor
Listen in as we speak with McComas Taylor (Associate Professor and Reader in Sanskrit, The Australian National University) about his brand-new translation of the Visnu Purāna. This is the second time the Visnu Purāna has been translated into English, the last time being nearly two centuries ago. Attentive to out the aesthetics of out-loud utterance, this beautiful translation is in blank-verse, faithful to the original Sanskrit, and available Open Access. We also speak about the World Sanskrit Conference, an upcoming Sanskrit Narrative volume, and studying Sanskrit online with McComas Taylor.
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First Words, Last Words
New Theories for Reading Old Texts in Sixteenth
Century India, Oxford University Press, USA 2021
Yigal Bronner and Lawrence J. McCrea
This book charts an intense “pamphlet war” that took place in sixteenth-century South India. The authors explore this controversy as a case study in the dynamics of innovation in early modern India, a time of great intellectual innovation. This debate took place within the traditional discourses of Vedic Hermeneutics and its increasingly influential sibling discipline of Vedanta, and its proponents among the leading intellectuals and public figures of the period. This book traces both the issue of sequence and the question of innovation through an in-depth study of this debate and through a comparative survey of similar problems in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, revealing that the disputants in this controversy often pretended to uphold traditional views, when they were in fact radically innovative.
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