In Dialogue with Classical Indian Traditions: Encounter, Transformation and Interpretation

ISBN-13: 9780367786724 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 282 str.

Brian Black; Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad

Opis

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.

Recenzje

‘This edited volume offers a number of case studies using theological, philosophical, and philological approaches to identify, interpret, and discuss dialogue in the literatures of ancient India. This is a timely topic, and the book includes a rich collection of approaches and traditions.’ – Knut A. Jacobsen, University of Bergen, Norway

Spis treści

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? Śaṃkara’s Treatment of the Bhāgavatas, J.G. Suthren Hirst  4 ‘We Resort to Reason’: The Argumentative Structure in Veṅkatòanātha’s Sesìvaramīmāmòsā, Elisa Freschi  5 ‘Speakers of Highest Truth’: Philosophical Plurilogues About Brahman in the Early Upaniṣads, Jessica Frazier  Part 2: Transformation  6 Outer and Inner Dialogues as Transformative Disciplines in the Yogavāsiṣṭha, James Madaio  7 Being Human, Dialogically, Lynn Thomas  8 Dialoguing the Vārkari 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 Mahābhārata Dialogues on Dharma and Devotion with Kṛṣṇa and Hanumān, Bruce M. Sullivan  12 Models of Royal Piety in the Mahābhārata: The Case of Vidura, Sanatsujāta and Vidurā, James M. Hegarty  13 Dialogue in Extremis: Vālin in the Vālmīki Rāmāyana, Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad;  Afterword, Laurie L. Patton

O autorze

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 Upaniṣads.

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 Gītā Commentaries. His most recent book is Human Being, Bodily Being: Phenomenology from Classical India.