Book Description
Felicitation volume honoring Ludwik Sternbach, Indologist, b. 1909, on the occasion of his 70th birthday; includes contributors' bio-data.
Author : Jagdamba Prasad Sinha
Publisher :
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 16,98 MB
Release : 1979
Category : India
ISBN :
Felicitation volume honoring Ludwik Sternbach, Indologist, b. 1909, on the occasion of his 70th birthday; includes contributors' bio-data.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 27,93 MB
Release : 1979
Category : India
ISBN :
Felicitation volume honoring Ludwik Sternbach, Indologist, b. 1909, on the occasion of his 70th birthday; includes contributors' bio-data.
Author : Jagdamba Prasad Sinha
Publisher :
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 15,31 MB
Release : 1979
Category : India
ISBN :
Felicitation volume honoring Ludwik Sternbach, Indologist, b. 1909, on the occasion of his 70th birthday; includes contributors' bio-data.
Author : Heinrich von Stietencron
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 1116 pages
File Size : 15,12 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Epic literature
ISBN : 9783447030281
Author : Cristina Scherrer-Schaub
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 23,73 MB
Release : 2012-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9004155171
An enquiry into secular and religious Old Tibetan documents from Central Asia and Tibet. The material is critically examined from different perspectives, focussing on classical disciplines (history, linguistics, lexicography, philology, codicology and diplomacy).
Author : Helaine Selin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1172 pages
File Size : 25,73 MB
Release : 1997-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780792340669
The Encyclopaedia fills a gap in both the history of science and in cultural stud ies. Reference works on other cultures tend either to omit science completely or pay little attention to it, and those on the history of science almost always start with the Greeks, with perhaps a mention of the Islamic world as a trans lator of Greek scientific works. The purpose of the Encyclopaedia is to bring together knowledge of many disparate fields in one place and to legitimize the study of other cultures' science. Our aim is not to claim the superiority of other cultures, but to engage in a mutual exchange of ideas. The Western aca demic divisions of science, technology, and medicine have been united in the Encyclopaedia because in ancient cultures these disciplines were connected. This work contributes to redressing the balance in the number of reference works devoted to the study of Western science, and encourages awareness of cultural diversity. The Encyclopaedia is the first compilation of this sort, and it is testimony both to the earlier Eurocentric view of academia as well as to the widened vision of today. There is nothing that crosses disciplinary and geographic boundaries, dealing with both scientific and philosophical issues, to the extent that this work does. xi PERSONAL NOTE FROM THE EDITOR Many years ago I taught African history at a secondary school in Central Africa.
Author : H W Bodewitz
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 16,42 MB
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9004645721
Author : Julius Lipner
Publisher : Calgary : Bayeux
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 31,20 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Bhagavad-gita
ISBN : 9781896209302
Elegant essays by eminent scholars discussing the Gita as a living, dynamic text.
Author : Patrick Olivelle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 35,97 MB
Release : 2017-12-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0191007099
Through pointed studies of important aspects and topics of dharma in Dharmaśāstra, this comprehensive collection shows that the history of Hinduism cannot be written without the history of Hindu law. Part One provides a concise overview of the literary genres in which Dharmasastra was written with attention to chronology and historical developments. This study divides the tradition into its two major historical periods--the origins and formation of the classical texts and the later genres of commentary and digest--in order to provide a thorough, but manageable overview of the textual bases of the tradition. Part Two presents descriptive and historical studies of all the major substantive topics of Dharmasastra. Each chapter offers readers with salest knowledge of the debates, transformations, and fluctcating importance of each topic. Indirectly, readers will also gain insight into the ethos or worldview of religious law in Hinduism, enabling them to get a feel for how dharma authors thought and why. Part Three contains brief studies of the impact and reception of Dharmasastra in other South Asian cultural and textual traditions. Finally, Part Four draws inspiration from "critical terms" in contemporary legal and religious studies to analyze Dharmasastra texts. Contributors offer interpretive views of Dharmasastra that start from hermeneutic and social concerns today.
Author : Franco
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 745 pages
File Size : 11,47 MB
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9004457585
Wilhelm Halbfass, philosopher and Indologist, is a committed participant in the dialogue between India and Europe, whose reflections on the Indian tradition and its Western perception are accompanied by reflection on and critical examination of the Western tradition. In this innovative combination of Indological research and philosophical-hermeneutical research in the history of ideas, he demonstrates a purpose more ambitious and a scope wider than Edward Said's who constructed the Western study of the so-called Orient as an attempt to deprive it of its identity and sovereignty, and who perceived the pursuit of Oriental Studies in Western universities to be an extension of a fundamentally political will to power and domination. Without denying the domination of the dialogue between India and Europe by the West, Halbfass goes beyond that to show a different way of approaching Indian thought; he strives to establish the presuppositions and prerequisites that would make a true dialogue and mutual understanding between Indian and Western intellectual cultures possible. The papers in the present volume originate from twenty-three scholars of Indology, philosophy, religious studies, comparative theology, classics, folkloristics and political theory, working in eleven countries spread over three continents. They address central issues of Halbfass' work; his critical responses to them commence with an extensive essay in which he assesses in a masterly manner the state of Indian studies almost twenty years after the publication of Said's Orientalismz.