Caitanya Vaisnava Philosophy

Informationen zum Autor Ravi M. Gupta holds the Charles Redd Chair of Religious Studies at Utah State University. He is the author of The Caitanya Vaiṣ�ava Vedānta of Jīva Gosvāmī: When Knowledge Meets Devotion (2007) and co-editor of The Bhāgavata Purā�a: Sacred Text and Living Tradition (2013). Ravi completed his doctorate in Hindu Studies at Oxford University and subsequently taught at the University of Florida! Centre College! and the College of William and Mary. He has received three teaching awards! as well as research fellowships at Linacre College and the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies. Klappentext Although only a handful of poetry is attributed to Caitanya, his devotional theology was expounded and systematized by his followers in a vast array of poetical, philosophical, and ritual literature. This book provides a thematic study of Caitanya Vaishnava philosophy, introducing key thinkers and ideas in the early tradition, using Sanskrit and Bengali sources that have seldom been studied in English. The book addresses major areas of the tradition, including epistemology, ontology, aesthetics, ethics, and history, and every chapter includes relevant readings from primary sources. Zusammenfassung Although only a handful of poetry is attributed to Caitanya, his devotional theology was expounded and systematized by his followers in a vast array of poetical, philosophical, and ritual literature. This book provides a thematic study of Caitanya Vaishnava philosophy, introducing key thinkers and ideas in the early tradition. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction, Kenneth R.Valpey; Chapter 1 Reading, Kenneth R.Valpey; Chapter 2 Epistemology and Ontology, Ravi M.Gupta; Chapter 3 Reading, KiyokazuOkita; Chapter 4 Epistemology and Ontology II, KiyokazuOkita; Chapter 5 Reading, Ravi M.Gupta; Chapter 6 Ethics and Practice, Joseph T.O Connell; Chapter 7 Reading, Graham M.Schweig; Chapter 8 Aesthetics, RembertLutjeharms; Chapter 9 Reading, RembertLutjeharms;...

Autorentext
Ravi M. Gupta holds the Charles Redd Chair of Religious Studies at Utah State University. He is the author of The Caitanya Vaiá¹£á¹ava Vedānta of JÄ«va GosvāmÄ«: When Knowledge Meets Devotion (2007) and co-editor of The Bhāgavata Purāá¹a: Sacred Text and Living Tradition (2013). Ravi completed his doctorate in Hindu Studies at Oxford University and subsequently taught at the University of Florida, Centre College, and the College of William and Mary. He has received three teaching awards, as well as research fellowships at Linacre College and the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies.

Klappentext

Although only a handful of poetry is attributed to Caitanya, his devotional theology was expounded and systematized by his followers in a vast array of poetical, philosophical, and ritual literature. This book provides a thematic study of Caitanya Vaishnava philosophy, introducing key thinkers and ideas in the early tradition,

Inhalt
Introduction, Kenneth R.Valpey; Chapter 1 Reading, Kenneth R.Valpey; Chapter 2 Epistemology and Ontology, Ravi M.Gupta; Chapter 3 Reading, KiyokazuOkita; Chapter 4 Epistemology and Ontology II, KiyokazuOkita; Chapter 5 Reading, Ravi M.Gupta; Chapter 6 Ethics and Practice, Joseph T.O'Connell; Chapter 7 Reading, Graham M.Schweig; Chapter 8 Aesthetics, RembertLutjeharms; Chapter 9 Reading, RembertLutjeharms;