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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 avhandlingar innehållade ordet indology.
1. The Textual History of Kavikumārāvadāna : The relations between the main texts, editions and translations
Sammanfattning : This study consists of three main parts. Part I contains introductory matter and a presentation of the manuscript material which contains stories about Kavikumāra, one of the Buddha’s earlier lives, and a rough classification of the material. LÄS MER
2. Engaging Advaita : Conceptualising liberating knowledge in the face of Western modernity
Sammanfattning : This dissertation is a study of modern Indian philosophy. It examines three engaging articulations of the Advaitic notion of liberating knowledge or brahmajñāna provided by three prominent Indian philosophers of the twentieth century, namely, Badrīnāth Śukla (1898-1988), Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya (1875-1949), and Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888-1975). LÄS MER
3. The Happening of tradition : Vallabha on Anumāna in Nyāyalīlāvatī
Sammanfattning : The present dissertation is a translation and analysis of the chapter on anumāna in Vallabha’s Nyāyalīlāvatī, based on certain theoretical considerations on cross-cultural translation and the understanding of tradition. Adopting a non-essentialized and non-historicist conceptualization of the Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika/Navya-nyāya tradition, the work focuses on a reading of the anumāna chapter that is particularized and individualized. LÄS MER
4. The Town Plan of Jaipur : Its Sources and Narrations
Sammanfattning : Jaipur’s town plan has been the subject of a multitude of suggestions regarding its origin. Jaipur was founded by Jaisingh II in 1727, and has since then been the capital of the State of Rajasthan, India. LÄS MER
5. Towards a New Language : Christology in Early Modern Marathi, Konkani, and Hindustani
Sammanfattning : This study examines the development of Christological discourses in Konkani, Marathi, and Hindustani in the 16th, 17th, and early 18th century. It explores a great deal of both Hindu and Christian sources, of which many are unedited and largely overlooked manuscripts. LÄS MER