Buch, Englisch, Band 28, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 680 g
A Compendium of Studies on South Asian Culture, Philosophy, and Religion Dedicated to Dominik Wujastyk
Buch, Englisch, Band 28, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 680 g
Reihe: Studia Indolgica Universitatis Halensis
ISBN: 978-3-86977-265-3
Verlag: Universitätsverlag Halle-Wittenberg
This edited volume brings together thirteen studies on South Asian intellectual and cultural history from the beginning of the common era to the present day. The multi-disciplinarity and vitality of the academic fields of Indology and South Asian Studies are on full display from chapter to chapter, as leading scholars ask new questions and propose new methods to explore critical topics in their respective fields, including the relationship of the Gandhari and Sanskrit languages, bird divination in Indian and cross-cultural contexts, the world view and ethics of early Ayurveda, line drawings in alchemical Sanskrit manuscripts, cannabis in traditional alchemy (Rasasastra), deontic logic and terminological problems in Mima?sa and Dharmasastra, the identification of an obscure Yoga work referenced in the commentarial literature of the Mahabharata, psychological transformation and spiritual liberation in Patañjala Yoga and Buddhism, Sanskrit editorial techniques and the history of printing, the human genome project and the Mahabharata’s text genealogy, and, finally, the academic pedagogy of contemporary medical anthropology. The time-tested method of analyzing primary sources in Sanskrit and Middle-Indo-Arian languages within their culture-specific historical contexts is fertilized by neuroscience, psychology, evolutionary biology, and anthropology. In its thematic and methodological diversity, the volume, which concludes with a list of Dominik Wujastyk’s works and three indexes, mirrors the broad range of academic interests and expertise of the scholar to whom it is dedicated.
