The Evolution of the Samkhya School of Thought

The Evolution of the Samkhya School of Thought

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  • Author: Anima Sen Gupta
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  • Category : Philosophy, Indic
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 188


The Evolution of the Sāṃkhya School of Thought

The Evolution of the Sāṃkhya School of Thought

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  • Author: Anima Sen Gupta
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  • ISBN: 9780836423198
  • Category : Philosophy, Hindu
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 184


The Samkhya System, a History of the Samkhya Philosophy

The Samkhya System, a History of the Samkhya Philosophy

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  • Author: Arthur Berriedale Keith
  • Publisher: Andesite Press
  • ISBN: 9781297525650
  • Category : Sankhya
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 118

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Classical Sāṃkhya

Classical Sāṃkhya

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  • Author: Gerald James Larson
  • Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
  • ISBN: 9788120805033
  • Category : Hindu philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 338

The tradition of Samkhya is one of the oldest and most influential in the intellectual history of India. The fundamental notions of Samkhya namely prakrti, purusa, buddhi, ahamkara, manas and the three gunas provided the conceptual framework in which much of Indian philosophizing occurred, and the classical formulations of Yoga and Vedanta together with many traditions of Buddhist philosophy and meditation developed vis-a-vis the intellectual perspective of the Samkhya. Similarly on a general cultural level the influence of Samkhya was profound and important over many centuries in such areas as law, medicine, ancient science and mathematics, logic, mythology, cosmology and ritual. This study traces the history of the Samkhya not only in the Indian intellectual tradition, but also in the traditions of historical criticism. The book also offers a new interpretation of the philosophical significance of the Samkhya, with special reference to the classical interpretation of the interaction of prakrti and purusa. In this edition author has also included a Chart of the Twenty-five Basic Principles of the Samkhya, a Glossary of Samkhya Terminology, an additional Appendix which surveys recent scholarly work in the area of Samkhya together with a discussion of Samkhya in the Purana-s and a revised Bibliography.


A History of Indian Philosophy

A History of Indian Philosophy

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  • Author: Surendranath Dasgupta
  • Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
  • ISBN: 9788120804128
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 532

The work appears in five volumes. Vol. I comprises Buddhist and Jaina Philosophy and the six systems of Hindu thought, viz.., Samkhya, Yoga, Nyaya, Vaisesika, Mimamsa and Vedanta. It also contains the philosophy of the Yogavasistha, the Bhagavadgita and speculations in the medical schools. Vol. III contains an elaborate account of the Principal Dualistic and Pluralistic Systems such as the philosophy of the Pancaratra, Bhaskara, Yamuna, Ramanuja, Nimbarka, Vijnanabhiksu and philosophical speculations of some of the selected Puranas. Vol. IV deals with the Bhagavata Purana, Madhva and his School, Vallabha, Caitanya, Jiva Gosvami and Baladeva Vidyabhusana. Vol. V treats the Southern Schools of Saivism, viz., Saiva Siddhanta, Vira Saivism, philosophy of Srikantha. Saiva Philosophy in the Puranas and in some important texts. In the words of the Oxford Journal 'the collection of data, editing and the interpretation of every school of thought is a feat unparalleled in the field of history of philosophy.'


History of Indian Philosophy

History of Indian Philosophy

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  • Author: Purushottama Bilimoria
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1317356179
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 612

The History of Indian Philosophy is a comprehensive and authoritative examination of the movements and thinkers that have shaped Indian philosophy over the last three thousand years. An outstanding team of international contributors provide fifty-eight accessible chapters, organised into three clear parts: knowledge, context, concepts philosophical traditions engaging and encounters: modern and postmodern. This outstanding collection is essential reading for students of Indian philosophy. It will also be of interest to those seeking to explore the lasting significance of this rich and complex philosophical tradition, and to philosophers who wish to learn about Indian philosophy through a comparative lens.


Yoga in Modern Hinduism

Yoga in Modern Hinduism

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  • Author: Knut A. Jacobsen
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1351624741
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 247

The Sāṃkhyayoga institution of Kāpil Maṭh is a religious organisation with a small tradition of followers which emerged in the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century in Bengal in India around the renunciant and yogin Hariharānanda Āraṇya. This tradition developed during the same period in which modern yoga was born and forms a chapter in the expansion of yoga traditions in modern Hinduism. The book analyses the yoga teaching of Hariharānanda Āraṇya (1869-1947) and the Kāpil Maṭh tradition, its origin, history and contemporary manifestations, and this tradition’s connection to the expansion of yoga and the Yogasūtra in modern Hinduism. The Sāṃkhyayoga of the Kāpil Maṭh tradition is based on the Pātañjalayogaśāstra, on a number of texts in Sanskrit and Bengali written by their gurus, and on the lifestyle of the renunciant yogin living isolated in a cave. The book investigates Hariharānanda Āraṇya’s connection to pre-modern yoga traditions and the impact of modern production and transmission of knowledge on his interpretations of yoga. The book connects the Kāpil Maṭh tradition to the nineteenth century transformations of Bengali religious culture of the educated upper class that led to the production of a new type of yogin. The book analyses Sāṃkhyayoga as a living tradition, its current teachings and practices, and looks at what Sāṃkhyayogins do and what Sāṃkhyayoga is as a yoga practice. A valuable contribution to recent and ongoing debates, this book will be of interest to academics in the fields of Religious Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Indology, Indian philosophy, Hindu Studies and Yoga Studies.


Encyclopaedia of Indian Medicine

Encyclopaedia of Indian Medicine

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  • Author: Saligrama Krishna Ramachandra Rao
  • Publisher: Popular Prakashan
  • ISBN: 9788171542567
  • Category : Health & Fitness
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 268

Projected six-volume set of encyclopedia on the "indigenous medical wisdom in India known as Ayurveda." Entries range from short to long. Miscellaneous appendixes.


The Sāṁkhyakārikā of Īśvarakṛṣṇa

The Sāṁkhyakārikā of Īśvarakṛṣṇa

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  • Author: Les Morgan
  • Publisher: Createspace
  • ISBN: 146648814X
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 527

Sāṁkhya is one of the main branches of Indian philosophy. It explores the relationship between consciousness and the material world. Debates between Sāṁkhya adherents, Vedantic philosophers, and Buddhist thinkers examined fundamental concepts of existence, mind, and the nature of reality. Sāṁkhya ideas appear in many other Indian texts, including the Bhagavadgītā and Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtras, as well as in Indian Buddhist thought. This workbook presents the most important text of classical Sāṁkhya, the Sāṁkhyakārikā of Īśvarakṛṣṇa, which summarizes the system in just 72 verses. The text is arranged for use by both general readers and Sanskrit students. It includes an English translation, a word-by-word analysis of the Sanskrit grammar and vocabulary, metrical analysis, and references.


Yoga and Indian Philosophy

Yoga and Indian Philosophy

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  • Author: Karel Werner
  • Publisher: Delhi : Motilal Banarsidass
  • ISBN: 9788120806085
  • Category : Health & Fitness
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 208

While Indian Philosophy has been in our time the object of mainly academic interest Yoga has become in recent decades and object of wide spread popular interest particularly in the west. But from at least the time of the Upanisads till Aurobindo Yoga has been an important source of inspiration to philosophy in Indian and philosophy in turn has often provided in turn has often provided an initial impetus and motivation for the practice of yoga and has produced various interpretations of Yogic experiences. It is therefore most appropriate that Yoga and Indian philosophy be given equal attention both in the context of academic research and in the framework of popularising Yoga.