The present work is an analytical philosophic enterprise dealing with a specific topic, viz. nirvana , in Candrakirti's Prasannapada , which represents and is a standing testimony to the Buddhist critical philosophy par excellence. A unique rev…
This work renews the thought of a pure future beyond all that is given and outside of any immanence of self-presence. This thought is the thought of a promise of time that opens us, on the basis of an irreducible mortality, to the advent of redemptive…
Reflections on consciousness, society and values may take the individual through myriad of theoretical considerations, ranging from purely speculative to the concrete and substantially observable. Such reflections are justified from purely phenomenolo…
Mapping the Bodhicaryavatara is an interpretive study of the great Mahayana ethical treatise focusing on Bodhisattvayana as it is variantly called. The Bodhicaryavatara is a world classic, and the author, Santideva is a hallowed name in Mahay…
This monograph explores the nature of De Re Thoughts, and its impact on the debates centering on the externalist versus internalist accounts of the mind as discussed in analytic philosophy. Taking into account the fact that questions of langua…
The objective of this book is to provide a theory of selfless ethical love in the context of our technological age with logical clarity. Its first part discusses various basic issues concerning the logic of ethics. It argues that ethics is not non-co…
The basic presupposition underlying this book is the unity of human knowledge in its very wide sense. Different forms of knowledge and their present-day specializations should not make us blind to their thematic and conceptual overlap. Disciplines lik…
The four essays in this volume, spanning two decades of the author's engagement with Buddhism, dwell on the Buddha as a unique social philosopher who was deeply concerned about the way society could be organized in order to make it more humane. While …
The year 2000 was the five-hundredth anniversary of the composition of the celebrated astronomical text Tantrasangraha by the renowned Kerla astronomer Nilakantha Somayaji (c. 1444-1545 AD) of Trikkantiyur. Tantrasangraha ranks along with Arya…
This book comprises four lectures by the author which she was to deliver at IIAS . These four lectures under the general title of Circumstance and Dharma include Towards a Phenomenology of Circumstance; The Concept of commitment; The Concept of Mul…
The lectures revolve round the crucial importance of loving kindness or Karuna, the most worth cultivating state of mind in Buddhism. The first lecture traces the development of the concept to show its relevance for our own times. The idea was first g…
Two major excellencies make this volume significant: its relevance and richness. A lot of women in India today is by no means satisfactory. Our own writers on feminism have made it very clear, with the help of both argument and well-researched evidenc…
This volume is a collection of selected papers presented at the International Conference "Mind and Consciousness: Various Approaches" ( MiCon 2002).
This conference was a multi-disciplinary meeting on the focal theme of mind and consciousness. …
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