Study of education and moral elements as described in Bhāgavatapurāṇa, Hindu mythological classic and its relevance to present context.

Study of the impact of ragas of Hindustani classical music on human body and mind.

Critical study of Traitavāda, in which Brahman (God), Jiva (soul) and Prakriti (matter/universe) are separate entities that exist eternally, propagated by Maharshi Dayanand Saraswati with reference to Advaita and related philosophy.

Treatise, with commentaries, on ontology; according to the Chaitanya school in Vaishnavism.

Study of concept of Consciousness and soul in the Sankhya school of philosophy with special reference to Vijñānabhikṣu, 16th cent. and Vācaspatimiśra, 976-1000.

Concept of matter (Dravya) in Nyaya, Vaiśeṣika and Mimamsa philosophies with special reference to Nyāyasiddhāntamuktāvalī of Viśvanātha Nyāyapañcānana and Mānameyodaya of Nārāyaṇabhaṭṭapāda; a study.

Study on the concept of relation with reference to Hindu, Jaina, and Buddhist logic.

Study of logic in Mimamsa philosophy with special reference to Mīmāmṣābhāṣya of Śabarasvāmi, classical commentary on Mīmāṃsāsūtra of Jaimini.

Study on Buddhist philosophy and its impact on ancient Indian education system; includes importance of Buddhist philosophy in present education system.

Comparative study of ethics with reference to Jainism, Buddhism and Hinduism.

Study of Pramāṇamañjarī, treatise on the fundamentals of Vaiśeṣika school in Hindu philosophy by Sarvadeva.

Concept of change in Indic philosophy, with reference to Buddhism.

Concept of self in Indic philosophy; based on Mahābhārata, Hindu epic.

Study on knowledge in Vaiśeṣika and Buddhist philosophy with special reference of Praśastapādācārya and Dignāga, active 5th century.

On the concept of Karma with special reference to Bhagavadgītā, Hindu philosophical classic.

Study on Vācaspatimiśra's Bhāmatī, 10th century supercommentary of Śaṅkarācārya's Śārīrakamīmāṃsābhāṣya, Advaita commentary of Bādarāyaṇa's Brahmasūtra, basic Vedanta work.

Theism in Indic philosophy from the point of view of Christianity.

Comparative study of Vaiśeshikasūtrāvr̥tti of Candrānanda on Vaiśeshikasūtra of Kaṇāda and Yuktidīpikā commentary on Sāṅkhyakārikā of Iśvarakr̥shṇa, works on the fundamentals of Vaiśeshika and Sāṅkhya philosophy.

On philosophical and historical perspectives of education : with special reference to Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian philosopher and John Dewey, 1859-1952, an American philosopher and educational reformer.

Hindu and Buddhist philosophy in Jaina canonical literature; a study.

Study on the concept of illusion in Indic philosophy with special references to Bhāmatī of Vācaspatimiśra, fl. 976-1000, supercpmmentary on Brahmasūtra of Bādarāyaṇa.

On the philosophy of recognition in Kashmir Saivism.

On Hindu ethics and code of conduct in Hindu smr̥tis.

Study on the aspect of consciousness in Indic philosophy with special reference to the works of Vasubandhu, Śaṅkarācārya, and Aurobindo Ghose, 1872-1950, philosophers.

On Hindu ethics and religious life of India as depicted in Nirukta of Yāska, 7th century commentary on Nighaṇṭu, thesaurus of Vedic synonyms.

Study of Śrīkarabhāṣya, Viraśaiva commentary by Śrīpatipaṇḍita, 14th century on Brahmasūtra of Bādarāyaṇa, basic work on Vedanta philosophy; includes complete text of Śrīkarabhāṣya.

Study of Aṇabhai-vāṇī by Sukharāmadāsa, 1716-1816, on Jaina doctrines and philosophy.

Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavas frequently assimilate and recast ancient and established ideas and practices to suit and justify their own theology and goals. The final aim of this strategy is to promote their version of mature emotional bhakti, as devotional participation. Their depictions of mature divine interactions are often mapped by way of rasa theory, originating as ancient poetic and dramatic aesthetic theory. Although only explicitly used to map aspects of mature religious experience, this paper explores an often-neglected side of the tradition’s (...) pedagogy, namely its tacit appeal to rasa theory to explain practices meant primarily for ordinary practitioners. An example of this strategy appears in the sixteenth century Gauḍīya treatise, Ṣaṭ-sandarbha. The author, Jīva Gosvāmī, offers a reformulated account of a typical set of Pāñcarātra meditation rituals. However, although the rituals are necessarily performed in the imagination, he paradoxically warns that the generated mental images should not be considered imaginative. By correlating his explanations of these ritual visualisations with elements of his yet to be depicted rasa theory, a consistent and non-problematic role of ritual imagination can be revealed. Since Jīva offers nothing explicit to arrive at this conclusion, this paper infers how a prominent Gauḍīya seems to be reformulating even ordinary ritual by way of rasa theory. This analysis acts as an individual example of a broader strategy in Gauḍīya texts. (shrink)