A collection of papers presented at an international conference on Jainism and Early Buddhism in honor of Prof. Padmanabh S. Jaini, organized and hosted by the Department of the History of Religions at the University of Lund, Sweden in 1998. Prof. Jaini is professor emeritus of Buddhist Studies at University of California, Berkeley, California, USA and one of the foremost contemporary scholars of Buddhism and Jainism. The two part festschrift contains papers presented by thirty-seven prominent scholars, covering a wide range (...) of topics in both religions. (shrink)

This book is the first English translation of the classic philosophical treatise Kantadarsaner Tatparyya . Bhattacharyya combines the basic tenets of Kant to present it in terms of Indian philosophical traditions. The introduction discusses the need for the translation, the challenges involved, and the context of Bhattacharyya's interpretations and thought. The detailed notes and annotations to the translation guide the reader through a variety of concepts in Western and Indian philosophy, as well as comments on the Bengali text. This book (...) will be of considerable interest to scholars, teachers, and students of Western and Indian philosophy. (shrink)