Journal of Dharma Studies

ISSNs: 2522-0926, 2522-0934

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  1.  21
    Book Review: Beacons of Dharma: Spiritual Exemplars for the Modern Age—Ed. Christopher Patrick Miller, Michael Reading, and Jeffery D. Long Lanham, MD: Lexington Books 2020. [REVIEW]Patrick M. Beldio - 2022 - Journal of Dharma Studies 5 (2-3):191-196.
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    Is a Guru as Good as God? A Vedāntic Perspective.Akshay Gupta - 2022 - Journal of Dharma Studies 5 (2-3):153-165.
    Within Hindu religious contexts, a guru plays a crucial soteriological role, and is sometimes viewed as being as good as God. Questions of a guru’s sphere of epistemic authority thus have far-reaching socioreligious implications. In this paper, I highlight one such implication within the Caitanya Vaiṣṇava tradition. I then analyze various Caitanya Vaiṣṇava texts in order to precisely define the parameters of a guru’s epistemic authority within this tradition. I suggest that the statements made by gurus within this tradition are (...)
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    Ritual and Rasa: a Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava Recasting of the Role of Ritual Imagination.Alan Herbert - 2022 - Journal of Dharma Studies 5 (2-3):121-152.
    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 (...)
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    Review of Robert McGahey, India: A Love Story. [REVIEW]William Joseph Jackson - 2022 - Journal of Dharma Studies 5 (2-3):189-190.
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    Time’s Monsters: How History Makes History, by Priya Satia: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 2020, 384 pp., ISBN 978 067 424837 3. [REVIEW]Shreya Maini - 2022 - Journal of Dharma Studies 5 (2-3):197-199.
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    Steven J. Rosen, Śrī Chaitanya’s Life and Teachings: The Golden Avatāra of Divine Love: Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2017. Pp. xxvi + 230. Price: Not stated. [REVIEW]Narasingha P. Sil - 2022 - Journal of Dharma Studies 5 (2-3):185-187.
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    The Dhārmic Function of Sanskrit Kāvya: Poetry as a Suggestive Force.V. S. Sreenath - 2022 - Journal of Dharma Studies 5 (2-3):167-184.
    The primary function of Sanskrit kāvya was always to please the readers. Literary theoreticians like Abhinavagupta often considered esthetic experience as a supramundane (alaukika) experience where the readers transcend their mundane attachments. Viśvanatha compared it to the experience of knowing brahman, the ultimate truth. But this does not mean that Sanskrit kāvya was devoid of any pragmatic concerns and was exclusively concerned with esthetic bliss. This paper examines how the purvamīmāmsā theory of bhāvanā was effectively employed by Sanskrit literary theoreticians (...)
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    Karl-Stéphan Bouthillette: Dialogue and Doxography in Indian Philosophy: Points of View in Buddhist, Jaina, and Advaita Vedānta Traditions: Abingdon, Oxon, and New York: Routledge, 2020. [REVIEW]Jacqueline G. Suthren Hirst - 2022 - Journal of Dharma Studies 5 (2-3):201-203.
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    The Reliability of Hacker’s Criteria for Determining Śaṅkara’s Authorship.Ivan Andrijanić - 2022 - Journal of Dharma Studies 5 (1):83-105.
    This paper discusses the reliability of the criteria for determining Śaṅkara’s authorship established by Paul Hacker. His analysis of terminological peculiarities is based on only one of Śaṅkara’s works—the commentary on the Brahma-Sūtras. Therefore, doubt arises as to whether these criteria also apply to other works that we can claim to be authentic. First, it will be argued that the commentaries on the Bṛhadāraṇyaka- and Taittirīya-Upaniṣad are works that can be—with reasonable certainty—considered authentic. When applied to these two works, Hacker’s (...)
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    The Phenomenon of Emotions in Indian Philosophical System: Some Reflections.Dipika Bhatia - 2022 - Journal of Dharma Studies 5 (1):17-31.
    This paper shall make an attempt to critically reflect on the conceptualization of emotions in the Indian Philosophical systems. To bring out the insight, the paper is divided into three main sections. The first section of the paper entitled ‘The Body-Emotions-Mind Complex and the Question of Self: Understanding the Dualistic Tradition’ will make an analysis of emotions and the mind-body complex vis-à-vis the question of self or consciousness in Indian Philosophy with special reference to the study of Advaita Vedānta and (...)
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    Reason, Death, and the Animal: The Mahābhārata and the Eruption/interruption of the Ethical.Anirban Bhattacharjee - 2022 - Journal of Dharma Studies 5 (1):63-81.
    The article attempts to deal with the proposition that human being’s incapacity to imagine its own death, the state of non-being necessitates the thinking of the animal. A critical and close reading of specific Brāhmaṇa and Mahābhārata texts would spotlight that it is man’s rationalizing capacity that disavows and denies the question of intelligibility of the actions of the animal. The animal is the undisclosable which man keeps and brings to light as such. The article would further investigate if the (...)
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    Fear and Devotion in Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava Rasa Theory.David Buchta - 2022 - Journal of Dharma Studies 5 (1):33-49.
    Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava thinkers adapted rasa theory to a context of devotion to the god Kṛṣṇa. In doing so, bhayānaka-rasa, the aestheticized experience of horror, presents interesting complexities. This paper examines the conceptualizations of bhayānaka-rasa by four Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava authors: Rūpa Gosvāmin, Jīva Gosvāmin, Kavi Karṇapūra, and Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa. Between them, they discuss three distinct modes of bhayānaka-rasa in a devotional context: a devotee’s fear after committing an offense against Kṛṣṇa, fear of some dreadful being who the devotee thinks might hurt (...)
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    Living Landscapes: Meditation on the Five Elements in Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain Yogas. Christopher Key Chapple. SUNY Press.: Albany: New York. State University of New York Press, 2020. 260 pages. $32.95. ISBN-9781438477947. [REVIEW]Sara Elizabeth Ivanhoe - 2022 - Journal of Dharma Studies 5 (1):117-119.
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    Aesthetic Delight and Beauty: A Comparison of Kant’s Aesthetics and Abhinavagupta’s Theory of Rasa.Sangeetha Menon, Shankar Rajaraman & Saurabh Todariya - 2022 - Journal of Dharma Studies 5 (1):51-62.
    The study aims to address the existing research gap through a thematic comparison between the aesthetics of Kant and Abhinavagupta. This paper explores Kant’s notion of aesthetic judgment based on disinterestedness with Abhinavagupta’s analysis of sādhāraṇīkaraṇa. We argue that the notions of “disinterested judgment” in Kant and sādhāraṇīkaraṇa in Abhinavagupta points towards the impersonal nature of aesthetic delight which makes the universality of aesthetic experience possible. Hence, aesthetics in both Kant and Abhinavgupta are not the personal and subjective experience but (...)
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    Review of Anway Mukhopadhyay, The Authority of Female Speech in Indian Goddess Traditions: Devi and Womansplaining: Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. ISBN 978-3-030-52454-8, ISBN 978-3-030-52455-5 (eBook). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52455-5. [REVIEW]Madhurima Nayak - 2022 - Journal of Dharma Studies 5 (1):111-115.
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    Mahasweta Devi: Our Santiniketan. Original Bengali Version (Āmāder Śāntiniketan), 2001. Translated by Radha Chakravarty: London: Seagull Books, 2021. Pp. xiv + 209. ISBN 978 0 8574 2 901 8. Price: Not Stated. [REVIEW]Narasingha Prosad Sil - 2022 - Journal of Dharma Studies 5 (1):107-109.
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    The Epistemic Significance of adbhutarasa: Aestheticized Wonder as a Virtue of Inquiry.Lisa Widdison - 2022 - Journal of Dharma Studies 5 (1):1-16.
    This analysis holds that just as wisdom is good for its own sake, the effervescent perfuming of aesthetic pleasure in rasa, camatkāra, need not be useful for a goal or purpose. However, there is an intellectual virtue in the act of aestheticizing the affective response of wonder. The “here and now” of the aestheticized emotion of wonder, adbhutarasa, is a moment of focus and attention regained as a logically atemporal, even timeless moment. As the carvaṇā process unfolds, adbhutarasa invites an (...)
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