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Title: Devadattīyam

Devadattīyam

Johannes Bronkhorst Felicitation Volume

by François Voegeli (Volume editor) Vincent Eltschinger (Volume editor) Danielle Feller (Volume editor) Maria Piera Candotti (Volume editor) Bogdan Diaconescu (Volume editor) Malhar Kulkarni (Volume editor)
©2012 Others XIV, 850 Pages
Science, Society & Culture
Series: Welten Süd- und Zentralasiens / Worlds of South and Inner Asia / Mondes de l'Asie du Sud et de l'Asie centrale, Volume 5

Summary

Johannes Bronkhorst, professor of Sanskrit and Indian Studies at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, from 1987 to 2011, undoubtedly belongs to the most talented and significant indologists of the last three decades. His abundant work testifies to an unparalleled range of interests from early Buddhism to grammar, mathematics to asceticism, philosophy to archaeology, and is characterized by the determination to challenge preconceived ideas, clichés and traditional (mis)constructs.
The present felicitation volume includes thirty-two essays by some of the finest scholars in the field of indology, which reflect Johannes Bronkhorst’s main scholarly contributions: Grammar, Philosophy, Vedic Studies, Buddhism and Jainism, Dharmaśāstra and Arthaśāstra, Epics and Purāṇas. It presents an almost complete spectrum of the intellectual and spiritual pursuits and speculations in Ancient India, and will be of inestimable value to the specialists of all fields of Indology. The volume also includes a presentation of Johannes Bronkhorst’s academic career and contribution to Indian Studies by Jan E.M. Houben, and an ongoing bibliography of his work.

Details

Pages
XIV, 850
Publication Year
2012
ISBN (PDF)
9783035103731
ISBN (Hardcover)
9783034306829
DOI
10.3726/978-3-0351-0373-1
Language
English
Publication date
2012 (May)
Keywords
Brahmanism, Veda Philosophy of Language Indian Indian Philosophy (Veda, Yoga etc.) and Spiritualism Buddhism (including Sri Lanka, China, Japan, Southeast-Asia)
Published
Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2012. XIV, 850 pp., num. ill., tables and graphs

Biographical notes

François Voegeli (Volume editor) Vincent Eltschinger (Volume editor) Danielle Feller (Volume editor) Maria Piera Candotti (Volume editor) Bogdan Diaconescu (Volume editor) Malhar Kulkarni (Volume editor)

François Voegeli has a PhD in Sanskrit Philology from the University of Lausanne. His main research interests are Vedic ritual, Vedic philology, and the archaeology of South Asia. Vincent Eltschinger is a research fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and currently focuses on the religious background and apologetic dimensions of late Indian Buddhist philosophy. Danielle Feller teaches Indian religions at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and her main field of research concerns the Sanskrit epics and kāvya literature. Maria Piera Candotti is Lecturer in Sanskrit at the University of Lausanne. Her interest mainly concerns the metalinguistic theories developped in the Sanskrit grammatical tradition (vyākarana). Bogdan Diaconescu is an Indologist and scholar of religion who specialises in Sanskrit knowledge-systems and Indian religions, studied in their various historical and cultural interactions, Sanskrit and Pali linguistics, and the expansion of Indian thought in Asia. Malhar Kulkarni is a Vaiyakarana by training and currently teaches at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai.

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