From arlogriffiths at HOTMAIL.COM Tue May 1 02:30:03 2012 From: arlogriffiths at HOTMAIL.COM (Arlo Griffiths) Date: Tue, 01 May 12 02:30:03 +0000 Subject: =?utf-8?Q?verse_in_P_rasannapad_=C4=81?= Message-ID: <161227096100.23782.18283333653261947580.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear colleagues, I am trying to understand the following enigmatic text engraved on the four faces of the base of a small bronze sculpture of Vairocana held at the Met (photo of front = [2] attached): [1] @ prat?tyadharmapa(r?) [2] (ca)nte n?sti dharma? (svabh?vo)[3]? | (yotyi)tya(s)uj?na [4] te te j?nant(i) dharmat?? @ My efforts to find parallels have thus far yielded nothing better than the following verse, attributed to the Buddha in the Prasannapad?, under 24.19 (cited from GRETIL e-text): prat?tyadharm?n adhigacchate vid? na c?ntad????ya karoti ni?rayam | sahetu sapratyaya dharma j?nati ahetu apratyaya n?sti dharmat? || If this verse is in any way related to the one inscribed on the bronze, then the relationship is tantalizing. But since I have nothing better, at least the possibility seems worth exploring. Is the source of the verse cited by Candrak?rti known? I will be grateful if anybody who has information on the source and interpretation of the Prasannapad? verse could share this information with me. I imagine that it may be helpful to start the investigation by consulting Jacques May's Candrak?rti, Prasannapad? madhyamakav?tti; douze chapitres traduits du sanscrit et du tib?tain, accompagn?s d'une introduction, de notes et d'une ?dition critique de la version tib?taine (Paris: Adrien-Maisonneuve, 1959), and if anybody has access to a pdf of this work, then I would much appreciate being allowed to benefit from that too. Thank you. Arlo GriffithsEFEO/Jakarta -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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I'm not aware of a specific study of this group (and would be grateful for any reference), but they are routinely considered to be barber-surgeons, pretty much in the same mould as the European barber-surgeons. @ARTICLE{sirc-raks, author = {Dinesh Chandra Sircar}, title = {6. {R?kshaskh?li (Sundarban)} Plate; {?aka} 1118}, journal = {Epigraphia Indica}, year = {1987}, volume = {30}, pages = {42--3}, annote = {(1953--54)}, } -- Dr Dominik Wujastyk Department of South Asia, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, University of Vienna, Spitalgasse 2-4, Courtyard 2, Entrance 2.1 1090 Vienna Austria Project | home page| PGP | Free Dropbox account -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I would like to see the references Sircar is referring to. Regards, Palaniappan -----Original Message----- From: Dominik Wujastyk To: INDOLOGY Sent: Tue, May 1, 2012 1:37 am Subject: [INDOLOGY] Fwd: [INDOLOGY] Mangala- title for brahmin physicians In a 1953-54 article in EI, D. C. Sircar noticed a plate that mentions Amba??has of Tamil Nadu, and DCS suggested that they were Vaidyas who moved from S. India to Bengal and helped to crystallize the Bengal Vaidya tradition. There is a long history to the Amba??has, going back to the P?li Canon at least. I'm not aware of a specific study of this group (and would be grateful for any reference), but they are routinely considered to be barber-surgeons, pretty much in the same mould as the European barber-surgeons. @ARTICLE{sirc-raks, author = {Dinesh Chandra Sircar}, title = {6. {R?kshaskh?li (Sundarban)} Plate; {?aka} 1118}, journal = {Epigraphia Indica}, year = {1987}, volume = {30}, pages = {42--3}, annote = {(1953--54)}, } -- Dr Dominik Wujastyk Department of South Asia, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, University of Vienna, Spitalgasse 2-4, Courtyard 2, Entrance 2.1 1090 Vienna Austria Project | home page | PGP | Free Dropbox account -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From zydenbos at UNI-MUENCHEN.DE Wed May 2 10:13:11 2012 From: zydenbos at UNI-MUENCHEN.DE (Robert Zydenbos) Date: Wed, 02 May 12 12:13:11 +0200 Subject: Mysticism In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <161227096112.23782.2691545406497928714.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> In Kannada, the commonly used word in ?dhy?tmikate (which of course is Sanskrit ?dhy?tmikat?), but the same word also seems to be used as a supposed equivalent for 'spirituality'. As Dominik already said, it seems we have another example of incommensurability here. RZ On Apr 29, 2012, at 10:53 PM, Dominik Wujastyk wrote: > You might look at Apte's Eng-Skt dict for some ideas. > ? http://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/scans/AEScan/AEScanjpg/ae0302-myope.jpg > But as always with such queries (like last year's 'What's the Sanskrit for "go with the flow"?'), one has first to ask whether there is a Sanskritic concept that might correspond to English "mysticism." And, most probably, there isn't, quite. Much interesting work has been done on incommensurability in translation theory. > > Dominik > > > On 29 April 2012 13:49, Harsha Dehejia wrote: > Friends~ > > What is the best Sanskrit word for mysticism? > > Regards. > > Harsha ----- Prof. Dr. Robert J. Zydenbos Institute of Indology and Tibetology Department of Asian Studies University of Munich Germany Tel. (+49-89-) 2180-5782 Fax (+49-89-) 2180-5827 Web http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~zydenbos From dbhattacharya200498 at YAHOO.COM Wed May 2 11:53:43 2012 From: dbhattacharya200498 at YAHOO.COM (Dipak Bhattacharya) Date: Wed, 02 May 12 19:53:43 +0800 Subject: Mysticism In-Reply-To: <2D096063-C20A-4796-AE39-896BB806A965@uni-muenchen.de> Message-ID: <161227096115.23782.8513672147374528540.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> 2 5 12 According to V?caspati Mi?ra?s explanation occurring in his comments on the first verse of the S??khyak?rik?s the term ?dhy?tmika means ?relating to self - mentally or physically?. ?The same meaning of the term will be found in the Nirukta. When the speaker of a hymn is in the first person, it is called ?dhy?tmika. The term adhy?tmayoga is used very generally in the G?t? for spiritual practice. The Kanna? usage might have its influence. Though Plotinus had been preceded by the Upani?ads and Buddhism, it will be futile to find exact parallels. Earlier Indian theologians were more concerned with salvation so that the soteriological i.e salvation related aspects, with or without unity with divinity, gained prominence in their deliberations. However, the type of erotic mysticism that appeared in, say, very late medieval Dutch religious practice and thought will be found also in contemporary India. They go under the term bhaktis?dhan?There were strong anti-erotic-mystic movements too within India.? As late as the 20th century some British theologians decried the ?corruptions? in Indian religions by which they meant erotic mysticism. The works on bhakti by Dr. Chinmayee Chatterjee deal with some aspects of what one calls Vai??ava mysticism. I am sorry for the long lecture. But the aim was clarification. Best DB ________________________________ From: Robert Zydenbos To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk Sent: Wednesday, 2 May 2012 3:43 PM Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Mysticism In Kannada, the commonly used word in ?dhy?tmikate (which of course is Sanskrit ?dhy?tmikat?), but the same word also seems to be used as a supposed equivalent for 'spirituality'. As Dominik already said, it seems we have another example of incommensurability here. RZ On Apr 29, 2012, at 10:53 PM, Dominik Wujastyk wrote: > You might look at Apte's Eng-Skt dict for some ideas. > ??? ? http://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/scans/AEScan/AEScanjpg/ae0302-myope.jpg > But as always with such queries (like last year's 'What's the Sanskrit for "go with the flow"?'), one has first to ask whether there is a Sanskritic concept that might correspond to English "mysticism."? And, most probably, there isn't, quite.? Much interesting work has been done on incommensurability in translation theory. > > Dominik > > > On 29 April 2012 13:49, Harsha Dehejia wrote: > Friends~ >? > What is the best Sanskrit word for mysticism? >? > Regards. >? > Harsha ----- Prof. Dr. Robert J. Zydenbos Institute of Indology and Tibetology Department of Asian Studies University of Munich Germany Tel. (+49-89-) 2180-5782 Fax (+49-89-) 2180-5827 Web http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~zydenbos -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From malhar at IITB.AC.IN Wed May 2 14:37:19 2012 From: malhar at IITB.AC.IN (Malhar Arvind Kulkarni) Date: Wed, 02 May 12 20:07:19 +0530 Subject: Deadline for submission to 5th SCLS extended Message-ID: <161227096118.23782.6219059223971639375.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear Scholars, This is to announce that the deadline for submission to the 5th Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium (to be held at IIT Bombay, during 3-8 January 2013) is extended. The revised deadline is 10th May 2012. For further details, please visit the Symposium site: https://sites.google.com/site/5isclc2013/Home with regards. Malhar Kulkarni, Organising Chair, 5th SCLS, IIT Bombay, Powai, Mumbai-400076. From zydenbos at UNI-MUENCHEN.DE Wed May 2 18:09:19 2012 From: zydenbos at UNI-MUENCHEN.DE (Robert Zydenbos) Date: Wed, 02 May 12 20:09:19 +0200 Subject: Mysticism In-Reply-To: <1335959623.84896.YahooMailNeo@web193202.mail.sg3.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <161227096124.23782.3622849311179878642.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> On May 2, 2012, at 1:53 PM, Dipak Bhattacharya wrote: > 2 5 12 > According to V?caspati Mi?ra?s explanation occurring in his comments on the first verse of the S??khyak?rik?s the term ?dhy?tmika means ?relating to self - mentally or physically?. [...] The term adhy?tmayoga is used very generally in the G?t? for spiritual practice. The Kanna? usage might have its influence. Yes, I think that this is the basis for the Kannada neologism (perhaps found in other languages too?) which I mentioned. Sometimes new words that look Sanskritic are coined in modern Indian languages and are introduced in what actually are intercultural academic discussions, with the risk of creating the impression that the alien concept which the Sanskritic neologism supposedly denotes is also found in older Indian thought. I see this occasionally in modern Indian writing about literary criticism and aesthetics which attempts to express notions from Western poetics in Sanskritic-looking terms. Similarly, the initial question in this discussion ("what is the best Sanskrit word for mysticism?") is rather problematic. The comparatively crude English / European term "mysticism" carries a deal of European cultural weight which, as far as I can see, does not exist in classical Indian thought; and in my humble opinion, the Sanskrit vocabulary that covers the phenomena which are lumped together in the word "mysticism" is so much more subtle and differentiated that it may be impossible to satisfactorily answer that initial question. RZ ----- Prof. Dr. Robert J. Zydenbos Institute of Indology and Tibetology Department of Asian Studies University of Munich Germany Tel. 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URL: From dermot at GREVATT.FORCE9.CO.UK Thu May 3 09:55:31 2012 From: dermot at GREVATT.FORCE9.CO.UK (Dermot Killingley) Date: Thu, 03 May 12 10:55:31 +0100 Subject: Rajayoga Message-ID: <161227096126.23782.11546344698723892892.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Can anyone help me with the history of the term rAjayoga? De Michelis (History of Modern Yoga p. 178), and D. G. White (Yoga in Practice p. 20) say that in modern yoga movements it's identified with Patanjali, and that this started with Blavatsky. Theosophical writers also oppose rAja-yoga (spiritual and superior) to haTha-yoga (physical and inferior) (e.g. Sinnett Esoteric Buddhism p. 27). This usage, especially the identification with Patanjali, is followed by Vivekananda, who owed more to Theosophy than he liked to admit. Going further back, the haTha-yoga-pradIpikA (HYP 2.76) says rAja-yoga and HaTha-yoga should be practised together, but also lists rAja-yoga as one of the terms for the highest state (HYP 4.3-4). White (Yoga in Practice p. 17) says that according to HYP haTha-yoga leads to jIvan- mukti and rAja-yoga leads to videha-mukti, but I don't find this in the text. Further back again, the yoga-tattva-upanishad lists mantra-yoga, laya-yoga, haTha- yoga and rAja-yoga (Dasgupta Hist Ind Phil vol 1 p. 229; Eliade Yoga p. 129). And has the term rAja-yoga anything to do with the mahIpAla-vidhi (MBh 12.308.25) which Edgerton observes "agrees perfectly with the Gita's usual definition of yoga" ("The meaning of sAMkhya and yoga" (American Journal of Philology vol. 45) p. 45)? Can anyone fill any of the many gaps in this story? For instance, granted that Blavatsky popularised the identification of rAja-yoga with Patanjali, she can't have just invented it, so where did she get it from? Dermot Killingley From slaje at KABELMAIL.DE Thu May 3 10:12:46 2012 From: slaje at KABELMAIL.DE (Walter Slaje) Date: Thu, 03 May 12 12:12:46 +0200 Subject: Rajayoga In-Reply-To: <4FA26423.32183.9718AA@localhost> Message-ID: <161227096129.23782.17674531171804923954.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> > Can anyone help me with the history of the term rAjayoga? Jason Birch can. See his excellent study "The Meaning of hatha in Early Hathayoga", JAOS 131, 4 (2011): 527-554. Kindly, WS ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dermot Killingley" To: Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2012 11:55 AM Subject: [INDOLOGY] Rajayoga > Can anyone help me with the history of the term rAjayoga? > De Michelis (History of Modern Yoga p. 178), and D. G. White (Yoga in > Practice p. > 20) say that in modern yoga movements it's identified with Patanjali, and > that this > started with Blavatsky. Theosophical writers also oppose rAja-yoga > (spiritual and > superior) to haTha-yoga (physical and inferior) (e.g. Sinnett Esoteric > Buddhism p. > 27). This usage, especially the identification with Patanjali, is followed > by > Vivekananda, who owed more to Theosophy than he liked to admit. > > Going further back, the haTha-yoga-pradIpikA (HYP 2.76) says rAja-yoga and > HaTha-yoga should be practised together, but also lists rAja-yoga as one > of the terms > for the highest state (HYP 4.3-4). > > White (Yoga in Practice p. 17) says that according to HYP haTha-yoga leads > to jIvan- > mukti and rAja-yoga leads to videha-mukti, but I don't find this in the > text. > > Further back again, the yoga-tattva-upanishad lists mantra-yoga, > laya-yoga, haTha- > yoga and rAja-yoga (Dasgupta Hist Ind Phil vol 1 p. 229; Eliade Yoga p. > 129). > > And has the term rAja-yoga anything to do with the mahIpAla-vidhi (MBh > 12.308.25) > which Edgerton observes "agrees perfectly with the Gita's usual definition > of yoga" > ("The meaning of sAMkhya and yoga" (American Journal of Philology vol. 45) > p. 45)? > > Can anyone fill any of the many gaps in this story? For instance, granted > that > Blavatsky popularised the identification of rAja-yoga with Patanjali, she > can't have just > invented it, so where did she get it from? > > Dermot Killingley > -------------------------- Prof. Dr. Walter Slaje Hermann-L?ns-Stra?e 1 D-99425 Weimar Ego ex animi mei sententia spondeo ac polliceor studia humanitatis impigro labore culturum et provecturum non sordidi lucri causa nec ad vanam captandam gloriam, sed quo magis veritas propagetur et lux eius, qua salus humani generis continetur, clarius effulgeat. Vindobonae, die XXI. mensis Novembris MCMLXXXIII. From asko.parpola at HELSINKI.FI Thu May 3 11:35:34 2012 From: asko.parpola at HELSINKI.FI (Asko Parpola) Date: Thu, 03 May 12 14:35:34 +0300 Subject: Tenure track in South Asian Studies at Helsinki University Message-ID: <161227096131.23782.5679186962821469221.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> The University of Helsinki is among the leading multidisciplinary research universities in the world. 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Applications must be accompanied by the following English-language documents: a CV, a list of publications, a report of experience and merits relevant to assessing the applicant?s teaching skills as well as other documents that may be relevant to the selection; or, alternatively, an academic portfolio containing the above-mentioned documents and information (for instructions, see http://www.helsinki.fi/recruitment/academic- portfolio.html). In addition, applicants are expected to enclose with their application a report (max. two pages, in English) on how they intend to develop both interdisciplinary research as well as research in their own speciality, if appointed. Applications addressed to the Faculty of Arts, together with the required enclosures must be delivered to the following postal address: Registry of the University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 33 (Yliopistonkatu 4), 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland, or by email: hy- kirjaamo at helsinki.fi. The deadline for applications is 15 June 2012 (the Registry closes at 15.45 local Helsinki time). Further information about the position may be obtained from Head of Department Lars-Folke Landgr?n, +358 9 1912 2997, lars-folke.landgren at helsinki.fi, and Dean Anna Mauranen, +358 50 468 7426, anna.mauranen at helsinki.fi. www.helsinki.fi/university From BrodbeckSP at CARDIFF.AC.UK Thu May 3 15:48:04 2012 From: BrodbeckSP at CARDIFF.AC.UK (Simon Brodbeck) Date: Thu, 03 May 12 16:48:04 +0100 Subject: Kapadia ashvamedha article In-Reply-To: <96CB409000DA4CF4872F2B03030488D6@IndologiePC> Message-ID: <161227096133.23782.13837719894668045495.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear colleagues, I wonder whether anyone is in a position to send me a PDF of the following article: B. H. Kapadia, 'Asvamedha, the King of Sacrifices', in the Journal of the University of Bombay, vol. 30, part 2 (1961). I would be very grateful! 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Occasionally it does refer to a specific type of yoga practice. In these instances it is meant to denote the best variety of yoga and so its use is comparable to that made popular by Vivekananda et al. - "my yoga is better than yours". (By the way, according to my notes - I don't have the books with me - Singleton 2008:84, referencing de Michelis 2004, writes that it was probably M.N.Dvivedi in a Yogas?tra translation of 1890 who first popularised the equation of r?jayoga with P?ta?jalayoga.) Thus in the Amanaska, which Jason is editing, it refers to a technique said to bring about the no-mind state. But in the Ha?savil?sa, for example, r?jayoga is a practice that involves ritual sex (and is said to be much better than ha?hayoga, which Ha?sami??hu, like many other medieval/early modern authors, sees as including Pata?jali's yoga). The Yogatattvopani?ad (c.17th-century) passage you cite is taken directly from the Datt?treyayoga??stra (c. 13th-century), as is most of the rest of the YTU. Re the mah?p?lavidhi: since the first attestation of the compound r?jayoga (of which I am aware) is not for another thousand years or so, it seems unlikely that there is a connection between the two. The one nirukti of r?jayoga of which I am aware (but Jason may know of others) does not understand it as meaning "the yoga of kings": ra?jatva?t sarvayoga?na?m? ra?jayoga iti smr?tah? | ra?ja?nam? di?pyama?nam? tam? parama?tma?nam avyayam? | dehinam? pra?payed yas tu ra?jayogah? sa ucyate (Amanaskayoga 2.4). Yours, with best wishes, Jim On 3 May 2012, at 10:55, Dermot Killingley wrote: > Can anyone help me with the history of the term rAjayoga? > > De Michelis (History of Modern Yoga p. 178), and D. G. White (Yoga in Practice p. > 20) say that in modern yoga movements it's identified with Patanjali, and that this > started with Blavatsky. Theosophical writers also oppose rAja-yoga (spiritual and > superior) to haTha-yoga (physical and inferior) (e.g. Sinnett Esoteric Buddhism p. > 27). This usage, especially the identification with Patanjali, is followed by > Vivekananda, who owed more to Theosophy than he liked to admit. > > Going further back, the haTha-yoga-pradIpikA (HYP 2.76) says rAja-yoga and > HaTha-yoga should be practised together, but also lists rAja-yoga as one of the terms > for the highest state (HYP 4.3-4). > > White (Yoga in Practice p. 17) says that according to HYP haTha-yoga leads to jIvan- > mukti and rAja-yoga leads to videha-mukti, but I don't find this in the text. > > Further back again, the yoga-tattva-upanishad lists mantra-yoga, laya-yoga, haTha- > yoga and rAja-yoga (Dasgupta Hist Ind Phil vol 1 p. 229; Eliade Yoga p. 129). > > And has the term rAja-yoga anything to do with the mahIpAla-vidhi (MBh 12.308.25) > which Edgerton observes "agrees perfectly with the Gita's usual definition of yoga" > ("The meaning of sAMkhya and yoga" (American Journal of Philology vol. 45) p. 45)? > > Can anyone fill any of the many gaps in this story? For instance, granted that > Blavatsky popularised the identification of rAja-yoga with Patanjali, she can't have just > invented it, so where did she get it from? > > Dermot Killingley > From palaniappa at AOL.COM Fri May 4 05:49:23 2012 From: palaniappa at AOL.COM (Sudalaimuthu Palaniappan) Date: Fri, 04 May 12 01:49:23 -0400 Subject: New Publication of Dr.R.Nagaswamy In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <161227096138.23782.2051233560012984282.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Here is more information on the book. http://www.tamilartsacademy.com/ Regards, Palaniappan -----Original Message----- From: Veeranarayana Pandurangi To: INDOLOGY Sent: Tue, May 1, 2012 8:55 am Subject: [INDOLOGY] New Publication of Dr.R.Nagaswamy Dear all, here is the announcement of New Publication "Mirror of Tamil and Sanskrit" by Dr.R.Nagaswamy. You might be interested in the content list and introduction. Please have a look at the attached file. interested may contact Dr.R.Nagaswamy at urnagaswamy at gmail.com -- Veeranarayana N.K. Pandurangi Head, Dept of Darshanas, Yoganandacharya Bhavan, Jagadguru Ramanandacharya Rajasthan Samskrita University, Madau, post Bhankrota, Jaipur, 302026. ?? ??????????? ??????? ???????? ? ????????? ??? ???????? ??????? ? ?????? ??????????????? ?????????????? ??????? ??????? ??????????? ??????????????? ?????? ???????? ??????????? (?.??.) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Kapstein Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies The University of Chicago Divinity School Directeur d'?tudes Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris From christophe.vielle at UCLOUVAIN.BE Mon May 7 07:18:45 2012 From: christophe.vielle at UCLOUVAIN.BE (Christophe Vielle) Date: Mon, 07 May 12 09:18:45 +0200 Subject: Edward Conze's Memoirs Message-ID: <161227096142.23782.12541575389752985731.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear List, a friend of mine has made available for 5 days a .pdf of the rare auto-biography of Edward Conze entitled "The Memoirs of a Modern Gnostic" (privately printed, 1979). I share the link for the ones interested in the history of Western Buddhology and more: http://demo.ovh.com/fr/faa6d6362aef7876d5cf9226e51e6ea3/ Best wishes, Christophe Vielle -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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If you are interested in attending or would like to have more information, please contact me or Natasja Bosma (n.bosma at rug.nl) before 25th of May. With best wishes, Nina Mirnig -- Dr. Nina Mirnig Institute of Indian Studies University of Groningen Oude Boteringestraat 23 9712 GC Groningen the Netherlands tel: +31.(0)50.363.5819 www.rug.nl/india *Epigraphical Evidence for the Formation and Rise of Early ?aivism* *The Religious Landscape at the time of the Composition and Spread of the /Skandapur??a/* June 4-5 2012, University of Groningen, the Netherlands *Sunday 3 June* 18:00-20:00: Reception, Institute of Indian Studies *Monday 4 June* 9.15: Coffee 9.40: Welcome 9.45: Opening Address by Professor Jan Bremmer */Session 1 / * Chair: Professor Hans Bakker 10.00-10.30: Em. Professor Oskar von Hin?ber, Albert-Ludwigs Universit?t Freiburg Title: /Behind the Scene: the Struggle of Religious Groups for Political Influence as Reflected in Inscriptions / 10.30-11.00: Coffee */Session 2/* Chair: Professor Diwakar Acharya 11.00-11.30: Professor Hans Bakker, University of Groningen Title: /The Temple of Ma??ale?varasv?min/ 11.30-12.00: Professor Peter Bisschop, University of Leiden Title: /Notes on Some Inscriptions from Kali?jar/ // 12.00-14.00: Lunch // /*Session 3 */** Chair: Drs. Natasja Bosma 14.00-14.30: Professor Ashwini Agrawal, Punjab University, Chandigarh Title: /?aivism in North-West India: Synchronizing Art, Archaeological and Sigillographic Data with Epigraphic Evidence (c. 400-800 CE) / 14.30-15.00: Dr. Annette Schmiedchen, Humboldt-Universit?t Berlin Title:/Patronage of ?aivism in Western India under the Dynasties of the Traik??akas, Ka?accuris, Gurjaras and Sendrakas from the 5th to the 8th Centuries / 15.00-15.30: Coffee */Session 4/ * Chair: Dr. Dominic Goodall 15.30-16.00: Professor Yuko Yokochi, Kyoto University Title: /The Development of ?aivism in Ko??var?a in the P?la Period. A Comparison between the Skandapur??a and Epigraphical Evidence/ 16.00-16.30: Drs. Natasja Bosma, University of Groningen Title:/The B?le?vara Temple Complex of ?ivagupta. Epigraphical Evidence for the ?aiva Siddh?nta and Soma Siddh?nta Traditions in Dak?i?a Kosala/ 16.30-18.30: Reception sponsored by Brill, Book Exhibition *Tuesday 5 June* 9.15: Coffee /*Session 5 */ Chair: Dr. Nina Mirnig 9.30-10.00: *Key Note Address* Professor Alexis Sanderson, University of Oxford Title:/The Impact of Inscriptions on the Interpretation of Early ?aiva Literature/ 10.00-10.30: Professor Harry Falk, Freie Universit?t Berlin Title: /The Masque Court and Early ?aivism in the Orbit of the Kashmir Smast / 10.30-11.00: Coffee */Session 6 / * Chair: Professor Yuko Yokochi 11.00-11.30: Professor Diwakar Acharya, Kyoto University Title: /Wanton Women and Their Property: An Insight into a Licchavi Inscription/ 11.30-12.00: Dr. Nina Mirnig, University of Groningen Title: /A??uvarman and the Rise of Pa?upati as the Tutelary Deity of Nepal/ 12.00-14.00: Lunch */Session 7 / * Chair: Professor Peter Bisschop 14.00-14.30: Dr. Dominic Goodall, ?cole Fran?aise d?Extr?me-Orient, Pondicherry Title: /Reflecting the Centre: Evidence for the Development of ?aivism from Cambodian Epigraphy/ 14.30-15.00: Dr. Arlo Griffiths, ?cole Fran?aise d?Extr?me-Orient, Jakarta Title: /?aivism in Early Historical Southeast Asia. The case of Camp?/ 15.00-15.30: Coffee */Session 8 /* 15.30-16.30: *Round Table Discussion*/* */Led by Professor Sanderson, University of Oxford 19.00: Conference Dinner -- *Epigraphical Evidence for the Formation and Rise of Early ?aivism* *The Religious Landscape at the time of the Composition and Spread of the /Skandapur??a/* Towards the end of the Gupta-V?k??aka period, religious sectarian movements started to feature prominently in the political landscape of early medieval India (ca. 400 - 900 CE). One of the most dominant religious traditions in this period is ?aivism, revolving around the worship of the god ?iva. Its propagators developed strong ties to royal houses and grew to be successful in establishing a range of religious institutions under its authority throughout the Indianized world, as recently laid out in Sanderson's seminal work 'The ?aiva Age' (2009). The theology, mythology and ritual codes of the various branches of ?aivism are recorded in an array of textual material but the most important sources for assessing their historical reality on the ground are contained in the epigraphical corpus. These traces of institutional activities often long predate our extant textual evidence. The contributors of the symposium will present religious epigraphical data on early forms of ?aivism and its competitors pertaining to its formative period in India, Nepal, Cambodia and Camp?. These data will be contextualized and correlated with the political history and findings from the study of the religious textual corpus. Insights generated in this symposium aim to contribute towards a more differentiated understanding of the historical and social reality of these religious traditions themselves, as well as of the religious milieu and socio-political dynamics which facilitated the creation and dissemination of a large body of religious scriptures. 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But I don't recall him as being especially anti-Semitic. His first wife was of course Jewish. mkapstei at UCHICAGO.EDU wrote: > If I recall corrrectly, Conze specified that vol. 3 was > not be made public until 50 years after his decease. But > I do not know if this was formally written into his will. > It seems to be well known that, among other things, it > contains his anti-Semitic rants, particularly directed > against Arthur Waley, against whom, despite their > several collaborations (as in _Buddhist Texts Through > the Ages_) Conze could never pardon the fact of having > been born a Polish Jew (apparently a double deficiency!). > > Matthew T. Kapstein > Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies > The University of Chicago Divinity School > Directeur d'?tudes > Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris L.S. Cousins, Wolfson College, Oxford From vglyssenko at YANDEX.RU Mon May 7 10:06:07 2012 From: vglyssenko at YANDEX.RU (Viktoria Lyssenko) Date: Mon, 07 May 12 14:06:07 +0400 Subject: Publication announcement Message-ID: <161227096161.23782.10515745852903047318.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear members of the list! I am happy to inform you that our new encyclopedia (after the Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophy, Vostochnaya literatura, Moscow 2009), this time on the Buddhist Philosophy, has appeared in Publishing House Vostochnaya literatura (Moscow, Russia). There are entries on different philosophical and religious terms, notions, schools and problems in Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Tibetain and other forms of Buddhism. Indexes in different languages cover over 80 pages. The total number of pages is 1045. It is a huge and heavy volume! The general editor of both encyclopedias is Marietta Stepanyantz. Entries are written mostly by Russian scholars, only some papers on Japanese Buddhism were contributed by Japanese buddhologists. Victoria Lysenko, Head, Department of Oriental Philosophies, Institute of Philosophy, Moscow, Russia From asko.parpola at HELSINKI.FI Mon May 7 15:58:53 2012 From: asko.parpola at HELSINKI.FI (Asko Parpola) Date: Mon, 07 May 12 18:58:53 +0300 Subject: Fwd: [INDOLOGY] Edward Conze's Memoirs In-Reply-To: <4FA7BB94.30304@ntlworld.com> Message-ID: <161227096165.23782.11818536293400395744.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> I have kept the following email communication by Paul Williams, Centre for Buddhist Studies, University of Bristol, on the 20th of Oct. 1995. With best regards, AP The bulk of Edward Conze's books and papers are held in the University of Bristol Library. However, when they were bought from Mrs. Conze soon after her husband's death, she did not let the library have the manuscript of Vol. 3 of the Memoirs, saying that EC did not wish it to be published until all those mentioned in the book were dead. Around 1992 Mrs Conze told that she had destroyed the manuscript, thinking that its publication would not be good for the reputation of EC. But there may be another copy. Shenpen Hookham (the author of "The Buddha Within") may have access to some of Conze's papers not in Bristol -- perhaps she knows where it is. Quoting "L.S. Cousins" : > As far as I can recall from reading it long ago, it contained > strongly worded negative views about various people. And various > stereotypes, as people say now. But I don't recall him as being > especially anti-Semitic. His first wife was of course Jewish. > > mkapstei at UCHICAGO.EDU wrote: >> If I recall corrrectly, Conze specified that vol. 3 was >> not be made public until 50 years after his decease. But >> I do not know if this was formally written into his will. >> It seems to be well known that, among other things, it >> contains his anti-Semitic rants, particularly directed >> against Arthur Waley, against whom, despite their >> several collaborations (as in _Buddhist Texts Through >> the Ages_) Conze could never pardon the fact of having >> been born a Polish Jew (apparently a double deficiency!). >> >> Matthew T. Kapstein >> Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies >> The University of Chicago Divinity School >> Directeur d'?tudes >> Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris > > L.S. Cousins, > Wolfson College, Oxford > From jpo at UTS.CC.UTEXAS.EDU Tue May 8 11:57:29 2012 From: jpo at UTS.CC.UTEXAS.EDU (Patrick Olivelle) Date: Tue, 08 May 12 06:57:29 -0500 Subject: Kuppuswami Institute In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <161227096177.23782.17003677474834929448.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Is there an email address for the Institute or for its Director? Patrick Olivelle On May 8, 2012, at 6:50 AM, Venetia Kotamraju wrote: > Dear list, > Someone on the list recently posted the article about the Kuppuswami Research Institute being in financial difficulties. The following message has been doing the rounds in various Sanskrit forums and I thought it may be of interest to list members here too. In summary, those that wish to support the institute may become life members for 2,000 rupees (for which they will receive some books). From various email chains, I understand that those sending money from outside India should send it to: > THE KUPPUSWAMI SASTRI RESEARCH INSTITUTE. > Union Bank of India, > Mylapore Branch > Account No. 395702010007408 > NEFT NO: UBIN0539571 > IFSC CODE NO.600026009 > But please do check with the institute first. > Best, > Venetia > > > Forwarded message: > > Dear All, > > I'm sad to put this news - which is quite painful to read... however the fact of the matter needs to be brought out. It is about saving a Sanskrit Research Institute the only one alive in Tamil Nadu > > Those who wish to contribute need not do at free of cost - become a life-time member of this prestigious institution and receive publications from this institute free of cost for the life-time. Now when you pay Rs. 2000/- and become a life member - you'll receive about 8 Hard-bound books free of cost - including 4 volumes of Mahabashyam of Sage Patanjali (the great vyaakarana treatise) in Sanskrit with English translation and a Old Sanskrit Bija Ganita (Algebra) treatise > > Thus your contribution will help to save one of India's premier Sanskrit research institute and also you receive books free of cost. > > Kindly reach Dr. K.S.Balasubramanian, Dy.Director, Kuppuswamy Sastri Research Institute, Sanskrit College, Mylapore, Chennai. Phone- 044-24985320 > > Warm regards > CG Krishnamurthi > > http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-04-03/chennai/31280618_1_rashtriya-sanskrit-sansthan-renowned-sanskrit-scholar-ancient-language > > -- > Venetia Kotamraju > +91 997230 5440 > www.rasalabooks.com > www.venetiaansell.wordpress.com > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From malhar at IITB.AC.IN Tue May 8 02:49:28 2012 From: malhar at IITB.AC.IN (Malhar Arvind Kulkarni) Date: Tue, 08 May 12 08:19:28 +0530 Subject: Extended deadline for paper submission to 5th SCLS is fast approaching Message-ID: <161227096167.23782.14097720508944231864.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear Scholars , This is to remind you that the deadline for submission to the 5th Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium (to be held at IIT Bombay, during 3-8 January 2013) is just two days away. As announced earlier, the extended deadline for full paper submission is 10th May 2012. For further details, please visit the Symposium site: https://sites.google.com/site/5isclc2013/Home with regards. Malhar Kulkarni, Organising Chair, 5th SCLS, IIT Bombay, Powai, Mumbai-400076. From slindqui at MAIL.SMU.EDU Tue May 8 12:06:40 2012 From: slindqui at MAIL.SMU.EDU (Lindquist, Steven) Date: Tue, 08 May 12 12:06:40 +0000 Subject: Kuppuswami Institute In-Reply-To: <7C245872-8E9A-4FA3-AABB-D7327DE55E68@uts.cc.utexas.edu> Message-ID: <161227096180.23782.13410687693108746346.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Patrick, While not for the director, I have these email addresses on file (not sure where I got them; probably from a webpage or from when I was there years ago): info at ksrisanskrit.in and ksrisans at gmail.com Steven STEVEN LINDQUIST, PH.D. ASSISTANT PROFESSOR DIRECTOR OF ASIAN STUDIES _____________ Department of Religious Studies Southern Methodist University PO Box 750202 | Dallas | TX | 75275 http://faculty.smu.edu/slindqui From: Patrick Olivelle > Reply-To: Patrick Olivelle > Date: Tuesday, May 8, 2012 6:57 AM To: Indology > Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Kuppuswami Institute Is there an email address for the Institute or for its Director? Patrick Olivelle On May 8, 2012, at 6:50 AM, Venetia Kotamraju wrote: Dear list, Someone on the list recently posted the article about the Kuppuswami Research Institute being in financial difficulties. The following message has been doing the rounds in various Sanskrit forums and I thought it may be of interest to list members here too. In summary, those that wish to support the institute may become life members for 2,000 rupees (for which they will receive some books). From various email chains, I understand that those sending money from outside India should send it to: THE KUPPUSWAMI SASTRI RESEARCH INSTITUTE. Union Bank of India, Mylapore Branch Account No. 395702010007408 NEFT NO: UBIN0539571 IFSC CODE NO.600026009 But please do check with the institute first. Best, Venetia Forwarded message: Dear All, I'm sad to put this news - which is quite painful to read... however the fact of the matter needs to be brought out. It is about saving a Sanskrit Research Institute the only one alive in Tamil Nadu Those who wish to contribute need not do at free of cost - become a life-time member of this prestigious institution and receive publications from this institute free of cost for the life-time. Now when you pay Rs. 2000/- and become a life member - you'll receive about 8 Hard-bound books free of cost - including 4 volumes of Mahabashyam of Sage Patanjali (the great vyaakarana treatise) in Sanskrit with English translation and a Old Sanskrit Bija Ganita (Algebra) treatise Thus your contribution will help to save one of India's premier Sanskrit research institute and also you receive books free of cost. Kindly reach Dr. K.S.Balasubramanian, Dy.Director, Kuppuswamy Sastri Research Institute, Sanskrit College, Mylapore, Chennai. Phone- 044-24985320 Warm regards CG Krishnamurthi http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-04-03/chennai/31280618_1_rashtriya-sanskrit-sansthan-renowned-sanskrit-scholar-ancient-language -- Venetia Kotamraju +91 997230 5440 www.rasalabooks.com www.venetiaansell.wordpress.com From zydenbos at UNI-MUENCHEN.DE Tue May 8 11:20:05 2012 From: zydenbos at UNI-MUENCHEN.DE (Robert Zydenbos) Date: Tue, 08 May 12 13:20:05 +0200 Subject: temporary lecturer required for Sanskrit and Tibetan Message-ID: <161227096171.23782.3988693831094473678.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> The University of Munich has advertised a part-time two-year teaching position (Sept. 2012-Aug. 2014) in Sanskrit and Tibetan (9 teaching hours per week) for beginners. For details kindly refer to the attached advertisement. Please note that the deadline for applications is coming up soon: May 18th. RZ -- Prof. Dr. Robert J. 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Best, Venetia Forwarded message: Dear All, I'm sad to put this news - which is quite painful to read... however the fact of the matter needs to be brought out. It is about saving a Sanskrit Research Institute the only one alive in Tamil Nadu Those who wish to contribute need not do at free of cost - become a life-time member of this prestigious institution and receive publications from this institute free of cost for the life-time. Now when you pay Rs. 2000/- and become a life member - you'll receive about 8 Hard-bound books free of cost - including 4 volumes of Mahabashyam of Sage Patanjali (the great vyaakarana treatise) in Sanskrit with English translation and a Old Sanskrit Bija Ganita (Algebra) treatise Thus your contribution will help to save one of India's premier Sanskrit research institute and also you receive books free of cost. Kindly reach Dr. K.S.Balasubramanian, Dy.Director, Kuppuswamy Sastri Research Institute, Sanskrit College, Mylapore, Chennai. Phone- 044-24985320 Warm regards CG Krishnamurthi * http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-04-03/chennai/31280618_1_rashtriya-sanskrit-sansthan-renowned-sanskrit-scholar-ancient-language * -- Venetia Kotamraju +91 997230 5440 www.rasalabooks.com www.venetiaansell.wordpress.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ute.huesken at URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE Tue May 8 18:59:18 2012 From: ute.huesken at URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (Ute Huesken) Date: Tue, 08 May 12 20:59:18 +0200 Subject: Kuppuswami Institute Message-ID: <161227096186.23782.4195739770723583463.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear list members, in addition to becoming life members or contributing in other ways to the survival of the KSRI, we might also collectively think about how we can - as institutions teaching Sanskrit - integrate this wonderful institution in more sustained ways into our academic networks that extend beyond India. The Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages (IKOS) at Oslo University for example has a long term agreement with the KSRI entailing that our Sanskrit students spend one semester (their third semester of Sanskrit teaching) at the KSRI, with four hours of Sanskrit teaching daily. Our experience with this arrangement is entirely positive, and I could imagine that similar such agreements with other Sanskrit teaching institutions could improve conditions there considerably. If you are interested in the details of our agreement and expereinces of our students there, please contact me: ute.huesken at ikos.uio.no Best regards Ute Huesken -- Ute H?sken Professor of Sanskrit Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages University of Oslo Faculty of Humanities P.O. Box 1010 Blindern N-0315 Oslo Norway Room 387, P.A. Munch's Building phone: +47 22 85 48 16 telefax: +47 22 85 48 28 ute.huesken at ikos.uio.no http://www.hf.uio.no/ikos/personer/vit/uteh/index.html Co-editor, Oxford Ritual Studies Series (http://ritualstudies.com/oxford-ritual-studies-series/) Head of the "Kanchipuram Research Project" (http://www.hf.uio.no/ikos/english/research/projects/kancipuram/index.html) Organizer of the Oslo Buddhist Studies Forum (OBSF) (http://www.hf.uio.no/ikos/english/research/network/obsf/events/) podcasts of the OBSF lectures (http://www.hf.uio.no/ikos/forskning/nettverk/obsf/podcast/) Member of the International Beirat of Paragrana. The International Review of Historical Anthropology Former co-chair of the Steering Committee, Ritual Studies Group, American Academy of Religion (http://rsnonline.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=424&Itemid=502) From e.demichelis at YMAIL.COM Tue May 8 22:28:51 2012 From: e.demichelis at YMAIL.COM (Elizabeth De Michelis) Date: Tue, 08 May 12 23:28:51 +0100 Subject: Rajayoga In-Reply-To: <50EB7375-5615-413F-BE81-BE2A961C7A39@khecari.com> Message-ID: <161227096188.23782.10310457796827838961.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear Dermot, Jim and members of the list, please allow me to clear up an inaccuracy which found its way in my book, and was echoed by Jim as expressed in his email below. As Jim points out, I stated that Vivekananda played a pioneering role in defining r?jayoga asYogas?tra-type meditative practice as opposed to other forms of yoga,and especially ha?ha. Georg Feuerstein correctly pointed out in a review of my book(http://www.traditionalyogastudies.com/reviews_yoga_modern-yoga.html)that such a distinction, and in the same terms, is already made byVij??nabhik?u in his Yogas?rasa?graha (which as many of you will know is a work attempting to summarise and and explain the Yogas?tra and Vy?sabh?sya). The translationof that passage (:55 in English; : 39 in Sanskrit in the same book) goes: ? "We do not enter into the details of Postures, because our subjectmatter is _Raja-Yoga_ (in which postures occupy only a secondaryposition). For a full treatment of all forms of postures and thepurification of the veins and arteries we refer the reader to works on_Hatha-Yoga_. Postures have been described." ? Here are the full biblio details of the book from the Bodleian Library(Oxford) records: ? Author ??????????? Vij??nabhiksu, 16th cent. Uniform Title ??????????? Yogas?rasangraha. English & Sanskrit Title ??????????? Yogas?rasangraha / Vij??nabhiksupran?ta ; anuv?daka Gang?n?tha Jh? Edition ??????????? Punarmudrita samskarana Publisher ??????????? Dill?i : Caukhamb? Samskrta Pratisth?na, 1992 Description ??????????? 102, 64 p. ; 22 cm Series ??????????? Vrajaj?vana pr?cya bh?rat? grantham?l? ; 6 Notes ??????????? Basic tenets of the Yoga school in Hindu philosophy; includes translation in English English and Sanskrit Reprint. Originally published: Madras : Theosophical Pub. House, 1933 (T.P.H. oriental series ; no. 10) Title on added t.p.: Yoga-s?ra-sangraha of Vij??na-Bhiksu Subjects ??????????? Yoga Philosophy, Indic Alternate Title ??????????? Yoga-s?ra-sangraha of Vij??na-Bhiksu Other Names ??????????? Jha, Ganganatha, Sir, 1871-1941. I plan to correct the above, and integrate the latest research on the this and related topics (such as Jim's and Jason's) in a second edition of my _History of Modern Yoga_ which is under discussion with the publishers. With all good wishes, Elizabeth De Michelis Independent scholar Cambridge, UK ________________________________ From: Jim Mallinson To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk Sent: Thursday, 3 May 2012, 21:32 Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Rajayoga Dear Dermot and other members of the list, As Prof. Slaje points out, my colleague Jason Birch's recent article is a fine survey of the use of the word ha?ha in the context of yoga. Since ha?ha is almost always found in conjunction with r?ja yoga, Jason's article discusses r?jayoga too. The compound r?jayoga suffers from the ambiguity inherent in the word yoga itself: it can mean both the practice of yoga and the goal. In the majority of its occurrences in ha?hayogic literature (which is, I think, the only type of Sanskrit literature in which it is found) it means simply sam?dhi. Occasionally it does refer to a specific type of yoga practice. In these instances it is meant to denote the best variety of yoga and so its use is comparable to that made popular by Vivekananda et al. - "my yoga is better than yours". (By the way, according to my notes - I don't have the books with me - Singleton 2008:84, referencing de Michelis 2004, writes that it was probably M.N.Dvivedi in a Yogas?tra translation of 1890 who first popularised the equation of r?jayoga with P?ta?jalayoga.) Thus in the Amanaska, which Jason is editing, it refers to a technique said to bring about the no-mind state. But in the Ha?savil?sa, for example, r?jayoga is a practice that involves ritual sex (and is said to be much better than ha?hayoga, which Ha?sami??hu, like many other medieval/early modern authors, sees as including Pata?jali's yoga). The Yogatattvopani?ad (c.17th-century) passage you cite is taken directly from the Datt?treyayoga??stra (c. 13th-century), as is most of the rest of the YTU. Re the mah?p?lavidhi: since the first attestation of the compound r?jayoga (of which I am aware) is not for another thousand years or so, it seems unlikely that there is a connection between the two. The one nirukti of r?jayoga of which I am aware (but Jason may know of others) does not understand it as meaning "the yoga of kings": ra?jatva?t sarvayoga?na?m? ra?jayoga iti smr?tah? | ra?ja?nam? di?pyama?nam? tam? parama?tma?nam avyayam? | dehinam? pra?payed yas tu ra?jayogah? sa ucyate (Amanaskayoga 2.4). Yours, with best wishes, Jim On 3 May 2012, at 10:55, Dermot Killingley wrote: > Can anyone help me with the history of the term rAjayoga? > > De Michelis (History of Modern Yoga p. 178), and D. G. White (Yoga in Practice p. > 20) say that in modern yoga movements it's identified with Patanjali, and that this > started with Blavatsky. Theosophical writers also oppose rAja-yoga (spiritual and > superior) to haTha-yoga (physical and inferior) (e.g. Sinnett Esoteric Buddhism p. > 27). This usage, especially the identification with Patanjali, is followed by > Vivekananda, who owed more to Theosophy than he liked to admit. > > Going further back, the haTha-yoga-pradIpikA (HYP 2.76) says rAja-yoga and > HaTha-yoga should be practised together, but also lists rAja-yoga as one of the terms > for the highest state (HYP 4.3-4). > > White (Yoga in Practice p. 17) says that according to HYP haTha-yoga leads to jIvan- > mukti and rAja-yoga leads to videha-mukti, but I don't find this in the text. > > Further back again, the yoga-tattva-upanishad lists mantra-yoga, laya-yoga, haTha- > yoga and rAja-yoga (Dasgupta Hist Ind Phil vol 1 p. 229; Eliade Yoga p. 129). > > And has the term rAja-yoga anything to do with the mahIpAla-vidhi (MBh 12.308.25) > which Edgerton observes "agrees perfectly with the Gita's usual definition of yoga" > ("The meaning of sAMkhya and yoga" (American Journal of Philology vol. 45) p. 45)? > > Can anyone fill any of the many gaps in this story? 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University, PhD, Sanskrit, University of California at Berkeley, 2011. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Joseph.Walser at TUFTS.EDU Wed May 9 13:50:59 2012 From: Joseph.Walser at TUFTS.EDU (Walser, Joseph) Date: Wed, 09 May 12 13:50:59 +0000 Subject: Third gender In-Reply-To: <722081071d071.4faa7d48@getmail.no> Message-ID: <161227096205.23782.3792923570250986073.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> As I recall, the first chapter of Gayatri Reddy's book, WIth Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijira Identity in South India has a brief but decently thorough discussion of historical souces on the third gender. THis discussion starts on page 18 and cites most of the classic studies on the subject. The rest of the book is a pretty good read too. -j With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture) - Gayatri Reddy; Joseph Walser Associate Professor Department of Religion Tufts University ________________________________ From: Indology [INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk] on behalf of lmfosse at GETMAIL.NO [lmfosse at GETMAIL.NO] Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 8:20 AM To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk Subject: [INDOLOGY] Third gender Dear members of the list! Do any of you know of papers / studies of non-standard sexualities in ancient India (homosexuality, transsexualism, lesbianism etc.)? Best regards, Lars Martin Fosse lmfosse at getmail.no From lmfosse at GETMAIL.NO Wed May 9 12:20:56 2012 From: lmfosse at GETMAIL.NO (lmfosse at GETMAIL.NO) Date: Wed, 09 May 12 14:20:56 +0200 Subject: Third gender Message-ID: <161227096200.23782.3933459523410519967.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear members of the list! Do any of you know of papers / studies of non-standard sexualities in ancient India (homosexuality, transsexualism, lesbianism etc.)? Best regards, Lars Martin Fosse lmfosse at getmail.no -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From klaus.karttunen at HELSINKI.FI Wed May 9 11:26:09 2012 From: klaus.karttunen at HELSINKI.FI (Klaus Karttunen) Date: Wed, 09 May 12 14:26:09 +0300 Subject: Edward Conze's Memoirs In-Reply-To: <74a090f323c42.4faadb80@anu.edu.au> Message-ID: <161227096197.23782.9933190882342863518.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> In the 1980s when I had just read parts 1-2, I wondered about the fate of part 3. Someone, I don't remember who, said that a few copies have been circulated among selected colleagues. de Jong could well have been one of them. Best, Klaus Klaus Karttunen Professor of South Asian and Indoeuropean Studies Asian and African Studies, Department of World Cultures PL 59 (Unioninkatu 38 B) 00014 University of Helsinki, FINLAND Tel +358-(0)9-191 22674 Fax +358-(0)9-191 22094 Klaus.Karttunen at helsinki.fi On May 9, 2012, at 2:02 PM, McComas Taylor wrote: > Prof de Jong's vast library was sold to the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ, shortly after his death, and I understand that it is still sitting in boxes there. I wonder if there might be a copy of Part 3 there? > > McComas > > -- > McComas Taylor > Head, South Asia Program > ANU College of Asia and the Pacific > Tel: +61 2 6125 3179 > Location: Baldessin Precinct Building, 4.24 > Website: McComas Taylor > Courses: Learn about some of my courses: Sanskrit 1 | Indian Epics -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kauzeya at GMAIL.COM Wed May 9 13:42:04 2012 From: kauzeya at GMAIL.COM (Jonathan Silk) Date: Wed, 09 May 12 15:42:04 +0200 Subject: a scan? Message-ID: <161227096203.23782.5195944856755595.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> dear Colleagues, I wonder if someone might have already on their hard drive, or easy access to: Tola, Fernando and Carmen Dragonetti. 1980. ?An?ditva or Beginninglessness in Indian philosophy.? Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute 61: 1-20. A scan would be much appreciated! Cordial thanks in advance, Jonathan -- J. Silk Instituut Kern / Universiteit Leiden Leiden University Institute for Area Studies, LIAS Johan Huizinga Building, Room 1.37 Doelensteeg 16 2311 VL Leiden The Netherlands -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pwyzlic at UNI-BONN.DE Wed May 9 14:04:41 2012 From: pwyzlic at UNI-BONN.DE (Peter Wyzlic) Date: Wed, 09 May 12 16:04:41 +0200 Subject: Third gender In-Reply-To: <722081071d071.4faa7d48@getmail.no> Message-ID: <161227096207.23782.16038909568588996114.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Am 09.05.2012 14:20, schrieb lmfosse at GETMAIL.NO: > Do any of you know of papers / studies of non-standard sexualities in > ancient India (homosexuality, transsexualism, lesbianism etc.)? > Here are some examples: Syed, Renate: T?t?y? Prak?ti: Das "Dritte Geschlecht" im Alten Indien, in: Asiatische Studien, 57, 2003, S. 63-120 (available on-line, URL: ) Ruth Vanita (ed.): Same-sex love in India : readings from literature and history / edited by Ruth Vanita [et al.]. - Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000 [+ later reprints]. Rutha Vanita (ed.): Queering India : same-sex love and eroticism in Indian culture and society / ed. by Ruth Vanita. - London [et al.] : Routledge, 2002 Ruth Vanita: Love's rite : same-sex marriage in India and the West / Ruth Vanita. - New Delhi : Penguin Books, 2005 By the way, there is a website of the GALVA association: (i.e. Gay and Lesbian Vaishnava Association). Hope it helps Peter Wyzlic -- Institut f?r Orient- und Asienwissenschaften Bibliothek Universit?t Bonn Regina-Pacis-Weg 7 D-53113 Bonn From kiepue at T-ONLINE.DE Wed May 9 14:19:33 2012 From: kiepue at T-ONLINE.DE (=?utf-8?Q?petra_kieffer-P=C3=BClz?=) Date: Wed, 09 May 12 16:19:33 +0200 Subject: Third gender In-Reply-To: <722081071d071.4faa7d48@getmail.no> Message-ID: <161227096209.23782.16486447866789518.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> In addition to what has been already mentioned see - Thomas K. Gugler, "Locating Queer in the Vedas. Das dritte Gechlecht im alten Indien http://www.suedasien.info/analysen/1931 - L. Zwilling, M. J. Sweet, The evolution of third-sex constructs in ancient India, New Delhi 2000. - Amara Das Wilhelm, Trtiya-Prakriti: People of the third sex: understanding homosexuality, transgender idetnityt, and intersex conditions through Hinduism, Philadelphiy 2005 G. G. Bolich, Conversing on Gender, 2007 For information with respect to Buddhism see L. P. N. Perera, Sexuality in Ancient India. A STudy Based on the Pali Vinayapitaka, Colombo 1993. Best, Petra Kieffer-P?lz **************************************** Dr. Petra Kieffer-P?lz Wilhelm-K?lz-Strasse 2 99423 Weimar Germany Tel. 03643/ 770 447 kiepue at t-online.de (priv.) petra.kieffer-puelz at adwmainz.de www.pali.adwmainz.de Am 09.05.2012 um 14:20 schrieb lmfosse at GETMAIL.NO: > Dear members of the list! > > Do any of you know of papers / studies of non-standard sexualities in ancient India (homosexuality, transsexualism, lesbianism etc.)? > > Best regards, > > Lars Martin Fosse > lmfosse at getmail.no > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From buescher at HUM.KU.DK Wed May 9 15:45:31 2012 From: buescher at HUM.KU.DK (Hartmut Buescher) Date: Wed, 09 May 12 17:45:31 +0200 Subject: Third gender Message-ID: <161227096212.23782.390636557907345456.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> >... studies of non-standard sexualities in ancient India (..., transsexualism, ... etc.) Not least also in view of the significance of this issue in the MBh, Robert P. Goldman's ?Transsexualism, Gender, and Anxiety in Traditional India? [in: Journal of the American Oriental Society 113.3 (1993): 374-401], providing a survey of ?a number of salient examples of transsexualism drawn from the religious and mythological texts of ancient and medieval India? (further references in his bibliography), is likewise rather indispensible. HB From McComas.Taylor at ANU.EDU.AU Wed May 9 11:02:56 2012 From: McComas.Taylor at ANU.EDU.AU (McComas Taylor) Date: Wed, 09 May 12 21:02:56 +1000 Subject: Edward Conze's Memoirs Message-ID: <161227096194.23782.3752928516308402694.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Prof de Jong's vast library was sold to the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ, shortly after his death, and I understand that it is still sitting in boxes there. I wonder if there might be a copy of Part 3 there? McComas -- McComas Taylor Head, South Asia Program ANU College of Asia and the Pacific Tel: +61 2 6125 3179 Location: Baldessin Precinct Building, 4.24 Website: McComas Taylor(http://arktos.anu.edu.au/chill/index.php/mct)Courses: Learn about some of my courses: Sanskrit 1(http://www.screenr.com/NSBs) | Indian Epics(http://screenr.com/uUBs) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From andra.kleb at GOOGLEMAIL.COM Wed May 9 22:02:41 2012 From: andra.kleb at GOOGLEMAIL.COM (Andrey Klebanov) Date: Thu, 10 May 12 00:02:41 +0200 Subject: Third gender In-Reply-To: <79FCCAF7C75EB045B63C1FDFDB0E38B21A6EB2F4AB@post> Message-ID: <161227096214.23782.16348733341235938280.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> ...as well as: Zwilling, Leonard. 1992. Homosexuality as seen in indian buddhist texts. In Buddhism, Sexuality, and Gender. Ed. Jos? Ignacio Cabez?n. Albany: University of New York Press a google-preview of which can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/cpaptdk there are also some informations on these topics from the point of medical+sexological literature scattered throughout RP Das' monumental work (fortunately endowed with a detailed index): Das, Rahul Peter. 2003. The Origin of the Life of a Human Being : Conception and the Female According to Ancient Indian Medical and Sexological Literature. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers. see, for example, his discussion of Skt terms. napu?saka and pa??aka Andrey On 09.05.2012, at 17:45, Hartmut Buescher wrote: >> ... studies of non-standard sexualities in ancient India (..., transsexualism, ... etc.) > > Not least also in view of the significance of this issue in the MBh, > Robert P. Goldman's > ?Transsexualism, Gender, and Anxiety in Traditional India? > [in: Journal of the American Oriental Society 113.3 (1993): 374-401], > providing a survey of ?a number of salient examples of transsexualism > drawn from the religious and mythological texts of ancient and medieval > India? (further references in his bibliography), is likewise rather indispensible. > > HB -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lmfosse at GETMAIL.NO Wed May 9 23:04:14 2012 From: lmfosse at GETMAIL.NO (lmfosse at GETMAIL.NO) Date: Thu, 10 May 12 01:04:14 +0200 Subject: Non-standard sexualities Message-ID: <161227096218.23782.10748496769508195166.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> I would like to thank Joseph Walser, Tim Cahill, Peter Wyzlic, Petra Kieffer-P?lz, Hartmut Buescher, Dermot Killingley, Andrey Klebanov for their help. Assuming that this may be of interest to others than me, I take the liberty of passing the material I received on to the Indology list. Best regards, Lars Martin Fosse ***** As I recall, the first chapter of Gayatri Reddy's book, WIth Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijira Identity in South India has a brief but decently thorough discussion of historical souces on the third gender. THis discussion starts on page 18 and cites most of the classic studies on the subject. The rest of the book is a pretty good read too. ?-j ?With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture) - Gayatri Reddy; *** Below is a list of references that I've collected over the years.? Any comments attached belong to the folks who originally posted the information on various list serves. ?best, Tim ?Artola, George, "The Transvestite in Sanskrit Story and Drama," Annals of Oriental Research, vol. 25, ed. K. Kunjunni Rada, Madras, 1975, 56-68. ?Boyce, Paul? 2007 "Conceiving Kothis": Men Who Have Sex with Men in India and the Cultural Subject of HIV Prevention. Medical Anthropology 26:175-203. Goldman, Robert. [Article on cross-dressing] JAOS circa 1988. ?Jose? I. Cabezon (ed.), Buddhism, Sexuality and Gender, Albany: SUNY, 1992. ?Check in the sexual offenses section of Manu chapter 8, verses 369-370 for lesbian activities. Serena Nanda, NEITHER MAN NOR WOMAN: THE HIJRAS OF INDIA (Belmont: Wadsworth, 1990). ?Sweet, Michael J.; Zwilling, Leonard, "The first medicalization: the taxonomy and etiology of queerness in classical Indian medicine," Journal of the History of Sexuality 3.4 (1993) 590-607. ? Swidler, Arlene (ed.), HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE WORLD RELIGIONS (Valley Forge: Trinity Press, 1993), which includes a fine chapter on homosexuality and Hinduism by Arvind Sharma, and one on Islam as well. ? Thadani, Giti. Sakhiyani : lesbian desire in ancient and modern India. Giti Thadani. London ; New York : Cassell, 1996. ? Zwilling, Leonard; Sweet, Michael J., "'Like a city ablaze': the third sex and the creation of sexuality in Jain religious literature," Journal of the History of Sexuality 6.3 (1996) 359-384. ? >The textual analysis in Thadani's book is somewhat shaky--be very, very ? >careful in using these "proof" texts. You may want to check other ? >translations of the same passages and also the original texts. ? >There was also a special issue on Hinduism and Homosexuality in the Trikona ? >magazine. I believe it was sometime just before Spring 1997-- if you don't ?>get it earlier, I could check the date when I get back to the office. ? >There could be more resources from art history on this topic--check out ?>temples in Orissa and MP. ?I heartily agree with Vasu on this point: Thadani's textual analysis is VERY problematic, and I too would be very careful of endorsing her claims without sound knowledge of the texts in question. Personally, however, I found the material in the latter half of the book to be very interesting, since it gives one a picture of the current situation (which is not so pretty, actually). Still, the book is useful since there is nothing else (to my knowledge) like it, and the bibliography is quite diverse. Tracy ?http://www.trikone.org - Trikone (tri as in trim, kone as in cone, Sanskrit for triangle) is a registered non-profit organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered South Asians (South Asia includes Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Tibet). Founded in 1986 in the San Francisco Bay Area, Trikone is the oldest group of its kind in the world ? Rachel Fell McDermott's article in JAAR 68(4), December 2000. It's not specifically on sexuality, but some sex-related issues come up. ?To the array of print literature already cited, add "The Extreme Orient: The Construction of 'Tantrism' as a Category in the Orientalist Imagination," by Hugh B. Urban, published in the journal Religion (1999), 29: 123-46. Ruth Vanita and Saleem Kidwai entitled, "Same Sex Love in India: Readings from Indian History and Literature." The authors present a vast array of sources documenting same sex love in India from ancient to contemporary times. Their critical essays introducing the literature of a period (ancient, medieval, colonial, contemporary) as well as specific genres and authors are outstanding--erudite, insightful and extremely well grounded in scholarship on gender and sexuality. After Vanita's insightful discussion of the passionate (though not necessarily sexual) love expressed between Arjuna and Krishna, you'll never read the Mahabharata the same way again. Hall, Kira ? 2005 Intertextual Sexuality: Parodies of Class, Identity and Desire in Liminal Delhi. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 15(1):125-144. ? Khanna, Akshay ?2007 Us "Sexuality" Types: A Critical Engagement with the Postcoloniality of Sexuality. ?In: ?The Phobic and the Erotic: The Politics of Sexualities in Contemporary Indi/a/, ed. Brinda Bose and Subhabrata Bhattacharyya. Calcutta: Seagull Books. 159-200. ? Lawrence Cohen ?2005 The Kothi Wars: AIDS, Cosmopolitanism and the Morality of Classification. ?In: Sex in Development: Science, Sexuality and Morality in Global Perspective, Vincanne Adams and Stacey Leigh Pigg (eds.). 269-303. ? Reddy, Gayatri ?2007 Sexual Differences and Their Discontents: Shifting Contexts of "Thirdness" in Hyderabad. ?In ?The Phobic and the Erotic: The Politics of Sexualities in Contemporary India, Brinda Bose and Subhabrata Bhattacharyya, eds. Calcutta: Seagull Books. 301-322. ?*** Here are some examples: Syed, Renate: T?t?y? Prak?ti: Das "Dritte Geschlecht" im Alten Indien, in: Asiatische Studien, 57, 2003, S. 63-120 (available on-line, URL: ) Ruth Vanita (ed.): Same-sex love in India : readings from literature and history / edited by Ruth Vanita [et al.]. - Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000 [+ later reprints]. Rutha Vanita (ed.): Queering India : same-sex love and eroticism in Indian culture and society / ed. by Ruth Vanita. - London [et al.] : Routledge, 2002 Ruth Vanita: Love's rite : same-sex marriage in India and the West / Ruth Vanita. - New Delhi : Penguin Books, 2005 ?By the way, there is a website of the GALVA association: (i.e. Gay and Lesbian Vaishnava Association). ? *** In addition to what has been already mentioned see? - Thomas K. Gugler, "Locating Queer in the Vedas. Das dritte Gechlecht im alten Indien http://www.suedasien.info/analysen/1931 - L. Zwilling, M. J. Sweet, The evolution of third-sex constructs in ancient India, New Delhi ?2000. - Amara Das Wilhelm, Trtiya-Prakriti: People of the third sex: understanding homosexuality, transgender idetnityt, and intersex conditions through Hinduism, Philadelphiy 2005 G. G. Bolich, Conversing on Gender, 2007 For information with respect to Buddhism see L. P. N. Perera, Sexuality in Ancient India. A STudy Based on the Pali Vinayapitaka, Colombo 1993. *** >... studies of non-standard sexualities in ancient India (..., >transsexualism, ... etc.) ?Not least also in view of the significance of this issue in the MBh, Robert P. Goldman's ?Transsexualism, Gender, and Anxiety in Traditional India? [in: Journal of the American Oriental Society 113.3 (1993): 374-401], providing a survey of ?a number of salient examples of transsexualism drawn from the religious and mythological texts of ancient and medieval India? (further references in his bibliography), is likewise rather indispensible. ?*** I note that Peter Wyzlic has referred to Ruth Vanita's work. Here's another by her: 'Full of God: Ashtavakra and Ideas of Justice in Hindu Texts' (Religions of South Asia 3 (2009): 167-81). It uses the story of Ashtavakra in Mahabharata 13 and other sources in an imaginative (rather than a strictly indological) way, as a protest against norms of gender, sexual orientation etc. ?*** ...as well as:? Zwilling, Leonard. 1992. Homosexuality as seen in indian buddhist texts. In Buddhism, Sexuality, and Gender. Ed. Jos? Ignacio Cabez?n. Albany: University of New York?Press a google-preview of which can be found here:?http://tinyurl.com/cpaptdk ?there are also some informations on these topics from the point of medical+sexological literature scattered throughout RP Das' monumental work (fortunately endowed with a detailed index): Das, Rahul Peter. 2003. The Origin of the Life of a Human Being : Conception and the Female According to Ancient Indian Medical and Sexological Literature. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers.??????????? see, for example, his discussion of Skt terms. napu?saka and pa??aka *** Lars Martin Fosse lmfosse at getmail.no -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I imagine there may have been some well known poets from Pataliputra whose works have survived, and perhaps from other places and periods too. I would be grateful for any leads or ideas. Thank you Venetia -- Venetia Kotamraju +91 997230 5440 www.rasalabooks.com www.venetiaansell.wordpress.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From vasubandhu at EARTHLINK.NET Fri May 11 02:02:36 2012 From: vasubandhu at EARTHLINK.NET (Dan Lusthaus) Date: Thu, 10 May 12 22:02:36 -0400 Subject: Mysticism Message-ID: <161227096230.23782.17405150223910419902.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> It's hard to imagine a culture in which debate was so deeply ingrained and practiced with such relish and passion would have failed to come us with words for "challenge." Indeed Monier-Williams offers no less than 20. 1 abhigraha (challenge) 2 abhy?hve (challenge) 3 ?k?ip (challenge) 4 ?k?epa (challenge) 5 ?hve (challenge) 6 ?hava (challenge) 7 ?hv?na (challenge) 8 uts? (challenge) 9 upah?ti (challenge) 10 up?hve (challenge) 11 tik (challenge) 12 p?tan?hava (challenge) 13 pratyarth (challenge) 14 praty?kru? (challenge) 15 prav?da (challenge) 16 sa?cud (challenge) 17 samabhigarj (challenge) 18 sam?hve (challenge) 19 sam?hva (challenge) 20 sam?hvaya (challenge) http://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/mwquery/index.html (and search in the "english" box for "challenge"; NB. a search for "mysticism" yields zero hits.) Apte's Eng-Skt Dictionary draws a blank for "challenge" -- a caution against relying on it for more than rudimentary suggestions. (Apte also has zero hits for "mysticism") Dan Lusthaus ----- Original Message ----- From: "shrinivasa varakhedi" Similarly we have another word which does probably does not find a match in Sanskrit - CHALLENGE! what could be the sanskrit term for this ? Do we have any word even in other Indian Languages? shrivara From dbhattacharya200498 at YAHOO.COM Thu May 10 16:35:50 2012 From: dbhattacharya200498 at YAHOO.COM (Dipak Bhattacharya) Date: Fri, 11 May 12 00:35:50 +0800 Subject: poets from Bihar? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <161227096226.23782.693294587163009508.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear Colleague, Vidy?pati of Mithila ? Vai??ava devotional poems If k?vya is meant then one may count B??abha??a ? K?dambar? and Har?acarita-- prose romance, Vi??khadatta ? Mudr?r?k?asa -- drama. Eastern UP is culturally akin to Bihar. This region too produced poets like Vatsabh??i. Best DB ________________________________ From: Venetia Kotamraju To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk Sent: Thursday, 10 May 2012 6:45 PM Subject: [INDOLOGY] poets from Bihar? Dear list, Is anybody aware of Sanskrit poets from the area that is now Bihar? ?I imagine there may have been some well known poets from Pataliputra whose works have survived, and perhaps from other places and periods too. I would be grateful for any leads or ideas. Thank you Venetia -- Venetia Kotamraju +91 997230 5440 www.rasalabooks.com www.venetiaansell.wordpress.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shrivara at GMAIL.COM Fri May 11 01:34:22 2012 From: shrivara at GMAIL.COM (shrinivasa varakhedi) Date: Fri, 11 May 12 07:04:22 +0530 Subject: Mysticism In-Reply-To: <2D096063-C20A-4796-AE39-896BB806A965@uni-muenchen.de> Message-ID: <161227096228.23782.8123346434160426354.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Similarly we have another word which does probably does not find a match in Sanskrit - CHALLENGE! what could be the sanskrit term for this ? Do we have any word even in other Indian Languages? shrivara On 02-May-2012, at 3:43 PM, Robert Zydenbos wrote: > In Kannada, the commonly used word in ?dhy?tmikate (which of course is Sanskrit ?dhy?tmikat?), but the same word also seems to be used as a supposed equivalent for 'spirituality'. As Dominik already said, it seems we have another example of incommensurability here. > > RZ > > On Apr 29, 2012, at 10:53 PM, Dominik Wujastyk wrote: > >> You might look at Apte's Eng-Skt dict for some ideas. >> ? http://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/scans/AEScan/AEScanjpg/ae0302-myope.jpg >> But as always with such queries (like last year's 'What's the Sanskrit for "go with the flow"?'), one has first to ask whether there is a Sanskritic concept that might correspond to English "mysticism." And, most probably, there isn't, quite. Much interesting work has been done on incommensurability in translation theory. >> >> Dominik >> >> >> On 29 April 2012 13:49, Harsha Dehejia wrote: >> Friends~ >> >> What is the best Sanskrit word for mysticism? >> >> Regards. >> >> Harsha > > ----- > Prof. Dr. Robert J. Zydenbos > Institute of Indology and Tibetology > Department of Asian Studies > University of Munich > Germany > Tel. (+49-89-) 2180-5782 > Fax (+49-89-) 2180-5827 > Web http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~zydenbos From harshadehejia at HOTMAIL.COM Fri May 11 15:02:31 2012 From: harshadehejia at HOTMAIL.COM (Harsha Dehejia) Date: Fri, 11 May 12 11:02:31 -0400 Subject: Hindu Sound Message-ID: <161227096238.23782.14455259622899894887.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Friends~ I w ant to include the Aesthetics of the Hindu Sound in my course and I find that I do not have enough material. Can you please recommend a book or any essays that you have written or read? Kind regards. Harsha Prof. Harsha V. Dehejia -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lnelson at SANDIEGO.EDU Fri May 11 18:38:28 2012 From: lnelson at SANDIEGO.EDU (Lance Nelson) Date: Fri, 11 May 12 11:38:28 -0700 Subject: Hindu Sound In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <161227096255.23782.3446960825175417665.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear Prof. Dehejia, In the event it may be of assistance, I'm pasting below my (perhaps a year or so out of date) biblio on music and religion in South Asia. My favorite starting point, for students, is the article by Donna Wulff. Below also are links to RISA-L bibliographies on the topic. Best wishes, Lance RELIGION AND MUSIC IN HINDU SOUTH ASIA Encyclopedia Alison, Arnold, ed. South Asia: The Indian Subcontinent. Garland encyclopedia of World Music, vol. 5. New York, NY : Garland Pub., 2000. Bohlman, Philip V. "Music: Music and Religion in India," in The Encyclopedia of Religion, ed. Lindsay Jones, pp. 6278-6287. Detroit: MacMillan Reference USA, 2005. Khan, Ali Akbar and Ruckert, George. The Classical Music of North India. St. Louis: East Bay Books, 1991. [R] Shiloah, Ammon. "Islam and Music." In Music in the World of Islam: A Socio-Cultural Study. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1995. [R] Slawek, Stephen M. "The Classical Master-Discipline Tradition," in Nettl, Bruno, et al, eds. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: India [Reference], pp. 457-467 Slawek, Stephen M. "Popular Kirtan in Benares: Some 'Great' Aspects of a Little Tradition." Ethnomusicology, 32:2 (1988), pp. 77-92 Books and Articles Thielemann, Selina. Sounds of the Sacred : Religious Music in India. 1st ed. New Delhi, A.P.H. Publishing Corporation. 1998. ISBN: 8170249902 $33.30 Allen, Matthew. 1998. "Tales Tunes Tell: Deepening the Dialogue Between 'Classical' and 'non-Classical' in the Music of India." In Yearbook for Traditional Music 30:22-52. Beck, Guy L. 1993. Sonic Theology: Hinduism and Sacred Sound. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press. Beck, Guy L., guest ed. 1996. Journal of Vaishnava Studies 4(2) (Spring).[devoted entirely to music] Beck, Guy L. 2006. Sacred Sound: Experiencing Music in World Religions. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfred Laurier Univ. Press. Capwell, Charles. 2011. Sailing on the Sea of Love: The Music of the Bauls of Bengal. London: Seagull Books. Irwin, Joyce, ed. 1983. Sacred Sound: Music in Religious Thought and Practice. Journal of the American Academy of Religion studies v. 50, no. 1. Chico, Calif.: Scholars Press. [See Carter, Lawrence, Wulff] Jackson, William J. 1991. Tyagaraja: Life and Lyrics. New York: Oxford University Press. Khan, Ali Akbar and Ruckert, George. 1991. The Classical Music of North India. St. Louis: East Bay Books. Pesch, Ludwig. 1999. The Illustrated Companion to South Indian Music. Oxford Univ. Press. Rowell, Lewis. 1992. Music and Musical Thought in Early India. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Ruckert, George. 2003. Music in North India: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. Schultz, Anna. 2002. "Hindu Nationalism, Music, and Embodiment in Marathi Rashtriya Kirtan." Ethnomusicology 46(2):307-322. Shankar, Ravi. 1999. Raga Mala: The Autobiography of Ravi Shankar. Ed. George Harrison. New York: Welcome Rain Publishers. Sullivan, Lawrence E. 1997. Enchanting Powers: Music in the World's Religions. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions. Terada, Yoshitaka. 2000. "T. N. Rajarattinam Pillai and Caste Rivalry in South Indian Classical Music." Ethnomusicology 44(3):460-490. Thielemann, Selina. 1998. Sounds of the Sacred: Religious Music in India. New Delhi: APH Publishing Corporation. ________. 1998. Rasalila: a Musical Study of Religious Drama in Vraja. New Delhi: APH Publishing Corporation. Viswanathan, T., and Matthew Allen. 2003. Music in South India: The Karnatak Concert Tradition and Beyond. Oxford Univ. Press. Wulff, Donna. 1983. "On Practicing Religiously: Music as Sacred in India." In Sacred Sound: Music in Religious Thought and Practice, ed. Joyce Irwin, 149-172. Chico, Calif.: Scholars Press. See also: http://www.montclair.edu/RISA/biblio/b-relmusic2.html http://www.montclair.edu/RISA/biblio/b-bhajan.html ______________________________ Lance Nelson Theology & Religious Studies University of San Diego From: Indology [mailto:INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Harsha Dehejia Sent: Friday, May 11, 2012 8:03 AM To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk Subject: [INDOLOGY] Hindu Sound Friends~ I w ant to include the Aesthetics of the Hindu Sound in my course and I find that I do not have enough material. Can you please recommend a book or any essays that you have written or read? Kind regards. Harsha Prof. Harsha V. Dehejia [http://www.arekaydesigns.com/imgs/dehejia/dehejia-email.jpg] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dbhattacharya200498 at YAHOO.COM Fri May 11 04:07:02 2012 From: dbhattacharya200498 at YAHOO.COM (Dipak Bhattacharya) Date: Fri, 11 May 12 12:07:02 +0800 Subject: Mysticism In-Reply-To: <2EF2C635-4623-4591-A3AA-DF5233D57AE7@gmail.com> Message-ID: <161227096233.23782.16196151422961746284.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> 11 5 12 Secondary class students of Sanskrit are taught two examples on P??ini 1.3.31 spardh?y?m ??a??? hve takes the middle ending when challenge is meant? : Mallo mallam ?hvayate ?the wrestler challenges (his rival) wrestler i.e. throws down the gauntlet.? And ch?tra? ch?tram ?hvayati ?the students calls (another) student? So spardh? fits the bill. Another Vedic word is ??dhy? in ya? ?ardhate n?nudad?ti ??dhy?m. Best DB ________________________________ From: shrinivasa varakhedi To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk Sent: Friday, 11 May 2012 7:04 AM Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Mysticism Similarly we have another word which does probably does not find a match in Sanskrit - CHALLENGE! what could be the sanskrit term for this ? Do we have any word even in other Indian Languages? shrivara On 02-May-2012, at 3:43 PM, Robert Zydenbos wrote: > In Kannada, the commonly used word in ?dhy?tmikate (which of course is Sanskrit ?dhy?tmikat?), but the same word also seems to be used as a supposed equivalent for 'spirituality'. As Dominik already said, it seems we have another example of incommensurability here. > > RZ > > On Apr 29, 2012, at 10:53 PM, Dominik Wujastyk wrote: > >> You might look at Apte's Eng-Skt dict for some ideas. >> ??? ? http://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/scans/AEScan/AEScanjpg/ae0302-myope.jpg >> But as always with such queries (like last year's 'What's the Sanskrit for "go with the flow"?'), one has first to ask whether there is a Sanskritic concept that might correspond to English "mysticism."? And, most probably, there isn't, quite.? Much interesting work has been done on incommensurability in translation theory. >> >> Dominik >> >> >> On 29 April 2012 13:49, Harsha Dehejia wrote: >> Friends~ >> >> What is the best Sanskrit word for mysticism? >> >> Regards. >> >> Harsha > > ----- > Prof. Dr. Robert J. Zydenbos > Institute of Indology and Tibetology > Department of Asian Studies > University of Munich > Germany > Tel. (+49-89-) 2180-5782 > Fax (+49-89-) 2180-5827 > Web http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~zydenbos -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jpb at AUSTIN.UTEXAS.EDU Fri May 11 17:18:49 2012 From: jpb at AUSTIN.UTEXAS.EDU (Joel Brereton) Date: Fri, 11 May 12 12:18:49 -0500 Subject: Sanskrit Position Announcement Message-ID: <161227096249.23782.3233333265145695828.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> I wanted to bring to your attention the following announcement of an open rank position in Sanskrit at The University of Texas. You are welcome to contact me for further information. Joel Joel Brereton Associate Professor of Asian Studies The University of Texas at Austin Position in Sanskrit Language and Literature The Department of Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin invites applications for a tenured, open-rank faculty position in Sanskrit language and literature anticipated to start in Fall 2013. Applicants should hold a Ph.D. in a relevant field with demonstrable doctoral-level training in the language, and with disciplinary training in religious studies or cultural history. Experience teaching Sanskrit at the advanced level is required. Research competence in a second South Asian language (preferably classical Tamil or Malayalam) or in a classical language of East Asia (preferably Chinese or Tibetan) is desired, but not required. Successful applicant must have a strong interest in both undergraduate and graduate teaching, a superior record of research and service, and an exemplary teaching record at the university level. Duties include teaching at all levels of our curriculum, directing dissertations, M.A. reports, and honors theses, publishing actively, and offering service to the Department, the College of Liberal Arts, and the University. Salary is competitive and dependent upon qualifications and experience. Interested persons should submit a letter of interest, detailed curriculum vitae including academic and professional experience, and the names, addresses, and contact information of three or more references to: Sanskrit Search Committee Chair, Department of Asian Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, 120 Inner Campus Drive, Mail Code: G9300, Austin, Texas 78712-1251. Review of applications will begin September 1, 2012, and will continue until the position is filled. There will be a background check on the applicant selected. The University of Texas at Austin is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. From tylerwwilliams at GMAIL.COM Fri May 11 07:59:21 2012 From: tylerwwilliams at GMAIL.COM (Tyler Williams) Date: Fri, 11 May 12 13:29:21 +0530 Subject: Mysticism In-Reply-To: <2EF2C635-4623-4591-A3AA-DF5233D57AE7@gmail.com> Message-ID: <161227096235.23782.18321223565405913164.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> The most commonly-used equivalent in modern Hindi is cunaut?, which has a usage more or less equivalent with the English term (as opposed to, say, lalak?r, which is only used for a verbal call to fight, etc). Earlier Hindi texts use some of the Sanskrit terms mentioned earlier. Tyler On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 7:04 AM, shrinivasa varakhedi wrote: > Similarly we have another word which does probably does not find a match > in Sanskrit - CHALLENGE! > > what could be the sanskrit term for this ? Do we have any word even in > other Indian Languages? > > shrivara > > On 02-May-2012, at 3:43 PM, Robert Zydenbos wrote: > > > In Kannada, the commonly used word in ?dhy?tmikate (which of course is > Sanskrit ?dhy?tmikat?), but the same word also seems to be used as a > supposed equivalent for 'spirituality'. As Dominik already said, it seems > we have another example of incommensurability here. > > > > RZ > > > > On Apr 29, 2012, at 10:53 PM, Dominik Wujastyk wrote: > > > >> You might look at Apte's Eng-Skt dict for some ideas. > >> ? > http://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/scans/AEScan/AEScanjpg/ae0302-myope.jpg > >> But as always with such queries (like last year's 'What's the Sanskrit > for "go with the flow"?'), one has first to ask whether there is a > Sanskritic concept that might correspond to English "mysticism." And, > most probably, there isn't, quite. Much interesting work has been done on > incommensurability in translation theory. > >> > >> Dominik > >> > >> > >> On 29 April 2012 13:49, Harsha Dehejia > wrote: > >> Friends~ > >> > >> What is the best Sanskrit word for mysticism? > >> > >> Regards. > >> > >> Harsha > > > > ----- > > Prof. Dr. Robert J. Zydenbos > > Institute of Indology and Tibetology > > Department of Asian Studies > > University of Munich > > Germany > > Tel. (+49-89-) 2180-5782 > > Fax (+49-89-) 2180-5827 > > Web http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~zydenbos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Best wishes, George Thompson On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Harsha Dehejia wrote: > Friends~ > > I w ant to include the Aesthetics of the Hindu Sound in my course and I > find that I do not have enough material. > > Can you please recommend a book or any essays that you have written or > read? > > Kind regards. > > Harsha > Prof. Harsha V. Dehejia > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From michaels.axel at GOOGLEMAIL.COM Fri May 11 15:26:33 2012 From: michaels.axel at GOOGLEMAIL.COM (Axel Michaels) Date: Fri, 11 May 12 17:26:33 +0200 Subject: Hindu Sound In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <161227096241.23782.13753150060043189974.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear Harsha, whatever "Hindu sound" means, here is a thorough publication that I can recommend: Annette Wilke, Oliver Moebus: Sound and Communication. An Aesthetic cultural History of Sanskrit Hinduism. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 2011.- 1112 pp + DVD Best, Axel Am 11.05.2012 um 17:02 schrieb Harsha Dehejia: > Friends~ > > I w ant to include the Aesthetics of the Hindu Sound in my course and I find that I do not have enough material. > > Can you please recommend a book or any essays that you have written or read? > > Kind regards. > > Harsha > Prof. Harsha V. Dehejia > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From andra.kleb at GOOGLEMAIL.COM Fri May 11 15:54:08 2012 From: andra.kleb at GOOGLEMAIL.COM (Andrey Klebanov) Date: Fri, 11 May 12 17:54:08 +0200 Subject: Hindu Sound In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <161227096244.23782.10860567403330673405.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> this one could perhaps also be of some interest: Kitada, Makido. 2008. Sound and the musician's body. Traditional South Asian Medicine 8:115-129 Andrey On 11.05.2012, at 17:26, Axel Michaels wrote: > Dear Harsha, > > whatever "Hindu sound" means, here is a thorough publication that I can recommend: Annette Wilke, Oliver Moebus: Sound and Communication. An Aesthetic cultural History of Sanskrit Hinduism. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 2011.- 1112 pp + DVD > > Best, Axel > > > Am 11.05.2012 um 17:02 schrieb Harsha Dehejia: > >> Friends~ >> >> I w ant to include the Aesthetics of the Hindu Sound in my course and I find that I do not have enough material. >> >> Can you please recommend a book or any essays that you have written or read? >> >> Kind regards. >> >> Harsha >> Prof. Harsha V. Dehejia >> >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Ithamar --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ithamar Theodor, Ph.D Visiting Scholar - The Professorship in Indian Religions and Culture Department of Religious and Cultural Studies The Chinese University of Hong Kong theodor at orange.net.il [4] > ----- Original Message ----- > FROM: Harsha Dehejia [1] > TO: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk [2] > SENT: Friday, May 11, 2012 6:02 PM > SUBJECT: [INDOLOGY] Hindu Sound > Friends~ > > I w ant to include the Aesthetics of the Hindu Sound in my course and I find that I do not have enough material. > > Can you please recommend a book or any essays that you have written or read? > > Kind regards. > > Harsha > Prof. Harsha V. Dehejia > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 7128 (20120511) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > > http://www.eset.com [3] Links: ------ [1] mailto:harshadehejia at HOTMAIL.COM [2] mailto:INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk [3] http://www.eset.com/ [4] mailto:theodor at orange.net.il -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dermot at GREVATT.FORCE9.CO.UK Fri May 11 18:32:34 2012 From: dermot at GREVATT.FORCE9.CO.UK (Dermot Killingley) Date: Fri, 11 May 12 19:32:34 +0100 Subject: Skt courses in India Message-ID: <161227096252.23782.16996776444877662624.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear indologists, Can anyone advise a friend who is looking for a good English- medium Sanskrit course at an Indian university. He studied a two- year course at SOAS (London) a few years ago, and has since completed a very good PhD, but not using Sanskrit, so he considers himself a beginner. He has a good knowledge of several European languages. He'd prefer somewhere in Bengal, but is open to other suggestions. He tells me he has a good chance of getting funding for up to three years. I'm not sufficiently in touch to give advice unaided. Any suggestions? Dermot Killingley From palaniappa at AOL.COM Sat May 12 03:59:30 2012 From: palaniappa at AOL.COM (Sudalaimuthu Palaniappan) Date: Fri, 11 May 12 22:59:30 -0500 Subject: Fwd: [INDOLOGY] Mangala- title for brahmin physicians In-Reply-To: <8CEF6337BB15376-2118-6048F@webmail-d020.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: <161227096261.23782.16807627540153938104.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear Indologists, D. S. Sircar gives the following references. Annual Report of South Indian Epigraphy, 1917, part II, para 24 Annual Report of South Indian Epigraphy, 1917, Vol. V, p. 111 JRASB, Letters, Vols, VIII, pp. 317-21; IX, p. 101; Vol. XIV, p. 106; XVII, pp. 296ff Indian Antiquary, 1893, pp. 57f. "The Ambashta Jathi" in JUPHS, Vol. XVIII, pp. 148-61 I would greatly appreciate anyone who can email me a scan of any of these. Thanks in advance. Regards, Palaniappan On May 1, 2012, at 11:30 PM, Sudalaimuthu Palaniappan wrote: > In EI 30, p. 43, n. 5. Sircar refers to an article of his entitled, "The Ambash?ha Jati" in JUPHS, vol 18, pp. 148-61. He refers to some of his observations in other references. > > So far I have not come across any Tamil inscriptions mentioning amba??ha in the 7th century. The early Vaidya inscriptions I have seen are from the 8th century. There is a 11th century inscription mentioning an ambhaTTan2 . I would like to see the references Sircar is referring to. > > Regards, > Palaniappan > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dominik Wujastyk > To: INDOLOGY > Sent: Tue, May 1, 2012 1:37 am > Subject: [INDOLOGY] Fwd: [INDOLOGY] Mangala- title for brahmin physicians > > In a 1953-54 article in EI, D. C. Sircar noticed a plate that mentions Amba??has of Tamil Nadu, and DCS suggested that they were Vaidyas > who moved from S. India to Bengal and helped to crystallize the Bengal Vaidya tradition. There is a long history to the Amba??has, going back to the P?li Canon at least. I'm not aware of a specific study of this group (and would be grateful for any reference), but they are routinely considered to be barber-surgeons, pretty much in the same mould as the European barber-surgeons. > > @ARTICLE{sirc-raks, > author = {Dinesh Chandra Sircar}, > title = {6. {R?kshaskh?li (Sundarban)} Plate; {?aka} 1118}, > journal = {Epigraphia Indica}, > year = {1987}, > volume = {30}, > pages = {42--3}, > annote = {(1953--54)}, > } > > > -- > Dr Dominik Wujastyk > Department of South Asia, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, > University of Vienna, > Spitalgasse 2-4, Courtyard 2, Entrance 2.1 > 1090 Vienna > Austria > Project | home page | PGP | Free Dropbox account > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From palaniappa at AOL.COM Sat May 12 23:54:53 2012 From: palaniappa at AOL.COM (Sudalaimuthu Palaniappan) Date: Sat, 12 May 12 18:54:53 -0500 Subject: Fwd: [INDOLOGY] Mangala- title for brahmin physicians In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <161227096263.23782.1236014521888418876.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dominik, As regards D.S. Sircar's conclusions, his statement in footnote 5 that "The village Vaidyas in South India are barbers," gives us the underlying reason for his conclusions. Similar belief in barbers alone being the Tamil Vaidyas seems to have influenced E. Hultzsch more than a century ago and Y. Subbarayalu recently. In his book "South India Under the Cholas", p. 52, Subbarayalu says: "Another piece of somewhat tantalizing evidence comes from a Tanjavur inscription of R?jar?ja I, which refers to an almost similar title, Pa?chavan-ma?gala-p?raraiyan . It is interesting to note that E. Hultzsch has translated this title as ' the great lord of the barbers of the P???ya king'. Araiyan Bavaruddiran, who held this title is said to have been assigned the duty of k?linamai. Unfortunately, there is no known lexical authority to interpret the significance of the term k?linamai. Perhaps this is related to k?l or kattari-k?l meaning scissors. In any case it may have something to do with medical practice as the immediately preceding functionary is an amba??a (that is, ambash?a) with the title R?jar?ja-pray?gada-araiyan. Pray?ga in Sanskrit means, among other things, application of medicine and ambash?a in Sanskrit is a Vaidya too." Unfortunately, barbers are not the only Tamil Vaidyas. (Our own family Vaidya was a Vaishnava Brahmin.) Moreover, Hultszch and Subbarayalu have neglected to discuss an important piece of information in the Tanjavur inscription that Subbarayalu mentions above. See South Indian Inscriptions, vol.2, no.66 at http://tinyurl.com/6w82txp . If you scroll down, the relevant lines to be noted are 497 and 498. Line 497 does not have any word to indicate that the person was a barber. Hultzsch has made that assumption based on the 'mangala' title. (The person Subbarayalu calls 'the immediately preceding functionary' is actually mentioned in the following line, no. 498.) As for line 498, the word 'Amba??a?' is there. But so is the word '?a?a?gavi' ('Ca?a?kavi' according to Tamil Lexicon system of transliteration) meaning 'Sha?a?gavid'. Hultzsch had ascribed the meaning 'barber' to the word 'Amba??a?' based on its usage in modern times not realizing that it could have referred to a different person in the 11th century. But in doing so, he has discounted the significance of the word '?a?a?gavi' which refers to 'one well-versed in the six Ved??gas' and usually refers to Brahmins. If Hultzsch was reluctant to consider the person as a Brahmin because his gotra was not mentioned, it should be noted that in inscriptions there are many instances when a Brahmin's gotra is not mentioned as in (SII vol.2, no.31). If '?a?a?gavi' is taken to refer to the person's expertise in Ved??gas, then we have an one part-name, K??, as the proper name of the person instead of the often-expected father's name followed by the person's given name. But if we look at many 'Sha?a?gavid' names in SII vol.2, no. 99, we find many Sha?a?gavids with an one-part given name. For instance, see donee number 7 in the table in http://tinyurl.com/788vq9d . As for Hultzsch's assumption (which is followed by Subbarayalu) that the ma?gala/ma?kala title refers to barbers, we should note that in 1016-17 CE, a person by the name, K?atriya?ikh?ma?i Va?an??tu Brahmadeya Marucaln???u P?tann?r Va??ak Ka??uvan Araiyan P?curan-ampalavan Ma?kalaperaraiyan, was given some land and house-site so that he and his descendants could provide Vaidya services. Here Ka??uvan refers to K??va gotra. It is absolutely clear that the donee was a Brahmin with a 'ma?gala'/'ma?kala' title, who provided medical services In summary, any conclusion that Tamil/South Indian barbers went to Bengal and became Vaidyas is untenable if it is only based on the presence of 'Amba??an' or 'mangala'/'ma?kala' in the names of such persons. Regards, Palaniappan >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Dominik Wujastyk >> To: INDOLOGY >> Sent: Tue, May 1, 2012 1:37 am >> Subject: [INDOLOGY] Fwd: [INDOLOGY] Mangala- title for brahmin physicians >> >> In a 1953-54 article in EI, D. C. Sircar noticed a plate that mentions Amba??has of Tamil Nadu, and DCS suggested that they were Vaidyas >> who moved from S. India to Bengal and helped to crystallize the Bengal Vaidya tradition. There is a long history to the Amba??has, going back to the P?li Canon at least. I'm not aware of a specific study of this group (and would be grateful for any reference), but they are routinely considered to be barber-surgeons, pretty much in the same mould as the European barber-surgeons. >> >> @ARTICLE{sirc-raks, >> author = {Dinesh Chandra Sircar}, >> title = {6. {R?kshaskh?li (Sundarban)} Plate; {?aka} 1118}, >> journal = {Epigraphia Indica}, >> year = {1987}, >> volume = {30}, >> pages = {42--3}, >> annote = {(1953--54)}, >> } >> >> >> -- >> Dr Dominik Wujastyk >> Department of South Asia, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, >> University of Vienna, >> Spitalgasse 2-4, Courtyard 2, Entrance 2.1 >> 1090 Vienna >> Austria >> Project | home page | PGP | Free Dropbox account >> >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mahesrajpant at MSN.COM Sun May 13 04:48:11 2012 From: mahesrajpant at MSN.COM (Mahes Raj Pant) Date: Sun, 13 May 12 06:48:11 +0200 Subject: Symposium on epigraphy and early Shaivism Message-ID: <161227096267.23782.14771023292447804318.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> I glanced down a list of lectures to be read in the symposium on epigraphy and Shaivism. Nearly all the papers are really interesting. One has to wait for several years until the papers appear in the book form. There are two papers relating to Nepal. 1) ' Wanton Women and Their Property: an insight into a Licchavi inscription' and 2) 'Amshuvarman and the Rise of Pashupati as the Tutelary Deity of Nepal'. On both topics much has been written already, and I hope the authors have taken into their consideration the contributions of their predecessors. Unlike in India, in Nepal most of the first-rate research publish in the native language, in that case in Nepali. I hope the author of the second paper is aware of this fact. In the paper, ' Wanton Women...', I presume, the author takes the same topic which Gautam Vajracharya took 21 years ago (Gautam Vajracharya, 'SHE IS BAD: A Study of Change and Continuity in the Lifesytle of Women in Ancient Nepal due to Sanskritization', in Sally J.M. Sutherland, ed., Bridging Worlds: Studies on Women in South Asia (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1992), pp. 53-69. Mahes Raj Pant. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kauzeya at GMAIL.COM Sun May 13 17:24:42 2012 From: kauzeya at GMAIL.COM (Jonathan Silk) Date: Sun, 13 May 12 19:24:42 +0200 Subject: Buddhism Across Boundaries In-Reply-To: <20120513201735.79106lcvgapt0ur3.aparpola@webmail.helsinki.fi> Message-ID: <161227096272.23782.1991131541025299100.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> It is certainly not a secret, but it might bear repeating that the papers in this very welcome volume were delivered in 1993. A number of technical problems marred the first issue, which was also almost impossible to get (and given its first title "Collection of Essays" [!!] is also almost impossible to find in databases). Thus this is all the more welcome. However, the papers have not been updated (which given the speed things move in our field might not be crucial). Nevertheless: Caveat lector. Jonathan On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Asko Parpola wrote: > This volume certainly interests many subscribers to Indology. > > With best regards, AP > > ----- Forwarded message from vmair at sas.upenn.edu ----- > Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 06:28:57 -0400 > From: "Victor Mair" > Subject: BAB > To: asko.parpola at helsinki.fi > Cc: "Juha Janhunen" > > > The most recent issue of Sino-Platonic Papers is a book-length collection > of essays: "Buddhism Across Boundaries: The Interplay of Indian, Chinese, > and Central Asian Source Materials," edited by John R. McRae and Jan > Nattier. > > http://sino-platonic.org/**complete/spp222_indian_**chinese_buddhism.pdf > > -- > > Victor H. Mair, Professor of Chinese Language and Literature > Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations > 847/9 Williams Hall > University of Pennsylvania > 255 South 36th St. > Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305 > USA > > Tel.: 215-898-8432 (**please leave a message!**) > Dept. office: 215-898-7466 (for messages and inquiries) > Fax: 215-573-9617 (mark for the attention of Prof. Victor H. Mair) > e-mail: vmair at sas.upenn.edu (read infrequently) > > For a complete catalog of SINO-PLATONIC PAPERS (SPP) and information about > ordering, go to www.sino-platonic.org > New issues published regularly on the Web; all back issues still in print. > > > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > -- J. Silk Instituut Kern / Universiteit Leiden Leiden University Institute for Area Studies, LIAS Johan Huizinga Building, Room 1.37 Doelensteeg 16 2311 VL Leiden The Netherlands -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From asko.parpola at HELSINKI.FI Sun May 13 17:17:35 2012 From: asko.parpola at HELSINKI.FI (Asko Parpola) Date: Sun, 13 May 12 20:17:35 +0300 Subject: Buddhism Across Boundaries Message-ID: <161227096269.23782.6925669787851908729.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> This volume certainly interests many subscribers to Indology. With best regards, AP ----- Forwarded message from vmair at sas.upenn.edu ----- Date: Sun, 13 May 2012 06:28:57 -0400 From: "Victor Mair" Subject: BAB To: asko.parpola at helsinki.fi Cc: "Juha Janhunen" The most recent issue of Sino-Platonic Papers is a book-length collection of essays: "Buddhism Across Boundaries: The Interplay of Indian, Chinese, and Central Asian Source Materials," edited by John R. McRae and Jan Nattier. http://sino-platonic.org/complete/spp222_indian_chinese_buddhism.pdf -- Victor H. Mair, Professor of Chinese Language and Literature Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations 847/9 Williams Hall University of Pennsylvania 255 South 36th St. Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305 USA Tel.: 215-898-8432 (**please leave a message!**) Dept. office: 215-898-7466 (for messages and inquiries) Fax: 215-573-9617 (mark for the attention of Prof. Victor H. Mair) e-mail: vmair at sas.upenn.edu (read infrequently) For a complete catalog of SINO-PLATONIC PAPERS (SPP) and information about ordering, go to www.sino-platonic.org New issues published regularly on the Web; all back issues still in print. ----- End forwarded message ----- From annamisia at YAHOO.COM Mon May 14 13:10:45 2012 From: annamisia at YAHOO.COM (Anna A. Slaczka) Date: Mon, 14 May 12 06:10:45 -0700 Subject: Sanskrit proverb? Message-ID: <161227096274.23782.18380805652362786943.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear Friends and Colleagues, ? A student asked me about a source for this 'Sanskrit proverb' or rather a poem (please see below). I must admit that I never heared it, and it doesn't ring a bell at all. But perhaps someone has an idea? ? Best, ? Anna Slaczka Amsterdam Look to this day For it is life The very life of life. In its brief course lie all The realities and verities of existence The bliss of growth The splendor of action The glory of power ? For yesterday is but a dream And tomorrow is only a vision. But today, well lived Makes every yesterday a dream of happiness And every tomorrow a vision of hope. ? Look well, therefore, to this day. ? Sanskrit Proverb -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From vjroebuck at BTINTERNET.COM Mon May 14 15:16:03 2012 From: vjroebuck at BTINTERNET.COM (Valerie J Roebuck) Date: Mon, 14 May 12 16:16:03 +0100 Subject: Sanskrit proverb? In-Reply-To: <1337001045.49606.YahooMailNeo@web125505.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <161227096277.23782.7434870772312894052.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> I think this has been discussed on various lists before, and it was agreed that it was not from Sanskrit. Valerie J Roebuck On 14 May 2012, at 14:10, Anna A. Slaczka wrote: > Dear Friends and Colleagues, > > A student asked me about a source for this 'Sanskrit proverb' or rather a poem (please see below). I must admit that I never heared it, and it doesn't ring a bell at all. > But perhaps someone has an idea? > > Best, > > Anna Slaczka > Amsterdam > Look to this day > For it is life > The very life of life. > In its brief course lie all > The realities and verities of existence > The bliss of growth > The splendor of action > The glory of power > > For yesterday is but a dream > And tomorrow is only a vision. > But today, well lived > Makes every yesterday a dream of happiness > And every tomorrow a vision of hope. > > Look well, therefore, to this day. > > Sanskrit Proverb -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ssandahl at SYMPATICO.CA Mon May 14 21:07:49 2012 From: ssandahl at SYMPATICO.CA (Stella Sandahl) Date: Mon, 14 May 12 17:07:49 -0400 Subject: Sanskrit proverb? In-Reply-To: <16B28906-E053-430C-85D8-0A25CC575D30@btinternet.com> Message-ID: <161227096280.23782.6047373481864323436.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> If you google the line "For yesterday is but a dream > > And tomorrow is only a vision." -- You'll get 137,000 results - but no real answer of course! Best Stella Sandahl ssandahl at sympatico.ca On 2012-05-14, at 11:16 AM, Valerie J Roebuck wrote: >> For yesterday is but a dream >> And tomorrow is only a vision. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fleming_b4 at HOTMAIL.COM Mon May 14 21:57:23 2012 From: fleming_b4 at HOTMAIL.COM (Benjamin Fleming) Date: Mon, 14 May 12 17:57:23 -0400 Subject: Sanskrit proverb? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <161227096284.23782.5545501607630325074.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Well the very first link attributes it to K?lid?sa, though this may well be an apocryphal attribution. The (English) quote appears to come from Sir William Osler (deemed "father of modern medicine") who supposedly liked to use it in his speeches. The attributed title is "Salutation to the Dawn". One can find a number of email lists on 'the google' (to quote George Bush) who have attempted to vet this with not much success, although I did not search too deeply. Now, there is 20 minutes I will never get back. . . . Back to editing articles. BF -- Benjamin Fleming, Visiting Scholar, Dept. of Religious Studies; Cataloger, Sanskrit Manuscripts, Rare Book & Manuscript Library;University of Pennsylvania 249 S. 36th Street, 201 Claudia Cohen HallPhiladelphia, PA 19104 U.S.A. Telephone - 215-900-5744http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~bfleming Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 17:07:49 -0400 From: ssandahl at SYMPATICO.CA Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Sanskrit proverb? To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk If you google the line "For yesterday is but a dreamAnd tomorrow is only a vision." --You'll get 137,000 results - but no real answer of course!BestStella Sandahlssandahl at sympatico.ca On 2012-05-14, at 11:16 AM, Valerie J Roebuck wrote:For yesterday is but a dreamAnd tomorrow is only a vision. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From elisa.freschi at GMAIL.COM Tue May 15 05:14:24 2012 From: elisa.freschi at GMAIL.COM (elisa freschi) Date: Tue, 15 May 12 07:14:24 +0200 Subject: Sanskrit proverb? In-Reply-To: <1337058475.27842.YahooMailNeo@web193206.mail.sg3.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <161227096291.23782.13353546684810255902.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Maybe we can all agree that "Sanskrit" in the attribution "Sanskrit proverb" (just like very often in the Internet) only means "Ancient Wisdom". I think we discussed a similar issue already and Dominik brought several examples of people thinking that other inspiring "subh?????itas" must have certainly come from India. Best, elisa freschi Dr. Elisa Freschi research fellow of Sanskrit Facolt? di Studi Orientali Universit? di Roma 'La Sapienza' via Principe Amedeo 182b, 00185 Rome (Italy) fax +39 06 49385915 http://elisafreschi.blogspot.com http://uniroma.academia.edu/elisafreschi On 15/mag/12, at 07:07, Dipak Bhattacharya wrote: > > 15 5 12 > It vaguely reflects the idea of rolling time in a Tagore song > ?With two hands are played the cymbals of time, > Left and right > With two hands?/ > Beat by beat > Morning and night > New waves ever go on rising, > In the conflict yonder of white and black > Various colours are created rhythmically > Etc etc? > A point by point similarity is not claimed. > Best > DB > > From: Benjamin Fleming > To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk > Sent: Tuesday, 15 May 2012 3:27 AM > Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Sanskrit proverb? > > Well the very first link attributes it to K?lid?sa, though this may > well be an apocryphal attribution. The (English) quote appears to > come from Sir William Osler (deemed "father of modern medicine") who > supposedly liked to use it in his speeches. The attributed title is > "Salutation to the Dawn". One can find a number of email lists on > 'the google' (to quote George Bush) who have attempted to vet this > with not much success, although I did not search too deeply. > > Now, there is 20 minutes I will never get back. . . . > > Back to editing articles. > > BF > > -- > > Benjamin Fleming, > Visiting Scholar, Dept. of Religious Studies; > Cataloger, Sanskrit Manuscripts, Rare Book & Ma nuscript Library; > University of Pennsylvania 249 S. 36th Street, > 201 Claudia Cohen Hall > Philadelphia, PA 19104 U.S.A. > Telephone - 215-900-5744 > http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~bfleming > > > Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 17:07:49 -0400 > From: ssandahl at SYMPATICO.CA > Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Sanskrit proverb? > To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk > > If you google the line "For yesterday is but a dream > And tomorrow is only a vision." > -- > You'll get 137,000 results - but no real answer of course! > Best > Stella Sandahl > ssandahl at sympatico.ca > > > > On 2012-05-14, at 11:16 AM, Valerie J Roebuck wrote: > > For yesterday is but a dream > And tomorrow is only a visio n. > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From richard.gombrich at BALLIOL.OX.AC.UK Tue May 15 09:55:52 2012 From: richard.gombrich at BALLIOL.OX.AC.UK (Richard Gombrich) Date: Tue, 15 May 12 10:55:52 +0100 Subject: Sanskrit proverb? Message-ID: <161227096297.23782.25193819167157104.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> ?Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.? Khalil Gibran, The Prophet. I can't bear to read through the whole text to check for the longer version of this thought which has been posted, but it does sound like either Khalil Gibran or an imitator (parodist?). Richard Gombrich -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From dbhattacharya200498 at YAHOO.COM Tue May 15 05:07:55 2012 From: dbhattacharya200498 at YAHOO.COM (Dipak Bhattacharya) Date: Tue, 15 May 12 13:07:55 +0800 Subject: Sanskrit proverb? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <161227096287.23782.17365920411304667168.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> ? 15 5 12 It vaguely reflects the idea of rolling time in a Tagore song ?With two hands are played the cymbals of time, ?Left and right With two hands?/ Beat by beat Morning and night New waves ever go on rising, In the conflict yonder of white and black Various colours are created rhythmically Etc etc? ?A point by point similarity is not claimed. Best DB ________________________________ From: Benjamin Fleming To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk Sent: Tuesday, 15 May 2012 3:27 AM Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Sanskrit proverb? Well the very first link attributes it to K?lid?sa, though this may well be an apocryphal attribution. The (English) quote appears to come from Sir William Osler (deemed "father of modern medicine") who supposedly liked to use it in his speeches. The attributed title is "Salutation to the Dawn". One can find a number of email lists on 'the google' (to quote George Bush) who have attempted to vet this with not much success, although I did not search too deeply. Now, there is 20 minutes I will never get back. . . . Back to editing articles. BF -- Benjamin Fleming,? Visiting Scholar, Dept. of Religious Studies;? Cataloger, Sanskrit Manuscripts, Rare Book & Ma nuscript Library; University of Pennsylvania 249 S. 36th Street,? 201 Claudia Cohen Hall Philadelphia, PA 19104 U.S.A.? Telephone - 215-900-5744 http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~bfleming? ________________________________ Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 17:07:49 -0400 From: ssandahl at SYMPATICO.CA Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Sanskrit proverb? To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk If you google the line "For yesterday is but a dream And tomorrow is only a vision."? -- You'll get 137,000 results - but no real answer of course! Best Stella Sandahl ssandahl at sympatico.ca On 2012-05-14, at 11:16 AM, Valerie J Roebuck wrote: For yesterday is but a dream >>And tomorrow is only a visio n. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From H.J.H.Tieken at HUM.LEIDENUNIV.NL Tue May 15 11:09:59 2012 From: H.J.H.Tieken at HUM.LEIDENUNIV.NL (Tieken, H.J.H.) Date: Tue, 15 May 12 13:09:59 +0200 Subject: Ondaatje letters Message-ID: <161227096302.23782.18404011061902704067.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear colleagues, I am working on an edition and annotated translation of some 80 letters which between 1727 and 1737 were sent from Colombo and Galle to Cape Town in South Africa. The letters are addressed to a certain Nicolaas Ondaatje (Tamil ukantacci/ontacci) (indeed, an ancestor of Sir Christopher and Michael Ondaatje), who had been banished by the Dutch. They include letters from Nicolaas' mother, his brothers, friends and colleagues, and his old schoolmaster (Domingo Dias, mentioned in the school report in Valentijn's description of Ceylon). Most of the letters are in Tamil, a few in Dutch and one in Singhalees. I need some help with the latter, Singhalees, letter, written by a certain Evert (Tamil eva?uttu) Perera. Incidentally, this same Evert also wrote a letter in Dutch. I would like to ask if there is a colleague who would be willing to transcribe this letter for me (in the regular, official transcription, if there is one for Singhalese) and provide a translation. It is a very short letter, not longer than this email. Please contact me directly (h.j.h.tieken at hum.leidenuniv.nl) with kind regards Herman Tieken -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From asko.parpola at HELSINKI.FI Tue May 15 10:53:39 2012 From: asko.parpola at HELSINKI.FI (Asko Parpola) Date: Tue, 15 May 12 13:53:39 +0300 Subject: Pole Star Worship In-Reply-To: <03a27d2e7fd64afcbe5b316b3419fca4@research.haifa.ac.il> Message-ID: <161227096300.23782.8290155947681484083.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Pole star worship can be traced back to the Indus Civilization. See pp. 46-48 in http://www.scripta.kr/scripta2010/en/scripta_archives/scripta_v01_a002.pdf in more detail in A. Parpola, Deciphering the Indus script, Cambridge 1994, p. 240ff., with Vedic references p. 245. With best regards, "Ashok" Quoting theodor : > > > Dear all, > > On behalf of a colleague, I would like to ask, whether > anyone could recommend a good reference for the worship of pole star > (dhruva)? Could it be traced back to Vedas/ Vedic period or did it only > start with Puranas? > > Many thanks, > Ithamar > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Ithamar > Theodor, Ph.D > Visiting Scholar - The Professorship in Indian Religions > and Culture > Department of Religious and Cultural Studies > The Chinese > University of Hong Kong > theodor at orange.net.il [1] > > > > Links: > ------ > [1] > mailto:theodor at orange.net.il > From andreaacri at MAC.COM Tue May 15 11:21:38 2012 From: andreaacri at MAC.COM (Andrea Acri) Date: Tue, 15 May 12 19:21:38 +0800 Subject: Who=?windows-1252?Q?=92s?= the author? (conference abstract) Message-ID: <161227096305.23782.4201468698501236871.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear list members, while searching my hard disk I came across an interesting abstract (see below), whose text I recall to have copied from a webpage and pasted into a document containing various random notes, unfortunately without including the name of its author (mea maxima culpa!). As far as I can remember, the paper in question was presented in a recent (Indological) conference or workshop (probably held no more than 2 or 3 years ago). As the last paragraph suggests, the workshop might have been held in France (or, rather, the author himself/herself might be French). I have tried to google several of the keywords occurring in the abstract, and even entire sentences, but nothing relevant has turned up. Any hints about the identity of the author of the abstract in question, and of the related academic event, would be much appreciated. Best, Andrea Acri ABSTRACT: Before 1950, anthropology in India was busy with describing the "customs" of social groups whose delimitation was construed as self-evident -a quasi "tribe" approach. There was little need to confront data with Indology, and these disciplines developed with only limited interaction. And there still are anthropologists who deny all relevance to Sanskrit scholarship in the understanding of contemporary Indian society. A contrary claim by some Indologists suggests that only texts can lead to an understanding of true India. Nonetheless, a radical change occurred in the 50s. Village Studies and structuralism made necessary for at least some scholars in anthropology and Indology to explicitly come to terms together. Anthropologists, in particular, could no more ignore that Indian society and its intellectual production were in close interaction: how to make sense together of empirical findings and indigenous theories? Louis Dumont and David Pocock tried to find a synthesis, starting heated debates for years to come; till now, the French academic milieu is marked by this heritage, even in institutional terms. Another rival theory was developed by Chicago-based McKim Marriott in the 1980s, under the name of (Indian) "ethnosociology": here, too, Indology was asked to provide crucial keys for the understanding of ethnographic data. Today, these theories have receded in the background. But the difficulty remains very much the same: anthropologists just cannot ignore the enormous wealth of Indian literatures. How, then, to relate to Indology? The presentation will build on the experience of collaboration between anthropologists and Indologists in France during the past 15 years, in order to suggest a possible way to work together. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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ASSISTANT PROFESSOR DIRECTOR OF ASIAN STUDIES _____________ Department of Religious Studies Southern Methodist University PO Box 750202 | Dallas | TX | 75275 http://faculty.smu.edu/slindqui Southern Methodist University's Asian Studies Program and the South Asia Research and Information Institute (Dallas) Present: CITIES, COURTS, AND SAINTS: MUSLIM CULTURES OF SOUTH ASIA Sept. 22nd, 2012 McCord Auditorium, Dallas Hall, SMU Presenters: DR. RICHARD M. EATON (University of Arizona) DR. MUZAFFAR ALAM (University of Chicago) DR. RAJIV KINRA (Northwestern University) DR. BARBARA D. METCALF (University of Michigan, emerita) DR. THOMAS METCALF (University of California, Berkeley, emeritus) DR. KATHERINE SCHOFIELD (King?s College, London) Chair: DR. AZFAR MOIN (Southern Methodist University) Abstracts are available at: http://www.sarii.org/abstracts2012.html Registration is free, but required. To register, email: muslimculture at sarii.org SMU Asian Studies' webpage: www.smu.edu/asianstudies SARII's webpage: www.sarii.org From annamisia at YAHOO.COM Wed May 16 10:24:08 2012 From: annamisia at YAHOO.COM (Anna A. Slaczka) Date: Wed, 16 May 12 03:24:08 -0700 Subject: Sanskrit proverb? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <161227096310.23782.17715941635699446422.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Yes, I had a feeling that it will be?a hopeless search. :-) Thank you all for answers and suggestions, ? Anna Slaczka. ________________________________ From: Richard Gombrich To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 11:55 AM Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Sanskrit proverb? ?Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.? Khalil Gibran, The Prophet. I can't bear to read through the whole text to check for the longer version of this thought which has been posted, but it does sound like either Khalil Gibran or an imitator (parodist?). 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URL: From mmdesh at UMICH.EDU Wed May 16 12:29:13 2012 From: mmdesh at UMICH.EDU (Deshpande, Madhav) Date: Wed, 16 May 12 12:29:13 +0000 Subject: Info on Sphotasiddhi In-Reply-To: <1337168922.5969.YahooMailClassic@web161702.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <161227096318.23782.16557466111456086166.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> You should be able to download this book from the following URL: http://archive.org/search.php?query=sphotasiddhi%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts Madhav M. Deshpande Professor of Sanskrit and Linguistics Department of Asian Languages and Cultures 202 South Thayer Street, Suite 6111 The University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104-1608, USA ________________________________________ From: Indology [INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk] on behalf of girish jha [jhakgirish at YAHOO.COM] Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 7:48 AM To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk Subject: [INDOLOGY] Info on Sphotasiddhi Dear colleagues, Could anyone let me know of the availability of Sphotasiddhi of Acharya Mandana Misra with Gopalika of Rsiputra Paramesvara ed. by S.K.Ramanath Sastri. Regards Girish K. Jha Dept of Sanskrit Patna University Patna 800 005 India From mkapstei at UCHICAGO.EDU Thu May 17 06:28:39 2012 From: mkapstei at UCHICAGO.EDU (mkapstei at UCHICAGO.EDU) Date: Thu, 17 May 12 01:28:39 -0500 Subject: shaktipath In-Reply-To: <899EAEEB-12B4-49D0-AEC7-1DD360DBC354@gmail.com> Message-ID: <161227096326.23782.4390025525213790569.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Douglas Brooks, Meditation Revolution, presents a kind of theology in the Swami Muktananda tradition that, as I recall, present a more or less "insiders" view of this Matthew T. Kapstein Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies The University of Chicago Divinity School Directeur d'?tudes Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris ---- Original message ---- >Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 06:29:34 +0200 >From: Indology (on behalf of Borayin Larios ) >Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] shaktipath >To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk > > Dear Patrick, > Christopher Wallis has written his dissertation on > the topic and is widely available on internet. The > title is: Shaktipat The Descent Of Power In Kashmir > He also wrote this article which is available > through > Springer: http://www.springerlink.com/content/233g5j8143147314/ > I am sure there is more, but this is a start. > Best, > B.M. Larios > On May 17, 2012, at 3:48 AM, patrick mccartney > wrote: > > Dear List, > > I would appreciate any references to texts dealing > with shaktipath or the transmission of shakti from > guru to disciple. > > -- > All the best, > > Patrick McCartney > > PhD Candidate - Anthropology > School of Culture, History & Language > College of the Asia-Pacific > Rm 4.30 Baldessin Precinct Building > The Australian National University > Canberra, Australia, 0200 > > skype - psdmccartney > W- +61 2 6125 4323 > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfpCc8G_cUw&feature=related From shrimaitreya at GMAIL.COM Thu May 17 04:29:34 2012 From: shrimaitreya at GMAIL.COM (Borayin Larios) Date: Thu, 17 May 12 06:29:34 +0200 Subject: shaktipath In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <161227096323.23782.8872153172935307834.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear Patrick, Christopher Wallis has written his dissertation on the topic and is widely available on internet. The title is: Shaktipat The Descent Of Power In Kashmir He also wrote this article which is available through Springer: http://www.springerlink.com/content/233g5j8143147314/ I am sure there is more, but this is a start. Best, B.M. Larios On May 17, 2012, at 3:48 AM, patrick mccartney wrote: > Dear List, > > I would appreciate any references to texts dealing with shaktipath or the transmission of shakti from guru to disciple. > > -- > All the best, > > Patrick McCartney > > PhD Candidate - Anthropology > School of Culture, History & Language > College of the Asia-Pacific > Rm 4.30 Baldessin Precinct Building > The Australian National University > Canberra, Australia, 0200 > > skype - psdmccartney > W- +61 2 6125 4323 > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfpCc8G_cUw&feature=related > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I donot remember the exact journal or author now. please help me to locate the exact author and journal issue. if possible please send the scan or pdf of the same. I also want to know if anybody has done research on Y and U namams (Tilakas in samskrita) of shrivaishnava groups. I know the study of ashtadashabheda by Suiyave (?) but anything else other? -- Veeranarayana N.K. Pandurangi Head, Dept of Darshanas, Yoganandacharya Bhavan, Jagadguru Ramanandacharya Rajasthan Samskrita University, Madau, post Bhankrota, Jaipur, 302026. ?? ??????????? ??????? ???????? ? ????????? ??? ???????? ??????? ? ?????? ??????????????? ?????????????? ??????? ??????? ??????????? ??????????????? ?????? ???????? ??????????? (?.??.) From slaje at KABELMAIL.DE Fri May 18 04:47:08 2012 From: slaje at KABELMAIL.DE (Walter Slaje) Date: Fri, 18 May 12 06:47:08 +0200 Subject: query on "tajjalaaniti "saanta upaasiita" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <161227096334.23782.18241425118580970384.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> On "jal?n" in ChU 3.14.1, apparently a meaningless hapax legomenon, see Toshifumi Got?, Zur Lehre ????ilyas, in: Langue, style et structure dans le monde indien, Centenaire de L. Renou, hg. v. Nalini Balbir u. Georges-Jean Pinault, Paris 1996, S. 71-89 and Patrick Olivelle The Early Upani?ads. Annotated Text and Trans?la?tion, New York, Oxford 1998 [= South Asia Research], p. 544. Regards, WS ----- Original Message ----- From: Veeranarayana Pandurangi To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 4:41 AM Subject: [INDOLOGY] query on "tajjalaaniti "saanta upaasiita" dear all many years ago I had read a paper by some scholar proposing some emendation in the upanishad sentence "tajjalaaniti "saanta upaasiita". I donot remember the exact journal or author now. please help me to locate the exact author and journal issue. if possible please send the scan or pdf of the same. I also want to know if anybody has done research on Y and U namams (Tilakas in samskrita) of shrivaishnava groups. I know the study of ashtadashabheda by Suiyave (?) but anything else other? -- Veeranarayana N.K. Pandurangi Head, Dept of Darshanas, Yoganandacharya Bhavan, Jagadguru Ramanandacharya Rajasthan Samskrita University, Madau, post Bhankrota, Jaipur, 302026. ?? ??????????? ??????? ???????? ? ????????? ??? ???????? ??????? ? ?????? ??????????????? ?????????????? ??????? ??????? ??????????? ??????????????? ?????? ???????? ??????????? (?.??.) -------------------------- Prof. Dr. Walter Slaje Hermann-L?ns-Stra?e 1 D-99425 Weimar Ego ex animi mei sententia spondeo ac polliceor studia humanitatis impigro labore culturum et provecturum non sordidi lucri causa nec ad vanam captandam gloriam, sed quo magis veritas propagetur et lux eius, qua salus humani generis continetur, clarius effulgeat. Vindobonae, die XXI. mensis Novembris MCMLXXXIII. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Pandurangi Head, Dept of Darshanas, Yoganandacharya Bhavan, Jagadguru Ramanandacharya Rajasthan Samskrita University, Madau, post Bhankrota, Jaipur, 302026. ?? ??????????? ??????? ???????? ? ????????? ??? ???????? ??????? ? ?????? ??????????????? ?????????????? ??????? ??????? ??????????? ??????????????? ?????? ???????? ??????????? (?.??.) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From e.demichelis at YMAIL.COM Mon May 21 02:03:23 2012 From: e.demichelis at YMAIL.COM (Elizabeth De Michelis) Date: Mon, 21 May 12 03:03:23 +0100 Subject: Rajayoga In-Reply-To: <1336516131.61418.YahooMailNeo@web29604.mail.ird.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <161227096337.23782.18349717960827145073.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear Members of the list, following an exchange of messages involving Jim Mallinson and Jason Birch it turns out that Jason and I already discussed this matter some time ago, and that he clarified it in his aforementioned paper. As he reminded me: QUOTE Its unlikely that R?jayoga means Pata?jali's Yogas?tras per se in Vij??nabhik?u's work, but either sam?dhi or samyama (ie., the internal auxiliaries taken together). I discuss this in my 'meaning of ha?ha' paper (pp. 543-44 and n 119-121). Ironically, you are probably correct that the Theosophists were the first to mistake R?jayoga with the Yogas?tras per se. UNQUOTE With all good wishes, Elizabeth De Michelis ________________________________ From: Elizabeth De Michelis To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk Sent: Tuesday, 8 May 2012, 23:28 Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Rajayoga Dear Dermot, Jim and members of the list, please allow me to clear up an inaccuracy which found its way in my book, and was echoed by Jim as expressed in his email below. As Jim points out, I stated that Vivekananda played a pioneering role in defining r?jayoga asYogas?tra-type meditative practice as opposed to other forms of yoga,and especially ha?ha. Georg Feuerstein correctly pointed out in a review of my book(http://www.traditionalyogastudies.com/reviews_yoga_modern-yoga.html)that such a distinction, and in the same terms, is already made byVij??nabhik?u in his Yogas?rasa?graha (which as many of you will know is a work attempting to summarise and and explain the Yogas?tra and Vy?sabh?sya). The translationof that passage (:55 in English; : 39 in Sanskrit in the same book) goes: ? "We do not enter into the details of Postures, because our subjectmatter is _Raja-Yoga_ (in which postures occupy only a secondaryposition). For a full treatment of all forms of postures and thepurification of the veins and arteries we refer the reader to works on_Hatha-Yoga_. Postures have been described." ? Here are the full biblio details of the book from the Bodleian Library(Oxford) records: ? Author ??????????? Vij??nabhiksu, 16th cent. Uniform Title ??????????? Yogas?rasangraha. English & Sanskrit Title ??????????? Yogas?rasangraha / Vij??nabhiksupran?ta ; anuv?daka Gang?n?tha Jh? Edition ??????????? Punarmudrita samskarana Publisher ??????????? Dill?i : Caukhamb? Samskrta Pratisth?na, 1992 Description ??????????? 102, 64 p. ; 22 cm Series ??????????? Vrajaj?vana pr?cya bh?rat? grantham?l? ; 6 Notes ??????????? Basic tenets of the Yoga school in Hindu philosophy; includes translation in English English and Sanskrit Reprint. Originally published: Madras : Theosophical Pub. House, 1933 (T.P.H. oriental series ; no. 10) Title on added t.p.: Yoga-s?ra-sangraha of Vij??na-Bhiksu Subjects ??????????? Yoga Philosophy, Indic Alternate Title ??????????? Yoga-s?ra-sangraha of Vij??na-Bhiksu Other Names ??????????? Jha, Ganganatha, Sir, 1871-1941. I plan to correct the above, and integrate the latest research on the this and related topics (such as Jim's and Jason's) in a second edition of my _History of Modern Yoga_ which is under discussion with the publishers. With all good wishes, Elizabeth De Michelis Independent scholar Cambridge, UK ________________________________ From: Jim Mallinson To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk Sent: Thursday, 3 May 2012, 21:32 Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Rajayoga Dear Dermot and other members of the list, As Prof. Slaje points out, my colleague Jason Birch's recent article is a fine survey of the use of the word ha?ha in the context of yoga. Since ha?ha is almost always found in conjunction with r?ja yoga, Jason's article discusses r?jayoga too. The compound r?jayoga suffers from the ambiguity inherent in the word yoga itself: it can mean both the practice of yoga and the goal. In the majority of its occurrences in ha?hayogic literature (which is, I think, the only type of Sanskrit literature in which it is found) it means simply sam?dhi. Occasionally it does refer to a specific type of yoga practice. In these instances it is meant to denote the best variety of yoga and so its use is comparable to that made popular by Vivekananda et al. - "my yoga is better than yours". (By the way, according to my notes - I don't have the books with me - Singleton 2008:84, referencing de Michelis 2004, writes that it was probably M.N.Dvivedi in a Yogas?tra translation of 1890 who first popularised the equation of r?jayoga with P?ta?jalayoga.) Thus in the Amanaska, which Jason is editing, it refers to a technique said to bring about the no-mind state. But in the Ha?savil?sa, for example, r?jayoga is a practice that involves ritual sex (and is said to be much better than ha?hayoga, which Ha?sami??hu, like many other medieval/early modern authors, sees as including Pata?jali's yoga). The Yogatattvopani?ad (c.17th-century) passage you cite is taken directly from the Datt?treyayoga??stra (c. 13th-century), as is most of the rest of the YTU. Re the mah?p?lavidhi: since the first attestation of the compound r?jayoga (of which I am aware) is not for another thousand years or so, it seems unlikely that there is a connection between the two. The one nirukti of r?jayoga of which I am aware (but Jason may know of others) does not understand it as meaning "the yoga of kings": ra?jatva?t sarvayoga?na?m? ra?jayoga iti smr?tah? | ra?ja?nam? di?pyama?nam? tam? parama?tma?nam avyayam? | dehinam? pra?payed yas tu ra?jayogah? sa ucyate (Amanaskayoga 2.4). Yours, with best wishes, Jim On 3 May 2012, at 10:55, Dermot Killingley wrote: > Can anyone help me with the history of the term rAjayoga? > > De Michelis (History of Modern Yoga p. 178), and D. G. White (Yoga in Practice p. > 20) say that in modern yoga movements it's identified with Patanjali, and that this > started with Blavatsky. Theosophical writers also oppose rAja-yoga (spiritual and > superior) to haTha-yoga (physical and inferior) (e.g. Sinnett Esoteric Buddhism p. > 27). This usage, especially the identification with Patanjali, is followed by > Vivekananda, who owed more to Theosophy than he liked to admit. > > Going further back, the haTha-yoga-pradIpikA (HYP 2.76) says rAja-yoga and > HaTha-yoga should be practised together, but also lists rAja-yoga as one of the terms > for the highest state (HYP 4.3-4). > > White (Yoga in Practice p. 17) says that according to HYP haTha-yoga leads to jIvan- > mukti and rAja-yoga leads to videha-mukti, but I don't find this in the text. > > Further back again, the yoga-tattva-upanishad lists mantra-yoga, laya-yoga, haTha- > yoga and rAja-yoga (Dasgupta Hist Ind Phil vol 1 p. 229; Eliade Yoga p. 129). > > And has the term rAja-yoga anything to do with the mahIpAla-vidhi (MBh 12.308.25) > which Edgerton observes "agrees perfectly with the Gita's usual definition of yoga" > ("The meaning of sAMkhya and yoga" (American Journal of Philology vol. 45) p. 45)? > > Can anyone fill any of the many gaps in this story? 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The conference will be held at the IWH( Internationales Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg), Hauptstra?e 242, 69117 Heidelberg. The conference is open to the public; visitors are kindly asked to register with Ina Chebbi (chebbi at asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de). Throughout the more than 2500 years of its history, Buddhism was implicated in processes of cultural exchange and interaction of considerable breadth, depth and variety, and of lasting impact. Aiming to initiate more sustained reflection on the characteristics, dynamics and significance of these transcultural relations, this conference brings together scholars with a variety of regional specializations and disciplinary foci. Speakers in alphabetical order: Anna Andreeva, Anna Filigenzi, Toru Funayama, Georgios Halkias, Berthe Jansen, Lothar Ledderose, Christian Luczanits, Justin McDaniel, Fabio Rambelli, Alexander von Rospatt, Jonathan Samuels, Cristina Anna Scherrer-Schaub, Dominic Steavu, Ingo Strauch, Markus Viehbeck Conference programme: http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/buddhism-conference A folder with abstracts as well as the conference poster are available for download (in PDF format). With best regards, Birgit Kellner ---------- Prof. Dr. Birgit Kellner Chair of Buddhist Studies Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context - Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows" University of Heidelberg Karl Jaspers Centre Vossstra?e 2, Building 4400 D-69115 Heidelberg Phone: +49(0)6221 - 54 4301 Fax: +49(0)6221 - 54 4012 http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/home.html From christophe.vielle at UCLOUVAIN.BE Tue May 22 07:30:19 2012 From: christophe.vielle at UCLOUVAIN.BE (Christophe Vielle) Date: Tue, 22 May 12 09:30:19 +0200 Subject: Lost later Chalukya sculpture of Dattatreya Message-ID: <161227096342.23782.11107031922275664502.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear Colleagues, for the front-cover of a book dealing with a (hitherto unpublished) Medieval Puranic text consisting in a dialogue between sage Dattatreya and king Janaka, in course of issuing in the Publications de l'Institut Orientaliste de Louvain series (http://www.peeters-leuven.be/boekoverz.asp?nr=9120), I would like to reproduce the image of the handsome piece of Later Chalukya sculpture that is the Dattatreya (in yoga posture) said from Badami, as reproduced in Gopinatha Rao 1914, Pl. LXXIII (facing p. 254): http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924071128825#page/n657/mode/2up (vol. 2 available at: http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924071128841) However, my estimate colleagues specialists in the field (Claudine Bautze-Picron, Carol Radcliffe Bolon, Gerard Foekema, J?rgen Neuss, Emmanuel Francis) who kindly tried to help me, did not success in tracing this sculpture, which appears to be neither in a temple, somewhere in situ, nor in any museum of India (AIIS, Huntington and IFP photography-archives have also been checked). I would therefore very much appreciate if somebody happens to know more about this lost sculpture, and if a picture of it could be got and used for a book-cover. Of course, the author of the picture will be mentioned and will receive an exemplar of the book when issued. With best wishes, Christophe Vielle -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Hoping it will be of interest to many, Yours sincerely, Dr Fran?ois Voegeli Senior FNS Researcher Institut d'Arch?ologie et des Sciences de l'Antiquit? Anthropole, bureau 4018 Facult? des Lettres Universit? de Lausanne CH-1015 Lausanne -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From michaels.axel at GOOGLEMAIL.COM Tue May 22 13:02:06 2012 From: michaels.axel at GOOGLEMAIL.COM (Axel Michaels) Date: Tue, 22 May 12 15:02:06 +0200 Subject: Nepali Crash Course Message-ID: <161227096348.23782.4318037513507996225.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> The Department of Classical Indology, University of Heidelberg is organizing - Nepali Intensive Course (by Laxmi Nath Shrestha) from 6th to 31st August, 2012 at the South Asia Institute, Heidelberg. Applications for participation in this course are invited. Please note that the last date for submission of application form has been extended to 1st June, 2012. 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There are three things that I think caught the assessors' eye: 1. we teach Sanskrit as a 'Living tradition' that includes Spoken Sanskrit, chanting and singing (here I must acknowledge the wonderful inspiration and contribution of my friend and colleague Dr Sadananda Das of Leipzig), 2. the course is flexibly delivered - this means that all my mini-lectures are prerecorded and are available online asynchronously to anyone with internet access (I claim to be the only lecturer in the world who exports Sanskrit to India), which leads to 3. our enrolments have grown steadily from 6 in 2006 to 40 in 2012, which makes my director and dean happy If you would like to find out more, please have a look at the portfolio: https://alliance.anu.edu.au/access/content/user/u3936301/VC_award_portfolio_2012-1.pdf If even that is not enough, there is a 5-min video introducing our Sanskrit 1 website: http://www.screenr.com/YF78 Yours McComas McComas Taylor Head, South Asia Program ANU College of Asia and the Pacific Tel: +61 2 6125 3179 Location: Baldessin Precinct Building, 4.24 Website: McComas Taylor(http://arktos.anu.edu.au/chill/index.php/mct)Courses: Learn about some of my courses: Sanskrit 1(http://www.screenr.com/NSBs) | Indian Epics(http://screenr.com/uUBs) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Edited by Piotr Balcerowicz in collaboration with Jerzy Malinowski. Manohar Publishers, Delhi 2011. Description: The volume presents a collection of papers linked by a common theme which incorporates various aspects of art, religion, myths, symbols, literature and visual culture of the region of South Asia, but in certain aspects goes beyond the geographical boundaries and reaches out to South-East Asia. The collection offers an entirely new material which explores a range of important motives and themes concerned with the art and visual culture of the region of South Asia, and partially with South-East Asia. They comprise various aspects of South Asian art, including sculpture, painting and decorative art, related to religious practice, mythology and cult, politics and power as well as the history and spread of artistic and mythological motives from South Asia to other parts of the world. More details: http://www.orient.uw.edu.pl/balcerowicz/indology/South_Asian_Art_2011.pdf The book can be ordered from: Manohar Publishers & Distributors www.manoharbooks.com Direct link: http://www.manoharbooks.com/BookDetails.asp?bookid=116094&Page=1&subjec=%20%20Others%20%20%20%20%20%28Art,%20Myths%20and%20Visual%20Culture%20of%20South%20Asia%29 ----------------------------------------------------------- ? Best regards, ? Anna Slaczka Curator of South Asian Art Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From yanchevs at FAS.HARVARD.EDU Fri May 25 06:06:24 2012 From: yanchevs at FAS.HARVARD.EDU (Yanchevskaya, Nataliya) Date: Fri, 25 May 12 02:06:24 -0400 Subject: Ramayana In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <161227096361.23782.2798156435241068268.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear Prof. Dehejia, "ayana" means "going", "advancing", etc. Thus, "Ramayana" can be translated as "Rama's journey". Regards, Nataliya Yanchevskaya Dept. of South Asian Studies Harvard University ________________________________________ From: Indology [INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Harsha Dehejia [harshadehejia at HOTMAIL.COM] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 11:38 PM To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk Subject: [INDOLOGY] Ramayana Friends~ What is the meanog of the word 'ayana' as in Ramayana? The dicitonary defines ayana as: disposition, character etc. Does this meaning apply to Ramayana namely the character of Rama? Kind regards. Harsha Prof. Harsha V. Dehejia [http://www.arekaydesigns.com/imgs/dehejia/dehejia-email.jpg] From McComas.Taylor at ANU.EDU.AU Fri May 25 03:45:41 2012 From: McComas.Taylor at ANU.EDU.AU (McComas Taylor) Date: Fri, 25 May 12 13:45:41 +1000 Subject: Tenured Hindi-Urdu lecturer position at ANU, Canberra In-Reply-To: <76a0a3ff53dd6.4fbf0035@anu.edu.au> Message-ID: <161227096359.23782.14267804582087628688.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Please circulate among interested colleagues Lecturer/ Senior Lecturer Hindi-Urdu (A257-12MY) School of Culture, History and Language, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific http://jobs.anu.edu.au/PositionDetail.aspx?p=2748 -- McComas Taylor Head, South Asia Program ANU College of Asia and the Pacific Tel: +61 2 6125 3179 Location: Baldessin Precinct Building, 4.24 Website: McComas Taylor(http://arktos.anu.edu.au/chill/index.php/mct)Courses: Learn about some of my courses: Sanskrit 1(http://www.screenr.com/NSBs) | Indian Epics(http://screenr.com/uUBs) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I can't find this definition neither in Monier Williams nor in Apte. Best regards Stella Sandahl -- Stella Sandahl ssandahl at sympatico.ca On 2012-05-24, at 11:38 PM, Harsha Dehejia wrote: > Friends~ > > What is the meanog of the word 'ayana' as in Ramayana? > > The dicitonary defines ayana as: disposition, character etc. > > Does this meaning apply to Ramayana namely the character of Rama? > > Kind regards. > > Harsha > Prof. Harsha V. Dehejia > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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'The gods love the obscure.' (?atapathabr?hma?a 6.1.1.2) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- On Sat, 26/5/12, Harunaga Isaacson wrote: > From: Harunaga Isaacson > Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Van Buitenen, Mahabharata 1.11,5 > To: "Benjamin Slade" > Date: Saturday, 26 May, 2012, 0:05 > "I knew, ascetic, the power of his > austerities, and so I was greatly > disturbed in my heart; > and standing there, nervously prudent, compliant and > prostrate, I said > to the forest-dweller:" > > (This as you can see translates 1.11.5 together with > 1.11.6ab.) > > See the attached PDF. > > Harunaga Isaacson > > On 05/26/2012 12:51 AM, Benjamin Slade wrote: > > Would someone with a copy of van Buitenen's Mahabharata > translation be able to tell me how he translates 1.11,5? > > > > with many thanks, > > ------------------------------------------------- > > Benjamin Slade > > Dept. of Linguistics&? TESOL > > University of Texas at Arlington > > > > email: slade at uta.edu > > website: http://www.jnanam.net/slade/ > > lingblog: St?fcr?ft&? Vyakarana - http://staefcraeft.blogspot.com > > ------------------------------------------------- > > > > > -- > Prof. Dr. Harunaga Isaacson > Universit?t Hamburg > Asien-Afrika-Institut > Abteilung f?r Kultur und Geschichte Indiens und Tibets > Alsterterrasse 1 > D-20354 > Hamburg > Germany > tel. +49 (0)40 42838-3382 > Alternative email: harunagaisaacson at gmail.com > > From somadevah at MAC.COM Sat May 26 00:54:20 2012 From: somadevah at MAC.COM (Som Dev Vasudeva) Date: Sat, 26 May 12 09:54:20 +0900 Subject: Ramayana In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <161227096372.23782.14486671037483660378.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> It is noteworthy that most Sanskrit commentators on the R?m?ya?a do not analyse the title according to what might at first appear to be the most straightforward interpretation: a v?ddhi derivation of R?ma, meaning ?concering R?ma.? Instead they take the title to be a ?a??h?tatpuru?a compound formed from R?ma + ayana , ?the deeds/adventures/path of R?ma? (r?masya ayanam). The perceived advantage of this interpretation might be that it clarifies that the work is primarily about R?ma?s deeds, and less just a work vaguely related to R?ma (or even composed by R?ma). The retroflexion of the ?na? in the second member (uttarapada) of the compound, even though the ?ra? occurs in the first member, takes place because of P??ini 8.4.3 (p?rvapad?t sa?j??y?m aga?) since the compound denotes a proper name and a ?ga? does not intervene; compare with ??rpa?akh?, khara?asa?, but ?gayaNam (a ?ga? intervenes). For a discussion of these examples (at least the spelling of the well-known demoness ??rpa?akh?, the sister of R?va?a, should be familiar) and more see the K??ik? and Siddh?ntakaumud? commentaries to P??ini 8.4.3 (p?rvapadasth?n nimitt?t parasya nasya ?a? sy?t sa?j??y?? na tu gak?ravyavadh?ne/ drur iva n?sik? yasya dru?asa? / khara?asa? / aga? kim? ?c?m ayanam ?gayanam/ etc.) The whole grammatical derivation of this interpretation of the title R?m?ya?a is spelled out in the Am?takataka commentary to R?m?ya?a 1.99 as follows: r?m?ya?am iti / ayagatau ?bh?ve lyu?? (cf. P??ini 3.3.115: lyu? ca) / ayana? = caritam / r?masya + ayana? r?m?ya?a? ?p?rvapad?t sa?j??y?m? (P??ini 8.4.3) iti ?atvam / Other commentators give similar and other (bahuvr?hi) compound analyses: Mahe?varat?rtha?: r?mo ?yana? pratip?dyo yasya tad r?m?ya?am / Govindar?ja?: r?masya + ayana? = r?m?ya?a?, r?macaritam ityartha? / r?mo ?yyate pr?pyate ?neneti v? r?m?ya?am / r?mo ?yana? pratip?dyo yasyeti v? r?m?ya?am / Tilaka?: r?mo ?yana? pratip?dyo yasya tad r?m?ya?am / ?iroma?i?: r?m?ya?a? r?mapratip?daka? r?mapr?paka? v? / K.S. Varadacharya?s Prast?van? to his edition of the B?lak???a (Mysore 1958): r?m?ya?apada? ca ?r?masya+ayanam? iti vyutpattisiddham / atra sa?j??y?? ?atvavidh?nena r?m?ya?apadasya sa?j??tve ?pi yaugik?rtho na parityaktu? ?akya?; n?r?ya??di?abdavat / na h?da? pada? ?itth?dipadavat kevalar??ha? ki? tu yogar??ham / eva? ca k?vyasya r?macaritam eva vi?aya ity etann?mn? spa??am avagamyate / Further interpretations can be found by looking up the commentaries to verses 1.99 (etad ?khy?nam ?yu?ya? pa?han r?m?ya?a? nara?) and 4.7 (k?vya? r?m?ya?a? k?tsna?) of the R?m?ya?a?s B?lak???a?. Biblio: ?r?madV?lm?kiR?m?ya?a with Am?takataka of M?dhavayog? (Vol. 1?K?lak???a), ed. K.S. Varadachari, Oriental Research Institute, University of Mysore, 1960. On May 25, 2012, at 12:38 PM, Harsha Dehejia wrote: > Friends~ > > What is the meanog of the word 'ayana' as in Ramayana? > > The dicitonary defines ayana as: disposition, character etc. > > Does this meaning apply to Ramayana namely the character of Rama? > > Kind regards. > > Harsha > Prof. Harsha V. Dehejia > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jbagchee at GMAIL.COM Sat May 26 11:37:15 2012 From: jbagchee at GMAIL.COM (Joydeep) Date: Sat, 26 May 12 13:37:15 +0200 Subject: Call for Papers: SAGP/SSIPS 2012 Conference in New York Message-ID: <161227096378.23782.16454221486513956678.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear colleagues, I'm forwarding a CFP on Indian philosophy/Buddhism for a conference to be held in October at Fordham University's Lincoln Center campus: I enclose the CFP for the SAGP's 2012 Annual Conference at Fordham University (Lincoln Center). The conference has grown over the year's to an international ancient and medieval philosophy conference, so we welcome contributions from all areas of non-Western philosophy as well. (Contributions for Indian philosophy should be sent to me, contributions for Buddhist studies can be sent either to me or Marie Friquegnon.) Proposals can be of three types: either individual papers, for a panel session, or a roundtable discussion. Vishwa Dr. Vishwa Adluri Hunter College The City University of New York 1241 W, 695 Park Avenue New York, NY 10065 212 772 4989 www.presocratics.org Editor, Standing Editorial Board, Oxford Bibliographies Online: Hinduism Program Committee Member, Indian Philosophy, Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Call for Abstracts FORDHAM UNIVERSITY Hosts An International Conference on Ancient and Medieval Philosophy The 30th annual joint meeting of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy (SAGP) with the Society for the Study of Islamic Philosophy (SSIPS) Friday, October 19 - Sunday, October 21, 2012 Fordham University, Lincoln Center, 113 W. 60th St. New York, NY10023 Including the annual meetings of scholarly societies in the history of ancient, medieval, and Asian philosophy SAGP and SSIPS invite the submission of abstracts for conference papers to be presented at their annual meeting at Fordham University. We invite paper, panel, and roundtable submissions from faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars, although all speakers on panels sponsored by SAGP must be dues-paying members of the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy. We especially encourage panel and roundtable proposals. Proposals for panel or roundtable discussions are due by MAY 15, 2012; proposals for individual papers are due by JUNE 1, 2012. Panel (and roundtable) proposals Please fill out the submission form at http://tinyurl.com/4krm96s no later than May 15. Note that presenters on panels and roundtables will need to submit abstracts of their papers, using the individual paper proposal link below, by June 1. Individual paper proposals Please fill out the submission form at http://tinyurl.com/4oowjcy no later than June 1. Questions? If you have questions about the conference, the submission forms, or about the Ancient Greek and philosophy panels, contact Anna L?nnstr?m ( alannstrom at stonehill.edu) Indian Philosophy: Vishwa Adluri (vadluri at hunter.cuny.edu) Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy: Marie Friquegnon (friquegnonM at wpunj.edu) For questions about membership in SAGP: contact Tony Preus ( apreus at binghamton.edu). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kauzeya at GMAIL.COM Mon May 28 11:36:16 2012 From: kauzeya at GMAIL.COM (Jonathan Silk) Date: Mon, 28 May 12 13:36:16 +0200 Subject: Lotus Sutra facsimile edition of Gilgit MS Message-ID: <161227096381.23782.612401519291667961.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> http://mongolschinaandthesilkroad.blogspot.com/2012/05/new-facsimile-of-buddhist-sutra.html (no idea why the photo is of a *Chinese* Manuscript...) In more detail, and with photos, but in Japanese: http://www.totetu.org/index.php?id=669 Now, if only it were possible to convince someone (whom?) that they should publish the rest of the Gilgit MSS in color photos ... no need for fancy printed volumes, online digital photos would be *most* welcome! Cheers, Jonathan -- J. Silk Instituut Kern / Universiteit Leiden Leiden University Institute for Area Studies, LIAS Johan Huizinga Building, Room 1.37 Doelensteeg 16 2311 VL Leiden The Netherlands -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From annamisia at YAHOO.COM Tue May 29 07:01:41 2012 From: annamisia at YAHOO.COM (Anna A. Slaczka) Date: Tue, 29 May 12 00:01:41 -0700 Subject: new publication In-Reply-To: <008601cd3a89$580ba0a0$0822e1e0$@spro.net> Message-ID: <161227096383.23782.10160916442965027668.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Please try this link (again?), it does work now: ? http://www.orient.uw.edu.pl/balcerowicz/indology/South_Asian_Art_2011.pdf ? Best wishes, ? Anna. ? ? ________________________________ From: Jo To: 'Anna A. Slaczka' Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 5:16 PM Subject: RE: [INDOLOGY] new publication Dear Anna The link you sent says page currently unavailable??.. http://www.orient.uw.edu.pl/balcerowicz/indology/South_Asian_Art_2011.pdf -- ? Can it be fixed? If not, I?d like to ask if there is anything in the book on a possible Ramayana-type tale in Vietnam? ? Best wishes Joanna ? ? From:Indology [mailto:INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Anna A. Slaczka Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 1:45 AM To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk Subject: [INDOLOGY] new publication ? Dear List members, ? please find?here information?about a?new publication on Indology: Art, Myths and Visual Culture of South Asia. Edited by Piotr Balcerowicz in collaboration with Jerzy Malinowski. Manohar Publishers, Delhi 2011. Description: The volume presents a collection of papers linked by a common theme which incorporates various aspects of art, religion, myths, symbols, literature and visual culture of the region of South Asia, but in certain aspects goes beyond the geographical boundaries and reaches out to South-East Asia. The collection offers an entirely new material which explores a range of important motives and themes concerned with the art and visual culture of the region of South Asia, and partially with South-East Asia. They comprise various aspects of South Asian art, including sculpture, painting and decorative art, related to religious practice, mythology and cult, politics and power as well as the history and spread of artistic and mythological motives from South Asia to other parts of the world. More details: http://www.orient.uw.edu.pl/balcerowicz/indology/South_Asian_Art_2011.pdf The book can be ordered from: Manohar Publishers & Distributors www.manoharbooks.com Direct link: http://www.manoharbooks.com/BookDetails.asp?bookid=116094&Page=1&subjec=%20%20Others%20%20%20%20%20%28Art,%20Myths%20and%20Visual%20Culture%20of%20South%20Asia%29 ----------------------------------------------------------- ? Best regards, ? Anna Slaczka Curator of South Asian Art Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From arlogriffiths at HOTMAIL.COM Thu May 31 07:00:37 2012 From: arlogriffiths at HOTMAIL.COM (Arlo Griffiths) Date: Thu, 31 May 12 07:00:37 +0000 Subject: five pdf requests Message-ID: <161227096386.23782.3167336463833126930.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Dear colleagues, I would be very grateful if any among you could help me obtain pdfs of the following articles: Bentor, Yael 1995 ?On the Indian Origins of the Tibetan Practice of Depositing Relics and Dh?ra??s in St?pas and Images?, Journal of the American Oriental Society 115, 248?261. Forte, Antonino 1984 "The Activities in China of the Tantric Master Manicintana (Pao-ssu-wei ??? :? - 721 A.D.) from Kashmir and of his Northern Indian Collaborators", East and West, Vol. 34, No. 1/3, 301-347. Iwamoto, Yutaka 1981 "The ?ailendra dynasty and Chandi Borobudur", Proceedings of the International Symposium on Chandi Borobudur, Tokyo: The Executive Committee for the International Symposium on Chandi Borobudur, 83?88. de Jong, Jan Willem 1984 ?A New History of Tantric Literature in India [review of Matusnaga Y?kei, Mikky? ky?ten seiritsushi-ron (Kyoto, 1980)]?, Indo Koten Kenky? [Acta Indologica] 6, 91?113. Meisezahl, R.O. 1962 ?The Amoghap??ah?daya-dh?ra??. The Early Sanskrit Manuscript of the Reiunji Critically Edited and Translated?, Monumenta Nipponica 17, 265?328. Scherrer-Schaub, Cristina A. 1994 ?Some Dh?ra?? Written on Paper Functioning as Dharmak?ya Relics. A Tentative Approach to PT 350,? in Per Kvaerne (ed.), Tibetan Studies, Proceedings of the 6th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Fagernes 1992, Oslo, vol. II, 711?727. Thank you, Best wishes, Arlo griffiths EFEO/Jakarta -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From arlogriffiths at HOTMAIL.COM Thu May 31 08:07:33 2012 From: arlogriffiths at HOTMAIL.COM (Arlo Griffiths) Date: Thu, 31 May 12 08:07:33 +0000 Subject: five pdf requests In-Reply-To: <7680824c181a04.4fc73aa0@rug.nl> Message-ID: <161227096389.23782.1983578744790225900.generated@prod2.harmonylists.io> Thanks to Natasja Bosma, Adam Bowles, Fran?ois Voegeli and Benjamin Fleming for immediate responses, yielding me Bentor and Meisezahl. Still on the prowl for Forte, Iwamoto and Scherrer-Schaub. Best wishes from Jakarta, Arlo Griffiths From: n.bosma at rug.nl To: arlogriffiths at HOTMAIL.COM Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 09:32:16 +0200 Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] five pdf requests Hoi Arlo, 2 van de 5. Groet en tot heel snel, Natasja On 31-05-12, Arlo Griffiths wrote: Dear colleagues, I would be very grateful if any among you could help me obtain pdfs of the following articles: Bentor, Yael 1995 ?On the Indian Origins of the Tibetan Practice of Depositing Relics and Dh?ra??s in St?pas and Images?, Journal of the American Oriental Society 115, 248?261. Forte, Antonino 1984 "The Activities in China of the Tantric Master Manicintana (Pao-ssu-wei ??? :? - 721 A.D.) from Kashmir and of his Northern Indian Collaborators", East and West, Vol. 34, No. 1/3, 301-347. Iwamoto, Yutaka 1981 "The ?ailendra dynasty and Chandi Borobudur", Proceedings of the International Symposium on Chandi Borobudur, Tokyo: The Executive Committee for the International Symposium on Chandi Borobudur, 83?88. de Jong, Jan Willem 1984 ?A New History of Tantric Literature in India [review of Matusnaga Y?kei, Mikky? ky?ten seiritsushi-ron (Kyoto, 1980)]?, Indo Koten Kenky? [Acta Indologica] 6, 91?113. Meisezahl, R.O. 1962 ?The Amoghap??ah?daya-dh?ra??. The Early Sanskrit Manuscript of the Reiunji Critically Edited and Translated?, Monumenta Nipponica 17, 265?328. Scherrer-Schaub, Cristina A. 1994 ?Some Dh?ra?? Written on Paper Functioning as Dharmak?ya Relics. A Tentative Approach to PT 350,? in Per Kvaerne (ed.), Tibetan Studies, Proceedings of the 6th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Fagernes 1992, Oslo, vol. II, 711?727. Thank you, Best wishes, Arlo griffiths EFEO/Jakarta -- -- drs. Natasja Bosma Institute of Indian StudiesUniversity of GroningenOude Boteringestraat 239712 GC Groningenwww.rug.nl/staff/n.bosma -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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On behalf of the Centre for Eurasiatic and Afroasiatic Studies (CEAS) I invite you to the course which is offered free of charge. A part of the didactic materials shall be provided one month in advance via email, upon firm admission. A basic knowledge of Sanskrit is required for successfully attending the said course. For the course description and general information, please refer to our site at the link below: http://www.bibliotecametropolitana.ro/articole.aspx?catId=382&c=1 I would be very grateful if you could let your students learn about the prosody course organized by CEAS. Looking forward to hearing from you, Julieta Rotaru -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: