[INDOLOGY] 25 Years of Mokṣopāya Studies

[Roland Steiner]

Dear Colleagues,

I would like to bring a new publication to your attention:

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25 Years of Mokṣopāya Studies. Edited by Jürgen Hanneder. Wiesbaden: 
Harrassowitz Verlag 2025 (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, 
Mainz. Veröffentlichungen der Fächergruppenkommission für 
Außereuropäische Sprachen und Kulturen.tudien zur Indologie 10). 207 pp. 
ISBN 978-3-447-12351-8

https://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/25_Years_of_Mokṣopāya_Studies/titel_8454.ahtml

A quarter of a century has passed since Walter Slaje demonstrated the 
importance of the Kashmirian recension of the text that was printed and 
popularly known under the name Yogavāsiṣṭha. As it turned out the text 
originally bore the title Mokṣopāya, but became known to the rest of the 
Indian subcontinent in an abridged version simply called Vāsiṣṭha. In 
Kashmir, the original, written in the 10th century, remained the 
standard version, but was ignored.
The project of editing the Mokṣopāya has now been completed – the final 
volume will be published shortly – and in this context a small symposium 
was held in Marburg to mark this date. Some of the lectures given there 
are reproduced in this publication: Walter Slaje deals with the term 
”Yoga” in Yogavāsiṣṭha, Roland Steiner analyses the story of Prahlāda, 
and Jürgen Hanneder writes on liberation, the story of the meditating 
monk and the summaries of the text. In Eric Steinschneider’s analysis of 
the Tamil transformation of the Vāsiṣṭha, the reader can also catch a 
glimpse of what has become possible through the Mokṣopāya project when 
specialists of further disciplines follow the text into new languages 
and contexts.

Table of Contents:

https://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/ddo/artikel/88593/978-3-447-12351-8_Table%20of%20Contents.pdf

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Kindly regarding,

Roland Steiner
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