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Greetings from the Department of Philosophy – Manipal!
We are delighted to share with you that we, at Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) - Institution of Eminence, are organising an international seminar series on ‘yogaḥ karmasu kauśalam – Yoga an art of equanimity and agency’ with the financial support of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research (ICPR), New Delhi.
We are happy to extend a cordial invitation to you all for the seminar series, which is organised as a part of International Yoga Day 21. The seminar is on ‘dharma-meghaḥ samādhiḥ - the moral rain cloud assessment’ by Dr Shyam Ranganathan, Department of Philosophy, York University, Canada on Mon 26 Jul 2021 (Today) at 1900 IST. The event link is http://bit.do/mahe_yoga2.
Abstract: The topic will be the most important transformation detailed by the Yoga Sūtra, but also the event most neglected in discussions on yoga: dharma-meghaḥ samādhi. The reasons that explain the neglect of this key concept also explain the neglect and malfeasance in the study of Yoga: Western colonialism.
Speaker: Dr Shyam Ranganathan (MA South Asian Studies, MA and PhD Philosophy) researcher, scholar, author and teacher of philosophy, and an expert in the neglected traditions of Indian moral philosophy, which covers practical questions of how to live, what to aim for, and what we should value—including Yoga. Dr Ranganathan is author, editor and translator of over 50 peer-reviewed, scholarly works (including Ethics and the History of Indian Philosophy MLBD 2008 and 2017; the Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Ethics 2017; and Hinduism: A Contemporary Philosophical Investigation, Routledge 2018). A specialist in translation, having written his PhD dissertation on the topic of how we can understand texts without projecting our beliefs onto them, Dr Ranganathan translated Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra (Penguin 2008).
This seminar is the second in the series, the earlier one on ‘Yoga philosophy in Bhagavata’ by Dr Dhananjay Rao, Delhi - https://youtu.be/pbVNaIs0pAM.
The Department of Philosophy (DoP) is a constituent of the Faculty of Liberal Arts at MAHE. It incorporates teaching and research activities in the areas of Humanities and Social Sciences through academic programs, projects, publications, and events. It is offering two postgraduate degree and diploma programs in Indian philosophy and Sanskrit studies apart from other courses in humanities at MAHE constituent units. The Department is working with the University of Toronto, Canada on a collaborative research project on Indian dialectics and argumentation funded by Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute (SICI), New Delhi. It is also conducting research on MAHE Mahabharata – computational analyses funded by MAHE.
Thank you.
Best,
Arjuna
Assistant Professor
Department of Philosophy
Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Manipal
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