Dear colleagues,

I’m happy to announce the publication of my second monograph (this time in German): Vom Feueraltar zum Yoga. Kommentierte Übersetzung und Kohärenzanalyse der Kaṭha-Upaniṣad (“From Fire Altar to Yoga: Annotated Translation and Coherence Analysis of the Kaṭha-Upaniṣad”), available from Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing. The book is Open Access and can be downloaded and ordered here: https://doi.org/10.11588/hasp.1329



“The Kaṭha-Upaniṣad is a Sanskrit text composed about 2000 years ago dealing with the nature of human beings after death. As one of the earliest sources that teach a salvific method designated as yoga, the Kaṭha-Upaniṣad has gained renown outside of South Asia. However, due to its textual heterogeneity, it has often been said to be incoherent. 

In this study, Dominik A. Haas offers a new annotated German translation of the text and analysis using text-linguistic methods. He argues that, from the beginning, the Kaṭha-Upaniṣad was conceived as a compilation intended to combine new contemplative and yogic teachings with the ritual mysticism of the famous Vedic fire altar.”

I hope you can make use of it!
Best regards,
D. Haas

(Apologies to those who have received this message more than once.)

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Dr. Dominik A. Haas, BA MA
dominik@haas.asia | ORCID 0000-0002-8505-6112 | academia.edu DominikAHaas | hcommons DominikAHaas
ÖGRW | DMG | SDN | WPU
Gonda Fellow, International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden (2024)
Post-DocTrack Fellow, Austrian Academy of Sciences (2023)
Lecturer, University of Vienna (2023)
Doc Fellow, Austrian Academy of Sciences (2020–2022)

Books:
– Gāyatrī: Mantra and Mother of the Vedas, https://doi.org/10.1553/978OEAW93906 (Roland Atefie Prize 2023)
– Vom Feueraltar zum Yoga. Kommentierte Übersetzung und Kohärenzanalyse der Kaṭha-Upaniṣad, https://doi.org/10.11588/hasp.1329
– Puṣpikā 6. Proceedings of the 12th International Indology Graduate Research Symposium (Vienna, 2021), https://doi.org/10.11588/hasp.1133

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