[INDOLOGY] New publication From IFP/EFEO, Pondicherry

[Jean-Luc Chevillard]

Those interested in ordering the book
(and similar books)
might want to click on the following link.

"http://www.ifpindia.org/article1228,1228.html"


-- Jean-Luc Chevillard (Paris)


On 18/06/2013 12:56, Narenderan wrote:
> Dear Sir,
>
> Please post this new publication information:
>
> *JUST RELEASED by joint publication of *Institut Français de Pondichéry
> / Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient, Pondicherry, India
>
>
> */An Enquiry into the Nature of Liberation : Bha/**/ṭṭ/**/a
> Rāmaka/**/ṭ/**/ha’s Paramok/**/ṣ/**/anirāsakārikāv/**/ṛ/**/tti,
> a commentary on Sadyojyotih's refutation of twenty conceptions of the
> liberated state (mok/**/ṣ/**/a).
> /*
>
>
> *//*
>
> For the first time critically edited, translated into English and
> annotated by**Alex Watson, Dominic Goodall, S.L.P. Anjaneya Sarma,
> Collection Indologie n˚ 122, Institut Français de Pondichéry / Ecole
> française d’Extrême-Orient, 2013, 508 p.
>
> Language: Sanskrit, English. *900 Rs (38 €). *ISBN (IFP):
> 978-81-8470-195-1. ISBN (EFEO): 978-2-85539-130-4.
>
>
> This book presents a short philosophical treatise in which twenty rival
> theories of the liberated state (/mok//ṣ//a/) are introduced and
> countered, and a long, discursive commentary that explores and develops
> the arguments that the treatise advances or implies. The original
> treatise comprises fifty-nine Sanskrit verses composed by Sadyojyotih
> (c. 675–725 AD), the earliest named Śaiva philosopher of the Mantramārga
> of whom works survive. The commentator, Bhaṭṭa Rāmakanṭha (c. 950–1000
> AD), was a Kashmirian whose writings systematised the doctrines of the
> classical Śaiva Siddhānta, for some centuries the dominant school of
> tantric Śaivism.
>
>
> Presented here is a first critical edition of these interlinked works
> and a richly annotated English translation. A lightly annotated
> introduction lays out clearly the ideas that the edited texts expound.
> Their study casts light not only on the history of Śaiva thought, but
> also on a number of religio-philosophical doctrines for which little
> other testimony survives.
>
> *
> Keywords:*Liberation (mokṣa), Śaiva siddhānta, Indian philosophy, Hindu
> theology, Śaivism, Sanskrit philology, Sadyojyotih, Rāmakanṭha
>
> *
> *
>
> *For order please write : library at ifpindia.org*
>
>
> Thanks
>
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