The Chaitanya Vaishnava Vedanta of Jiva Gosvami

When Knowledge Meets Devotion

By Ravi M. Gupta

The Chaitanya Vaishnava tradition is famous for its depth of devotion to Krishna, the blue-hued Deity. Chaitanya Vaishnavas are known for having refined the practice...

Published April 30th 2007 by Routledge.

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Deconstruction and the Ethical in Asian Thought

Edited by Youru Wang

The striking parallels between Derrida’s deconstruction and certain strategies eschewing oppositional hierarchies in Asian thought, especially in Buddhism and Daoism, have attracted much attention from...

Published February 23rd 2007 by Routledge.

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Self-Surrender (prapatti) to God in Shrivaishnavism

Tamil Cats or Sanskrit Monkeys?

By Srilata Raman

Filling the most glaring gap in Shrivaishnava scholarship, this book deals with the history of interpretation of a theological concept of self-surrender-prapatti in late twelfth...

Published December 21st 2006 by Routledge.

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Advaita Vedanta and Vaisnavism

The Philosophy of Madhusudana Sarasvati

By Sanjukta Gupta

In Indian philosophy and theology, the ideology of Vedanta occupies an important position. Hindu religious sects accept the Vedantic soteriology, which believes that there is...

Published August 23rd 2006 by Routledge.

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Yoga

The Indian Tradition

Edited by David Carpenter, Ian Whicher

The popular perception of yoga in the West remains for the most part that of a physical fitness program, largely divorced from its historical and...

Published March 20th 2003 by Routledge.

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A System of Indian Logic

The Nyana Theory of Inference

By John Vattanky

Nyana is the most rational and logical of all the classical Indian philosophical systems. In the study of Nyana philosophy, Karikavali with its commentary Muktavali,...

Published October 10th 2002 by Routledge.

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The Maha-Vairocana-Abhisambodhi Tantra

With Buddhaguhya's Commentary

By Stephen Hodge

The first complete translation into English of this Tibetan text, together with the informative commentary by the 8th century master Buddhaguhya. This text is of...

Published September 5th 2002 by Routledge.

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Advaita Epistemology and Metaphysics

An Outline of Indian Non-Realism

By Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad

Based on original translations of passages from the works of three major thinkers of the classical Indian school of Advaita (Sankara, Vacaspati and Sri Harsa),...

Published July 25th 2002 by Routledge.

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Debates on Islam and Knowledge in Malaysia and Egypt

Shifting Worlds

By Mona Abaza

This book is a comparative study of the sociological field in two different Muslim societies: Malaysia and Egypt. It analyses the process of the production...

Published April 11th 2002 by Routledge.

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Persian Metaphysics and Mysticism

Selected Works of 'Aziz Nasaffi

By Lloyd Ridgeon

One of the foremost 13th-century Persian mystics, 'Aziz Nasaffi with his simple manner of explaining God, His Essence, Attributes and Acts provides the western...

Published February 21st 2002 by Routledge.

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