Puṣpikā Tracing Ancient India Through Texts and Traditions: Contributions to Current Research in Indology, Volume 5

This volume is the outcome of the Ninth International Indology Graduate Research Symposium held at Ghent University in September 2017, the fifth publication of proceedings from this series of symposiums. Like previous volumes, the current edition presents the results of recent research by early-career scholars into the texts, languages, as well as literary, philosophical and religious traditions of South Asia. The articles here collected offer a broad range of disciplinary perspectives on a wide array of subject. In addition, in the lines of the well-established tradition of research in Jainism at Ghent University, this edition has a more specific ¿Jains and the others¿ main theme. The purpose of such a theme is to contribute to determine the input of Jainism in the broader framework of South Asian traditions, as well as to invite the reader to think beyond boundaries of religious or cultural identity. In this dynamic, two papers deal with Jain adaptations of famous Puranic narratives and two others with the relation between textual tradition and soteriological practices in Jainism. In concert, other innovative papers elaborate on Puranic and kavya literature, include technical discussions on linguistics and engage in philosophical studies. Finally, set in the historical context of the hosting institution, this volume opens with a history of Indology in Belgium.

Summary

Fifth publication of proceedings from this series of symposia on the texts, languages, literary, philosophical and religious traditions of South Asia. Focuses on Jainism.

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• Authors: Heleene de Jonckheere, MARIE-H L N GORISSE
• Assisted by: Heleene de Jonckheere (Editor), Marie-Helene Gorisse (Editor), Marie-Hélène Gorisse (Editor), Agnieszka Rostalska (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9781789252828
• ISBN: 978-1-78925-282-8
• No. of pages: 172
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 239 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 340 g
• Series: PUPIK; Puṣpikā; Puspika: Tracing Ancient India through Texts and Traditions; Puspika
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies