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Dharma

By Hiltebeitel

Dharma

By Hiltebeitel

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Between 300 BCE and 200 CE, concepts and practices of dharma attained literary prominence throughout India. Both Buddhist and Brahmanical authors sought to clarify and classify their central concerns, and dharma proved a means of thinking through and articulating those concerns.

Alf Hiltebeitel shows the different ways in which dharma was interpreted during that formative period: from the grand cosmic chronometries of kalpas and yugas to narratives about divine plans, gendered nuances of genealogical time, royal biography (even autobiography, in the case of the emperor Asoka), and guidelines for daily life, including meditation. He reveals the vital role dharma has played across political, religious, legal, literary, ethical, and philosophical domains and discourses about what holds life together. Through dharma, these traditions have articulated their distinct visions of the good and well-rewarded life.

This insightful study explores the diverse and changing significance of dharma in classical India in nine major dharma texts, as well some shorter ones. Dharma proves to be a term by which to make a fresh cut through these texts, and to reconsider their own chronology, their import, and their relation to each other.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
766
Release Date:
2011-08-17
Publication Date:
2009-12-31
Publisher:
ACADEMIC
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0195394232
ISBN13:
9780195394238
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
1300 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
45 cm
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