Search for dissertations about: "Indology"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 swedish dissertations containing the word Indology.

  2. 1. The Textual History of Kavikumārāvadāna : The relations between the main texts, editions and translations

    Author : Leif Asplund; Claus Oetke; Roland Steiner; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; buddhism; avadana; editions; Sanskrit; Tibetan; manuscripts; philology; indology; Nepal; NGMPP; Indology; indologi;

    Abstract : This study consists of three main parts. Part I contains introductory matter and a presentation of the manuscript material which contains stories about Kavikumāra, one of the Buddha’s earlier lives, and a rough classification of the material. READ MORE

  4. 2. Engaging Advaita : Conceptualising liberating knowledge in the face of Western modernity

    Author : Pawel Odyniec; Ram-Prasad Chakravarthi; Heinz Werner Wessler; Christiane Schaefer; Stephen Phillips; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Indology; modern Indian philosophy; Advaita Vedānta; brahmajñāna; liberating knowledge; Badrīnāth Śukla; Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya; Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan; History of Ideas; Idéhistoria; Indology with Classical Sanscrit;

    Abstract : This dissertation is a study of modern Indian philosophy. It examines three engaging articulations of the Advaitic notion of liberating knowledge or brahmajñāna provided by three prominent Indian philosophers of the twentieth century, namely, Badrīnāth Śukla (1898-1988), Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya (1875-1949), and Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888-1975). READ MORE

  5. 3. The Happening of tradition : Vallabha on Anumāna in Nyāyalīlāvatī

    Author : Anna-Pya Sjödin; Gunilla Gren-Eklund; Eli Franco; Purushottama Bilimoria; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Indology; Logic--India--History; Vaiśeṣika History; Nyāya History; Vaiśeṣika--Early Works to 1800; Nyāya--Early Works to 1800; Philosophy--Indic; Vyāpti; Anumāna; Tarka; Upādhi; Parāmarśa; Nyāyalīlāvatī; Vallabhācārya 12th cent.; H. Bhabha; D. Chakrabarty; Indologi; Indologi särskilt sanskrit; Indology with Classical Sanscrit;

    Abstract : The present dissertation is a translation and analysis of the chapter on anumāna in Vallabha’s Nyāyalīlāvatī, based on certain theoretical considerations on cross-cultural translation and the understanding of tradition. Adopting a non-essentialized and non-historicist conceptualization of the Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika/Navya-nyāya tradition, the work focuses on a reading of the anumāna chapter that is particularized and individualized. READ MORE

  6. 4. The Town Plan of Jaipur : Its Sources and Narrations

    Author : Mirja Juntunen; Claus Oetke; Siegfried Lienhard; Nalini Balbir; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; India; town plan; Jaipur; Indology; Indologi;

    Abstract : Jaipur’s town plan has been the subject of a multitude of suggestions regarding its origin. Jaipur was founded by Jaisingh II in 1727, and has since then been the capital of the State of Rajasthan, India. READ MORE

  7. 5. Towards a New Language : Christology in Early Modern Marathi, Konkani, and Hindustani

    Author : Pär Eliasson; Heinz Werner Wessler; Francis X. Clooney; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : Hindu-Christian studies; comparative theology; interreligious; missiology; early modernity; translation studies; lexicography; Hindi; Hindustani; Konkani; Marathi; Jesuit; Capuchin; Thomas Stephens; Diogo Ribeiro; Ignazio Arcamone; Simão Gomes; François Marie de Tours; Joan Josua Ketelaar; Indology South Asian Studies; Indologi Sydasienkunskap;

    Abstract : This study examines the development of Christological discourses in Konkani, Marathi, and Hindustani in the 16th, 17th, and early 18th century. It explores a great deal of both Hindu and Christian sources, of which many are unedited and largely overlooked manuscripts. READ MORE