The Philosophical Concept of Samskara
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Detail Of The Philosophical Concept of Samskara
| ISBN | 9788120836129 |
| Pages | 246 |
| Language: | English |
| Product Code: | 1 |
| Size(in cm): | 9.0 inch X 6.0 inch cm |
| Weight(in grams): | 431(approx) |
Description:
Contents
Foreword VII
Preface XVII
Abbreviations XXI
Chapter I: The philosophy of sacrificial act 1
1 The verb samkr-in the brahmana: mythical ritual and symbolic dimensions 1
2 The ritual making of the sacrifice’s self 3
Chapter II: Representation of Hindu life cycle 9
1 Introduction 9
2 Human life-cycle rites 11
3 Invocation and propitiation of divinities 18
4 Fortifying the delicate Passages 20
5 Instituting and sacralizing human relations 22
6 Samskara and adhikara 24
7 Continuity of generations 27
8 Samskara and dharma 29
9 Vaisnava and saiva-samskaras 30
Chapter III: The Buddhist attitude towards samskaras 33
1 Introduction 33
2 Samskara as the fourth appropriational group and as the second link 37
3 Samskara as the second link 42
4 The dialectics between conditioning and de-conditioning 49
5 Samskara samkrta asamkrta in nagarjuna's madhyamaka karikas 52
6 The unconscious (Mind ) in Buddhist texts 58
Chapter IV: Samskara in vaisesika thought: Mechanics and psychology 71
1 Three kinds of phenomena 71
2 Mechanics of propulsion and impulsion 71
3 Definition of elasticity 76
4 Psychological theories of vaisesika philosophy 76
5 Samskara as factors of prolongation in space and time 80
6 St. Augustine and the vast palaces of memory 80
7 Synoptic tables 1 and 2 82
Chapter V: Role of samkaras in theories of language 85
1 Word phonemes and verbal knowledge 85
2 Samskara and sphota 86
3 Dialogue between varna-vadin and sphota-vandin 87
4 Some parallels with the west 88
Chapter VI: The advaita vedanta theory of samskaras 91
1 Sankaracarya's contribution to samskara 91
2 Previous acquisitions in the context of law of karman 100
3 Previous acquitions are helpful 107
4 Positive aspects of latent impressions 119
Chapter VII: The bhava/samkara theory in the samkhya karikas 131
1 The word samskara in the samkhya karika 131
2 The receptacle of the bhavas is the buddhi 134
3 Other two directives of the theory of eight bhavas 140
4 The subtle body and the psycho-moral predispositions 141
Chapter VIII: Ambivalence of samskaras in the yoga sutras of patanjali 147
1 The concept of samskara in the eight sutras of patanjali 147
2 Sapience-made and residual impressions of emergence 149
3 Three kinds of suffering 150
4 Residual-impressions of emergence versus residual impressions of suppression 152
5 Extraordinary of supra-normal power 153
6 Samskara smrti, vasana 154
7 Two facets of samskaras positive and negative 155
8 Samskara and adhikara 158
9 Difference between asamprajnata and nirbija-samaadhi 159
10 Yoga and psychoanalysis 162
Conclusions: Philological and historical issues 167
Bibliography 179
Indices 207
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