Report of 11 Day Tutorial workshop on resurgence of Dhanurveda Gurkulams
Venue: Regional office of Gurukul Prakalp, Bharatiya Shikshan Mandal, Near Durga Kund, Varanasi 21-30th January 2019 Bharatiya shikshan mandal is working towards resurgence of Gurukul Education system through one of it’s Project named as “Gurukul prakalp”since 2016. After the successful international conference at Ujjain in April 2018, various More...
Sarvaṁ khalvidaṁ brahma
The Upaniṣads form the bedrock of Vedānta philosophy, based on which the Brahma Sūtras and Bhagavad Gītā together espouse the fundamentals of spirituality according to the Indian tradition. It is therefore More...
Śrī Rāmānuja’s Vedāntic Harmony: Samanvaya as a Paradigm for Social Harmony
Śrī Rāmānuja was a philosopher par excellence and the famous proponent of the philosophy called Viśiṣṭādvaita. The religious side of that philosophy is called Śrīvaiṣṇavism. It is often said that More...
Śrīharṣa on Knowledge and Justification – 3
Nāgārjuna and Śrīharṣa on Dialectical Closure If philosophical debate is a game, it is not free from manipulation. The parties involved do not come with just their positions but also with the rules that can More...
Śrīharṣa on Knowledge and Justification – 2
Śrīharṣa on the Scope of Reasoning With regard to the establishment of categories, a generally agreed-upon maxim is that ‘validity of something can be established [P1] not by a mere proposition but by [P2a] More...
Śrīharṣa on Knowledge and Justification – 1
In this paper I explore the extent to which the dialectical approach of Śrīharṣa can be identified as skeptical, and whether or how his approach resembles that of the first century Mādhyamika philosopher Nāgārjuna. More...
Heterogenity in Darshana Across Bharat
India has a long tradition of philosophy and varied interpretations of value based lived experiences and the space to engage in complicated conversations about the same. Insight (darshana) from lived experiences More...
Kaṇāda, Great Physicist and Sage of Antiquity
The achievements of Classical Greece in diverse fields, especially literature (plays and history), mathematics, science, philosophy, and the arts have profoundly influenced world culture. Especially impressive is More...
A Very Brief History of Indian Science
The annual Indian Science Congress, which just concluded, had its usual share of controversies about history of Indian science and I have been asked to weigh in. It so turns out that I did precisely that in a brief More...
The Dialogical Manifestation of Reality in Agamas – 2
[contextly_sidebar id=”aA33PHAQVOQdpQ9cDuOzNbVl873nOeZR”] Śruti in Trika Śaiva literature21 Abhinava on Āgamic revelation The status of Āgamic revelation in the Trika system is summed up in a single More...