Breaking Barriers: Essays in Asian and Comparative Philosophy in Honor of Ramakrishna Puligandla,9780895819611

Breaking Barriers: Essays in Asian and Comparative Philosophy in Honor of Ramakrishna Puligandla

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ISBN13: 9780895819611
ISBN10: 0895819619
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2003-08-01
Publisher(s): Jain Pub Co
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Summary

Breaking Barriers is a collection of invited contributions by distinguished philosophers, scientists, and religious thinkers of East and West in honor of Professor Ramakrishna Puligandla. The twenty-three essays in this volume may be divided into four groups: (1) Philosophy of Advaita, (2) Buddhism, (3) Indian Philosophy and Physics, and (4) Asian and Comparative Thought. Contributors have written on topics such as the phenomenology of consciousness, science and religion, and comparative philosophy and religion. The volume is designed to stimulate the interest of students, professors, and all those who wish to explore new knowledge. In this volume, the creative thought of leading thinkers from principal universities in India and elsewhere transcends words without insight, barren arguments, and all limiting paradigms. Breaking Barriers thus represents a multi-disciplinary approach informed by cross-cultural philosophical vision. Modern physics and classical Indian philosophy exist here in unity.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
PART I PHILOSOPHY OF ADVAITA
Jaganmithya---An Alternative Interpretation
1(10)
Ashok Vohra
Vedic Concept of Religion
11(12)
A. Ramamurthy
Maya-Avidya---As a Phenomenological Problematic
23(16)
Godabarisha Mishra
The Vedanta Concept of Purusartha
39(12)
Bijayananda Kar
Advaita: Puligandla's Analytical Interpretation
51(14)
S. Panneerselvam
Sankara---A Child Philosopher
65(14)
Thomas Jackson
A Day of Everyday: A Phenomenological Exploration
79(28)
R. Balasubramanian
PART II BUDDHISM
Buddhist and Psychoanalytic Insights into the Self and Self-Awareness
107(18)
John M. Koller
Rethinking Experience in Buddhism: Conversion and Miracle as `Family Resemblance' Features of Buddhist Experience
125(24)
Frank J. Hoffman
Emptiness and Pure Consciousness: A Tribute to Rama Puligandla
149(8)
Steven W. Laycock
PART III INDIAN PHILOSOPHY AND PHYSICS
Quantum Reality and Non-duality
157(16)
E.C. George Sudarshan
Advaita Vedanta and Modern Physics: Some Reflections
173(16)
Srinivasa Rao
Consciousness, Duality and Particle Physics: A Topological Relationship
189(6)
Mark MacDowell
Is the Possibility of Paranormal Connection Ruled Out by Physics?
195(16)
David Montalvo
PART IV ASIAN AND COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY
Understanding Spirituality in the Indian Context
211(8)
S.R. Bhatt
Obligation towards Man: The Indian Perspective
219(8)
Shashi Prabha Kumar
Duty in the Bhagavadgita
227(10)
Bart Gruzalski
``Yoking'' or Yoga in the Philosophy of Plato
237(16)
Hans P. Sturm
Growth, Zero-Growth and Gandhian Growth
253(10)
S. S. Rama Rao Pappu
God, Evil and Annie Besant
263(12)
Arthur L. Herman
Philosophy as a Vehicle or an Obstacle to Liberation? Advaitic and Buddhist Considerations
275(12)
Kaisa Puhakka
Heidegger and Taoism on Humanism
287(20)
Xianglong Zhang
The Concept of Mythic Consciousness in India
307(10)
Ashok Kumar Malhotra
Ramakrishna Puligandla: A Profile
317(18)
Srinivasa Rao
Godabarisha Mishra
Contributors 335(6)
Bibliography 341(14)
Index 355

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