Devadattiyam: Johannes Bronkhorst Felicitation Volume
Authors:
Francois Voegeli, Vincent Eltschinger, Danielle Feller, Maria Piera Candotti, Bogdan Diaconescu, Malhar Kulkarni (editors)
ISBN:
9783034306829
Binding:
Hardcover
Year:
2012
Pages:
863
Size:
16 x 23 cm
Weight:
1 kg 495 grams
Price:
INR
2480.00
Johannes Bronkhorst, professor of Sanskrit and Indian Studies at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, from 1987 to 2011, undoubtedly belongs to the most talented and significant indologists of the last three decades. His abundant work testifies to an unparalleled range of interests from early Buddhism to grammar, mathematics to asceticism, philosophy to archaeology, and is characterized by the determination to challenge preconceived ideas, clichés and traditional (mis)constructs.The present felicitation volume includes thirty-two essays by some of the finest scholars in the field of indology, which reflect Johannes Bronkhorst’s main scholarly contributions: Grammar, Philosophy, Vedic Studies, Buddhism and Jainism, Dharmaśāstra and Arthaśāstra, Epics and Purāṇas. It presents an almost complete spectrum of the intellectual and spiritual pursuits and speculations in Ancient India, and will be of inestimable value to the specialists of all fields of Indology. The volume also includes a presentation of Johannes Bronkhorst’s academic career and contribution to Indian Studies by Jan E.M. Houben, and an ongoing bibliography of his work.
Francois Voegeli
François Voegeli has a PhD in Sanskrit Philology from the University of Lausanne. His main research interests are Vedic ritual, Vedic philology, and the archaeology of South Asia.
Vincent Eltschinger
Vincent Eltschinger is a research fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and currently focuses on the religious background and apologetic dimensions of late Indian Buddhist philosophy.
Danielle Feller
Danielle Feller teaches Indian religions at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and her main field of research concerns the Sanskrit epics and kāvya literature.
Maria Piera Candotti
Maria Piera Candotti is Lecturer in Sanskrit at the University of Lausanne. Her interest mainly concerns the metalinguistic theories developped in the Sanskrit grammatical tradition (vyākarana).
Bogdan Diaconescu
ogdan Diaconescu is an Indologist and scholar of religion who specialises in Sanskrit knowledge-systems and Indian religions, studied in their various historical and cultural interactions, Sanskrit and Pali linguistics, and the expansion of Indian thought in Asia.
Malhar Kulkarni
Malhar Kulkarni is a Vaiyakarana by training and currently teaches at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai.