The Philosophical Concept of Samskara

The Philosophical Concept of SamskaraThe purpose of this book is to throw some light on the originality of the Concept of Samskara in which ritual, psychological, and philosophical aspects are intermingled. Keeping in mind the various implications of the word in the Hindu Darsanas as well as in Buddhist thought, some relevant comparisons are drawn with Western Philosophy and Psychoanalysis. A review of texts and contexts shows that in domains as different as Rituals, Anthropology, Logic,

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he examines the complex notion of a 'subtle bodily matrix'--comprising vital channels (nadis)

Inte About the Author(s) Pandit Gopesh Kumar Ojha

and the presence of charismatic monks is at the heart of this book

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The chapter in this volume are a selection of papers presented in the general Philosophy Section at the 12th World Sanskrit Conference in Helsinki

It is rooted in a genuine concern for developing a comparative study of religion in face of the 'fighting' between human beings in the name of religion

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which identifies in the basal metabolism the best ally of our well-being

Late JADUNATH SINHA was the holder of the most covetable Roychand Premchand Scholarship

especially to the well-edited Kausika and Vaitana Sutras

philosophical creed of ancient India