1st Edition
India and Beyond Aspects of Literature, Meaning, Ritual and Thought
First published in 1997. The International Institute for Asian Studies (lIAS) is pleased to introduce a new series 'Studies from the International Institute for Asian Studies'. This present volume, India and Beyond; Aspects of Literature Meaning, Ritual and Thought, contains more than 30 contributions from well-established scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds. These essays are in honour of one of the founding fathers of the lIAS, Frits Staal, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and South Asian Languages, University of California at Berkeley. This volume is edited by Dick van der Meij, editor of the Indonesian-Netherlands Cooperation in Islamic Studies Programme at Leiden University.
Introduction I. Some Thoughts on the Indian Conceptions of Poetic Expression II. Awakening and its Imagery in Tagore's Early Religious Poetry III. Liberating Language: Parthasarathi Misra on the Sentence and its Meaning IV. Hindu Revival in Fifteenth-Century Java V. A Man and a Woman: An Analysis of a Modem Hindi Short Story VI. Building Blocks or Useful Fictions: Changing View of Morphology in Ancient Indian Thought VII. Myths of Transsexual Masquerades in Ancient India VIII. Notes on the Tshechu Festival in Paro and Thimphu, Bhutan IX. Vedische Weisung: Was Verstand Kumarila Bhatta unter einer Vedischen Weisung (Codan~) X. Heaven on Earth: Temples and Temple Cities of Medieval India XI. Have: Linguistic Diversity in the Expression of a Simple Relation XII. Metrical Verse in the Psalms XIII. The Losing of Tapas XIV. Ritual and Ritualism: The Case of Ancient Indian Ancestor Worship XV. Satra and B~asatra in Bharqhari's Mababbaljya DIpika: On the theory and Practice of a Scientific and Philosophical Genre XVI. Becoming a Veda in the Godavari Delta XVII. The Focus on the Human Body: Two Iconographic Sources on the Origins of Indian Art XVIII. What Lies at the Basis of Indian Philosophy XIX. The Story of Jaratkaru on a Balinese Ulun-Ulun XX. Wo lag der Astava? XXI. The Tantric Transformation of Paja: Interpretation and Structure in the Study of Ritual XXII. Bhattrai’s Philosophy of Language, Spho!avada and Sabdabrahmavada: Are They Interrelated? XXIII. A Propos de Rapports Entre RasaSastra et Tantra: Etude sur un Fragment du Rasendracuqiima XXIV. Hierarchical Idealism: Plotinus/Proclus, Bhartrhari XXV. A Play About Ritual: The 'Rites of Transmission of Office' of the Taoist Masters of Guizhou (South West China) XXVI. Homelessness and Homecoming: Nietzsche, Heidegger, HOlderlin XXVII. The Social and Intellectual Origins of Hubert and Mauss's Theory of Ritual Sacrifice XXVIII. Participation in, and Objectification of, the Charisma of Saints XXIX. Linear Time in Historical Texts of Early India XXX. On Mantras and Frits Staal XXXI. Tibetan Expertise in Sanskrit Grammar (3): on the Correct Pronunciation of the Ineffable XXXII. On Syntactic and Semantic Considerations in the Study of Ritual XXXIII. Thin, Thinner, Thinnest: Some Remarks on JaiminIya Brabam XXXIV. Theology and the Academic Study of R eligion in the United States XXXV. Bibliography Frits Staal
Biography
Dick van der Meij editor of the Indonesian-Netherlands Cooperation in Islamic Studies Programme at Leiden University.
