In Search of Immortality: An Introduction to Indic World-Views
In Search of Immortality: An Introduction to Indic World-Views

In Search of Immortality: An Introduction to Indic World-Views


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ABOUT THE BOOK- 'Where did the world come from?', 'Who created it?', 'What happens to a person after death?' - Thoughts on such questions are found in the Rig Veda, the oldest extant Indo-European text, dating back to circa 1500 BCE. It provides insights into the world-view of the Aryans who migrated and settled in India approximately 4000 years ago. Many of the concepts and ideas that comprise the present-day Indian world-views descend from the Vedas and the Upanishads. However, couched in such mythological and religious forms, these concepts are prone to give a lopsided impression that Indian philosophy is theistic in nature. But teasing them out from such literature leads to a loss of the context within which they developed and evolved overtime. In Search of Immortality seeks to recontextualize Indian world-views by tracing them from their origin in the Rig Vedic hymns to their evolution into various orthodox and heterodox philosophical systems, and illuminates the cluster of quintessential ideas that have molded the Indian psyche over several millennia. REVIEWS- I am greatly impressed by erudition, lucid style, and skill to produce a synthetic and readable account of many different ideas and views...This is certainly an admirable tour de force in scholarship. - Prof. M. S. Valiathan, FRCS, author of The Legacy of Caraka./Dasgupta's book has the virtue of bringing together elements that are often relegated to the separate fields of religion and philosophy...This distinguishes his work from the books in the field which more typically focus exclusively on either religion or philosophy rather than both at the same time.- Prof. J. D. Long, author of Jainism: An Introduction./The Indian World View is a collection of myriad ideas and concepts that...are very complex and challenging. Dr. Dasgupta succeeds in weaving these views into a wonderful tapestry full of ideas.- Prof. Sanjiv Chopra, Harvard Medical School.


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  • ISBN-13: 9789350980552
  • ISBN-10: 935098055X


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