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Unveiling Abhijῆānaśākuntala: Exploring Kingship, Love, and Asceticism
Kālidāsa (4th – fifth century CE) has always been known for his exquisite poetic style and a deep sense of natural imageries. His works have been...
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The Convergence of Seeing and Action in Classical Yoga
Yoga, as classically formulated in Patañjali’s Yoga-Sūtra , has far too often been conceived as leading to a freedom from the world, emphasizing...
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Christianity and Capitalism in China A Case Study from the Diaspora
This book links Calvinist belief in the Perpetual Assurance of Salvation with self-efficacy for economic success. Certain values are at stake for the...
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“I Will Tell You How Once They Were Joyous”: On the Joy of the Baal Shem Tov’s Hasidim and of R. Nahman of Bratslav
In this chapter, I offer some guidelines to describe the joy of Hasidism in tales attributed to the Baal Shem Tov. In contrast to Ashkenazic Hasidism...
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‘Our Struggle Is for the Contemplation of the Holy Trinity’: Spiritual Formation as Divine Contemplation in Evagrius Ponticus
For Evagrius, spiritual formation is a process of incessant development through the careful exegesis of Scripture, especially its wisdom books. In...
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Amba’s Journey Through Multiple Lives and Genders
Abducted by Bhishma from her self-choice (svayamvara) ceremony, subsequently rejected by her previously chosen partner, her life turned upside down....
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Madhavi: Return to Self in Ancient and Modern Retellings
The Tale of Madhavi is independent of the central story of the Mahabharata even though her story is recollected in detail. Madhavi’s story has...
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Slender Waists and Severed Breasts: The Construction of Female Bodies and Feminine Subjectivities in Vaiṣṇava Bhakti Poetry
This article explores the ways in which the sexed body and its gendered subjectivity are constructed and expressed by Vaiṣṇava devotional poets of...
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The Asceticism of Interpretation: John Cassian, Hermeneutical Askēsis, and Religious Ethics
Of the practices John Cassian (c.360–c.435) brings from Egyptian desert elders to southern Gallic monks, his scriptural hermeneutics best reflects...
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The Stage of Arahantship
This chapter does not trace the historical development of the concept of Arahant. Instead, it presents Arahantship as found in the early Buddhist...
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Extracting a Humanisitic Philosophy of Social and Environmental Well-being from the Bhagavad-gītā
This essay aims at articulating a humanistic philosophy of social and environmental well-being out of the Bhagavad-gītā . It points at the limits of...
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Beginning of the Journey
Liminality operates as a conduit between withdrawal from the world and contribution to the world. The paradox of how the decision to leave the world...
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Contemplation: Being Poised at the Virgin Point
This chapter addresses the theme of contemplation, emphasizing the notion of the virgin point of pure nothingness. The author describes...
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Nīr-Kṣīr Viveka: Discerning the Truth of Spirituality in Gandhi’s Thought and Actions
In his work, Arvind Sharma daringly asserts the fundamental place of spirituality in Mohandas K. (“Mahatma”) Gandhi’s personal life and social and...
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Jeong and the Interrelationality of Self and Other in Korean Buddhist Cinema
This chapter discusses the role of jeong in Korean Buddhist films that explore the Mahayana premise that ultimate freedom is not to be found in an...
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Love
I examine a network of Transylvanian Hungarian orphanages, the Saint Francis Foundation (SFF), today run by a Franciscan friar, Brother Csaba Böjte....