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All Life Is Yoga
The chapter focuses on Sri Aurobindo’s theory of evolution and integral yoga and their various facets. It also focuses on concepts such as...
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Evolution with Harmony: Integral Yoga and Its Transformational Potential in the Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo
Although the philosophy of Integral Yoga matured during Aurobindo’s retirement from politics and his relocation to Pondicherry, it could be viewed as...
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Ashtang Yoga: For Attaining the State of Mindfulness
The moment of engagement in experiencing every minute detail around you is mindfulness. It is focusing and refocusing from moment to moment to expand...
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Why Philosophy Makes No Progress
This paper offers an explanation for why some parts of philosophy have made no progress. Philosophy has made no progress because it cannot make...
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The Metaphysical Integration of Upāya in the Trika Philosophy and Bhoja’s Model Based on Triguṇa-Puruṣārtha to Understand the Concepts of Śivatva, Self-Realisation and Consciousness
The Trika school, which is popularly known as Pratyabhijñā-darśana or Kashmir Śaivism is an absolutist and theistic school of Śaivism in the 9th...
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Prolegomena to a Buddhist philosophy of religion
This article investigates the structures of an identifiably Buddhist philosophy of religion, understood as the philosophical exposition and...
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A Sustainable Philosophy for Teaching Ethics and Morals to Build Character, Pro-social Skills and Well-being in Children
This paper looks at frameworks for the practice of moral and ethical values for children, drawn from Yoga and Buddhist Philosophies. Verily the...
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Gods, Absolute, Non-theistic Divinity, and Monotheism in Indian Philosophy of Religion: A Genealogical Critique of Evolutionary Theogony
There are various permutations of theism: henotheism, pantheism, panentheism, a/theism, and nontheistic divinity. There is debate whether the idea of...
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Meditation, Idealism and Materiality: Vivid Visualization in the Buddhist ‘Qizil Yoga Manual’ and the Context of Caves
This paper examines the topic of Yogācāra idealism through a little studied Buddhist meditation manual, the so-called ‘Yogalehrbuch’ or ‘Qizil Yoga...
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Historiography of Indian Philosophy: Reflections on Periodization and Conceptualization
This paper provides one of the many ways of doing historiography, specifically concerning Indian philosophy. After making some general observations...
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Some Remarks on the Apparent Absence of a priori Reasoning in Indian Philosophy
This essays considers the hypothesis that Indian epistemology does not clearly recognize, let alone emphasize, an intellectual faculty that...
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Self-Cultivation Philosophy as Fusion Philosophy: An Interpretation of Buddhist Moral Thought
It is often observed that there is little or no moral philosophy in classical Indian Buddhist thought. This is sometimes believed to be surprising...
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Sri Aurobindo: Cosmology, Psychology and Integral Experience
Sri Aurobindo is one of the most prominent figures in the Indian Philosophy of twentieth century and yet we barely find any mention of his work in...
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Schopenhauer, the Philosophy of Music, and the Wisdom of Classical Indian Philosophy
Among Western philosophers, Schopenhauer is one of the few who seeks to clarify the nature of music, and its effects upon us. He claims that music is...
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The Grammatical Philosophy on Vijñāna and Vijñapti in Yogācāra
The traditional Buddhist Sanskrit term vijñāna cannot be given the meaning “consciousness” in accordance with the grammatical rules of Pāṇini’s Aṣṭādhyāyī...