Living with the Himalayan Masters

Living with the Himalayan Masters PDF

Author: Swami Rama

Publisher: Himalayan Institute Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13: 0893891568

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Inspirational stories of Swama Rama's experiences and lessons learned with the great teachers who guided his life including Mahatma Gandhi, Tagore, and more.

Translating Wisdom

Translating Wisdom PDF

Author: Shankar Nair

Publisher: University of California Press

Published: 2020-04-28

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 0520345681

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A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. During the height of Muslim power in Mughal South Asia, Hindu and Muslim scholars worked collaboratively to translate a large body of Hindu Sanskrit texts into the Persian language. Translating Wisdom reconstructs the intellectual processes and exchanges that underlay these translations. Using as a case study the 1597 Persian rendition of the Yoga-Vasistha—an influential Sanskrit philosophical tale whose popularity stretched across the subcontinent—Shankar Nair illustrates how these early modern Muslim and Hindu scholars drew upon their respective religious, philosophical, and literary traditions to forge a common vocabulary through which to understand one another. These scholars thus achieved, Nair argues, a nuanced cultural exchange and interreligious and cross-philosophical dialogue significant not only to South Asia’s past but also its present.