U.T. Vīrarāghavācārya on malefic sacrifices

To my knowledge, Veṅkaṭanātha's Seśvaramīmāṃsā (henceforth SM, a masterpiece of Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta and Mīmāṃsā composed in the early 14th c.) has been commented upon only once in Sanskrit, namely in the 20th c. by Abhinava Deśika Vīrarāghavācārya. Vīrarāghavācārya continues Veṅkaṭanātha's agenda in reinterpreting Mīmāṃsā tenets in a Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta way. For instance, within the commentary …

Neglected contemporary Indian philosophers: Uttamur T. Vīrarāghavācārya

Vīrarāghavācarya is known in his Tamil works as Uttamur (or Uthamur) T. Vīrarāghavācarya (with various graphic variants) and in his Sanskrit works mainly as Abhinava Deśika Vīrarāghavācarya. He wrote countless books, mostly commentaries on Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta books in Tamil, Maṇipravāḷa and Sanskrit. However, he also wrote directly on texts he deemed important for religious, e.g., …

Contemporary Upaniṣads

I received the following announcement from Aman Singh (I slightly edited it): Sri Sivabala Yogi (1935 – 1994) was a self-realized sage whose teachings were recently published in the book – ‘Laghu Guru Upanishad - The Spiritual Teachings of Sri Sivabala Yogi’.   The entire work is encyclopedic in scope, called Guru Upanishad and what …

Who are the best 150 philosophers in modern and contemporary India?

I received the following announcement from Shyam Ranganathan: The new Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Philosophers is seeking scholars to advise us on the inclusion of 150 philosophical thinkers who lived and worked in the India subcontinent between 1600 and 2000. http://www.bloomsbury.com/bloomsbury-encyclopedia-of-philosophers/117 We hope to complete this list by March 2018. During 2018, we will be recruiting …

Sorabji on Gandhi as a stoic philosopher

This article by Richard Sorabji analyses Gandhi's political strategies as the output of his philosophical standpoint. Sorabji claims that Gandhi's thought is "full of surprises" and akin to the Stoic thought. Enjoy!

Desire and liberation

A classical text by Vaddera Chandidas has been republished thanks to the editorial efforts and with a new Introduction by "our" A. Raghuramaraju. For those who did not know the text, here is an extract of the introduction by Kalidas Bhattacharya: This monograph is replete with novel concepts and novel interpretation of traditional ones. The …

Announcement: Seminar on Life and works of Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya

A Seminar on Life and works of Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya will be held on November 28th and 29th,2017 at Acharya Nagarjuna University,Nagarjuna Nagar-522510,Andhra Pradesh. For more info, see here

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