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Dharma - Its Early History in Law, Religion, and Narrative (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,016
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Dharma - Its Early History in Law, Religion, and Narrative (Hardcover): Alf Hiltebeitel

Dharma - Its Early History in Law, Religion, and Narrative (Hardcover)

Alf Hiltebeitel

Series: South Asia Research

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Between 300 BCE and 200 CE, concepts and practices of dharma attained literary prominence throughout India. Both Buddhist and Brahmanical authors sought to clarify and classify their central concerns, and dharma proved a means of thinking through and articulating those concerns.
Alf Hiltebeitel shows the different ways in which dharma was interpreted during that formative period: from the grand cosmic chronometries of kalpas and yugas to narratives about divine plans, gendered nuances of genealogical time, royal biography (even autobiography, in the case of the emperor Asoka), and guidelines for daily life, including meditation. He reveals the vital role dharma has played across political, religious, legal, literary, ethical, and philosophical domains and discourses about what holds life together. Through dharma, these traditions have articulated their distinct visions of the good and well-rewarded life.
This insightful study explores the diverse and changing significance of dharma in classical India in nine major dharma texts, as well some shorter ones. Dharma proves to be a term by which to make a fresh cut through these texts, and to reconsider their own chronology, their import, and their relation to each other.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Series: South Asia Research
Release date: November 2011
First published: August 2011
Authors: Alf Hiltebeitel (Columbian Professor of Religion, History, and Human Sciences)
Dimensions: 236 x 162 x 54mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 768
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-539423-8
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > History of religion
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Non-Christian religions > Religions of Indic & Oriental origin > Buddhism > General
Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian religions > Religions of Indic & Oriental origin > Buddhism > General
Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > History of religion
LSN: 0-19-539423-2
Barcode: 9780195394238

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