140371 UE The General Characteristics of Bhakti - The First Chapter of Rupa Gosvamin's Bhaktirasamrtasindhu (2012W)
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max. 24 participants
Language: English
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- Monday 08.10. 11:45 - 13:15 Seminarraum 5 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-34
- Monday 15.10. 11:45 - 13:15 Seminarraum 5 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-34
- Monday 22.10. 11:45 - 13:15 Seminarraum 5 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-34
- Monday 29.10. 11:45 - 13:15 Seminarraum 5 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-34
- Monday 05.11. 11:45 - 13:15 Seminarraum 5 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-34
- Monday 12.11. 11:45 - 13:15 Seminarraum 5 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-34
- Monday 19.11. 11:45 - 13:15 Seminarraum 5 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-34
- Monday 26.11. 11:45 - 13:15 Seminarraum 5 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-34
- Monday 03.12. 11:45 - 13:15 Seminarraum 5 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-34
- Monday 10.12. 11:45 - 13:15 Seminarraum 5 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-34
- Monday 17.12. 11:45 - 13:15 Seminarraum 5 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-34
- Monday 07.01. 11:45 - 13:15 Seminarraum 5 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-34
- Monday 14.01. 11:45 - 13:15 Seminarraum 5 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-34
- Monday 21.01. 11:45 - 13:15 Seminarraum 5 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-34
- Monday 28.01. 11:45 - 13:15 Seminarraum 5 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-34
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Aims, contents and method of the course
The theological application of the aesthetics of rasa is the main theme of the Bhaktirasam?tasindhu, Rupa Gosvamin's magnum opus. Rupa Gosvamin (c. 1475-1547 CE) devised a system of rational theology in which the language of poetry is used to express God-talk and its paradoxes. Rupa’s nephew, Jiva Gosvamin (c. 1510-1600 CE), wrote a scholarly commentary in Sanskrit that is regarded in the traditional circles as a key to understand Rupa’s ideas on bhakti and rasa. Jiva, indeed, efficiently unravelled criptic passages and gave his verdict on controversial ones. As such, Rupa’s and Jiva’s works are regarded as prototypical expressions of the rational theology of Bengali Vai??avism.The course will be taught in English. Basic knowledge of Sanskrit and Devanagari reading skill are needed.
Assessment and permitted materials
The students will be evaluated according to their regular and active attendance, and to the quality of their home preparation for the readings.
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
Jiva’s Sanskrit is lucid, scholastic, and philosophical. Students will have the opportunity to significantly improve their expertise in the commentarial style typical of Rupa’s and Jiva’s times. Jiva frequently cites lexicons, grammatical passages, pura?ic literature, etc., so his commentary will offer plenty of opportunity to face and solve interpretative problems through quotations from a variety of genres. The students will be thus introduced to the commentarial style of Sanskrit sastras.
Examination topics
In general, the text will be approached from an insider’s perspective, with a focus on what the internal tradition said about the language and the contents. For instance, formal problems such as grammatical, lexical, and theological ones, will be respectively explained through traditional means such as Pa?inian grammars, lexicons such as the Amarakosa, and Vai??ava authoritative sources. During the readings the stress will be on the syntax of the sentences and the structure of the arguments.
Reading list
(Main text): Damodara Sastri (ed.), Haribhaktirasam?tasindhu with Durgamasa?gamani. Varanasi 1931.
Graheli, Critical Edition of the Durgamasa?gamani Commentary of the Bhaktirasam?tasindhu (in preparation).
(On the historical context, and as a translation reference): E.C. Dimock, and T. Stewart (eds.), Caitanya Caritam?ta. Cambridge (MA) 1999.
D.L. Haberman (ed.), Bhaktirasam?tasindhu of Rupa Gosvamin. New Delhi 2003.
(On the relation between commentary and commented text): Graheli, "Narration and Comprehension of Paradox in Gau?iya Literature". Rivista di Studi Sudasiatici 2007, 181-208.
(On the sastric style of Sanskrit): G.A. Tubb and E.R. Boose, Scholastic Sanskrit. New York 2007.
Graheli, Critical Edition of the Durgamasa?gamani Commentary of the Bhaktirasam?tasindhu (in preparation).
(On the historical context, and as a translation reference): E.C. Dimock, and T. Stewart (eds.), Caitanya Caritam?ta. Cambridge (MA) 1999.
D.L. Haberman (ed.), Bhaktirasam?tasindhu of Rupa Gosvamin. New Delhi 2003.
(On the relation between commentary and commented text): Graheli, "Narration and Comprehension of Paradox in Gau?iya Literature". Rivista di Studi Sudasiatici 2007, 181-208.
(On the sastric style of Sanskrit): G.A. Tubb and E.R. Boose, Scholastic Sanskrit. New York 2007.
Association in the course directory
MAP3, MAB3b(UE C)
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