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140503 BA The significance of emotions in Venkatanatha's Bhagavadgita commentary and hymns (2019S)

Despair, confidence, joy and reverence

8.00 ECTS (1.00 SWS), SPL 14 - Orientalistik, Afrikanistik, Indologie und Tibetologie
Continuous assessment of course work

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max. 36 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Monday 04.03. 11:00 - 11:45 Seminarraum 5 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-34
  • Monday 11.03. 11:00 - 11:45 Seminarraum 5 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-34
  • Monday 18.03. 11:00 - 11:45 Seminarraum 5 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-34
  • Monday 25.03. 11:00 - 11:45 Seminarraum 5 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-34
  • Tuesday 02.04. 12:30 - 13:15 Seminarraum 6 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-37
  • Monday 08.04. 11:00 - 11:45 Seminarraum 5 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-34
  • Monday 29.04. 11:00 - 11:45 Seminarraum 5 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-34
  • Monday 06.05. 11:00 - 11:45 Seminarraum 5 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-34
  • Monday 13.05. 11:00 - 11:45 Seminarraum 5 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-34
  • Monday 20.05. 11:00 - 11:45 Seminarraum 5 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-34
  • Monday 27.05. 11:00 - 11:45 Seminarraum 5 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-34
  • Monday 03.06. 11:00 - 11:45 Seminarraum 5 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-34
  • Monday 03.06. 13:00 - 14:00 Seminarraum 5 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-34
  • Monday 17.06. 11:00 - 11:45 Seminarraum 5 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-34
  • Monday 24.06. 11:00 - 11:45 Seminarraum 5 ISTB UniCampus Hof 4 2C-O1-34

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Please find an English summary here: http://wp.me/p3YaBu-MJ

Assessment and permitted materials

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

1. Aktive Teilnahme (50% der Gesamtnote)
2. Teil der Leistung ist auch, zumindest einen Vortrag oder ein Seminar zu besuchen (z.B. und darüber mündlich oder schriftlich zu berichten) und zumindest an einer Einheit (1.5 Stunden) im "Vidhiviveka readings" (jeden Freitag, 9.30--11.30) oder im "Maṇḍana on prescriptions workshop" (3.7--10.7) aktiv teilzunehmen. (10%)
3. Vorbereitung einer BA-Arbeit (40%)

Examination topics

A. Secondary Literature: Clooney, Francis Xavier, Beyond Compare. St. Francis de Sales and Śrī Vedānta Deśika on Loving Surrender to God, Georgetown University Press (2008), Washington D.C. IND 2011-359

Freschi, Elisa, Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta. In: Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Religion, Wiley-Blackwell (forthcoming).

Mumme, Patricia Y., The Śrī Vaiṣṇava Theological Dispute: Maṇavāḷamāmuni and Vedānta Deśika, New Era Publications (1988), Madras. Ph I 9:182

Nayar, Nancy A., Praise-poems to Viṣṇu and Śrī: The Stotras of Rāmānuja's Immediate Disciples : a Translation from the Sanskrit with Introduction and Notes, Ananthacharya Indological Research Institute (1994), Ananthacharya Indological Research Institute series. Ph I 9:195

B. Primary Literature: The commentary by Rāmānuja and Veṅkaṭanātha on BhG 18.66, in: The Bhagavad-Gita with Eleven Commentaries. First Collection: (1) Shankaracharya's Advaita Bhashya; (2) Anandagiri's Vyakhya; (3) Ramanuja's Vishishta-advaita Bhashya, (4) Deshika's Tatparya-Cchandrika; (5) Madhava's Dvaita Bhashya, (6) Jayatirtha's prameya-deepika; (7) Hanumat's Paishacha Bhashya; (8) Venkatnatha's Brahmanandagiri; (9) Vallabha's Tattva-deepika. (10) Purushotama's Amrita-tarangini; (11) Nilakantha's Bhava-deepa, and last Yamuna nuni's Artha-sangraha with Deshika's Raksha and Gita Mahatmya of each Adhyaya. Vol III (Thirteenth to Eighteenth Adhyayas), The ``Gujarati" Printing Press (1938), edited by Shastri, Gajanana Shambhu Sadhale, Bombay

The hymns of Veṅkaṭanātha: Śrīmadvedāntadeśika stotramālā 1965, edited by Prativādibhayaṅkara Aṇṇāṅgarācārya, Kancheepuram.

Reading list

C. Weitere Literaturvorschläge (für BA-Arbeiten)
Haberman, David, Acting as a Way of Salvation: A Study of Rāgānugā Bhakti Sādhana, Oxford University Press (1988), New York and Oxford.
Peter King, Emotions in Medieval Thought. In: The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Emotions (2010), pp. 167--187.
Martin Pickavé, On the Intentionality of the Emotions (and of Other Appetitive Acts), Quaestio 10 (2010), pp. 45--63 (see also his podcast here: https://historyofphilosophy.net/emotions-pickave)

Association in the course directory

BA18

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