Understanding Hindu Civilization
The problematic encounter between Westernizing modernity and Hindu civilization is—more than that of Christian missionary activity (continuing unabated in foreign-funded proselytizing), (institutional legacies of) colonial rule and administrative measures, increasing integration into a globalizing capitalist economy (with upper-caste Hindus having ended up the wealthiest immigrant community in the United States), hegemony of new disciplines (history, archaeology, linguistics, psychoanalysis, etc.) now being studied by Indians themselves, Hindu mobilization to defend their traditional values (with the global diaspora beginning to take a leading role)—primarily the challenge of translating between two diametrically opposed taxonomies of knowledge, conflicting ways of organizing the world around us. Given that the Indian state—through its electoral setup, education curriculum, economic policies, etc.—is the single largest determinant of the future of its religious constituencies, the overt and sometimes aggressive politicization of this 'civilizational' agenda in the form of 'Hindutva' was perhaps even more inevitable than is Christian fundamentalism in the United States today.
Dialogues
[click to see digests of Dialogues at the
Abhinavagupta forum pertaining to Hindu Civilization]
Alfred Collins
(click on
Alfred Collins to see his svAbhinava profile
and relevant content)
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Some of Antonio's books online (español)
[external]
Complete list of Antonio's books (Barnes and Noble,
Amazon)
[external]
The
Fool - Secret of the Forest (from Moksha Smith: Agni's Warrior-Sage)
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Bharat Gupt (Abhinava, Athens,
Friends)
(click on
Bharat Gupt to see his svAbhinava profile
and relevant content)
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Interview with Peter Brunhardt (Vipassana coordinator in Bolivia) -
note
(español)
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Review
of Maggi Lidchi-Grassi, The Great Golden Age of the Mahâbhârata (note)
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The Castes of India - published in Spanish in the
Sarasvati journal
Wisdom of the Great Forest -
Prologue by Òscar Pujol
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Thus went the children of Zarathustra
(French)
(review
- 2003)
Identity, multiculturalism, and laicism
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Visit
Jeff's faculty page at Elizabethtown College
[external]
Jainism: An Introduction (published 07 July 2009, at Amazon.com)
[external]
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Asterisk in Bhâropîyasthân (chapters 0
- 7)
- November 2006
0. Asterisk in Bhâropîyasthân -
Foreword)
- November 2006
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Lakshmi Bandlamudi
(⇐ click to see complete profile with links)
Dr. Lakshmi Bandlamudi is psychology professor at LaGuardia College, City University
of New York (CUNY). She grew up in Chennai (Madras) and after completing high school
moved to Bangalore, where she did her undergraduate studies and then lived in Hyderabad
for few years before immigrating to USA in 1981. In addition to her mother tongue
Telugu, she is fluent in Tamil and Kannada. She earned her M.A. from Teachers College,
Columbia University in Developmental Psychology and her Ph.D. from Graduate Center,
CUNY in 1994 in the same subject. She has published extensively in professional
journals in her discipline and is the author of Movements
With the Cosmic Dancer: On Pilgrimage to Kailash – Manasarovar (New
Age Books, 2006), a chronicle of her physical and spiritual quest in the Himalayas,
with a foreword written by H.H. The Dalai Lama. She has taught at CUNY since earning
her doctorate, serving as an adjunct at Queens College and Lehman College, before
joining LaGuardia’s Social Science Department in 1993. Dr. Bandlamudi is the
recipient of a 2010 Fulbright Nehru Research Award that enabled her to spend August
2010 through mid-February in India to expand upon research derived from her book: Dialogics
of Self, the Mahabharata, and Culture: The History of Understanding and Understanding
of History (Anthem Press, 2010). An interdisciplinary psychological
interpretation of India’s epic text the Mahabharata, the Dialogics
of Self examines that work through the lenses of personal and cultural
past. Deeply influenced by Russian theorists L.S. Vygotsky and Mikhail M. Bakhtin
(dialogism, carnival, clown), her thought remains shaped by Indic culture and values,
especially as embodied by Abhinavagupta: she intuitively felt Hindu tradition and
sensibility to be full of the carnival spirit and subsequent fieldwork has only
confirmed these perceptions. She is currently (co-) organizing (with Prof. Prafulla
Kar) the first All-India Bakhtin Conference planned for (probably summer) 2013 at the Forum
on Contemporary Theory in Baroda (Gujarat).
[This profile was created on 10 Sep 2011: Lakshmi emailed on 15 August 2011
to introduce herself and invite my participation in the Bakhtin Conference. I subsequently
received an electronic version of Dialogics of Self
(25 August) and a dedicated print copy of Movements
with the Cosmic Dancer (27 August). Having immediately introduced her to
our Abhinavagupta and related forums, I began a
dialogic reading of her Movements With the Cosmic Dancer
starting 30 August 2011. She had come across the reference to my unpublished
work through Lee Siegel (Laughing Matters), who participated
at the 1986 Madison TS pilot-conference, and must have sent her my Transgressive
Sacrality (TS) paper (that she subsequently also read at our svAbhinava webpage).
The distinction between 'ascending' (saṅkoca) and
'descending' (vikāsa) realization was further reinforced
by readings in Kashmir Saivism, Aurobindo, and Nietzsche. Her ongoing engagement
with my thought has been from the perspective of dialogism: exploring the carnivalization
of consciousness and its critical role in catalyzing developmental events.]
Movements with the Cosmic Dancer: On Pilgrimage to Kailash Manasarovar (Amazon
-
preview) - 2006
Movements
with the Cosmic Dancer - a dialogic reading by Sunthar Visuvalingam (digest)
- Aug-Sep 2011
Illustrated notes on street clown performances in India - 2011
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[Click on McKim
Marriott to view his individual profile and links to his content]
Abhinavagupta's
Commentary on the Gîtâ (book
review - 2003)
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New Poems:
big bell, primal cry, who am I, love, being oneself, belonging, lost & found,
dawn of civilization, truth, evil, classes, perspective, roots,...
Sunthar's musings on Narsi's poems: classes, dawn of civilization,
nostalgia & mother,
Probably the most promising Sanskrit scholar from Spain, Oscar is currently
Director of the Instituto Cervantes (global network cultural centers run by
the Spanish goverment) in Fez, Morocco. He previously held the same position
in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and before that in New Delhi, India, where he founded
the Indian branch from ground up. He lived for 16 years in Benares with wife
Mercedes, gaining his Ph.D. in Sanskrit Grammar in 1999 from Banaras Hindu University.
His first Sanskrit teacher was Vāgīśa Śāstri Tripāṭhi and subsequently worked
on a Bengali grammar with Śrīnārāyaṇa Miśra. Oscar also taught Spanish at BHU.
His wife Mercedes is a Bharata Nâtyam dancer, who did her arangetram in Delhi
in 1999. She regularly teaches Bharata Nâtyam in Mallorca, Spain. Vasant, his
multilingual son, went to school in Banaras where he was born. The reconversion
of his Sanskrit-Catalan dictionary into Sanskrit-Spanish is currently in press.
He has published several other books, especially the translation of Abhinavagupta's
Abhinavabhâratî on Rasa. Oscar has been very active in promoting
cultural exchanges between traditional Indian and contemporary Spanish/Catalan
scholars (he's currently working on a Spanish text "From the Ganges to the Mediterranean").
We got to know Oscar and family shortly before we quit India in early 1989,
and I was able to renew our friendship at his parents' place in Barcelona in
June 2001. During the intervening period, Oscar worked closely on various projects
with Félix Ilarraz (who subsequently undertook an extended stay in Benares),
ending with a Spanish book on Indian philosophy (in press). He was a prime mover
behind the Fundación Purusa. - Sunthar (webmaster and editor)]
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The
Holdeen Funds - chapter from thesis on the Unitarian-Universalists and India
William
Roberts - chapter on the Unitarian-Universalists and India
The
Missionary Paradigm - chapter on Unitarian-Universalists and India
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Visit the Hindu Society of Manitoba homepage (note)
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India
and China: from brotherhood to partnership (June
2004)
Chinese fangshen and Indian yoga: two idiographic developing models
(June 2004)
Excerpts from the Upanishads (2001)
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