The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Emotions in Classical Indian Philosophy

345 Pages·2021·2.105 MB·English

by  Maria Heim, Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, Roy Tzohar

THE BLOOMSBURY
RESEARCH HANDBOOK OF
EMOTIONS IN CLASSICAL
INDIAN PHILOSOPHY
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Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, Lancaster University, UK
Sor-hoon Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore

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THE BLOOMSBURY
RESEARCH HANDBOOK OF
EMOTIONS IN CLASSICAL
INDIAN PHILOSOPHY
Edited by
Maria Heim, Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad,
and Roy Tzohar
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CONTENTS
LI ST OF CO NTRIBUTORS vii
AC KNOWLEDGMENTS x
Introduction 1
Maria Heim, Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, and Roy Tzohar
1 Grief, Tranquility, and S ´¯ a nta Rasa in Ravi s ẹ n ạ ’s Padmapur¯ a n ạ 23
Gregory M. Clines
2 Emotions in Vi´ s i s ṭ¯ a dvaita Ved¯ a nta 49
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Elisa Freschi
3 Joy as Medicine? Y ogav¯ a sis ṭ ha and Descartes on the Affective
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Sources of Disease 69
Ana Laura Funes Maderey
4 Some Analyses of Feeling 87
Maria Heim
5 Lament and the Work of Tears: Andromache, S¯ ı t¯ a , and Ya´ s odhar¯ a 107
Steven P. Hopkins
6 The Mind in Pain: The View from Buddhist Systematic and
Narrative Thought 131
Sonam Kachru
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7 Transparent Smoke in the Pure Sky of Consciousness:
Emotions and Liberation-While-Living in the J ¯ ı vanmuktiviveka 153
James Madaio
8 Gesture and Emotion in Tamil S ´ aiva Devotional Poetry 173
Anne Monius
9 The Emotion that is Correlated with the Comic: Notes on
Human Nature Through R asa Theory 193
Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad
10 Is there a C a n˙ kam Way of Feeling? Body, Landscape, Voice,
and Affect in Old Tamil Poetry 213
Martha Ann Selby
11 Wretched and Blessed: Emotional Praise in a Sanskrit Hymn
from Kashmir 239
Hamsa Stainton
12 Savoring R asa : Emotion, Judgment, and Phenomenal Content 255
Sthaneshwar Timalsina
13 How Does it Feel to be on Your Own: Solitude (v iveka ) in
A´ s vagho s ạ’s Saundarananda 277
Roy Tzohar
BI BLIOGRAPHY 303
IN DEX 325
CONTRIBUTORS
Gregory M. Clines is Assistant Professor of Religion at Trinity University
in San Antonio, Texas. His research focuses on Jain R ¯ a m¯ a ya n ạ literature in
Sanskrit and north Indian vernaculars and early modern Digambara Jainism
in north India. He is also interested in Sanskrit literary and aesthetic theory.
His work has appeared in the journals R eligions , South Asian History and
Culture , and the I nternational Journal of Jaina Studies (Online).
Elisa Freschi works on Sanskrit Philosophy and more specifi cally on
topics of epistemology of testimony, philosophy of religion, philosophy of
language, deontic logic, and on the re-use of texts in South Asian intellectual
traditions. She is a convinced upholder of reading Sanskrit philosophical
texts within their history and understanding them through a philosophical
approach. She worked at the University of Vienna and as research leader of
projects on Vi´ s i s ṭ¯ a dvaita Ved¯ a nta and on deontic logic and M¯ ı m¯ a m s ̣ ¯ a at the
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Austrian Academy of Sciences, and is currently an assistant professor in the
Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto.
Maria Heim is the George Lyman Crosby 1896 & Stanley Warfi eld Crosby
Professor in Religion at Amherst College. She is a Guggenheim Fellow, and
was educated at Reed College and Harvard University. Her recent books,
Voice of the Buddha (Oxford 2018) and T he Forerunner of All Things (Oxford
2014), focus on Buddhaghosa. Her current interests center on emotions in
Sanskrit and Pali texts.
Steven P. Hopkins is Mari S. Michener Professor of Religion and Asian
Studies at Swarthmore College. His major fi eld of scholarship is South Indian
devotional literature in Tamil and Sanskrit, with special attention to the work
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of medieval South Indian saint-poet and philosopher Ve n ˙ kathan¯ a tha, though
he has published widely in the area of comparative religious literatures. He
has published three books on Ve n ˙ ka t e´ s a with Oxford University Press, most
˙
recently T he Flight of Love (2016), and was awarded the 2010 A.K. Ramanujan
Book Prize for Translation. He is currently completing a comparative study
of women’s laments in Greek, Hindu, and Buddhist literatures.
Sonam Kachru is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious
Studies at the University of Virginia. His research focuses on the history of
philosophy, with particular attention to the history of Buddhist philosophy
in ancient South Asia, centering on topics in the philosophy of mind
(consciousness, attention, imagination), metaphysics, and philosophical
anthropology. His essays have appeared in the J ournal of Indian Philosophy ;
Journal of the American Oriental Society ; Sophia , and The Journal of Religion ,
among other places. His fi rst book, Other Lives: Mind and World in Indian
Buddhism, is forthcoming with Columbia University Press.
James Madaio is a fellow at the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of
Sciences and at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies. He is associate editor
of T he Journal of Hindu Studies and regional editor (Indic traditions) for
Bloomsbury’s I ntroductions to World Philosophies book series. He received
his PhD from the University of Manchester and was previously a fellow at
New Europe College (Bucharest), an affi liated researcher at the Kuppuswami
Sastri Research Institute (Chennai), and a lecturer at Charles University and
the University of Maryland.
Ana Laura Funes Maderey is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Eastern
Connecticut State University (ESCU) where she teaches Asian Philosophies,
East-West Comparative topics in Philosophy, and Feminist Philosophies. Her
research seeks to establish dialogues between phenomenology, feminism,
and notions of bodily self-awareness in the Indian philosophical schools
of S¯ a m k ̣ hya, Yoga, and Ved¯ a nta. She recently co-edited with Christopher
Chapple the book T hinking with the Yoga S u ¯ tra: Translation, Interpretation.
Anne Monius was Professor of South Asian Religions at Harvard Divinity
School, where she taught for seventeen years, educating and mentoring
countless students in Tamil and Sanskrit cultures. Her undergraduate and
PhD work were also from Harvard. Her research centered on the literary
cultures and the histories of religion in South India. She authored I magining
a Place for Buddhism: Literary Culture and Religious Community in Tamil-
Speaking South India (Oxford 2001).
Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad is Distinguished Professor of Comparative
Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University, and Fellow of the British
CONTRIBUTORS ix
Academy. His most recent books are D ivine Self, Human Self: The Philosophy
of Being in Two Gita Commentaries , and H uman Being, Bodily Being:
Phenomenology from Classical India . He has written over fi fty papers on a
variety of topics in Indian and comparative philosophy, politics and political
thought, and Indian religions.
Martha Ann Selby is Professor of South Asian Studies in the Department of
Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of several
books, including T amil Love Poetry: The Five Hundred Short Poems of the
Ai n˙ ku r un u¯ r u (Columbia, 2011), which was awarded the A.K. Ramanujan
¯ ¯
Translation Prize in March 2014. Her translation of the short fi ction of Tamil
author Dilip Kumar, C at in the Agrah¯ a ram and Other Stories , appeared in
March 2020 from Northwestern University Press. She is currently preparing
a full translation of the Old Tamil anthology K u r untokai for the Murty
¯
Classical Library of India, Harvard University Press.
Hamsa Stainton is an Assistant Professor in the School of Religious Studies
at McGill University. Recent publications include T antrapus p̣¯ a ñ jali: Tantric
Traditions and Philosophy of Kashmir; Studies in Memory of Pandit H.N.
Chakravarty (co-edited with Bettina B ä umer; IGNCA, 2018) and Poetry as
Prayer in the Sanskrit Hymns of Kashmir (Oxford 2019).
Sthaneshwar Timalsina (PhD Martin Luther University, Halle, Germany)
is Professor in the department of Religious Studies at San Diego State
University. He works in the areas of Indian Religions and Philosophies.
The primary areas of his research include consciousness studies and tantric
studies. Besides four books, S eeing and Appearance (Shaker Verlag, 2006);
Consciousness in Indian Philosophy (Routledge, 2009); T antric Visual
Culture: A Cognitive Approach (Routledge, 2015), and Language of Images:
Visualization and Meaning in Tantras (Peter Lang, 2015), he has published
over eighty essays and book chapters in his fi elds of research. He is currently
working in the areas of time and memory, imagination, and emotion.
Roy Tzohar is an associate professor in the East and South Asian Studies
Department and the Philosophy Department at Tel Aviv University. He
specializes in the history of philosophy with a focus on Buddhist and
Brahmanical philosophical traditions in India. His current research deals
with Buddhist notions of nonconceptuality and action, and the works of
the Buddhist poet and philosopher A´ s vagho s ạ. His monograph, A Buddhist
Yog¯ a c¯ a ra Theory of Metaphor (Oxford 2018), deals with Indian philosophy
of language and the Yog¯ a c¯ a ra philosophy of language and experience in
particular.