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      Compendium of All Philosophies

      A new, much needed, and fully updated English translation of the 14th century Sarvadarsanasa?graha, dealing with sixteen different philosophies.

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      Extreme Religious Behaviours

      Johannes Bronkhorst

      Certain religious behaviours clearly reduce biological fitness. These behaviours include celibacy along with various forms of asceticism, and rituals that harm the performer. Such behaviours are found in widely different…

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      How the Brahmins Won

      Johannes Bronkhorst

      This phenomenon has no parallel in world history, yet shaped a major portion of the surface of the earth for a number of centuries. This book focuses on the forma-tive…

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      Devadattiyam: Johannes Bronkhorst Felicitation Volume

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      Absorption. Human Nature and Buddhist Liberation

      Johannes Bronkhorst

      This book argues for the central role played by absorption in the functioning of the human mind. The importance of absorption makes itself felt in different ways; the two studies…

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      Greater Magadha: Studies in the Culture of Early India

      Johannes Bronkhorst

      Through a detailed analysis of the available cultural and chronological data, this book overturns traditional ideas about the cultural history of India and proposes a different picture instead. The idea…

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      Buddhism in the Shadow of Brahmanism

      Johannes Bronkhorst

      This book deals with the confrontation of Buddhism and Brahmanism in India. Both depended on support from the royal court, but Buddhism had less to offer in return than Brahmanism…

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      Language and Reality: On an Episode in Indian Thought

      Johannes Bronkhorst

      This book explores the conviction shared by almost all Indian philosophers regarding the close connection between language and reality. It shows that the main currents of Indian philosophy can be…

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      How the Brahmins Won: From Alexander to the Guptas

      Johannes Bronkhorst

      This is the first study to systematically confront the question how Brahmanism, which was geographically limited and under threat during the final centuries BCE, transformed itself and spread all over…

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      Buddhist Teaching in India

      Johannes Bronkhorst

      The earliest records we have today of what the Buddha said were written down several centuries after his death, and the body of teachings attributed to him continued to evolve…

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      Karma

      Johannes Bronkhorst

      Karma has become a household word in the modern world, where it is associated with the belief in rebirth determined by one’s deeds in earlier lives. This belief was and…

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      Tradition and Argument in Classical Indian Linguistics: The Bahiranga-Paribhasa in the Paribhasendusekhara

      Johannes Bronkhorst

      This book was written as a doctoral thesis. His ability to understand difficult grammatical and philosophical texts in Sanskrit was unequalled, and without his help it would have taken far…

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      Tradition and Argument in Classical Indian Linguistics: The Bahiranga-Paribhasa in the Paribhasendusekhara

      Johannes Bronkhorst

      This book was written as a doctoral thesis. His ability to understand difficult grammatical and philosophical texts in Sanskrit was unequalled, and without his help it would have taken far…

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      A Sabda Reader: Language in Classical Indian Thought

      The first reader on language in-and the language of-classical Indian philosophy, A Sabda Reader offers a comprehensive and pedagogically valuable treatment of this topic. It brings together newly translated passages…

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      Karma

      Johannes Bronkhorst

      Karma has become a household word in the modern world, where it is associated with the belief in rebirth determined by one’s deeds in earlier lives. This belief was and…

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      Asian Traditions of Meditation

      Meditation has flourished in different parts of the world ever since the foundations of the great civilizations were laid. It played a vital role in the formation of Asian cultures…

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