By Catherine A. Robinson
The Bhagavad-Gita is likely one of the hottest - and definitely the main usually quoted and greatly studied - paintings of the Hindu scriptures. This publication investigates the connection among a number of the interpretations of the Bhagavad-Gita and the Hindu tradition.
Taking into consideration a number influential Indian and western thinkers to demonstrate tendencies in writing in regards to the Bhagavad-Gita together with Western educational; Indian activist; Christian theological; Hindu universalist; perennialist mystical and modern experiental bills. studying the tips of such influential figures as F Max Muller, M ok Ghandi, Bede Griffiths, Swami Vivekananda, Aldous Huxley and Swami Bhakivedanta, this publication demonstrates the inextricable hyperlink among diverse interpretations of the Bhagavad-Gita and photographs of the Hindu tradition.
This obtainable ebook aptly demonstrates the relevance of the Bhagavad-Gita for an figuring out of Hinduism as a contemporary phenomenon.
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