Studies in the Sarvadarsanasamgraha

Book Description:

The Sarvadarsanasamgraha is one of the few Sanskrit texts that attempts to give an exhaustive overview of all schools of Sanskrit philosophy. It was composed in the fourteenth century in the south of India but had to wait until the nineteenth century to be rediscovered by modern scholarship. It then influenced the first presentations of Indian philosophy but was subse-quently largely ignored by academic scholarship. This explains that a number of misunder-standings about this text could arise and be kept alive. The present volume deal with a number of these. It also addresses other questions that an in-depth study of the text gives rise to.

About the Author:

JOHANNES BRONKHORST is a retired professor of Sanskrit and Indian studies, University of Lausanne, Switzerland. After initial studies of Physics and Mathematics (B.Sc., Amsterdam 1968), he took up the study of Sanskrit and Pali at the University of Rajasthan (Jaipur, India), then at the University of Pune (India). In Pune he obtained an M.A. in 1976 and a Ph.D. in 1979. He obtained a second doctorate from the University of Leiden in 1980. In 1987 he was appointed full professor of Sanskrit & Indian Studies at the University of Lausanne, where he stayed until his retirement in 2011. He has published numerous articles and books. His most recent books are: Greater Magadha (2007), Aux origines de la philosophie indienne (2008), Buddhist Teaching in India (2009), Language and Reality (2011), Buddhism in the Shadow of Brahmanism (2011), Karma (2011), Absorption: Human Nature and Buddhist Liberation (2012), How the Brahmins Won: From Alexander to the Guptas (2016), A Sabda Reader: Language in Classical Indian Thought (2019), Compendium of All Philosophies: Sarvadarsanasamgraha (in press).