Geoffrey Ashton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3891732 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Geoffrey Ashton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Geoffrey |
| FAMILY NAME | Ashton |
| SIGNATURE | ASHTON G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of San Francisco |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Remembering Anand Jayprakash Vaidya
The Puzzle of Playful Matters in Non-Dual Śaivism and Sāṃkhya
Abhinavagupta is widely viewed to be a cautious, perceptive, and sympathetic reader (even of his opponents), with some researchers even celebrating him as a pre-modern intellectual historian. But scholars all too often underestimate how and why Abhinava misreads many of his rivals. Abhinava's treatment of the Sāṃkhya Kārikā (SK) illustrates this. Abhinava and Sāṃkhya alike hold to the doctrine that effects share identity with or reside within the…
The Great Awakening of Life
The Soteriology of Role-Play in the Bhagavad Gītā
I will here apply the classical Indian model of the dramatic actor as a methodology for interpreting the soteriological psychology of the Bhagavad Gītā, paying special attention to the usefulness of this approach for clarifying Kṛṣṇa's rationale in showing his divine form in Chapter 11. I argue that the Gītā advocates creative role-play as both the means and the end of liberation. Further, while Kṛṣṇa's teachings can be understood in terms of ort…
Zoffany [Zauffaly; Zauphaly; Zoffani], Johan
Collier, John
Smith, John Raphael
Hamilton, William (ii)
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Zoffany [Zauffaly; Zauphaly; Zoffani], Johan
Collier, John
Smith, John Raphael
Hamilton, William (ii)
The Soteriology of Role-Play in the Bhagavad Gītā
I will here apply the classical Indian model of the dramatic actor as a methodology for interpreting the soteriological psychology of the Bhagavad Gītā, paying special attention to the usefulness of this approach for clarifying Kṛṣṇa's rationale in showing his divine form in Chapter 11. I argue that the Gītā advocates creative role-play as both the means and the end of liberation. Further, while Kṛṣṇa's teachings can be understood in terms of ort…
The Great Awakening of Life
The Puzzle of Playful Matters in Non-Dual Śaivism and Sāṃkhya
Abhinavagupta is widely viewed to be a cautious, perceptive, and sympathetic reader (even of his opponents), with some researchers even celebrating him as a pre-modern intellectual historian. But scholars all too often underestimate how and why Abhinava misreads many of his rivals. Abhinava's treatment of the Sāṃkhya Kārikā (SK) illustrates this. Abhinava and Sāṃkhya alike hold to the doctrine that effects share identity with or reside within the…
Remembering Anand Jayprakash Vaidya
Philosophy (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · History and Developments in Astronomy (3 works) · Indian and Buddhist Studies (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Theology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (1 works)