2014 Fall
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Sacred Texts
http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/
Hindu Texts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_texts
Sample Upanishads
Chandogya Upanishad, Fifth Prapathaka, First Khanda
On the primacy of breath
Isha Upanishad
Traditionally listed first among the canon of 108
Bhagavad Gita
Prasad Translation (see red letters)
http://reluctant-messenger.com/bhagavad-gita.htm
Gandhi’s Gita (html layout with Gandhi’s commentary in blue)
http://kirtimukha.com/surfings/GandhiGita/GandhiFrame.htm
Gandhi’s Gita (online facsimile of English 1st Ed.)
https://www.gandhiheritageportal.org/mahatma-gandhi-books/the-gita-according-to-gandhi#page/1/mode/2up
Note: Gandhi’s text begins on page 121
Modern Applications
Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj (see the definition of True Civilization)
http://www.mkgandhi.org/swarajya/coverpage.htm
Chipko
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipko_movement
Mandala Project Case Study
http://www1.american.edu/ted/chipko.htm
Interview with Sunderlal Bahuguna (YouTube)
Eco-Feminism (search in library database)
Dwivedi, O. P. and Reid, Lucy. “Women And The Sacred Earth: Hindu And Christian Ecofeminist Perspectives.” Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture & Ecology 11.3 (2007): 305-323. Religion and Philosophy Collection. Web. 17 Aug. 2013.
Atharva Veda (Bk XII, Hymn 1) Prithvi Sukta
http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/av/av12001.htm
-Earth Song Music video
Vandana Shiva
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandana_Shiva
TEDx Talk
“I got involved in Chipko”
The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad speaks of “food”
Making Peace with the Earth
http://www.amazon.com/Making-Peace-Earth-Vandana-Shiva-ebook/dp/B00BSV60VS/
Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasudhaiva_Kutumbakam
Expanding the Circle
Beauty and “Rasa”
Database: Higgins, Kathleen Marie. “An Alchemy Of Emotion: ‘Rasa’ And Aesthetic Breakthroughs.” Journal Of Aesthetics And Art Criticism 65.1 (2007): 43-54. Philosopher’s Index. Web. 24 Aug. 2014.
“One interprets the perceived emotion as an instance of a type and recognizes its common character with one’s own remembered emotion, thereby undercutting one’s sense of personally owning one’s emotion. This breakthrough is essential for rasa to occur.” (48)
Visuvalingam, Sunthar. “Towards an Integral Appreciation of Abhinava’s aesthetics of Rasa.” svAbhinava.org.
http://www.svabhinava.org/abhinava/Sunthar-integral/
Pradīpaka, Gabriel. “Abhinavagupta’s Paramarthasara (Essence of the Highest Reality): Non-dual Shaivism of Kashmir”
http://www.sanskrit-sanscrito.com.ar/
This is not Abhinava’s treatise on esthetics. Instead, it provides an overview of his approach to ultimate reality. See stanzas 64-66.
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