[Advaita-l] Fwd: {भारतीयविद्वत्परिषत्} Re: Talk at IIWC Bangalore - this evening

[V Subrahmanian]

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From: सुदर्शनः <sudarshanhs at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 10:25 PM
Subject: {भारतीयविद्वत्परिषत्} Re: Talk at IIWC Bangalore - this evening
To: भारतीयविद्वत्परिषत् <bvparishat at googlegroups.com>


Thanks for arranging this, Prof. Kannan.
I see that the recording has been uploaded on youtube at
https://youtu.be/FLUi1tupzYk

Regards,
Sudarshan

On Tuesday, 14 August 2018 10:14:22 UTC+5:30, ks.kannan.2000 wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> *Dr. Vishwa Adluri* will be speaking on
> *"The Mahābhārata: The Principal Monument to Bhakti"*
> The talk will be for an hour and a half duration (6 pm to 7.30 pm)
> followed by Questions and Answers.
>
> Venue: *Indian Institute of World Culture, Wadia Hall.*
> Date : *14th August (Tuesday), 2018*
> Time: *6 pm*
>
> *About the Topic:*
> The Mahābhārata has been approached typically under one of two rubrics:
> either history or myth. In this lecture, Professor Vishwa Adluri  shows why
> neither approach does justice to the Sanskrit work’s transformative
> intellectual-aesthetic project of making Brahman cognitively accessible and
> experientially relatable in its saguṇa form—as Nārāyaṇa and Hari.
>
> *About the Speaker:*
> Vishwa Adluri is a Professor in the Philosophy Department at Hunter
> College, New York. He holds PhDs in Philosophy, Indology, and Sanskrit, and
> has published monographs, and edited volumes and articles on the
> Mahābhārata. Together with Joydeep Bagchee, he is the author of The Nay
> Science: A History of German Indology (OUP India, 2017) and Philology and
> Criticism: A Guide to Mahābhārata Textual Criticism (Anthem, 2018).
>
> The speaker has worked on the Mahabharata for over 15 years.
> He has academically confronted many Western distortions of the great work.
>
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