The narrative shape of orthopraxy. Storytelling, dharma, and the path to liberation in Advaita Vedānta

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://academic.oup.com/jhs/article/14/3/326/6499204" target="_blank" >https://academic.oup.com/jhs/article/14/3/326/6499204</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jhs/hiab029" target="_blank" >10.1093/jhs/hiab029</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

The narrative shape of orthopraxy. Storytelling, dharma, and the path to liberation in Advaita Vedānta

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

This article analyses how Vidyāraṇya, a fourteenth-century Advaita Vedāntin, reads and re-tells life stories of exemplary sages to determine and establish duty, or dharma, on the Advaita Vedāntic path to liberation. Drawing on his Jīvanmuktiviveka, I show how Vidyāraṇya’s extrapolative, exegetical approach to life stories is shaped by hermeneutical concerns of the Dharmaśāstra tradition, which entails a narrative theology sensitive to the details of canonical life stories. In particular, the article closely examines Vidyāraṇya’s interpretation of episodes in the life of Yājñavalkya from the Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad - Rāma, Śuka, Janaka, and Bhagīratha from the ‘Laghuyogavāsiṣṭha’ - as well as the story of Nidāgha from the Viṣṇupurāṇa. I demonstrate how Vidyāraṇya’s reading of these narratives, including his diagnostic assessment of the soteriological status of the protagonists, engenders and authorises orthopraxy on the path to liberation. While setting out these issues, I pay particular attention to the way in which narrative accounts serve not only as theologically rich sources from which praxeological and theological positions are determined but also as examples in Vidyāraṇya’s argumentation.

Název v anglickém jazyce

The narrative shape of orthopraxy. Storytelling, dharma, and the path to liberation in Advaita Vedānta

Popis výsledku anglicky

This article analyses how Vidyāraṇya, a fourteenth-century Advaita Vedāntin, reads and re-tells life stories of exemplary sages to determine and establish duty, or dharma, on the Advaita Vedāntic path to liberation. Drawing on his Jīvanmuktiviveka, I show how Vidyāraṇya’s extrapolative, exegetical approach to life stories is shaped by hermeneutical concerns of the Dharmaśāstra tradition, which entails a narrative theology sensitive to the details of canonical life stories. In particular, the article closely examines Vidyāraṇya’s interpretation of episodes in the life of Yājñavalkya from the Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad - Rāma, Śuka, Janaka, and Bhagīratha from the ‘Laghuyogavāsiṣṭha’ - as well as the story of Nidāgha from the Viṣṇupurāṇa. I demonstrate how Vidyāraṇya’s reading of these narratives, including his diagnostic assessment of the soteriological status of the protagonists, engenders and authorises orthopraxy on the path to liberation. While setting out these issues, I pay particular attention to the way in which narrative accounts serve not only as theologically rich sources from which praxeological and theological positions are determined but also as examples in Vidyāraṇya’s argumentation.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60304 - Religious studies

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA21-31380S" target="_blank" >GA21-31380S: Nadnárodní provázání globálního hinduismu: kosmopolitní védánta Svámího Abhédánandy</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2021

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Journal of Hindu Studies

ISSN

1756-4255

e-ISSN

1756-4263

Svazek periodika

14

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

3

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

52

Strana od-do

326-377

Kód UT WoS článku

000753114600006

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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