Philosophies of India.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zimmer, Heinrich.

Series:

Bollingen Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (721 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2026.

Summary:

A landmark account of Indian philosophy by acclaimed scholar Heinrich Zimmer Philosophies of India is a landmark work on the foundations of Indian philosophy.Based on the copious notes of the great Indologist, linguist, and historian Heinrich Zimmer, and edited by Joseph Campbell, the book is organized into three sections.

Contents:

Cover

Table of Contents

Editor'S Foreword

List of Plates

Table of Pronunciation

Part I: The Highest Good

I. The Meeting of East and West

1. The Roar of Awakening

2. The Steely Barb

3. The Claims of Science

4. The Four Aims of Life

5. Release and Progress

II. The Foundations of Indian Philosophy

1. Philosophy as a Way of Life

2. The Qualified Pupil

3. Philosophy as Power

4. "The Dying round the Holy Power

5. Brahman

Part II: The Philosophies of Time

I. The Philosophy of Success

1. The World at War

2. The Tyrant State

3. Valor against Time

4. The Function of Treachery

5. Political Geometry

6. The Seven Ways to Approach a Neighbor

7. The Universal King

II. The Philosophy of Pleasure

III. The Philosophy of Duty

1. Caste and the Four Life-Stages

2. Satya

3. Satyāgraha

4. The Palace of Wisdom

Part III: The Pidlosophies of Eternity

I. Jainism

1. Pārśva

2. Jaina Images

3· The Makers of the Crossing

4· The Qualities of Matter

5. The Mask of the Personality

6. The Cosmic Man

7. The Jaina Doctrine of Bondage

8. The Jaina Doctrine of Release

9· The Doctrine of Maskarin Gosāla

10. Man against Nature

II. Sāṅkhya and Yoga

1. Kapila and Patañjali

2. Introvert-Concentration

3· The Hindrances

4· Integrity and Integration

5. Sāṅkhya Psychology

III. Brāhmanism

1. Veda

2. Upanisad

3· Bhagavad Gītā

4· Vedānta

IV. Buddhism

I. Buddhahood

2. The Great Buddhist Kings

3· Hīnayāna and Mahāyāna

4. The Way of the Bodhisattva

5· The Great Delight

V. Tantra

I. Who Seeks Nirvāṇa?

2. The Lamb, the Hero, and the Man-God

3· All the Gods within Us

Appendix A: The Six Systems

Appendix B: Historical Summary

Bibliography

General Index and Sanskrit Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-691-27946-2

9780691279466

OCLC:

1561168939