Proefschrift--Leyden. / Bibliography: p. 195-199.

Thèse de doctorat--Louvain-la-Neuve--Institut orientaliste. / Transcription de la version tibétaine suivie d'une reprod. de la version chinoise. Bibliogr. p. XXII-XXIV.

Diss. Ph. D.--Hamburg--University, 1992. / Contient le texte khotanais, une version complémentaire en sanskrit, sa traduction et un commentaire important en anglais.

Diss. Ph. D.--Banasthalī Vidyāpīṭha. / Bibliogr. p. 306-314.

Diss. Ph. D.--Leeds--University of Leeds, 1988. / Bibliogr. p. 239-256. Index.

<p>The subject of this dissertation is the concept of dharma in the Indian Religious Tradition. It seeks to validate for the understanding of an outsider to the Tradition, the claim that dharma is most authoritatively known in Veda. To examine the claim, we look at the family of dharma uses in the Rg Veda to establish a core or root meaning of the concept which underlies and gives coherence to the diverse particular usages of the term. Subsequently, we examine the uses of dharma in the Bhagavad Gita in order to know whether the root or core meaning demonstrates continuity within a smrti text. </p> <p>The thesis argues that there is a root meaning to dharma established in the Rs Veda which has a demonstrable continuity in the Bhagavad Gita. That root meaning is expressed as: the upholding of the orderly relatedness of all that is. Subsequent to the textual exegesis, very brief consideration is given to the implications of the continuity of dharma's root or core meaning for the scholarly question of continuity and change in the Indian Religious Tradition.</p> / Thesis / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Texte remanié de: Thesis--University of Lausanne, 2003. / Contient des extraits de textes tibétains translittérés et les traductions anglaises de ces extraits. Bibliogr. p. XXIII-LXVII.

This dissertation addresses the problem of how, in a global future, humanity is to comprehend the singularity of the place, the biosphere it calls home. Will communities, nations, and the earth itself, for example, be regarded as ‘one’ place in which many live, or as the product of many separate, but linked compositional elements? The ‘many in the One’, or the “One in the many”? From the perspective of International Relations, in a global future will ‘integration’ at the individual level necessarily imply ‘homogenization’ at larger intercultural levels? Might the conditions of existence in a global future be understood rather as the universalization of certain key values and practices that respect the diversity of distinct regional differences? What spiritual or ethical ideas will serve as a unifying meta-narrative in a global age? These are questions of keen interest to those whose lives are touched in some way by the growing convergence of cultures, especially by the stream of classical East and South Asian wisdom paths now flowing into the West.

This dissertation addresses the problem of how, in a global future, humanity is to comprehend the singularity of the place, the biosphere it calls home. Will communities, nations, and the earth itself, for example, be regarded as ‘one’ place in which many live, or as the product of many separate, but linked compositional elements? The ‘many in the One’, or the “One in the many”? From the perspective of International Relations, in a global future will ‘integration’ at the individual level necessarily imply ‘homogenization’ at larger intercultural levels? Might the conditions of existence in a global future be understood rather as the universalization of certain key values and practices that respect the diversity of distinct regional differences? What spiritual or ethical ideas will serve as a unifying meta-narrative in a global age? These are questions of keen interest to those whose lives are touched in some way by the growing convergence of cultures, especially by the stream of classical East and South Asian wisdom paths now flowing into the West.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1986. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 376-389).