Ionut Moise - Salvation in Indian Philosophy

This book offers a comprehensive description of the doctrine of salvation' (nireyasa/moka) and Vaieika, one of the oldest philosophical systems of Indian philosophy and provides an overview of theories in other related Indian philosophical systems and classical doctrines of salvation.

The book examines liberation, the fourth goal of life and arguably one of the most important topics in Indian philosophy, from a comparative philosophical perspective. Contextualising classical Greek Philosophy which contains the three goals of life (Aristotles Ethics) and explains salvation as first understood in the theology of the Hellenistic and Patristics periods, the author analyses six classical philosophical schools of Indian philosophy in which there is a marked emphasis on the ultimate ontological elements of the world and self. Analysing Vaiseika and the manner in which this lesser known system has put forward its own theory of salvation (nireyasa), the author demonstrates its significance and originality as an old and influential philosophical system. He argues that it is essential for the study of other Indian sciences and for the study of all comparative philosophy.

An extensive introduction to Indian soteriology, this book will be an important reference work for academics interested in comparative religion and philosophy, Indian philosophy, Asian religion and South Asian Studies.

Ionut Moise is a tutor in Comparative Philosophy at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies (OCHS), University of Oxford, UK.

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Perfection and Simplicity for Vaieika
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Perfection and Simplicity for Vaieika

Ionut Moise

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Names: Moise, Ionut, 1982author.
Title: Salvation in Indian philosophy: perfection and simplicity for
Vaieika / Ionut Moise. Description: Abingdon, Oxon; New York:
Routledge, 2020. | Series: Routledge Hindu studies series | Includes
bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019042120 | ISBN 9780367420239 (hbk) | ISBN
9780367817237 (ebk)
Subjects: LCSH: Vaieika. | SalvationHinduism. | Ontology. | Moka.
Classification: LCC B132.V2 M65 2020 | DDC 181/.44dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019042120

ISBN: 978-0-367-42023-9 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-0-367-81723-7 (ebk)

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Referencing: In both footnotes and bibliography I have used an abbreviated form of the Oxford referencing system with only authors surname, year and date(e.g., Halbfass, 1980, p.268), and no brackets for year. For English, I have used English grammar and spelling (e.g., realise, instead of realize).

Transliteration: All Sanskrit is in roman transliteration. For Greek I have kept the original script. I have not followed the convention of putting either Sanskrit, Greek or Latin in italics. Whenever I have referred to a particular Sanskrit term in brackets, I have opted for the stem form of MW Dictionary (e.g., for karma, karman); when I have not done so, I gave a portion of the quotation. I have also used Sanskrit terminology in a more colloquial fashion (theory of karma, or the plural form 'dravyas), not least because such concepts are already consecrated within scholarship. I gave many terminological translations in brackets, e.g., substance (dravya). Sometimes I have analysed terms without even supplying a translation for these (e.g., saskra), as I consider their English rendering debatable among scholars. More generally, the diacritics of the Sanskrit authors and works referred to therein are those of the Bodleian Libraries Catalogue (SOLO) and Karl Potters Encyclopaedia.

For the Buddhist and Jain section, whose sources are in Pli and Prakrit, I have relied on scholars terminology cited, yet, I have sought to provide as much as possible the equivalent term in Sanskrit. My expertise deals only with Sanskrit sources. In the first chapter which dealt with biblical, patristic, and Greek sources, I have preferred using Greek. For the sources of New Testament, I have used Nestle-Aland Revised 28th Edition (online), for the Patristics sources I used the dictionaries referred to in the bibliography, while for the Greek philosophical references I have used The Loeb Classical Library, via LSJ (Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, Greek-English Lexicon (online).

Candrnandas Vtti: Finally, this thesis is based on the transliteration of a critical edition made by the Hungarian scholar Ferenc Ruzsa (academia.edu). However, the shortcoming of his feat is that he worked on the 1982 edition, which Isaacson recommends to be avoided as it contains a sprinkle of new misprints; hence, in all my work have I relied on Jambvijayajis first edition (1961), which I have described and quoted throughout. The textual critical apparatus of VSc is thus based on the philological work of these two scholars, who are in the best position to supply a new critical edition of Vaieikastras for the future.