Ayon Maharaj (Swami Medhananda) is Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy at the Vedanta Society of Southern California in Hollywood, USA.

• Notes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsChapter SummariesIntroduction: The Past, Present, and Future of Scholarship on Vedanta, Ayon Maharaj (Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute, India)Part 1: Classical Vedanta1. Contemplating Nonduality: The Method of Nididhyasana in Sankara's Advaita Vedanta, Neil Dalal (University of Alberta, Canada)2. Soul and Knowledge in Visistadvaita Vedanta of Venkatanatha, Marcus Schmücker (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria) 3. Vyasatirtha’s Nyayamrta: An Analytic Defense of Realism in Madhva Vedanta, Michael Williams (University of Vienna, Austria)4. Accomplishing the Impossible: Jiva Gosvami and the Concept of Acintya in Caitanya Vaisnava Vedanta, Ravi M. Gupta Part 2: Modern Vedanta 5. Sri Ramakrishna’s Philosophy of Anekanta Vedanta, Jeffery D. Long (Elizabethtown College, USA) 6. Sri Aurobindo’s Psychology of a “Psychic Being” in Support of a Metaphysical Argument for Reincarnation, Stephen Phillips (University of Texas at Austin, USA)7. Debating Freud on the Oceanic Feeling: Romain Rolland’s Vedantic Critique of Psychoanalysis and His Call for a “New Science of the Mind,” Ayon Maharaj (Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute, India)Part 3: Key Themes, Concepts, and Debates in Vedanta 8. Making Space for God: Karma, Freedom, and Devotion in the Brahmasutra Commentaries of Sankara, Ramanuja, and Baladeva, Andrew Nicholson (SUNY Stonybrook, USA)9. Vedantic Approaches to Religious Diversity: Grounding the Many Divinities in the Unity of Brahman, Ankur Barua (University of Cambridge, UK)10. Nondual Philosophies in Dialogue: The World and Embodied Liberation in Advaita Vedanta and Pratyabhijña, Klara Hedling (University of Oxford, UK)Part 4: Hermeneutic Investigations 11. Seeing Oneness Everywhere: Sri Aurobindo’s Mystico-Immanent Interpretation of the Isa Upanisad, Ayon Maharaj (Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute, India)12. On the Style of Vedanta: Reading Bharatitirtha’s Vaiyasikanyayamala in Light of Madhava’s Jaiminiyanyayamala, Francis X. Clooney (Harvard University, USA)13. Sankaradigvijaya: A Narrative Interpretation of Sankara’s Advaita Vedanta, Daniel Raveh (Tel Aviv University, Israel)Part 5: Cross-Philosophical and Cross-Cultural Interventions 14. A New Debate on Consciousness: Bringing Classical and Modern Vedanta into Dialogue with Contemporary Analytic Panpsychism, Anand Jayprakash Vaidya15. Mystical Experience as a Skeptical Scenario: Sri Harsa’s Skeptical Advaita in the Khandanakhandakhadya, Ethan Mills16. Dream and Love at the Edge of Wisdom: A Contemporary Cross-Cultural Remapping of Vedanta, Arindam ChakrabartiIndex

The extensive scope of The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Vedanta, covering material as diverse as an inquiry into the true image of contemplation to Romain Rolland’s dialogue with Sigmund Freud on the epistemology of devotion and devotional experience, will encourage scholars to investigate an array of philosophical concerns and their expression in art and culture.