Light on the Mahabharata

A Beginner's Guide to India's Great Epic

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

AvNicholas Sutton,The Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies

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In this in-depth, engaging guide to the Mahabharata, Hindu Studies scholar Nicholas Sutton explores the central messages of the work’s core narratives and passages of instruction, demonstrating how the questions the text poses are as relevant today as they were to those who composed this mighty treatise on human existence.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-03-05
Mått152 x 229 x 33 mm
Vikt904 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor336
FörlagInsight Editions
ISBN9798887620770

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Nicholas Sutton is the Director of the Continuing Education Department of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, an academy for the study of Hindu cultures, societies, philosophies, religions, and languages. He received his PhD from Lancaster University, writing his doctoral dissertation on the Mahabharata, and currently develops and tutors online courses on Hindu religious traditions. His publications include The Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation and Study Guide (Mandala Publishing, 2019) and Religious Doctrines in the Mahabharata (Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 2000).The Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies is an academy for the study of Hindu cultures, societies, philosophies, religions, and languages. The Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies Mandala Publishing Series offers authoritative yet accessible introductions to a wide range of subjects in Hindu Studies. Each book in the series aims to present its subject matter in a form that is engaging and readily comprehensible to persons of all backgrounds – academic or otherwise – without compromising scholarly rigour. The series thus bridges the divide between academic and popular writing by preserving and utilising the best elements of both.General Editor: Lucian WongEditorial Board: John Brockington, Avni Chag, James Madaio, and Valters NegribsFor information on Continuing Education Courses at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, visit www.ochsonline.org

“This book is an invaluable resource for anyone encountering the Mahabharata for the first time. Containing summaries of each of the Mahabharata’s eighteen books, brief biographies of its principal characters, and illuminating discussions of its main religious and philosophical teachings, this book is a reader-friendly and reliable guide through one of the world’s longest and most complex texts.”