Emotions in Indian Thought-Systems

Purushottama Bilimoria is Visiting Professor, University of California at Berkeley, USA. Aleksandra Wenta is Postdoctoral Fellow, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, India.

Preface. Emotions in Indian Thought-Systems: An Introduction Purushottama Bilimoria and Aleksandra Wenta Part 1: Tantrism 1. Passions and Emotions in the Indian Philosophical-Religious Traditions Raffaele Torella 2. Intensity of Emotions: A Way to Liberation in the Advaita Śaiva Āgamas and their Exegetes Bettina Sharada Bäumer 3. Between Fear and Heroism: The Tantric Path to Liberation Aleksandra Wenta Part 2: The Bhakti Movement 4. Principal Emotions Contributing to the Supreme Love of Śiva: A Study of Early Śaiva Hymnal Corpus T. Ganesan 5. Love Never Tasted Quite Like This Before: Śṛṅgāra-rasa in the Light of Two Texts from a Sahajiyā Vaiṣṇava Notebook Neal Delmonico and Aditi Nath Sarkar Part 3: Buddhism, Pātañjala Yoga and Śaiva Siddhānta 6. The Buddhist Psychology of Emotions Varun Kumar Tripathi 7. Between Impetus, Fear, and Disgust: ‘Desire for Emancipation’ (Saṃvega) from Early Buddhism to Pātañjala Yoga and Śaiva Siddhānta Andrea Acri Part 4: Aesthetics 8. Moha Kāla: Aporia of Emotion in Indian Reflective Traditions Venkat D. Rao 9. Aesthetics of Despair Sharad Deshpande