京都大学 京都大学

1644011 Indological Studies

Numbering Code U-LET13 21644 SJ36 Year/Term 2022 ・ Second semester
Number of Credits 2 Course Type Seminar
Target Year Target Student
Language English Day/Period Tue.5
Instructor name VASUDEVA，Somdev (Graduate School of Letters Professor)
Outline and Purpose of the Course This course is a Sanskrit reading course focussing on the Bhusunda chapters of the Nirvanaprakarana of the Moksopaya, a Kashmirian philosophical narrative written in the 10th cent. CE. We will perform a close reading of the selected text and analyze the content paying attention to grammatical, aesthetic and philosophical themes that are exemplified with narratives.
Course Goals The objective is to familiarize students to read the specialized Sanskrit narratives composed with philosophical-aesthetic themes. Students will learn: 1) how to interpret the narratives according to the criteria that guided the original author, and 2) how to interpret the text according to contemporary philological, linguistic, aesthetic and philosophical theories. Students will be introduced to standard form of English translation commonly used to translate such material.
Schedule and Contents week 1: chapter 22a, the description of long lived persons
week 2: chapter 22b, cont.
week 3: chapter 23a: the description of the past
week 4: chapter 23b: cont.
week 5: chapter 24a: refutation of wrong views
week 6: chapter 24b: cont.
week 7: chapter 25a: vital energy
week 8: chapter 25b: cont.
week 9: chapter 26a: breath and yogic trance
week 10: chapter 26b: cont.
week 11: chapter 26c: cont.
week 12: chapter 26d: cont.
week 13: chapter 27: the causes of a long life
week 14: chapter 21a: cont.
week 15: chapter 28: the end of the Bhusunda narrative
Evaluation Methods and Policy participation in class. preparation and translation in class.
Course Requirements None
Study outside of Class (preparation and review) Preparation of material before each week's reading.
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