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The Asrama System Patrick Olivelle (Professor and Chair, Department of Asian Studies and Director, Center for Asian Studies, Professor and Chair, Department of Asian Studies and Director, Center for Asian Studies, University of Texas at Austin)

The Asrama System By Patrick Olivelle (Professor and Chair, Department of Asian Studies and Director, Center for Asian Studies, Professor and Chair, Department of Asian Studies and Director, Center for Asian Studies, University of Texas at Austin)

The Asrama System by Patrick Olivelle (Professor and Chair, Department of Asian Studies and Director, Center for Asian Studies, Professor and Chair, Department of Asian Studies and Director, Center for Asian Studies, University of Texas at Austin)

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A study of the Asrama system, a Hindu construct consisting of four legitimate ways of leading a religious life. The author traces its early history and explains how Asrama gradually established connections with other Hindu religious institutions to emerge as a central tenet of the Hindu dharma.

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The Asrama System: The History and Hermeneutics of a Religious Institution by Patrick Olivelle (Professor and Chair, Department of Asian Studies and Director, Center for Asian Studies, Professor and Chair, Department of Asian Studies and Director, Center for Asian Studies, University of Texas at Austin)

This is the first full-length study of the asrama system, a Hindu construct consisting of four legitimate ways of leading a religious life. Together with the varna (class) system, it forms one of the pillars of Hindu life. Olivelle traces its early history and how it gradually established connections with other Hindu religious institutions to emerge as one of the two central dimensions of the Hindu dharma. It represents a major study not only of Hindu religious history but also of the tradition of Indian hermeneutics.

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The conclusions presented are not ... novel but the careful and detailed arguments for them are well worth waiting for and greatly extend our understanding of this major concept in the history of Hindu thought ... a book which illuminates not only the history of the asrama system but much else in the tradition of Indian hermeneutics. All in all, this is a book to be warmly welcomed and carefully studied. * SOAS Bulletin *

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NPB9780195083279
9780195083279
019508327X
The Asrama System: The History and Hermeneutics of a Religious Institution by Patrick Olivelle (Professor and Chair, Department of Asian Studies and Director, Center for Asian Studies, Professor and Chair, Department of Asian Studies and Director, Center for Asian Studies, University of Texas at Austin)
Patrick Olivelle (Professor and Chair, Department of Asian Studies and Director, Center for Asian Studies, Professor and Chair, Department of Asian Studies and Director, Center for Asian Studies, University of Texas at Austin)
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Oxford University Press Inc
1993-12-16
288
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