Some error occured while loading the Quick View. Please close the Quick View and try reloading the page.
In the present work, the first of its kind in the field of Indian philology, Marc Tiefenauer outlines the history of representations of hell in Indian religious traditions. His study is based on primary sources in Sanskrit, Pali, Ardhamagadhi, Chinese, Braj, Persian and Hindi, extending over three millennia. He identifies the main ideological contributions to Brahmanical representations of the afterlife, particularly those stemming from Buddhism, Jainism, devotional currents (Bhakti) and Islam. He shows the utility of eschatological research to hermeneutics, especially in view of improving the understanding of the literatures of ancient India.
Price: $165.00
Pages: 682
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 2 South Asia
Publication Date:
07 December 2017
ISBN: 9789004353084
Format: Hardcover
"Such an in-depth survey of hells has never been attempted before, and the author must be congratulated for the important contribution he has made. The book is a new, easy to read piece of research which deserves careful attention. André Couture, Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 115/1 (2020).
Marc Tiefenauer received his PhD in Indology (2016) from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, where he works as librarian for the Oriental Collections (Sanskrit, Hindi, Urdu, Persian, Tibetan, and Chinese). His research explores the eschatological representations in South Asian religions.