| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday, March 14, 2013 | 4:00PM - 6:00PM | Seminar Room 208N, Munk School of Global Affairs 1 Devonshire Place |
Hindu Studies Colloquium
Religious traditions throughout the world are often concerned with crafting a best point of entry to their truths and practices, in part by way of succinct distillations that highlight and make available what is most important in their normative texts and teachings. After noting a wider array of Sanskritic Brahminical Hindu practices of distillation at the service of introduction, this paper focuses on the efforts of Srivaisnava acaryas to distill and encapsulate the truth of the 9th century Tamil language mystical poetry known as Tiruvaymoli in ever more succinct formulations.
Francis X. Clooney, SJ is the Parkman Professor of Divinity at Harvard University and Director of the Center for the Study of World Religions. His most recent books are Comparative Theology: Deep Learning Across Religious Boarders (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010) and His Hiding Place Is Darkness: A Hindu-Catholic Theopoetics of Divine Absence (forthcoming, Stanford University Press).
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