This book provides a thematic study of Caitanya Vaishnava philosophy, introducing key thinkers and ideas in the early tradition, using Sanskrit and Bengali sources that have seldom been studied in English. The book addresses major areas of the tradition, including epistemology, ontology, aesthetics, ethics, and history, and every chapter includes relevant readings from primary sources.
Ravi M. Gupta holds the Charles Redd Chair of Religious Studies at Utah State University. He is the author of The Caitanya Vaiṣṇava Vedānta of Jīva Gosvāmī: When Knowledge Meets Devotion (2007) and co-editor of The Bhāgavata Purāṇa: Sacred Text and Living Tradition (2013). Ravi completed his doctorate in Hindu Studies at Oxford University and subsequently taught at the University of Florida, Centre College, and the College of William and Mary. He has received three teaching awards, as well as research fellowships at Linacre College and the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies.
Kenneth R. Valpey, Ravi M. Gupta, Kiyokazu Okita, Joseph T. O’Connell, Graham M. Schweig, Rembert Lutjeharms