Contemplating Lists: List-Making as Spiritual Exercise in Indian Thought Ghent University
Nested in the speculative records of early contemplative exercises, in the canonical discourses of famous teachers, in the first authoritative systematic formulations of sectarian doctrinal boundaries, or, again, in the mature literature of a hair-splitting scholastic culture, lists are omnipresent in Indian philosophy. Yet, while the peculiar contents of various ancient Indian meditations or debates received considerable scholarly ...