An Indian Rational Theology Sahitya Akademi Delhi 239—255)

239—255)

This collection draws together recent research on the cult of Amitabha

But even this holistic purpose would not be achieved if we do not show that holistic emotion is well founded as something supervening over cognitive achievements

with reference to a delayed "moonlight" phase of kensho

Washburn Hopkins has made some interesting suggestions with regard to the Manusmrti which merit extensive quotation

An Indian Rational Theology Sahitya Akademi Delhi 239—255)In the Indian theistic schools of thought we can distinguish two distinct kinds of approach to the doctrine of God, the one based primarily on logical reasoning, the other on the authority of the sacred scriptures. The first mode of approach may be termed philosophical or rational, the second theological or scriptural Among the Brahmanical systems of the first millennium of our era that admitted the existence of God, the Nyadya Vaisesika doctrine of