Fourth Vedic Workshop at UTexas

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Fourth Vedic Workshop at UTexas

 

Pasted below is the first announcement (btw, why such a late

announcement?) of the Fourth Vedic Workshop being organized at the

University of Texas. The organizer, Patrick Olivelle, a Sri Lankan

Christian, who is a big name in old style Indological studies and

claims to promote "authentic" views. Many regard Mr Olivelle's

writings as deeply anti-vedic, as evidenced by some of the reviews of

his book on Upanishads on Amazon.com.

 

"This is a literal translation without any soul. Olivelle doesn't

have the heart at the right place to translate mystical writings of

the Upanishads. He should stick to Jesuit material."

 

"This translation pays no attnetion to traditional Upanshadic

scholarship in India, is totally Germanic (i.e., indological,

colonialist), misrendering terms with a Christian or at least

theistic bias, e.g., the Isha Upanishad, where Shankara's long

commentary on the first verse is totally ignored."

 

So it would be nice if genuine Hindu scholars attend this event by

submitting proposals.

 

-S

 

 

Fourth Vedic Workshop

 

First announcement of the Fourth Vedic Workshop, which will take

place in Austin, Texas, at the University of Texas, from Thursday,

May 24 through Sunday, May 27, 2007. In accordance with the theme of

the workshop, "The Vedas in Culture and History," we invite papers

that explore the relation of Vedic texts to the social and political

history of the Vedic period, to religious movements of early India,

to various facets of material and intellectual culture in India, and

to the later traditions of India.

 

We will be establishing a website for the conference, and when we do,

we will send a more formal and complete announcement. We did want to

send you this preliminary notice, however, so that, if you would be

interested in attending, you can mark these dates on your calendar.

We are planning to schedule sessions of the workshop from Thursday

morning through Sunday evening, so we hope that participants will be

able arrive on Wednesday, May 23, and depart on Monday, May 28. For

additional information, you are welcome to contact either Patrick

Olivelle (jpo) or Joel Brereton

(jpb) at the University of Texas.

 

We hope to see you in Austin.

 

All the best,

 

Patrick Olivelle

Joel Brereton

 

More on Patrick Olivelle

http://asnic.utexas.edu/asnic/olivelle/