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CONCEPT OF TIME
ANCIENT AND MODERN
Edited by KAPILA VATSYAYAN
1996, xxxviii+562pp. line
drawings, col. and b&w illus., index ISBN:81-207-1644-2, Rs
1250(HB)
Book Review - Article
published in Newsletter
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The theme of Time (Kala) was explored through a
series of workshops on temporality and logical structure in the Indian perspective, and
concept of Time in Buddhist tradition. A final Seminar was held in November 1990
where over sixty delegates from twelve countries and a dozen disciplines were engaged in a
profound and meaningful dialogue for six days. The disciplines included:
Astrophysics, Physics, Biology, Philosophy, Archaeology, Art and Architecture, Geology,
Mathematics, Comparative Religion. Art History, Anthropology, Musicology, Poetry,
Literature and Painting.
The Volume comprises a selection of 54 papers
presented at the Seminar. The papers are grouped into eight sections: (1) Time:
Concept (2) Time: The Philosophic Discourse; (3) Time: Geological and Biological; (4)
Time: Social and Cultural; (5) Time: Ritual; (6) Time: Response of the Arts; (7) Time:
Consciousness, and (8) Time: Transcendence and Immanence.
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Contributors |
| D. P. Agrawal |
Nabi Hadi |
G. C. Pande |
| Waheed Akhtar |
Adam Hardy |
R. Panikkar |
| Bettina Baumer |
Sehdev Kumar |
Peter Pannke |
| P. M. Bhargava |
M. A. Lakshmithathachar |
Sebastiana Papa |
| John Brommfield |
Singh Preter Malekin |
David Park |
| Lokesh Chandra |
Keshav Malik |
Meers Aster Patel |
| Boudhayan Chattopadhyay |
S. C. Malik |
kathleen Raine |
| Tan Chung |
J. M. Malville |
Chandra Rajan |
| Rama Coomaraswamy |
Jim Masselos |
Raja Ramanna |
| Keith Critchlow |
T. S. Maxwell |
Jr. S. Rinpoche |
| H. H. The Dalai Lama |
Albert Mayr |
Lewis Rowell |
| Biren De |
Michael W. Meister |
B. N. Saraswati |
| Devangana Desai |
D. F. Miller |
C. V. Seshadri |
| M. A. Dhaki |
P. K. Mukhopadhyay |
Prem Lata Sharma |
| Edward Dimock |
G. H. Muller |
Karan |
| John Fritz |
S. H. Nasr |
G. D. Sontheimer |
| Frits Staal |
Martha Vannucci |
Kapila Vatsyayan |
| Vinod Verma |
Irene J. Winter |
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| KAPILA VATSYAYAN, artist and art historian, has broken
fresh ground in establishing the inter and intra-relationships of different domains of
knowledge and creativity. Her work moves from the deep understanding of the primary
textual sources of the East and West, principally Sanskrit and English, and a direct
experience of the arts as performer and art historian. Presently she is the Academic
Director of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts. |
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