: When it comes to understanding ancient scriptures, particularly Vedas, commentaries not only play a crucial role but are rather indispensable. Even understand the nuances present in commentary, one has learn them from scholars rooted tradition, and hence we have guru-śiṣya-paramparā. Given this, kind of translation given mantras Ṛgveda by some western does synchronise with indigenous thought ...

gadamer considers understanding as an event which is the result of the fusion of horizon of interpreter and horizon of the text. from his point of view, understanding has a fundamental connection with the concept of horizon and in fact horizon is the central point in the process of understanding. horizon for nietzsche is a limiting concept which is not able to be transitive. husserl draws his a...

Claude Vigée in the mirror of Scripture(s) According to Paul Ricœur, « The text is medium through which one understands oneself ». (1921-2020), as a Jewish writer, tries receive, embrace and perpetuate identity conveyed by Holy Scriptures into his own writing, while also relating it life. Asserting part vaster destiny or History; developing better self-knowledge light shared relation world; fin...

in the 19th century, the first monograph on the legend of the buddha is published by senart. in this context, biography of shakyamony became a symbol and myth. many french indiologists studied and analyzed the spiritual and legendary life of buddha by referring to buddhist scriptures of pali canon and sanskrit. but, they faced with ambiguous character of buddha, because of his historical and my...