HINDUISM - THE DHARMA OF INDIA

Throughout his long career as a leading scholar of religion, Raimon Panikkar noted time and again that while religions could and should respond to the realities of the modern world, if they are to continue flourishing they must remain true to their roots and their local traditions. He saw this as particularly the case in India, where the interactions between ancient religious traditions and imported modern influences are often most stark.
In The Dharma of India, the second part of the fourth volume (Hinduism) of his Opera Omnia, Panikkar suggests that the multi-millennial Indic cultures impose on India the burden and responsibility of following her own dharma, even if it is difficult and against modern winds. India’s burden and responsibility in this regard are not for her alone, however, but for the whole world.

INDEX OF ORIGINAL TEXTS IN VOLUME IV, Part 2

“Introduction”. Original article El espíritu del hinduismo, in «Religión y cultura», XLI, 192, Madrid (1995), pp. 21-32. Text partly revised.

The dharma of Hinduism. Original book: Espiritualidad hindú. Sanātana dharma, Kairós, Barcelona 2005.

“Hermeneutics of Tradition in Hinduism”: Sur l’herméneutique de la tradition dans l’Hindouisme. Pour un dialogue avec le Christianisme, in E. Castelli (ed.) Ermeneutica e tradizione (Archivio di Filosofia, 1-2), Roma 1963, pp. 343-370; further incorporated in R. Panikkar, Kerygma und Indien. Zur heilsgeschichtlichen Problematik der christlichen Begegnung mit Indien, Reich, Hamburg 1967, chap. 3.

“Some Phenomenological Aspects of Today’s Hindu Spirituality”: in R. Panikkar, Maya e Apocalisse. Abete, Roma 1966, cap. 1.

“Discovering the Foundation of the Indic Philosophy for a New Orientation”: in R. Panikkar, Maya e Apocalisse, Abete, Roma 1966, chap. 2.

“Creation in Indic Metaphysics”: in R. Panikkar, Maya e Apocalisse. Abete, Roma 1966, chap. 3.

“The Foundation of Hermeneutic Pluralism in Hinduism”. Original text Le fondement du pluralisme herméneutique dans l’hindouisme, in Demitizzazione e immagine, edited by E. Castelli, CEDAM, Padova 1962, pp. 243-269.

“The Fragment and the Part. An Indic Reflection”. Original text Il frammento e la parte. Una riflessione indica, in «Concilium», 271 (1997), pp. 118-127.

Indra’s Cunning. The Challenge of Modernity. The Indic Experiment. New pubblication, Edited by Francis D’Sa.

“The Vitality and Role of Indian Philosophy Today”, in «Indian Philosophical Quartely», Poona, V/4 (1978), pp. 673-692. Published also in Homenaje a India. Volumen conmemorativo del cincuenta aniversario de su independencia, Grupo de Investigación Asia, Madrid 1997, pp. 115-123.

The Challenge of Modernity, in «India International Centre Quarterly: Perceiving India», New Delhi, 20 (1993), pp. 183-192.