This volume is a collection of articles, written by Russian scholars, on Indian philosophy, religion and culture. These articles explore key issues in the history of Indian philosophy, as well as the fundamentals of Indian religious thought and the problems of correlation between philosophy and religion in Indian tradition. The traditional schools of Indian philosophy, Samkhya and Yoga, Nyaya and Vaisheshika, Mimamsa and Vedanta, are analysed on the basis of their authoritative textual sources. Among other texts, Sankara's Brahma-sutra-bhashya and Ramanuja's Gita-bhashya are studied in depth, with a special emphasis on the polemic between Vishishtadvaita and Advaita Vedanta. The later syncretic Nyaya-Vaisheshika is investigated on the basis of Annam Bhatta's Tarkasamgraha and Tarkadipika as much as a critical analysis of Buddhist philosophy is undertaken through Shantarakshita's Tattvasamgraha. The modern Indian philosophy is also represented by highlighting the legacy of prominent personalities like Muhammad Iqbal and Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. Due attention is given to the philosophy of non-violence of Gandhi and its relevance to the current problems of humankind. A comparative turn is represented by a paper on Leo Tolstoy and Sri Ramakrishna.

The book, as a whole, is an attempt to demonstrate the range and quality of contemporary Russian scholarship on Indian philosophical tradition and culture.

GODABARISHA MISHRA 

Foreword

MARIETTA STEPANYANTS 

Preface

1. VLADIMIR SHOKHIN  

Jaigishavya Branch of the Ancient Samkhya-Yoga Tradition

2.VICTORIA LYSENKO 

The Atomistic Theory of Vaisheshika: Problems of  Interpretation

3. YELENA OSTROVSKAYA 

Syncretic Nyaya-Vaisheshika in Annam Bhatta's Tarkasamgraha and Tarkadipika

4. ALEXEI PIMENOV 

On the Correlation of the Philosophical and Ritualistic Aspects of Mimamsa   

5. NATALYA ISAEVA   

Shankara's Commentary on the Brahmasutras

6. VSEVOLOD SEMENTSOV 

Ramanuja's Interpretation of the Bhagavad-Gita

7. RUZANA PSKHU 

Polemic of Vishishtadvaita and Advaita Vedanta

8. GRIGORI BONGARD-LEVIN  

Ancient Indian Culture and Materialism

9. ANDREY TERENTYEV  

Logical and Methodological Schemes of Indian Religious Philosophy and their Interpretation

10. VALERI ANDROSOV 

Correlation Between Philosophy and Religion: The Ishvara-pariksha in Shantarakshita's Tattvasamgraha

11. VALERI RUDOY 

The Vaibhashika Teaching on Determinants of Psychic Activity

12. NATALYA KANAEVA 

Polemics Between Buddhists and Jainas about the Rules of Inference: As Presented in the Tattvasamgraha by Shantarakshita, and the Commentary Panjika by Kamalashila

13. VLADISLAV KOSTYUCHENKO 

The Modernisation of Vedanta   

14. MARIETTA STEPANYANTS   

Muhammad Iqbal: As an Islamic Reformer 

15. MARIETTA STEPANYANTS

The Philosophical and Socio-Polilical Views of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

16. MARIETTA STEPANYANTS 

Philosophy of Non-violence: Lessons of Gandhism   

17. ALEXEI LITMAN 

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan's Perennial Philosophy

18. NATALYA ISAEVA 

K. Satchidananda Murty: Sitting at the Feet of Shankara

19. MARIETTA STEPANYANTS

"Dialectical Dynamism" of D.P. Chattopadhyaya    

20. SERGEI SEREBRIANY 

Leo Tolstoy Reads Shri Ramakrishna   

Contributors 
Index