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This article discusses the perception of time (kāla) in the Brahmanical, Buddhist and Jain schools on the basis of primary Sanskrit sources and critical studies. The study employs an integral methodology – textual-semantic, hermeneutical and comparative – to approach the study. It concludes that the approaches of the schools diverge most prominently on the following questions: is the perception of present possible? Is the sensible present instantaneous, or does it have duration? Is time objective and real, or is it just a subjective construction? It has been revealed that there is no single dominant perspective in the Indian philosophical approaches, with the principal polemic being between the Buddhist and the Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika schools. The study concludes that, in Indian philosophy, time is understood not psychologically, but epistemologically, in relation to questions of reliable cognition and the validity of knowledge.

Straipsnyje analizuojama joginės, ar ypatingosios, percepcijos (yogipratyakṣa) prigimties samprata indiškosios epistemologijos kontekste. Remiantis pirminiais Indijos filosofinių mokyklų (darśana) sanskrito šaltiniais bei šiuolaikiniais kritiniais tyrimais bandoma atsakyti į klausimus: kaip įvairiose mokyklose aprašoma ir kategorizuojama joginė percepcija? Koks vaidmuo jai suteikiamas bendroje Indijos epistemologinėje schemoje (pramān ̣avada)? Kaip ši percepcija verifikuojama ir jos pažinimas validuojamas ir kokia polemika šiuo klausimu vyko tarp skirtingų Indijos mokyklų? Kodėl ir kokiais argumentais remdamasi joginę percepciją atmeta ortodoksalioji mimansos (mīmāṃ sā) mokykla? Tyrimui pasitelkiama kompleksinė – tekstologinė semantinė, hermeneutinė ir lyginamoji – metodologija. Daroma išvada, kad joginę percepciją pripažįsta ir į bendrą pažinimo sistemą inkorporuoja beveik visos filosofinės Indijos mokyklos: joga, samkhja, budistai, vedanta, njaja, vaišešika ir kt., tik skirtingai ją interpretuoja. Paradoksalu yra tai, jog vienintelė mokykla, demonstruojanti radikalų nepasitikėjimą jogine percepcija, yra vediškosios hermeneutikos ir ritualistinės egzegezės tradicija – mimansa ir jos atstovas Kumārila Bhaṭṭa (7 a.). Atskleista, jog mimansos mokykla neigia ne konkrečius pavienius joginio pažinimo teiginius ir ne pačią joginės percepcijos galimybę, bet tokio ypatingojo pažinimo loginio pagrindimo nenuoseklumą, perteikimo kitiems lingvistinį tikslumą ir antjuslinio pažinimo naudą legitimuojant apreiškimo (śruti) teiginius paprastiems žmonėms.

The article deals with political ideology of the Theosophical Society founded by H elena Petrovna Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott in 1875, and its contribution to Indian nationalism and Hindu and Buddhist religious revivalism at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. The article aims to reveal how modern theosophy in India became an integral part of a wider movement of neo-Hinduism fighting against Christian missionaries and British colonialism, which helped to provide Indian nationalists with legitimating ideology, new-found confidence, experience of organization, contacts and network, all of which they used for political purposes. Since theosophy both eulogized the ancient faith of India and also interpreted it integrating modern scientific doctrines, such as evolution, it had an obvious appeal to western-educated Indians by helping them to solve an intense problem of cultural dislocation – tension between the religious tradition in which they had been raised and the apparent scientific and ethical rationalism of the West.

The article deals with political ideology of the Theosophical Society founded by H elena Petrovna Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott in 1875, and its contribution to Indian nationalism and Hindu and Buddhist religious revivalism at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. The article aims to reveal how modern theosophy in India became an integral part of a wider movement of neo-Hinduism fighting against Christian missionaries and British colonialism, which helped to provide Indian nationalists with legitimating ideology, new-found confidence, experience of organization, contacts and network, all of which they used for political purposes. Since theosophy both eulogized the ancient faith of India and also interpreted it integrating modern scientific doctrines, such as evolution, it had an obvious appeal to western-educated Indians by helping them to solve an intense problem of cultural dislocation – tension between the religious tradition in which they had been raised and the apparent scientific and ethical rationalism of the West.

The article deals with political ideology of the Theosophical Society founded by H elena Petrovna Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott in 1875, and its contribution to Indian nationalism and Hindu and Buddhist religious revivalism at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. The article aims to reveal how modern theosophy in India became an integral part of a wider movement of neo-Hinduism fighting against Christian missionaries and British colonialism, which helped to provide Indian nationalists with legitimating ideology, new-found confidence, experience of organization, contacts and network, all of which they used for political purposes. Since theosophy both eulogized the ancient faith of India and also interpreted it integrating modern scientific doctrines, such as evolution, it had an obvious appeal to western-educated Indians by helping them to solve an intense problem of cultural dislocation – tension between the religious tradition in which they had been raised and the apparent scientific and ethical rationalism of the West.

The article deals with political ideology of the Theosophical Society founded by H elena Petrovna Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott in 1875, and its contribution to Indian nationalism and Hindu and Buddhist religious revivalism at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. The article aims to reveal how modern theosophy in India became an integral part of a wider movement of neo-Hinduism fighting against Christian missionaries and British colonialism, which helped to provide Indian nationalists with legitimating ideology, new-found confidence, experience of organization, contacts and network, all of which they used for political purposes. Since theosophy both eulogized the ancient faith of India and also interpreted it integrating modern scientific doctrines, such as evolution, it had an obvious appeal to western-educated Indians by helping them to solve an intense problem of cultural dislocation – tension between the religious tradition in which they had been raised and the apparent scientific and ethical rationalism of the West.

Straipsnyje nagrinėjama sąmonės prigimtis, jos samprata vienoje iš klasikinių Indijos mokyklų – jogačaros buddhizmo filosofijoje. Remiantis ankstyvaisiais jogačaros šaltiniais ir filosofiniais Vasabandhaus tekstais ir pasitelkus fenomenologinį, filosofinį-lyginamąjį bei semantinį tyrinėjimo metodus siekiama išanalizuoti sąmonės sampratą, ištirti įvairias fenomenologines sąmonės sklaidas bei hierarchinius jos lygmenis, aptarti šių sąmonės lygmenų skirtumų traktavimą ir išanalizuoti pagrindines epistemologinės jogačaros filosofijos kategorijas. Teigiama, kad likdamas ištikimas empirinei Buddhos patyrimo analizei, Vasubandhus seka Abhidharmos kanono tradicija ir preciziškai tipologizuoja proceso elementus, nesileisdamas nei į sautrantikos, nei į sarvastivados metafizinius apmąstymus. Išsaugodamas tradicinę sarvastivados Abhidharmos sensorinių sąmonių funkcinę tipologiją, jis išplečia ją kiek pakeisdamas mentalinės sąmonės veikimą ir įvesdamas aumens bei sąmonės saugyklos epistemologinį vaidmenį. Analizuodamas sąmonės prigimtį ir siekdamas atskleisti patyrimo konceptualizavimo proceso reikšmę, Vasubandhus pabrėžia epistemologinį (suvokimo psichologijos), o ne metafizinį ar ontologinį sąmonės aspektą.