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A Hindu Tradition in America: Perspectives on ISKCON
October 26, 2006 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
A lecture by Dr. Graham Schweig- Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Indic Studies Program, Christopher Newport University.
Dr. Graham Schweig received his doctorate in Comparative Religion from Harvard University, and is a specialist in the philosophy and history of yoga, bhakti devotional traditions of India, and love mysticism in world religions. He is currently Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Indic Studies Program at Christopher Newport University on the Virginia peninsula, and also Visiting Associate Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Virginia. He has taught at Duke University and University of North Carolina. Dr. Schweig recently was a Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Centre of Hindu Studies of Oxford University and has been accepted as a Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall of Cambridge University.
Dr. Schweig has published numerous articles for professional journals and encyclopedias, and chapters for books in his field, and is Senior Editor of the international periodical, Journal of Vaishnava Studies. Recently, Princeton University Press published his work, Dance of Divine Love: India’s Classic Sacred Love Story: The Råsa Lîlå of Krishna from the Bhagavata Purana. He is presently working on other book projects, including Bhagavad Gîtå Concordance: A Comprehensive Word Reference with Sanskrit and English Indexes, and The Bhakti Sütra: Concise Teachings of Nårada on Divine Love, both to be published by Columbia University Press.
Flint Hall Room 5
Why One More Translation of the Bhagavad Gita?, a lecture by Graham Schweig, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Indic Studies Program at Christopher Newport University in Virginia. A public lecture and graduate/faculty seminar. Professor Schweig is translating the Bhagavad Gita for Harper Collins and will be discussing why he is doing one more translation of this text.