Prem Pahlajrai प्रेम पहलाजराय University of Washington Asian Languages and Literature Gowen 231 prem@u.washington.edu 206-543-4096 Mailing Address:   University of Washington,   Box 353521,   Seattle WA 98195-3521   USA. Sr. Lecturer - First Year Hindi — Hindi101, Hindi102, Hindi103                       Second Year Hindi — Hindi201, Hindi202, Hindi203                       Asian 225A (The Bhagavad Gītā, Spring 2019)                       Honors 211B / Asian 225A (Karma & Free Will in Indian Philosophy, Win 2019)                       Asian 225A (Intro to Indian Philosophical Literature, Spr 2018)                              Office Hours: Tu 9:00-10:00, W 11:30-12:20 and by appointment (Spring 2019)

Interests:

• Indian philosophy with an emphasis on soteriology
• Advaita Vedānta
• Swāmī Niścaladāsa's Vṛttiprabhākara, a 19^th century Hindi text on Advaita epistemology

• 1st Year Hindi home page
• 2nd Year Hindi home page
• Resources for Learning Hindi
  
• Spring 2019 - Asian 225A: The Bhagavad Gītā 
• Winter2019 - Asian 225A: Karma & Free Will in Indian Philosophy
  
• Spring 2018 - Asian 225A: Intro to Indian Philosophical Literature
• The Alan W. Entwistle Indian Hindi Poster Collection (part of the Resources for learning Hindi page)
• The Alan Entwistle Indian Gods & Goddesses Image Collection (part of the Eastern Religions RELIG 202 course page)
• Unicode HTML Version of Monier-Williams Sanskrit English Dictionary
  
• Sanskrit Paradigms
• Department Course Offerings at a Glance -South Asian Language and Literature 2018-19, 2017-18, 2016-17
• Works
• Niścaldās and his Vṛttiprabhākar: Advaita Vedānta in the Vernacular - Dissertation, 2013
  
• The Authorship of the Pañcadaśī and the Textual Context of its Tr̥ptidīpa-prakaraṇa - MA Thesis, 2005
• Doxographies - Why six darśanas? Which six?
  
• Different Varieties of Vedānta
  
• Vidyāraṇya's Pañcadaśī Chapter 7


• Other useful and/or interesting links:
• Online Publications and Searches
  
• Etc.

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[Last Updated: Mar 29, 2019]