Patrick Olivelle is the Chair, Department of Asian Studies, and
Director, Center for Asian Studies, at the University of Texas at
Austin, where he is the Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Religion.
Among his recent publications are: The Samnyasa Upanisads: Hindu
Scriptures on Ascetism and Renunciation (Oxford, 1992), The Asrama
System: History and Hermeneutics of a Religions Institution
(Oxford, 1993), Rules and Regulations of Brahmanical
Asceteicsm (State University of New York Press, 1994).
`A new translation of the Upanisads into English is an event in
itself. Even the more so if it is good, and this one is excellent.
It is lucid and reliable and has taken into account the significant
mass of research carried out by a number of Sanskrit scholars over
the last decades. This excellent book should attract not only those
interested in Indian religion and philosophy but anyone interested
in the history of human thought.'
Times Higher Education Supplement
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