Friends Event: What is progress? What is the goal? Indian insights on the world’s oldest questions
Nehru Centre
8 South Audley Street
London, W1K 1HF
A talk by Dr Nicholas Sutton of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies.
One of the notable features of modernity is the conflict that emerges between ‘extreme religion’ and ‘extreme materialism.’ A careful study of Indian thought, however, reveals a different approach to life based on the need to strike a balance and to develop a mood of tolerance towards other religious views. Director of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies Department of Continuing Education, Dr Nicolas Sutton, will explore these teachings and find ways of reconciling the quest for spiritual goals.
Dr Nicholas Sutton is responsible for the development of the Hindu Studies Courses, and for their on-line classes. Aside from articles on the Hindu tradition published in academic journals, as well as chapters in edited books, he is widely known for his extensive work on epic theology entitled ‘Religious Doctrines in the Mahabharata’. He is currently working on a translation and extended study of the Mahabharata’s Moksha-dharma-parvan, and researching material for a book exploring the links between the Bhagavad Gita and the Mahabharata.
