Rasa is an affective theory which was introduced by the ancient aesthetician, Bharata. It speaks about the emotional and aesthetic response created by art and literature in the mind of the spectator/reader. It raises reader/spectator to the level of the writer/actor. This is made possible by...
本文从印度哲学对情绪与寓意的“Rasa Theory”角度去解析《奥义书》中关于神圣声音冥想的体验与情绪的联系。Introduction: The Meditation on Sacred SoundIn the Vedic tradition, the meditation on sacred sound is described as a gateway to achieve the higher state of being-in-one with God: sound “pierces...
Western aesthetics has made a lot of a supposed distinction between “the beautiful” and “the sublime”: “sublime” referring to things like high mountains and the starry night that make us feel awe, make us feel small in a good way. Indian rasa theory would likely refer to this feeling...
Bhoja’s theory is addressed in Rūpa Gosvāmī’sUjjvala-nīlamaṇi15.3, 15.102 and in Jīva'sPrīti-sandarbha110 as well as his commentary onUjjvala-nīlamaṇi15.185–187. Bhoja is not just a source of citations for these authors; he deeply influenced them (Gosvāmī & Dāsa,1955)....
If they cannot be conveyed because they are personal and private, then how are they conveyed when they are neither entirely private nor personal, as in the case of generalized emotions, or the rasa experience? In ānandavardhana's Dhvanyāloka, we find a theory of suggestion (dhvani) which...
I do hope the world continues to unravel in a series. Favourite Non-fiction: Fifty Sounds by Polly Barton The story of an English-speaking woman who moved to Japan to become a literary translator. Thought, theory, and ideation corroborate with experience. She writes as a linguist, but also...
Emerging out of this Ayurvedic matrix, India’s classical theory of aesthetics, i. e., of taste(rasa)- through which the cultivated spectator reinterpreted the raw emotions(bhavas)portrayed in drama, dance, and literature into their corresponding cultivatedrasas- was developed some centuries later...
Implications of this study for theory and research on emotions are discussed, with special focus on basic emotions theory, cross-cultural psychology, and future directions for empirical testing of the hypothesis presented here.Sundararajan, Louise...
The payoff of such a comparison between Shun's explication of Confucian moral psychology and Bhattacharyya's explication of rasa theory is not only a possible phenomenological grounding for the former but also a potential way to articulate a missing ethics in Bhattacharyya's thought....
I Hamlet and the Rasa Theory Indian dramatic tradition lays prime emphasis on the emotions aroused in the audience. It is not the motivation of the protagonist but the emotions of the audience that is taken into consideration. There is however a link between the two. The entire atmosph...