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Grief and Dharma: Suffering, empathy and moral imaginative intuition

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The article explores recent thinking on the 'hard emotions', in particular, grief, sorrow and mourning, and link the challenging inner and social condition to the calling of Dharma (righteous law, normatively worthy action). Drawing from some comparative work (academic and personal) in the study of grief, mourning and empathy, we shall discuss the treatment of this tragic pathos in classical Indic literature and modern-day psychotherapy. We shall demonstrate, despite being secularised, these emotions continue to serve as the sites of imagination at a much more personal and inter-personal level that are not antithetical to a Dharmic (sacred) quest despite their haunting presence even when 'the four walls collapse around one in the intensity of duḥkha (suffering, sorrow).

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Journal

Studies in humanities and social sciences

Volume

20

Pagination

33-54

Location

India

Open access

  • Yes

ISSN

0972-1401

Language

eng

Publication classification

C2 Other contribution to refereed journal

Copyright notice

2013, Indian Institute of Advanced Study

Issue

1

Publisher

Indian Institute of Advanced Study

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