Chinmaya International Foundation
Adi Sankara Nilayam, Veliyanad P.O
Ernakulam, Kerala, India. PIN-682319
Phone & Fax: 91-484-2747104. Mob: 09567761194
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June 1st to 14th 2009 Prof .V N Jha is the Former Director of the Centre of Advanced Study in Sanskrit, University of Pune. Born in 1946 in West Bengal, educated in Bengal, Varanasi, and Pune upto Ph.D. he also received traditional training under the feet of Pdt. Srinivasa Sastrygal and Sivaramakrishnan Sastrygal; authored and edited over 50 books and over 100 research articles related with Indian intellectual traditions; taught in Nagoya university (Japan), Lausanne University (Switzerland), Humboldt University (Germany) and Mahathma Gandhi Institute (Mauritius) as visiting professor. His areas of special interest are Indian philosophical systems and Indian intellectual culture. Tarkasangraha of Annambhatta is an introductory text of the Nyaya-Vaisesika System of Indian philosophy.
This is the most popular and basic text on Indian Logic which is studied in traditional as well as modern higher educational Institutions of India. This will give you access to all Indian knowledge Systems and the illustrious intellectual and philosophical traditions of India.
The study of this text will also provide a good training in analyzing human thoughts. Once one captures the methods of cognitive analysis as presented in this system, one can handle any knowledge discipline with ease. Chinmaya International Foundation (CIF), established in 1989 in the maternal ancestral home of Adi Sankara, is a research centre for the advanced study in Sanskrit and Indology affiliated to Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, New Delhi and recognized by Mahathma Gandhi University, Kottayam. Swami Chinmayananda visualized CIF as a bridge between the East and West, past and present, science and spirituality, and the pundit and the public. | 
