Susanta Bhattacharya

I am Susanta Bhattacharya, a 2nd year philosophy doctoral student in the department of Philosophy and sociology at the Pedagogical University of Krakow. My proposed PhD project aims to make a significant contribution to our understanding of one of the major systems of classical Indian philosophy—namely Pātañjala Yoga, the principal text of which is the Yogasūtra of Patañjali. In my project, I propose to make a contribution to these ongoing scholarly debates about how best to interpret pratiprasava and kaivalya in Yoga philosophy. Broadly, I will defend a novel interpretation of pratiprasava and kaivalya. After my second semester of my phd program at Pedagogical University I got a visiting scholar position at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies at Oxford in the United Kingdom.