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Dharma in Hinduism

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  1. Department of Languages & Cultures of Asia, University of Wisconsin, 1244 Van Hise, 1220 Linden Dr, Madison, WI, 53706, USA

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This essay was originally published as “Dharma im Hinduismus” in Zeitschrift für Missionswissenschaft und Religionswissenschaft 49 (1965): 93–106, and reprinted in Kleine Schriften: Paul Hacker. Ed. Lambert Schmithausen. Wiesbaden: Steiner Verlag (1978): 496–509. The original page numbers are indicated in the translation at the appropriate points.

I presented the content of this article in a somewhat shorter form as an inaugural lecture on the occasion of my assuming the Chair of Indology at the University of Münster.

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Hacker, P. Dharma in Hinduism. J Indian Philos 34, 479–496 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10781-006-9002-4

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