Author: Karl H. Potter Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1400856515 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 647
Book Description
The third in a series, this volume is a reference book of summaries of the main works in the Advaita tradition during the primary phase of its development in the sixth and seventh centuries A.D., up to and including the works of Samkara and his pupils. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author: Jacqueline Suthren Hirst Publisher: Psychology Press ISBN: 9780415355490 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 272
Book Description
This is a detailed introduction to the thought of Samkara, who is the most well-known and perhaps the most authoritative Hindu thinker of all time.
Author: Jacqueline G. Suthren Hirst Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134254415 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 272
Book Description
Samkara (c.700 CE) has been regarded by many as the most authoritative Hindu thinker of all time. A great Indian Vedantin brahmin, Samkara was primarily a commentator on the sacred texts of the Vedas and a teacher in the Advaitin teaching line. This book serves as an introduction to Samkara's thought which takes this as a central theme. The author develops an innovative approach based on Samkara's ways of interpreting sacred texts and creatively examines the profound interrelationship between sacred text, content and method in Samkara's thought. The main focus of the book is on Samkara's teaching method. This method is, for Samkara, based on the Upanishads' own; it is to be employed by Advaitin teachers to draw pupils skilfully towards that realisation which is beyond all words. Consequently, this book will be of interest not only to students and scholars of Indian philosophy, but to all those interested in the relation between language and that which is held to transcend it.
Author: Eliot Deutsch Publisher: University of Hawaii Press ISBN: 9780824802714 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 132
Book Description
Advaita Vedānta is the most important philosophical system in India. It involves a discipline of spiritual experience as well as a technical philosophy, and since the time of Samkara in the ninth century some of the greatest intellects in India have contributed to its development. In his reconstruction of Advaita Vedānta, Eliot Deutsch has lifted the system out of its historical/cultural context and has concentrated attention on those ideas which have enduring philosophical value. He has sought to formulate systematically one's understanding of what is of universal philosophical interest in Vedantic thought. Professor Deutsch's work covers the basic metaphysical, epistemological, and ethical ideas of Vedānta. Students and scholars of Western as well as of Indian philosophy will be interested in the lucid, organized manner in which the material is presented and in the fresh interpretations given. The book is written in a critical rather than simply "pious" spirit and should thus also be of interest to anyone interested in deepening his or her appreciation and understanding of the richness of Indian thought.
Author: Śaṅkara Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe ISBN: 9788120820395 Category : Advaita Languages : en Pages : 310
Book Description
Advaita Vedanta is one of the most important and widely studied schools of throught in Hindu philosophy and the Vivekacudamani is one of the most important texts in the Advaita tradition and the most popular philosophical work ascribed to the great Indian philosopher, Sankara.Sankara is considered to be a giant among giants and probably the most venerated philosopher in India`s long history.
Author: Anway Mukhopadhyay Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3031273958 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 144
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This book seeks to explore the complex modes of interface between religion, atheism, and the Goddess in multicultural contexts. While atheism has often been seen as an interrogation of and a battle against God, the gender dimension of this discourse has not been sufficiently negotiated. Is the fight against God also a fight against the Goddess? Or is there something common between the ideological thrust of the battle against God the “Father” in atheism and the interrogation of the Divine Father in thealogy? Can the Goddess be seen as an entity radically different from the imperious transcendental that the atheists find embodied in God the Father? Or, can the Goddess be seen as “transcendental” as well as immanent, and hence subjected to the same atheist denial of transcendence to which God is subjected in non-theistic or anti-theistic arguments? With this volume, Anway Mukhopadhyay embarks on a difficult project of epistemologically, ideologically and even politically renegotiating and reorienting some of the fundamental issues involved in the discussions of and debates over atheism.
Author: Thomas Felber Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand ISBN: 3750493219 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 482
Book Description
Shankara Bhagavatpada (~788 - 820 CE) was a true master of the highest caliber who expounded the ancient teachings of the Bhagavad Gita, the Principal Upanishads, and the Brahma Sutras, usually known as Prasthanatraya in an ingenious way. This anthology of nearly 1900 selections arranged in 160 topics from different English translations of the Prasthanatraya and other sources should assist any serious seeker regarding modern Vedantic exegesis.
Author: Ben-Ami Scharfstein Publisher: State University of New York Press ISBN: 1438418876 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 706
Book Description
A Comparative History of World Philosophy presents a personal yet balanced guide through what the author argues to be the three great philosophical traditions: Chinese, European, and Indian. The book breaks through the cultural barriers between these traditions, proving that despite their considerable differences, fundamental resemblances exist in their abstract principles. Ben-Ami Scharfstein argues that Western students of philosophy will profit considerably if they study Indian and Chinese philosophy from the very beginning, along with their own. Written with clarity and infused with an engaging narrative voice, this book is organized thematically, presenting in virtually every chapter characteristic views from each tradition that represent similar positions in the core areas of metaphysics and epistemology. At the same time, Scharfstein develops each tradition historically as the chapters unfold. He presents a great variety of philosophical positions fairly, avoiding the relativism and ethnocentrism that could easily plague a comparative presentation of Western and non-Western philosophies.
Author: Karl H. Potter
Author: Karl H. Potter
Author: Karl H. Potter
Author: Jacqueline Suthren Hirst
Author: Jacqueline G. Suthren Hirst
Author: Eliot Deutsch
Author: Śaṅkara
Author: Anway Mukhopadhyay
Author: Thomas Felber
Author: Ben-Ami Scharfstein