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Hidden Lives of Brahman, The : Sankara's Vedanta through His Upanisad Commentaries, in Light of Contemporary Practice /
"Using both textual and ethnographic sources, demonstrates that in Sankara's vedanta brahman is an active force as well as a transcendent ultimate"--Provided by publisher
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
[2013]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Hidden Lives of Brahman: Śaṅkara's Vedānta through His Upaniṣad Commentaries, in Light of Contemporary Practice; Contents; Illustrations; Pronunciation of Sanskrit Words; Foreword; Preface; Why Another Book About Vedānta?; Abbreviations; Chapter 1: Introducing Brahman: The Hidden Lives of Śaṅkara's Vedānta Teaching; The Celebration of Śaṅkara's Victory; Śaṅkara's Vedānta Teaching and The Hidden Lives of Brahman; Threefold Preparation for Insight in Śaṅkara's Teaching; The Central Place of Upaniṣad Commentaries in Śaṅkara's Teaching; Two Aspects of Brahman's "Lives."
- Relating English and Saṁskṛta Language GamesPart 1: Envisioning Brahman; Chapter 2: Attending to Brahman: Upāsana Practice Past and Present; The Upāsana Definitions of TUbh 1.3 and BUbh 1.3.9; The Trans-historical Features of Upāsana; Attending to the Sun in the Early Upaniṣads; Envisioning Brahman in Ancient Ritual Offerings of Food; "Thinking-of-Oneself-As" and "Weaving Similar Notions" in Contemporary Practice; The Sensory Engagement of Contemporary Upāsana Practitioners; Chapter 3: Learning Brahman: The Daily Life of the Brahmacārin; Śṛṅgeri and the Modern Brahmacārin.
- Sounds of Awakening and Early Morning SvādhāyaThe Sounds of Twilight Upāsana; Sounds of the Classroom and the Teacher's Arrival; The Sounds of Vedic Training; Sounds of Food, Play, and Dusk; Phases of Study and the Sounds of Evening Recitation; Chapter 4: Envisioning Veda: First-Person Declarations in Śaṅkara's Upaniṣad Commentaries; First-Person Declarations as Commentarial Clarification in TUbh 1-2; Envisioning The Cosmic Horse in BU 1.1-2; First-Person Declarations as Commentarial Summary in BUbh 1.2.7; Prāṇa Conquers Death in BU 1.3; The Extended Declaration of BUbh 1.3.28.
- Upāsana Declarations in BUbh 1.5 and BeyondThe Ritual Context for Śaṅkara's Notion of Superimposition; Part 2: Imagining Brahman; Chapter 5: Conditioning the Mind for Brahman: Saṁskṛta Training Past and Present; Vedic Study and Saṁskāra in TUbh 1; Grammatical Analyses of Brahman in TUbh 2.1 and BUbh 1.4.7; Imaginative Praise of Brahman Seers in Śaṅkara's Verse Invocations; The Aesthetic Dimension of Saṁskṛta Training; Inflection Lists and the Ritual Foundations of Saṁskṛta Conditioning; Thematic Categories and Alliterative Grouping in the "Treasury of Words."
- The Meta-Language of Pāṇini's GrammarSaṁskāra Embodied in Teacher-Student Interactions; Aesthetics and Logic at Advanced Stages of Training; Nature Imagery in Works of Logic; Saṁskāra Perfected in the Rhetorics of Debate; Chapter 6: Perfecting The Life Of Brahman: The Training of the Saṁskṛta Paṇḍita; Broad Patterns and Variations in Contemporary Saṁskṛta Training; The First Year: Foundational Saṁskāras; Word Drills: Deepening Saṁskāra; Beyond the First Year: Expanding Saṁskāra; Questions, Commentary, and Aesthetic Conditioning; Approaching Perfection: the Long Years of Advanced Study.