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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Advaita"”.
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Exploring the Nature of Reality in Science Fiction through the use of Taoism and Advaita Vedanta
The Man in the High Castle and Distances use non-dual philosophy to move beyond post-modernism, toward a recognition, appreciation, and reconfiguration of the boundaries of reality. The inclusion of Taoist and Advaitic philosophy in High Castle and Distances is not simply an aesthetic that lends …
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A Modern Advaita-Vedāntin: Locating Swami Chinmayananda and His Understanding of Consciousness in the Context of Scripture and the Contemporary World
… is the ancient Indian philosophy of advaita-vedānta, or the system of non-duality. This dissertation explores the nature of the Self as Consciousness according to the well-known 20th Century philosopher of advaita-vedānta and Hindu guru, Swami Chinmayananda (1916-1993), drawing upon …
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The attainment of moshka according to Shankara and Vivekananda with special reference to the significance of scripture (sruti) and experience (anubhava)
Advaita Vedanta, as systematized and expressed by Shankara (788-820), is widely represented in contemporary studies as positing a special experience (anubhava) to be the ultimately valid source of the knowledge of brahman (brahma jnana). According to these studies, Shankara only accorded a …
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A selfless response to an illusory world : a comparative study of Śāntideva and Śaṅkara
… two traditions, Indian Madhyamaka Buddhism and Advaita Vedānta. In opening the way for further comparisons between these two schools, I wish to question the manner in which scholars have consistently divided them along self/non-self (ātman/anātman) lines. The key to the comparison is thus the …
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Residence students' perceptions of institutional support for interracial contact at the University of Cape Town
While inter-racial contact in university settings has been researched previously, the important concept of institutional support has not. This construct was listed by Allport as a necessary condition under which contact will yield positive results i.e. reduced prejudice towards outgroup members. …
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Beyond the Dualism of Creature and Creator: A Hindu-Christian Theological Inquiry into the Distinctive Relation between the World and God
… to Sara Grant’s work on the Hindu tradition of Advaita Vedānta and the metaphysics of creation found in Thomas Aquinas. Through a careful examination of the concept of relation in Aquinas and Śaṁkara, she argues that both were issuing the same challenge: to move beyond binary oppositions between …
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Evil as Ontological Ignorance: Reframing Proclus' De malorum subsistentia
… κλασική ινδική φιλοσοφική σχολή (darśana) της Advaita Vedānta. Η Advaitic διδασκαλία ότι η πραγματικότητα είναι sat-cit-ānanda (είναι-συνείδηση-ευδαιμονία), σύμφωνα με την οποία η ύπαρξη και η γνώση είναι τελικά ένα και ότι η άγνοια (avidyā) είναι η ρίζα της δουλείας, προσφέρει ένα συγκριτικό …
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Inviting the Other: An ethnographically-informed social history of Sat Tal Christian Ashram
… heavily-inflected by Brahmanical idioms and Advaita Vedanta philosophies. Chapter 4 contextualises and summarises a crucial shift that occurred at STA in 1991: a ‘School of Evangelism’ (SoE) was formed which attracted individuals from low-caste backgrounds who had recently converted from …