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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Vedānta"”.
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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 the core …
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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
… 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 the …
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Svāminārāyaṇa’s interpretation of 'Dharma' as it appears in the Shrimad Bhagavad Gita
… Svāminārāyaṇa offered novel contributions to the Vedānta philosophical tradition by presenting the principles of the Akṣarapuruṣottama Siddhānta (doctrine) and establishing the Akṣarapuruṣottama Darśana, an independent Vedāntic school of thought. In addition to revealing the darśana’s (school of …
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A selfless response to an illusory world : a comparative study of Śāntideva and Śaṅkara
… 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 notion of …
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Leading without greed: A Vedantic lens on wholeness toward cultivating spiritual intelligence in leadership
… ‘incomplete self' predicament of constant want. Vedānta posits such never-ending desiring to be consequential of a lack of spiritual intelligence. Systematic reviews into workplace spirituality studies identified a need for qualitative leadership research, specifically recommending Eastern …
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Evil as Ontological Ignorance: Reframing Proclus' De malorum subsistentia
… 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 πρίσμα - …
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VOICES OF SELF-SURRENDER: RELIGIOUS MULTILINGUALISM IN MEDIEVAL SOUTH INDIA
This dissertation explores the distinctive intellectual history of South Asian multilingualism. Specifically, it focuses on the South India based Śrīvaiṣṇava religious community (c. tenth century CE onward) as a paradigmatic case. It analyzes the Sanskrit and Manipravalam, a mixture of Tamil and …