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1 online resource |
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SUNY series in religious studies |
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SUNY series in religious studies.
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| Contents |
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." |
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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 |
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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 |
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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." |
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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 |
| Summary |
"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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Śaṅkarācārya.
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| SUBJECT |
Śaṅkarācārya fast |
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Upanishads -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Upanishads fast |
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Brahman.
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Vedanta.
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RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
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Brahman
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Vedanta
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012046187 |
| ISBN |
9781461952404 |
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1461952409 |
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9781438448077 |
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1438448074 |
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