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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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SUNY series in religious studies
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SUNY series in religious studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| 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. |
| Contents |
The Hidden Lives of Brahman: Śaṅkara's Vedānta through His Upaniṛad 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 Upaniṛad Commentaries in Śaṅkara's Teaching; Two Aspects of Brahman's "Lives." |
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Relating English and Saṁskq̣ta 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 Upaniṛads; 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; Śq̣ṅgeri 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 Upaniṛad 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: Saṁskq̣ta 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 Saṁskq̣ta Training; Inflection Lists and the Ritual Foundations of Saṁskq̣ta 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 Saṁskq̣ta Paṇḍita; Broad Patterns and Variations in Contemporary Saṁskq̣ta 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Upanishads -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Upanishads. |
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Śaṅkarācārya.
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Śaṅkarācārya. |
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Upanishads. |
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Brahman.
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Brahman. |
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Vedanta.
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Vedanta. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Dubois, Joël André-Michel, 1965- Hidden lives of Brahman 9781438448053 (DLC) 2012046187 (OCoLC)826640063 |
| ISBN |
9781461952404 (electronic book) |
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1461952409 (electronic book) |
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9781438448077 (e-book) |
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1438448074 (e-book) |
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9781438448053 |
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1438448058 |
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9781438448060 |
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1438448066 |
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ebc3408803 |
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