This article explores how two influential 8th-century Indian philosophers, Śaṅkara and Kamalaśīla, treat the threefold scheme of learning, reasoning, meditation in their spiritual path philosophies. They have differing institutional ontological commitments: former, who helped establish Advaita Vedānta as religious philosophy an elite Hindu monastic tradition, affirms unchanging “self” (ātman) i...

the upaniṣads, as one of the trilogy of principal vedāntic texts, the oldest and the most fundamental of them, have exposed a more or less detailed discussion on dreaming, taking it whether as the factual object of their discourse or as a symbol. however, there has been a debate between different schools of vedāntic philosophy about oneirology, science of dreams and their interpretation, discus...

Abstract It is a well-known fact that Sanskrit had relatively shorter and less prolific lifespan in the epigraphy of Indonesia, particularly Javanese epigraphic record, than other Southeast Asian regions. All more precious, therefore, are rare opportunities to add inscription historical record Java learn how language was deployed on island represent events recorded for posterity. In this articl...

Abstract This article is an exploration of the dialectic this-worldly activism and practice self-effacement in Swami Vivekananda’s discourses. He often exhorts his audiences to cultivate vigorous strength live courageously world on basis their spiritual conviction that they are rooted true self ( ātman ) beyond all spatiotemporal limitations. The boundless , be realized by effacing egocentric s...

This article is a survey of various philosophical schools, focusing primarily on South Asian ones, and how they address the problem being nonbeing. The early Greek poet Parmenides stated that nonbeing something we cannot actually conceptualize and, thus, speak meaningfully. Plato Aristotle are two examples Western philosophers who came up with different ways resolving issue. As turn to Indic sc...