All too frequently the term Vedanta is used when what is meant, whether recognized or not, is Advaita Vedanta and more specifically, the philosophical system associated with Sankaracarya. Yet in fact Vedanta, literally meaning "the concluding portions of the Veda",...

"Kashmir Saivism" is something of a misnomer if used to refer simply to the Trika/ Pratyabhijna system of Kashmir Saiva philosophy. For at least three other non-dualistic systems are often identified: Nandikesvara Saivism, Rasesvara Saivism, and the Visistadvaita Saivism of...

Volume Seventeen concludes the series of the Encyclopedia dealing with jain philosophy (Volumes 10,14 and 17) bringing its development to the present day. In his Introduction, Piotr Balcerowicz provides a formalized classification of the basics of the Jain theory of...

Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies: Volume 18 - By Karl H. Potter (Author) - MLBD Publications

Confronted with a series of volumes called the Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies, one is likely to ask, what constitutes philosophy in the relevant sense? Introduction to understood as investigation of the nature of and path to liberation from rebirth (moksa;nirvana),...

Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophy: Visistadvaita Vedanta - Vol. 20 - By Stephen H. Phillips, Karl H. Potter (Author) - MLBD Publications. The most famous name associated with the Visistadvaita philosophy of the Srivaisnavas is Ramanuja (1017-1137). The present volume of...

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Environmental Identity Towards Sustainable Development with Indigenous Australians (PB) | By Nakanishi, Nao (Author) | White Lotus. The book examines the different concepts of a unified environment including living things as well as the natural surroundings like forests, rivers, rocks,...

This volume strikes a new note in the study of Indian epics-the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. In it, for the first time, mythology is dissociated from the running threads of both the epic texts. The mythology of the two epics...

Abhinavagupta, a leading figure in Kashmir Saivism is increasingly being recognised as one of the chief contributors to the evolution of Indian thought. In his encyclopaedic work the Tantraloka 'Light on the Tantras' he describes the various tantras of his...

For the first time in the history of astrology, an entirely new method of reading horoscopes is given. The individual and personal stars of all individuals are explained by a series of star maps, showing how the age of the...

Buddhism does not recognize a concept of the existence of God (theos) such as found in Christianity, but here theos is not used to refer only to an absolute deity like the Christian god. By "theology" the author means the...