Jacqueline G. Suthren Hirst (UK University of Manchester)

Samkara's Advaita Vedanta

A Way of Teaching

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Produktbeschreibung

This is a detailed introduction to the thought of Samkara, who is the most well-known and perhaps the most authoritative Hindu thinker of all time.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Hindu Studies Series
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 388g
• ISBN-13: 9780415406017
• ISBN-10: 0415406013
• Artikelnr.: 25525364

Autorenporträt

J.G. Suthren Hirst is Lecturer in South Asian Studies at the University of Manchester. Her interest in teaching and learning at all levels informs her research on the Vedanta school of Indian philosophy, on Hindu texts, and on gender and religion in South Asia and the diaspora.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Studying the Teacher 1. The Teacher Himself 2. The Need for
the Teaching 3. The Source for the Teaching 4. The Methods of the Teaching
5. The Context of the Teaching: The World of Name and Form 6. The Context
of the Teaching: The Lord 7. The Language of the Teaching 8. The End of the
Teaching