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Indian philosophy: Encyclopedia - Buddhism in China

Buddhism is a very important religion in China and one of the three major schools of thought along with Confucianism and Taoism. It has affected and been affected by Chinese culture, politics, literature and philosophy for almost two millennia. For a more generalized discussion of Chinese religion, see religion in China. Buddhism in China - History of Buddhism in China. Buddhism in China - Arrival along the Silk Road. The arrival of Buddhism in China followed the first contacts between ...

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Indian philosophy: Encyclopedia - Alchemy

Alchemy is an early protoscientific and philosophical discipline combining the elements of chemistry, metallurgy, physics, medicine, astrology, semiotics, mysticism, and art. Alchemy has been practiced in ancient Egypt, India, and China, in Classical Greece and Rome, in the Islamic Empire, and then in Europe up to the 19th century — in a complex network of schools and philosophical systems spanning at least 2500 years. The alchemists did not follow what is now known as the scientific method, and much of the "knowledge" they p ...

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Indian philosophy: Encyclopedia - Brahmavidya

The Indian philosophy of Advaita Vedanta explains that we suffer as a result of our avidya (ignorance) and maya (misconceived, misinterpreted views of Reality). According to this philosophy, acquiring the awareness of Brahmavidya (direct perception or awareness of Reality) alleviates this deep source of suffering. Only this awareness directly leads us to moksha (liberation). Other related archives

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Indian philosophy: Encyclopedia - Isvarakrsna

Isvarakrsna (Fifth Century A.D.) Whose name is connected with the Samkya Karika, probably the oldest of the six traditional systems of Indian philosophy which has its foundation attributed to the sage Kapila. Samkya philosophy inspired Buddha, and probably Gnosticism & Neo-Platonism. Other related archivesBuddha, Gnosticism, Kapila, Neo-Platonism

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Indian philosophy: Encyclopedia - Dharmakirti

Dharmakirti (circa 7th century AD), was an Indian scholar and one of the Buddhist founders of Indian philosophical logic. Dharmakirti - History. Dharmakirti - Writings. The "Seven Treatises on Valid Cognition" Saṃbandhaparikṣhāvrtti (Analysis of Relations) Pramāṇavinishchaya (Ascertainment of Valid Cognition) Pramāṇavarttikakārika (Com ...

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Indian philosophy: Encyclopedia - Akshapada Gotama

Akshapada Gotama (? c. 5th century BC or 2nd century BC) (also spelt as Aksapada Gautama and in other ways) was the originator of the Nyaya school of Indian philosophy. His sutras provide a systematic presentation of the logical approach to philosophy. He was a logician who authored the Nyaya Sutras, considered the foundation of the Nyaya school of Hinduism. Aksapada is believed to be Gautama Rishi, one of the Saptarishis (The Seven Sages) and is known as Dirghatapas; because of the various ways of renderin

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Indian philosophy: Encyclopedia - Nagarjuna

Nāgārjuna (నాగార్జునా in Telugu, 龍樹 in Chinese) (c. 150 - 250 CE) was an Indian philosopher, the founder of the Madhyamaka (Middle Path) school of Mahāyāna Buddhism, and arguably the most influential Indian Buddhist thinker after the Gautama Buddha himself. His writings were the basis for the formation of the Madhyamaka (Middle Way) school, which was transmitted to China under the name of the Three Treatise (Sanlun) School. He is credited with developing the philosophy of the Prajnaparamita sutras, a ...

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Indian philosophy: Encyclopedia - Nyaya

Samkhya Nyaya Vaisheshika Yoga Purva Mimamsa Advaita Vedanta Vishishtadvaita Dvaita Carvaka Jain Buddhist Logic Nyaya (pronounced as "nyα:yə") is the name given to one of the six orthodox or astika schools of Hindu ph ...

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Indian philosophy: Encyclopedia - Tattva

According to the Indian school of Samkhya philosophy, the Tattva are a way of directly "experiencing" the 5 alchemical elements. So they are therefore the logical progression of the previous elemental grade where the elements were first discussed and symbolic ways of working with them described. The student is then taught a method of directly learning the "theoretical" structure of the elemental worlds. Tattva - A Brief History of the Tattvas. There are six main schools of thought on Tattvic philosophy. The ...

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Indian philosophy: Encyclopedia - Vijnanabhiksu

Vijnanabhiksu is an Indian philosopher who lived in north India in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. He wrote commentaries on three different schools of Indian philosophy, Vedanta, Samkhya, and Yoga. Although his sub-commentary on the Yoga Sutras, the Yogavarttika, is his most widely read work in the modern period, his earliest works belonged to the school of Bhedabheda (Difference and Non-Difference) Vedanta. Like many medieval Vedantins, he considers Shankara's school of Advaita Vedanta a school of Buddhism in disguise, and un

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Indian philosophy: Encyclopedia - Sautrantaka

The Sautrāntika school of Buddhism split from the Sarvāstivādins sometime between 50 BCE and c. 100 CE. The Sautrāntikas spurned the Abhidharma literature in favor of the original sutras of the canon; thus their name. The used the concept of an āśraya (substrate, refuge) where the Pudgalavādins and the Vātsiputrīya school posited a pudgala, and where mainstream Indian philosophy typically referred to an ātman. Some of thei ...

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Indian philosophy: Encyclopedia - Madhyamaka

Madhyamaka is a Buddhist philosophical tradition that asserts that all phenomena are empty of "self-nature" or "essence" (Sanskrit: Svabhāva), that they have no intrinsic, independent reality apart from the causes and conditions from which they arise. Madhyamaka represents the "middle way" between eternalism (the view that something is eternal and unchanging) and nihilism (the assertion that all things are intrinsically already destroyed or rendered nonexistent. This is nihilism in the sense of Indian philosophy, and may diff ...

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Indian philosophy: Encyclopedia - Shantideva

Shantideva (sometimes Santideva) was an 8th-century Indian Buddhist scholar at Nalanda University and an adherent of the Madhyamika philosophy. Contrary to Tibetan biographies written about him, Shantideva became a king in southeastern Bangladesh, which has been shown through archaeological discoveries which record him as the first king of the Deva dynasty, a line of Buddhist rulers of the Samatata territory who considered the Bodhi ...

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Indian philosophy: Encyclopedia - Namboothiri

The Namboothiris (Malayalam :നമ്പൂതിരി)are the Brahmins of Kerala. They adhere to the Advaita philosophy propounded by Sri Adi Shankaracharya and are Smartha's. Indeed, Sri Adi Shankaracharya himself was born into this community. In Malayalam, Namboothiri is Nambu means sacred or trustworthy,thiri means Light. According to some traditions that ascribe, controversially, a non-Indian origin to Indo-Aryans, the Namboothiri's are thought to have migrated from North India, or countries fur ...

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Indian philosophy: Encyclopedia - Dadabhai Naoroji

Dadabhai Naoroji (4 September 1825–30 June 1917) was a Parsi intellectual and educator, and an early Indian political leader. He was a Member of Parliament in the Parliament of the United Kingdom between 1892 and 1895, and the first Asian to be a British MP. The son of Maneckbai and Naoroji Palanji Dordi, a poor Athornan Parsi family, Naoroji was educated at Elphinstone College and later became a teacher. By 1855 he was Professor of Mathematics and Natural philosophy. He moved to England in 1855, first working in business, later becom ...

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Indian philosophy: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary on Six Schools of Indian Philosophy

Six Schools of Indian Philosophy.

 

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Indian philosophy: Encyclopedia II - Ancient philosophy - Classical

Ancient philosophy - Greek. Pericles (495-429) Aspasia (469-406) Socrates(469-399) Euclid of Megara (450-380) Antisthenes (445-360) Aristippus (435-356) Plato (429-347) Xenophon (429-355) Speusippus (407-339) Diogenes of Sinope (400-325) Xenocrates (396-314) Aristotle (384-322) Stilpo (380-300) Theophrastus (370-288) Pyrrho (365-275) Epicurus (341-270) Zeno of Citiu ...

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Ancient philosophy, Ancient philosophy - Classical, Ancient philosophy - Greek, Ancient philosophy - Roman, Ancient philosophy - Schools of thought in the Hellenistic period, Ancient philosophy - Vedic philosophy, Ancient philosophy - Classical Indian philosophy, Ancient philosophy - Old Iranian philosophy, Ancient philosophy - Chinese philosophy

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Indian philosophy: Encyclopedia II - Ancient philosophy - Vedic philosophy

In the east, Indian philosophy begins with the Vedas where questions related to laws of nature, the origin of the universe and the place of man in it are asked. In the famous Rigvedic Hymn of Creation the poet says: "Whence all creation had its origin, he, whether he fashioned it or whether he did not, he, who surveys it all from highest heaven, he knows--or maybe even he does not know." In the Vedic view, creation is ascribed to the self-consciousness of the primeval being (Purusha). This leads to the inquiry int ...

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Ancient philosophy, Ancient philosophy - Classical, Ancient philosophy - Greek, Ancient philosophy - Roman, Ancient philosophy - Schools of thought in the Hellenistic period, Ancient philosophy - Vedic philosophy, Ancient philosophy - Classical Indian philosophy, Ancient philosophy - Old Iranian philosophy, Ancient philosophy - Chinese philosophy

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Indian philosophy: Encyclopedia II - South India - South Indian diversity

The main spiritual traditions of South Indians have included both Shaivism or Shaivite philosophy, and Vaishnavism, which are both branches of Hinduism, although Jain philosophy had been influential in Southern India several centuries earlier. Shravanabelagola in Karnataka is a popular pilgrim center for Jains. Coorg, in Karnataka is home to one of the largest Buddhist monasteries in the country and provides sanctuary to Tibetan Buddhist monks tha ...

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South India, South India - The land, South India - Regions of South India, South India - The people, South India - The economy, South India - Andhra Pradesh, South India - Karnataka, South India - Kerala, South India - Tamil Nadu, South India - South Indian worldview and culture, South India - South Indian dance, South India - Traditional clothing, South India - Sculptures and figurine, South India - South Indian history, South India - South Indian heritage, South India - South Indian music, South India - Literature and philosophy, South India - Architecture and paintings, South India - South Indian diversity, South India - Selected bibliography

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Indian philosophy: Encyclopedia II - Eastern philosophy - Philosophical and religious traditions

The following is an overview of the Eastern philosophic traditions. Each tradition has a separate article with more detail on sects, schools, etc. (c.f.) Eastern philosophy - Hinduism. Main article: Hinduism Hinduism (सनातन धर्म; Sanātana Dharma, roughly Perennial Faith) is generally considered to be the oldest major world religion still practised today and first among Dharma faiths. Hinduism is characterized by a diverse array of belief systems, ...

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Eastern philosophy, Eastern philosophy - Philosophical and religious traditions, Eastern philosophy - Hinduism, Eastern philosophy - Sufism & Islamic philosophy, Eastern philosophy - Confucianism, Eastern philosophy - Taoism, Eastern philosophy - Legalism, Eastern philosophy - Buddhism, Eastern philosophy - Jainism, Eastern philosophy - Maoism, Eastern philosophy - Shinto, Eastern philosophy - Arguments against the Eastern philosophy designation, Eastern philosophy - The perception of God and the gods, Eastern philosophy - Gods' relationship with the universe, Eastern philosophy - The role and nature of the individual, Eastern philosophy - Syntheses of Eastern and Western philosophy

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Indian philosophy: Encyclopedia II - Eastern philosophy - Syntheses of Eastern and Western philosophy

There have been many modern attempts to integrate Western and Eastern philosophical traditions. German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was very interested in Taoism. His system of dialectics is sometimes interpreted as a formalization of Taoist principles. Hegel's rival Arthur Schopenhauer developed a philosophy that was essentially a synthesis of Hinduism and Buddhism with Western thought. He anticipated that the Upanishads (primary Hindu scriptures) would have a much greater influence in the West than they ha ...

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Eastern philosophy, Eastern philosophy - Philosophical and religious traditions, Eastern philosophy - Hinduism, Eastern philosophy - Sufism & Islamic philosophy, Eastern philosophy - Confucianism, Eastern philosophy - Taoism, Eastern philosophy - Legalism, Eastern philosophy - Buddhism, Eastern philosophy - Jainism, Eastern philosophy - Maoism, Eastern philosophy - Shinto, Eastern philosophy - Arguments against the Eastern philosophy designation, Eastern philosophy - The perception of God and the gods, Eastern philosophy - Gods' relationship with the universe, Eastern philosophy - The role and nature of the individual, Eastern philosophy - Syntheses of Eastern and Western philosophy

Read more here: » Eastern philosophy: Encyclopedia II - Eastern philosophy - Syntheses of Eastern and Western philosophy




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