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The Hidden Lives of Brahman : Śaṅkara's Vedānta Through His Upaniṣad Commentaries, in Light of Contemporary Practice by Dubois, Joël André-Michel & Christopher Key Chapple is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Finalist for the 2014 Best First Book in the History of Religions presented by the American Academy of Religion Śaṅkara's thought, advaita vedānta or non-dual vedānta, is a tradition focused on brahman , the ultimate reality transcending all particular manifestations, words, and ideas. It is generally considered that the transcendent brahman cannot be attained through any effort or activity. While this conception is technically correct, in The Hidden Lives of Brahman , Joël André-Michel Dubois contends that it is misleading. Hidden lives of brahman become visible when analysis of Śaṅkara's seminal commentaries is combined with ethnographic descriptions of contemporary Brāhmin students and teachers of vedānta, a group largely ignored in most studies of this tradition. Du bois demonstrates that for Śaṅkara, as for Brāhmin tradition in general, brahman is just as much an active force, fully connected to the dynamic power of words and imagination, as it is a transcendent ultimate.

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Author

Dubois, Joël André-Michel & Christopher Key Chapple

Publisher

State University of New York Press (SUNY Press)

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781438448053

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Religion, Hinduism