The Philosophy of the Upanishads and Ancient Indian Metaphysics 0415245222, 0415231884, 9781136390647, 9781136390579, 113639057X, 9781315012285, 1315012286

Ch. 1. The antecedents of Indian metaphysics ; Metempsychosis -- ch. 2. The quest of the real ; Brahman and Maya, the se

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The Philosophy of the Upanishads and Ancient Indian Metaphysics
 0415245222, 0415231884, 9781136390647, 9781136390579, 113639057X, 9781315012285, 1315012286

Table of contents :
Ch. 1. The antecedents of Indian metaphysics
Metempsychosis --
ch. 2. The quest of the real
Brahman and Maya, the self and the world-fiction --
ch. 3. The release from metempsychosis --
ch. 4. The Mundaka Upanishad --
ch. 5. The Katha Upanishad --
ch. 6. The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad --
ch. 7. The sensational nihilism of the Buddhists
The cosmology of the Sankhyas --
ch. 8. The Svetasvatara Upanishad --
ch. 9. The primitive antiquity of the doctrine of Maya.

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