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A thousand years of Buddhists and Vedāntins arguing about the self: failure or success?
I guide trekkers on the Annapurna circuit, and on long evenings I read. A monk gave me a commentary on Nāgārjuna when I was nineteen, and I've been arguing with it ever since. Something I read recently put it starkly. Vedānta says…
Started by Nima Tsering Gurung5 replies242 views -
Is Yājñavalkya’s unseen seer an answer to the problem of personal identity?
I am doing an MA in Sanskrit and Indian philosophy in Pune, and something about how Indian theories of self get slotted into Western debates bothers me. In the Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad, Yājñavalkya says you cannot see the seer of seeing or think…
Started by Meera Kulkarni4 replies202 views