Eastern Philosophy · India
The Upanishads & Vedanta
The philosophical core of the Vedas: Brahman and Atman, 'that you are', karma and rebirth, and how Shankara's Advaita, Ramanuja and Madhva read the same texts differently.
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Prereqs: none. Next: The Bhagavad Gita; Buddhism. Sources: Patrick Olivelle (trans.), *Upaniṣads* (Oxford World's Classics, 1996); Eliot Deutsch, *Advaita Vedanta: A Philosophical Reconstruction* (1969).Next: 1. The texts