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Forsthoefel, Thomas A.

Knowing beyond knowledge: epistemologies of religious experience in classical and modern Advaita/ Thomas A. Forsthoefel - Delhi : MBP, 2007. - 199p. ; 23cm.

1 A brief history of experience
Prolegomena
Religious experience: historical context
Religious experience: contemporary philosophical context
Epistemology of religious experience
Epistemologies of religious experience in classical and modem Vedanta
2 The epistemology of religious experience in ^ahkara
Introduction
Internalism and externalism in Sahkara
Knowledge and the means of knowledge in Advaita
The culture of liberation in Sankara
3 Later Advaita on religious experience
Surdsvara, Fadmapada, the Vivekacudamani
Suresvara
Fadmapada
The Vivekacudamani
4 The sage of pure experience: the Advaita of Ramana Maharsi
Introduction
Ramana Maharei: life and works
Ramana's philosophy
Revalorizing the culture of liberation
5 The cognitive and social implications of the epistemology of religious
experience
Cognitive implications
Social implications
How and what we know in Ramanuja's soteriology
Conclusions

ISBN: 9781138721494

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Advaita
Experience (Religion)
Knowledge, Theory of (Hinduism)

Dewey Class. No.: 294.542 / FOR/K