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
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Advaita Experience (Religion) Knowledge, Theory of (Hinduism)