neo-Vedanta
The modern, reform-era reinterpretation of Vedanta, universalist and partly shaped by Western thought, running from Ram Mohan Roy through Vivekananda.
Where this term appears
- Vivekananda in Chicago, 1893 History
…hers have shown, was a particular modern construction, a universalist neo-Vedanta shaped in part by the reformers before him and by Western thought, not a neutral summary of the vast and plural traditions gathe…
- What is Advaita Vedanta? Philosophy
But scholars of the tradition, Paul Hacker and Wilhelm Halbfass among them, have argued that this modern Vedanta, often called Neo-Vedanta, quietly reframed the classical school.
- What is Vedanta? Philosophy
The German indologist Paul Hacker coined the term Neo-Vedanta for it, and Wilhelm Halbfass, in India and Europe , traced how deeply the modern presentation was shaped by the encounter with the West even as it c…