Vedanta
vedāntaThe end of the Veda; the family of philosophies based on the Upanishads, Brahma Sutras, and Bhagavad Gita, central to modern presentations of Hinduism.
Explained in depth in What is Vedanta?Where this term appears
- The Colonial Encounter and Orientalism History
…rliament of Religions in Chicago and presented a confident, universal Vedanta to the West on Indian terms, declaring his pride in a religion that had taught the world tolerance and the acceptance of all faiths …
- The History of Sanatana Dharma: A Timeline History
The Upanishads, the closing philosophical layer of the Veda, are called Vedānta , the end of the Veda.
- The Reformers: How the Nineteenth Century Remade Hinduism History
In 1816 he published an English translation of a Vedanta digest, and in its introduction he set out his purpose without apology, writing of his wish to free his countrymen from "the inconvenient or, rather, inj…
- Vivekananda in Chicago, 1893 History
…d Hinduism as an ancient world religion with a philosophy of its own, Vedanta , whose own account stands elsewhere on this site, and not the idolatry the missionaries had described.
- Āgama and Veda: two revelations Lineages
The Brahma Sūtra , the root text of Vedānta, joins the prosecution.
- Atman and Brahman Essentials
That claim is the engine of Vedanta , the body of thought built on the closing portions of the Vedas.
- Dharma, Karma and Rebirth Essentials
Those two, together with the Brahma Sutras , make up the prasthana-traya , the threefold foundation that every school of Vedanta sets out to interpret.
- Hinduism and Buddhism: the difference Essentials
In the great schools of Vedanta this Self is either identical with ultimate reality or utterly dependent on it, and to know it truly is to be free.