Approaches to the Oriental ClassicsWilliam Theodore De Bary Columbia University Press, 1959 - 262 pages |
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Page 85
... Upanishads need no commentary . They stand on their own merits as wisdom and as poetry . The way to approach them is to read them , not read about them . To read the Upanishads with Shankara's commentary is like reading the Book of ...
... Upanishads need no commentary . They stand on their own merits as wisdom and as poetry . The way to approach them is to read them , not read about them . To read the Upanishads with Shankara's commentary is like reading the Book of ...
Page 88
... UPANISHADS AS REVELATION This speculative attempt to consider the Upanishads in historical perspective is not , to be sure , the way in which Hindus look at them . For Hindus the Upanishads are revealed scripture , what they call shruti ...
... UPANISHADS AS REVELATION This speculative attempt to consider the Upanishads in historical perspective is not , to be sure , the way in which Hindus look at them . For Hindus the Upanishads are revealed scripture , what they call shruti ...
Page 93
... Upanishad , which has only twelve verses itself . Karmarkar , a translator of Gaudapada , argues that it is not really part of the Upanishad , because Gaudapada was a man , while the revealed Upanishads have no human authors ...
... Upanishad , which has only twelve verses itself . Karmarkar , a translator of Gaudapada , argues that it is not really part of the Upanishad , because Gaudapada was a man , while the revealed Upanishads have no human authors ...
Contents
Opening Remarks by Jacques Barzun THE TEACHING OF | 3 |
Great BooksEast and West by Mark Van Doren | 7 |
Education in a Multicultural World by Thomas Berry 24 On Exploiting the Greek Analogy by Moses Hadas | 24 |
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