The Upaniṣads as they are Bṛhadāraṇyaka, Chāndogya, Aitareya, Taittirīya, Kauṣītaki James D. Ryan

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ryan, James D. (Professor of Asian and comparative studies), author.

Series:

Explorations in Indic traditions: theological, ethical, and philosophical

Explorations in Indic traditions : theological, ethical, and philosophical

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Upanishads--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Upanishads.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York Bloomsbury Academic 2026

Summary:

"This book argues that the early classical Upanisads constitute a “field of wildflowers” of insight that later Vedanta has tried to fashion into a proper garden. These Upanisads (c. 800-300 BCE) are almost always read from the point of view of the later Vedantins, but they do not share in the neatly tailored characteristics of the mature Vedantic philosophies, representing, instead, divergent, variegated and even conflicting narratives. The author focuses on the earliest of these Upanisads: Bṛhadāraṇyaka, Chandogya, Aitareya, Taittiriya and Kauṣītaki Upaniṣads. These Upaniṣads are read “as they are,” emphasizing aspects of these texts that are often completely overlooked, among them: their Vedic approach to contradiction, their frequent acceptance of means other than gnostic knowledge of or veneration ofatman/brahmanas a means for liberation, their positing of entities/realities other thanatmanorbrahmanas totalistic, and their frequent depiction of the human body or embodied human as a microcosm of or in identity with the universe. In course, the interpretations of the Upaniṣadic view, the Vedantic view, for each of these Upaniṣads, of Saṅkarācārya (c. 800 CE) and Ramanujacarya (c. 1100 CE), as primary examples in the range of Upaniṣadic interpreters, will be examined and often refuted"-- Bloomsbury Collections

Contents:

Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad

Chāndogya Upaniṣad

Aitareya Upaniṣad

Taittirīya Upaniṣad

Kauṣītaki Upaniṣad

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from home page (Bloomsbury Collections, viewed May 6, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version Ryan, James D. (Professor of Asian and comparative studies) Upaniṣads as they are

ISBN:

9798765158999

9798765159002

9798765158982

OCLC:

1579267288

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