... millennia, one derived from early Buddhism and the other from the classical Hindu thought systems of Sāṃkhya and Yoga. According to both theories, meditation is not a single technique but a partly differing collection of many different ones. The final aim of meditation, embedded in a spiritual and moral...

...; it underlines that one should not confine one’s attention to Buddhist philosophical texts. Buddhist philosophy arose in India in constant dialogue with philosophers defending the views of the “orthodox” (Brahmanical) schools, especially Nyāya, Mīmāṃsā, and Sāṃkhya. To gain a much clearer perspective on Buddhist...

... sense in the context of Brahmanical cosmologies. Such a connection is further supported by the testimony of Aśvaghoṣa (c. C2nd), who presents Āḷāra Kālāma as espousing an early form of Sāṃkhya. The chapter argues that Buddhism emerged out of a branch of fifth-century-BCE Brahmanical thought...

... “schools” co emergence Yoga Kapila Sāṃkhya Vaiśeṣika Brahma sūtras Vedānta sūtras Mīmāṃsā sūtras Nyāya Upaniṣads Vedānta Bādarāyaṇa Jaimini Praśastapāda Mīmāṃsā “schools”’ relations idealism Kevalādvaita Vedānta realism Vijñānavāda non absolutism Tattvārtha sūtra Umāsvāti Umāsvāti...

...This article provides an introduction to Sāṃkhya and Yoga, treating them as independent schools of philosophy. The word Sāṃkhya, derived from sāmkhyā (number), has many meanings. It is understood as both right knowledge or correct knowledge as well as enumeration. It is the right...

... Devī women possession by deity Rāmānuja Brading David Datta Krishna līlā Manasā prakṛti Virgin Mary Hindu image the Sāṃkhya paradigm arcā pratimā dharma dharmic beauty aesthetic beauty elite Dalit caste jāti varṇa In Bankimcandra Chatterji’s (1838–1894) famous Bengali novel...

... samavāya Suśruta’s definition of puruṣa loka Sāṃkhya Sāṃkhyans Mokṣadharmaparvan MDhP prakṛti Cakrapāṇi karma viśeṣa ātman Dhātuvibhanga Sutta Hiraṇyākṣa world person Ātreya Punarvasu devas prāṇa breath buddhi intellect ṛṣis sāmānya in early Āyurveda satyā buddhi Aṣṭāṅga Hṛdayam AH...

... is earliest tied to concerns of manhood, virility, and sovereignty. These concerns evolve through the characterization of Kṛṣṇa, the divine and cosmically sovereign Person, whose sovereignty is dictated by the frameworks of Sāṃkhya and yoga. Human persons necessarily relate to Kṛṣṇa’s personhood by means...

..., the mind-body complex, and the world, based on the metaphor of reflection, in the philosophical schools of Sāṃkhya, Yoga, and Advaita-Vedānta. Mirror of Nature, Mirror of Self is the first systematic exploration of mirror models of consciousness across traditions. By grounding...

...) as presented in Sāṃkhya texts, especially the Sāṃkhya-kārikā of Īśvarakṛṣṇa. The chapter contains several interesting criticisms of the satkāryavāda or “doctrine that the effect pre-exists,” the Sāṃkhya theory of causality as the manifestation of pre-existing potentialities...

...The Tattvasaṃgraha of Śāntarakṣita. Charles Goodman, Oxford University Press. © Oxford University Press 2022. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190927349.003.0007 This short chapter offers a Buddhist critique of the soul theory of the Sāṃkhya school of Indian philosophy. This school exerted...

...Among Hindu philosophical schools, Sāṃkhya is well known for its atheism. The Sāṃkhya-sūtra (c.14th cent. ce) is notable as the only Sāṃkhya source text to present positive disproofs of the existence of god (Īśvara). According to this text...

... and symbols, including the cosmic syllable om̐, the principles of Sāṃkhya philosophy and of the Dharma cult, and the Vaiṣṇava doctrine of divine descent (avatāravāda). The chapter argues that this approach, which represents the doctrine of Muhammad’s ancient light as being...

... practice. It provides summary accounts of the metaphysics of two important non-Buddhist systems, Sāṃkhya and Nyāya, that served as important sources of objections to the key Buddhist thesis of non-self. It also contains brief sketches of the major Buddhist schools in India and some of the major figures...

... Siddhānta, and the Sāṁkhya, the notion of a deity with two roles—one as the lower maker of the constituents of sensory experience, the other as a higher maker of pure sonic knowledge—is particularly close to the Śaiva Siddhānta. Nevertheless, in all three systems this entity of magical activity is treated...

...”—the problem of explaining how conscious experience arises. The chapter provides an in-depth reconstruction of Vivekananda’s Sāṃkhya-Vedāntic solution to the hard problem of consciousness and demonstrates its relevance to contemporary philosophical debates. The chapter first outlines Ramakrishna’s mystically...

... Vivekananda into dialogue with the contemporary philosopher of mind Miri Albahari. panentheistic cosmopsychism Vivekananda’s justification of Argument for Panentheistic Cosmopsychism APC “Cosmos The Macrocosm The” lecture Larson Gerald James pre existent effect doctrine satkāryavāda Sāṃkhya conservation...

... Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), a copy of which is available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ . Subject to this license, all rights are reserved. This chapter explores the philosophical traditions of Sāṃkhya and Yoga, which developed a notion...