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HPI 24 - No Two Ways About It - Sankara and Advaita Vedanta

History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China

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No Two Ways About It is the History of Philosophy in India, presented by Janardin Ghanari and Peter Adamson. This week's episode focuses on Shabara and Advaita Vedanta. Shankara believed that reality was an illusion which masks a single underlying reality: Brahman. The two commentators belonged to a single tradition devoted to interpretation of the earlier and later parts of Veda.

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