The Upanishads - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140447490 ISBN 13 : 9780140447491

Editeur : Penguin Classics, 2004

Synopsis

An 'Upanisad' is a teaching session with a guru, and these thirteen texts, the 'Principal Upanisads', form a series of philosophical discourses between teacher and student that question the inner meaning of the world. Composed from around the eighth century BCE, the Upanisads have been central to the development of Hinduism, and explore the central doctrines of rebirth, karma, overcoming death, and achieving detachment, equilibrium and spiritual bliss. Speaking to the reader in direct, unadorned prose or lucid verse, they embody humanity's perennial search for truth and knowledge.

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Valerie Roebuck is a Buddhist, practising and teaching meditation in the Samatha tradition. She is currently the Honorary Secretary of Manchester Interfaith Forum and an Honorary Research Associate of the University of Mancheste and author of The Circle of Stars: An Introduction to Indian Astrology (Element Books, 1992).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Classics
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0140447490
• ISBN 13: 9780140447491
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 592
• Éditeur: Roebuck Valerie J.
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