"Vidyā" and "Avidyā": Simultaneous and Coterminous?—a Holographic Model to Illuminate the Advaita Debate.
The Advaita Vedānta notion of ātman/Brahman presents a serious philosophical challenge to this school—namely, it demands that they explain how all (reality) can be undivided, unchanging, and pure consciousness, yet appear to be everything but nondual, unchanging, and pure consciousness. The Advaita...
| Publicado en: | Philosophy East & West: A Quarterly of Comparative Philosophy Vol. 57; no. 2; pp. 178 - 204 |
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University of Hawai'i
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