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1. David Tracy and I edited this collection of essays that was published by SUNY Press in 1990. |
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2. For Myth and Philosophy see ibid. Mencius and Aquinas, written by Lee H. Yearley, was published as Volume II (SUNY, 1991). Discourse and Practice,which is another collection of essays that I edited with David Tracy, was published as Volume III (SUNY, 1992). |
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3. For Clooney's fullest statement on the earlier Mimamsa tradition see Thinking Ritually: Recovering the Purva Mimamsa of Jaimini (Vienna: Indological Institute of the University of Vienna, 1990). |
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Chapter 1.
Comparative Theology And The Practice Of Advaita Vedanta |
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1. My usage throughout is as follows: "Vedanta" refers to the thinking of the upanisads, and to this thought as it is received and systematized by thinkers in the various schools gathered under the name "Vedanta." "Advaita" indicates the "non-dualist" school of Vedanta, of which Sankara is the most famous teacher. In a second usage, which will be clear in context, ''Vedanta" refers to the Advaita insofar as it achieves the contours of a philosophical or systematic theological system, in which case it will be contrasted with Advaita as "Uttara Mimamsa," that extended and revised version of Mimamsa ritual thinking in which exegesis and commentary remain the primary vehicles of thought. For reasons that become clear in this chapter, I prefer to use "theol- |
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