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- proper noun Hinduism One of the six
schools of classicalIndian philosophy .
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Something very similar could be done with the Hindu traditions of Samkhya, classical Advaita Vedanta, and Kashmiri Shaivism.
Archive 2009-06-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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Something very similar could be done with the Hindu traditions of Samkhya, classical Advaita Vedanta, and Kashmiri Shaivism.
Kelamuni unimpressed by Sri Aurobindo Tusar N Mohapatra 2009
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Samkhya memberikan uraian teori tentang seorang karmin dan jnanin, menjadi 24 tattwas (komponen penciptaan alam semesta) yang terdiri dari purusa, prakerti, mahat, budhi, manah, ahamkara.
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Such an assertion then easily degenerates into the non-Buddhist Indian Samkhya position of the cause being the same as the unmanifest result.
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If Samkhya is atheistic and Classical Yoga is Deist, Vedanta is theistic by any definition of theterm.
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Samkhya provides a description of the theory karmin and jnanin, a 24 tattwas (component creation of the universe), which consists of purusa, prakerti, mahat, Budhi, manah, ahamkara.
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A long long time ago Samkhya and Yoga ceased to exist as seperate ideologies even though they are still numbered amongst the traditional astika 6.
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Just as Samkhya asserts 25 classes of phenomena of knowable phenomena, Vaisheshika asserts six types of entities (tshig-gi don, Skt. padartha), with a seventh, negation phenomena, added later.
Basic Tenets of the Nyaya and Vaisheshika Schools of Indian Philosophy 2008
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The Samkhya (grangs-can-pa) school of Indian philosophy traces itself from the ancient sage Kapila (Drang-srong Ser-skya), author of The Numbered Items Sutra (Samkhya Sutra).
Basic Tenets of the Samkhya and Yoga Schools of Indian Philosophy 2008
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The earliest Samkhya text to appear, however, was Verses on the Numbered Items (Skt. Samkhya Karika), by Ishvarakrshna, in the fifth century CE.
Basic Tenets of the Samkhya and Yoga Schools of Indian Philosophy 2008
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