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Upanishads

Upanishads

textual humanities text corpus core Lifetime Path planned

Creators

  • Vedic and early Hindu philosophical traditions, textual traditions

Canon Rationale

A central philosophical and religious corpus, included for self, Brahman, liberation, Vedanta, comparative philosophy, and the long intellectual history of Hindu traditions.

Path

Lifetime path, phase 1, rank 11.

Evidence

  • handbook: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 'Upanishad'.
  • field survey: World History Encyclopedia, 'Upanishads,' by Joshua J. Mark.

Audit Flags

translation dependency, version dependency

Sensitivity Flags

living tradition

Completion unit: read a defined selection of principal Upanishads in translation, with the selected texts and edition tracked.

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