zankara & parmenides?

David Dargie dargie at CLTR.UQ.EDU.AU
Fri Oct 17 01:06:47 UTC 1997


>I believe it is in Deussen's "System of Vedanta" that he has an appendix
>which goes into this in some detail.  If someone else could furnish the
>citation--I don't have it here at my office--it is the very small thin
>Deussen Vedanta book.  In this appendix he goes so far as to liken
>Zankara's teachings to "the perfection" achieved in the Sermon on the
>Mount of the New Testament (Book of Matthew?).
>
>Keep me/list posted as this is a most interesting topic.  C. Rhys-Davids
>has a note that "Deussen was a staunch Parminidean, and admitted as much
>to me himself"

The work "The System of the Vedanta" is a fairly weighty 500page work, and I
will go and chack its contents.  Perhaps the thin work to which Gardener
refers is the following reference:

 TITLE        Erinnerungen an Indian,mit einer Karte, 16 Abbildungen und einem
                Anhange:On the philosophy of the Vedanta in its relations to
                occidental metaphysics. / Kiel,Lipsius & Tischer,1904 map,pls.
 AUTHOR       Deussen, Paul, 1845-1919.
 AUTHOR       Deussen, Paul, 1845-1919. On the philosophy of the Vedanta.
 SUBJECT      Vedanta.
              India -- Description and travel.
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Regards

David Dargie

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