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ISBN-10: 0140447490
ISBN-13: 9780140447491
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Publish Date: 01/29/2004
Dimensions: 8.02" L, 4.90" W, 1.05" H

The Upanishads (Rev)

Editor: Valerie J Roebuck

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Overview

An ‘Upanisad’ is a teaching session with a guru and these thirteen texts the ‘Principal Upanisads’ form a series of philosophical discourses between teacher and student that question the inner meaning of the world. Composed from around the eighth century BCE the Upanisads have been central to the development of Hinduism and explore the central doctrines of rebirth karma overcoming death and achieving detachment equilibrium and spiritual bliss. Speaking to the reader in direct unadorned prose or lucid verse they embody humanity’s perennial search for truth and knowledge.

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ISBN-10: 0140447490
ISBN-13: 9780140447491
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Publish Date: 01/29/2004
Dimensions: 8.02" L, 4.90" W, 1.05" H
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