TY - BOOK AU - Forsthoefel, Thomas A. TI - Knowing beyond knowledge: epistemologies of religious experience in classical and modern Advaita SN - 9781138721494 U1 - 294.542 PY - 2007/// CY - Delhi PB - MBP KW - Advaita KW - Experience (Religion) KW - Knowledge, Theory of (Hinduism) N1 - 1 A brief history of experience Prolegomena Religious experience: historical context Religious experience: contemporary philosophical context Epistemology of religious experience Epistemologies of religious experience in classical and modem Vedanta 2 The epistemology of religious experience in ^ahkara Introduction Internalism and externalism in Sahkara Knowledge and the means of knowledge in Advaita The culture of liberation in Sankara 3 Later Advaita on religious experience Surdsvara, Fadmapada, the Vivekacudamani Suresvara Fadmapada The Vivekacudamani 4 The sage of pure experience: the Advaita of Ramana Maharsi Introduction Ramana Maharei: life and works Ramana's philosophy Revalorizing the culture of liberation 5 The cognitive and social implications of the epistemology of religious experience Cognitive implications Social implications How and what we know in Ramanuja's soteriology Conclusions ER -