Eastern Pantheistic Monism
A constructed category, named by James Sire in 1976 for the monist position drawn from Advaita Vedanta, some Buddhist schools, and their Western syntheses; no tradition calls itself by this name.
World Views
Eastern Pantheistic Monism
Eastern pantheistic monism is a family of teachings holding that all reality is one divine whole; the separate self is an illusion, and awakening to oneness is salvation.
History of Worldviews
- Wilkins translates the Bhagavad Gita; 1785
- Schlegel's On the Language and Wisdom of the Indians; 1808
- Blavatsky's Isis Unveiled; 1877
- The Sacred Books of the East begins; 1879
- Annie Besant joins the Theosophical Society; 1889
- Ramana Maharshi's self-inquiry at Tiruvannamalai; 1901
- Aurobindo's The Life Divine; 1939
- Huxley's The Perennial Philosophy; 1945
- Watts's The Way of Zen; 1957
- Capra's The Tao of Physics; 1975
- Bharati's The Light at the Center weighs neo-Vedanta; 1976
- Sire's The Universe Next Door names the category; 1976