Neo-Advaita, the Glossary
Neo-Advaita, also called the Satsang-movement is a new religious movement, emphasizing the direct recognition of the non-existence of the "I" or "ego," without the need of preparatory practice.[1]
Table of Contents
52 relations: Advaita Vedanta, Ahamkara, Aldous Huxley, Andrew Cohen (spiritual teacher), Arthur Osborne (writer), Arthur Versluis, Ātman (Hinduism), Bhakti, Brahman, Buddhist modernism, D. T. Suzuki, David Frawley, Eckhart Tolle, Gangaji, H. W. L. Poonja, Hinduism in the West, Jnana yoga, Ken Wilber, Kenshō, Kosha, Legitimation, Moksha, Neo-Vedanta, New Age, New religious movement, Nisargadatta Maharaj, Orientalism, Paul Brunton, Perennial philosophy, Peter L. Berger, Platonism, Plausibility structure, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ramana Maharshi, Religious experience, Samskara (Indian philosophy), Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Self-enquiry (Ramana Maharshi), Sociological classifications of religious movements, Spiritual bypass, Spirituality, Structuralism, Swami Vivekananda, The Doors of Perception, The Perennial Philosophy, Theosophical Society, Transcendentalism, Transpersonal psychology, Vāsanā, Vipassana movement, ... Expand index (2 more) »
- Advaita
Advaita Vedanta
Advaita Vedanta (अद्वैत वेदान्त) is a Hindu tradition of textual exegesis and philosophy and a Hindu sādhanā, a path of spiritual discipline and experience. Neo-Advaita and Advaita Vedanta are Advaita.
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Ahamkara
Ahamkara (Sanskrit: अहंकार; Romanized: Ahaṁkāra), 'I-making' is a Sanskrit term in Saṃkhyā philosophy that refers to the identification of Self or Being with 'Nature' or any impermanent 'thing'.
Aldous Huxley
Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher.
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Andrew Cohen (spiritual teacher)
Andrew Cohen (born October 23, 1955) is an American spiritual teacher.
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Arthur Osborne (writer)
Arthur Osborne (1906 – May 8, 1970) was an English writer on spirituality and mysticism, and an influential disciple and biographer of Ramana Maharshi.
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Arthur Versluis
Arthur Versluis (born 1959) is a professor and Department Chair of Religious Studies in the College of Arts & Letters at Michigan State University.
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Ātman (Hinduism)
Ātman (आत्मन्) is a Sanskrit word for the true or eternal Self or the self-existent essence or impersonal witness-consciousness within each individual.
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Bhakti
Bhakti (भक्ति; Pali: bhatti) is a term common in Indian religions which means attachment, fondness for, devotion to, trust, homage, worship, piety, faith, or love.
Brahman
In Hinduism, Brahman (ब्रह्मन्; IAST: Brahman) connotes the highest universal principle, the Ultimate Reality of the universe.
Buddhist modernism
Buddhist modernism (also referred to as modern Buddhism, modernist Buddhism, and Neo-Buddhism) are new movements based on modern era reinterpretations of Buddhism.
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D. T. Suzuki
, self-rendered in 1894 as "Daisetz", was a Japanese essayist, philosopher, religious scholar, translator, and writer.
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David Frawley
David Frawley (born September 21, 1950), also known as Vamadeva Shastri, is an American Hindu writer, astrologer, acharya (religious teacher), ayurvedic practitioner, and Hindutva activist.
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Eckhart Tolle
Eckhart Tolle (born Ulrich Leonard Tölle, 16 February 1948) is a German-born spiritual teacher and self-help author.
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Gangaji
Gangaji (born Merle Antoinette Roberson in Texas, 1942) is an American Neo-Advaita spiritual teacher and writer.
H. W. L. Poonja
Hariwansh Lal Poonja (born 13 October 1910 (or later) in Punjab, British India – 6 September 1997 in Lucknow, India) was an Indian sage.
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Hinduism in the West
The reception of Hinduism in the Western world began in the 19th century, at first at an academic level of religious studies and antiquarian interest in Sanskrit.
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Jnana yoga
Jnana yoga, also known as the jnana marga, is one of the three classical paths (margas) for moksha (liberation) in Hinduism, which emphasizes the "path of knowledge", also known as the "path of self-realization".
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Ken Wilber
Kenneth Earl Wilber II (born January 31, 1949) is an American theorist and writer on transpersonal psychology and his own integral theory, a four-quadrant grid which purports to encompass all human knowledge and experience.
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Kenshō
Kenshō (Romanji; Japanese and classical Chinese: 見性, Pinyin: jianxing, Sanskrit: dṛṣṭi-svabhāva) is an East Asian Buddhist term from the Chan / Zen tradition which means "seeing" or "perceiving" (見) "nature" or "essence" (性), or 'true face'.
Kosha
A kosha (also kosa; Sanskrit कोश, IAST), usually rendered "sheath", is a covering of the Atman, or Self according to Vedantic philosophy.
Legitimation
Legitimation, legitimization (US), or legitimisation (UK) is the act of providing legitimacy.
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Moksha
Moksha (मोक्ष), also called vimoksha, vimukti, and mukti, is a term in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism for various forms of emancipation, liberation, nirvana, or release.
Neo-Vedanta
Neo-Vedanta, also called Hindu modernism, neo-Hinduism, Global Hinduism and Hindu Universalism, are terms to characterize interpretations of Hinduism that developed in the 19th century. Neo-Advaita and neo-Vedanta are Advaita.
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New Age
New Age is a range of spiritual or religious practices and beliefs which rapidly grew in Western society during the early 1970s. Neo-Advaita and New Age are new religious movements.
New religious movement
A new religious movement (NRM), also known as alternative spirituality or a new religion, is a religious or spiritual group that has modern origins and is peripheral to its society's dominant religious culture. Neo-Advaita and new religious movement are new religious movements.
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Nisargadatta Maharaj
Nisargadatta Maharaj (born Maruti Shivrampant Kambli; 17 April 1897 – 8 September 1981) was an Indian guru of nondualism, belonging to the Inchagiri Sampradaya, a lineage of teachers from the Navnath Sampradaya.
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Orientalism
In art history, literature and cultural studies, orientalism is the imitation or depiction of aspects of the Eastern world (or "Orient") by writers, designers, and artists from the Western world.
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Paul Brunton
Paul Brunton is the pen name of Raphael Hurst (21 October 1898 – 27 July 1981), a British author of spiritual books.
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Perennial philosophy
The perennial philosophy (philosophia perennis), also referred to as perennialism and perennial wisdom, is a school of thought in philosophy and spirituality which posits that the recurrence of common themes across world religions illuminates universal truths about the nature of reality, humanity, ethics, and consciousness.
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Peter L. Berger
Peter Ludwig Berger (17 March 1929 – 27 June 2017) was an Austrian-born American sociologist and Protestant theologian.
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Platonism
Platonism is the philosophy of Plato and philosophical systems closely derived from it, though contemporary Platonists do not necessarily accept all doctrines of Plato.
Plausibility structure
In sociology and especially the sociological study of religion, plausibility structures are the sociocultural contexts for systems of meaning within which these meanings make sense, or are made plausible.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803April 27, 1882), who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.
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Ramana Maharshi
Ramana Maharshi (30 December 1879 – 14 April 1950) was an Indian Hindu sage and jivanmukta (liberated being).
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Religious experience
A religious experience (sometimes known as a spiritual experience, sacred experience, mystical experience) is a subjective experience which is interpreted within a religious framework.
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Samskara (Indian philosophy)
In Indian philosophy and some Indian religions, samskaras or sanskaras (Sanskrit: संस्कार) are mental impressions, recollections, or psychological imprints.
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Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (5 September 188817 April 1975; natively Radhakrishnayya) was an Indian politician, philosopher and statesman who served as the second president of India from 1962 to 1967.
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Self-enquiry (Ramana Maharshi)
Self-enquiry, also spelled self-inquiry (Sanskrit vichara, also called jnana-vichara or), is the constant attention to the inner awareness of "I" or "I am" recommended by Ramana Maharshi as the most efficient and direct way of discovering the unreality of the "I"-thought. Neo-Advaita and self-enquiry (Ramana Maharshi) are Advaita.
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Sociological classifications of religious movements
Various sociological classifications of religious movements have been proposed by scholars.
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Spiritual bypass
Spiritual bypass or spiritual bypassing is a "tendency to use spiritual ideas and practices to sidestep or avoid facing unresolved emotional issues, psychological wounds, and unfinished developmental tasks".
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Spirituality
The meaning of spirituality has developed and expanded over time, and various meanings can be found alongside each other.
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Structuralism
Structuralism is an intellectual current and methodological approach, primarily in the social sciences, that interprets elements of human culture by way of their relationship to a broader system.
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Swami Vivekananda
Swami Vivekananda (IAST: Svāmī Vivekānanda; 12 January 1863 – 4 July 1902), born Narendranath Datta, was an Indian Hindu monk, philosopher, author, religious teacher, and the chief disciple of the Indian mystic Ramakrishna.
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The Doors of Perception
The Doors of Perception is an autobiographical book written by Aldous Huxley.
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The Perennial Philosophy
The Perennial Philosophy is a comparative study of mysticism by the British writer and novelist Aldous Huxley.
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Theosophical Society
The Theosophical Society is the organizational body of Theosophy, an esoteric new religious movement.
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Transcendentalism
Transcendentalism is a philosophical, spiritual, and literary movement that developed in the late 1820s and 1830s in the New England region of the United States.
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Transpersonal psychology
Transpersonal psychology, or spiritual psychology, is an area of psychology that seeks to integrate the spiritual and transcendent aspects of the human experience within the framework of modern psychology.
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Vāsanā
Vāsanā (Sanskrit; Devanagari: वासना) is a behavioural tendency or karmic imprint which influences the present behaviour of a person.
Vipassana movement
The Vipassanā movement, also called (in the United States) the Insight Meditation Movement and American Vipassana movement, refers to a branch of modern Burmese Theravāda Buddhism that promotes "bare insight" (sukha-Vipassana) to attain stream entry and preserve the Buddhist teachings, which gained widespread popularity since the 1950s, and to its western derivatives which have been popularised since the 1970s, giving rise to the more dhyana-oriented mindfulness movement.
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Vritti
Vritti (Vrutti) (Sanskrit: वृत्ति, Harvard-Kyoto: vṛtti, Gujarati: વૃત્તિ), means "streams of consciousness", it is also a technical term used in yoga with five specifically defined "movements of thought" which can both help or hinder us; cf.
Zen
Zen (Japanese; from Chinese "Chán"; in Korean: Sŏn, and Vietnamese: Thiền) is a school of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China during the Tang dynasty as the Chan School (禪宗, chánzōng, "meditation school") or the Buddha-mind school (佛心宗, fóxīnzōng), and later developed into various sub-schools and branches.
See also
Advaita
- Advaita Bodha Deepika
- Advaita Vedanta
- Dasbodh
- Inchagiri Sampradaya
- Inchegeri Sampradaya
- Mokshopaya
- Neo-Advaita
- Neo-Vedanta
- Sahaja
- Self-enquiry (Ramana Maharshi)
- Shiva Advaita
- Shuddhadvaita
- Vijñāna
- Yoga Vasistha
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Advaita
Also known as Neo Advaita, Neoadvaita, Nonduality (Neo-Advaita), Satsang movement, Satsanga movement, Satsaṅga movement.