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9780140441635: The Upanishads
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ISBN 10: 0140441638 ISBN 13: 9780140441635
Casa editrice: Penguin Classics, 1965

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The Upanishads, 9780140441635

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Juan Mascaro was born in Majorca, and later studied modern and oriental languages, Sanskrit, Pali and English at Cambridge University. He died in 1987, and was lauded as a great translator of our time.

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The Upanishads, the earliest of which were composed in Sanskrit between 800 and 400 bce by sages and poets, form part of the Vedas - the sacred and ancient scriptures that are the basis of the Hindu religion. Each Upanishad, or lesson, takes up a theme ranging from the attainment of spiritual bliss to karma and rebirth, and collectively they are meditations on life, death and immortality. The essence of their teachings is that truth can by reached by faith rather than by thought, and that the spirit of God

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Editore
Penguin Classics
Data di pubblicazione
1965
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0140441638
ISBN 13 
9780140441635
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
144
Redattore
Mascaró Juan
Contatto del produttore
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