Indian philosophy

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cultural heritage intellectual tradition philosophical tradition

Indian philosophy is the diverse and ancient tradition of philosophical thought that developed on the Indian subcontinent, encompassing schools such as Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, and materialist systems, and addressing questions of reality, knowledge, ethics, and liberation.

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Observed surface forms (3)

Surface form	Occurrences
Hindu philosophy	1
Indian Philosophy	1
Indian social thought	1

Statements (68)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	cultural heritage ⓘ intellectual tradition ⓘ philosophical tradition ⓘ
centralConcern	liberation (moksha) ⓘ nature of reality ⓘ nature of self ⓘ valid means of knowledge (pramāṇa) ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	India ⓘ
hasAspect	epistemology ⓘ ethics ⓘ logic ⓘ metaphysics ⓘ philosophy of language ⓘ philosophy of mind ⓘ soteriology ⓘ
hasConcept	Brahman ⓘ anekāntavāda ⓘ anātman ⓘ dharma ⓘ karma ⓘ moksha ⓘ nirvāṇa ⓘ pramāṇa ⓘ pramāṇa theory ⓘ saṃsāra ⓘ Jainism ⓘ surface form: syādvāda ātman ⓘ
hasHistoricalDepth	ancient ⓘ
hasLanguageOfExpression	Pali ⓘ Prakrit ⓘ Sanskrit ⓘ
hasTextualSource	Bhagavad Gita ⓘ surface form: Bhagavad Gītā Brahma Sutras ⓘ surface form: Brahma Sūtras Tripitaka ⓘ surface form: Buddhist Nikāyas Jain literature ⓘ surface form: Jain Āgamas Mimamsa ⓘ surface form: Mīmāṃsā Sūtra Nyaya Sutras ⓘ surface form: Nyāya Sūtra Samkhyakarika ⓘ surface form: Sāṃkhya Kārikā Upanishads ⓘ surface form: Upaniṣads Yoga Sūtra ⓘ
includesSchool	Advaita Vedanta ⓘ surface form: Advaita Vedānta Buddhist philosophy ⓘ Cārvāka ⓘ Dvaita ⓘ surface form: Dvaita Vedānta Hindu philosophy ⓘ Jain anekāntavāda tradition ⓘ Jain philosophy ⓘ Cārvāka ⓘ surface form: Lokāyata Madhyamaka ⓘ Mimamsa ⓘ surface form: Mīmāṃsā Nyaya ⓘ surface form: Nyāya Samkhya ⓘ surface form: Sāṃkhya Vaisheshika ⓘ surface form: Vaiśeṣika Vedanta ⓘ surface form: Vedānta Vishishtadvaita ⓘ surface form: Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta Classical Yoga ⓘ surface form: Yoga Mahayana ⓘ surface form: Yogācāra materialist philosophy ⓘ
influenced	Buddhist philosophy in East Asia ⓘ Southeast Asian philosophy ⓘ Sri Lankan philosophy ⓘ Tibetan philosophy ⓘ modern Western philosophy ⓘ
region	South Asia ⓘ surface form: Indian subcontinent
timePeriod	Vedic period ⓘ classical period ⓘ medieval period ⓘ modern period ⓘ

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Dharma Chakra → associatedWithConcept → Indian philosophy ⓘ

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan → fieldOfWork → Indian philosophy ⓘ

law of karma → hasDomain → Indian philosophy ⓘ

Jainism → influenced → Indian philosophy ⓘ

Vedic period → influenced → Indian philosophy ⓘ

law of karma → influences → Indian philosophy ⓘ

this entity surface form: Indian social thought

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan → notableWork → Indian philosophy ⓘ

this entity surface form: Indian Philosophy

Nyaya → partOf → Indian philosophy ⓘ

this entity surface form: Hindu philosophy