Upanishads

On July 2, 2022, the India-based YouTubechannel «Cārvāka Lokāyata» had a 1.5 hours conversation with the global historian of ideas Dag Herbjørnsrud on the more than 2700-year-old Indian tradition of atheism and skepticism, known as Lokayata or Carvaka. The session covered the period from the Harappa culture (ca. 2600-1800 BCE) via the Rigveda, the Upanishads, Ramayana, Mahabaratha, the grammar scholar Panini, the scientist Aryabhata (ca. 500), the philosopher Jayarasai (ca. […]