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  1. Is Brahman a Person or a Self? Competing Theories in the Early Upaniṣads.Dimitry Shevchenko - 2019 - Journal of Indian Philosophy 47 (3):507-526.
    In this article, I study the concept of brahman—the exhaustive formulation of truth about the world—in the early Upaniṣads. Based on close reading of two stories appearing in the Bṛhadāraṇyaka, the Kauṣītaki and the Chāndogya Upaniṣads, I reconstruct two competing theories about brahman, namely the “theory of puruṣa ” and the “theory of ātman.” While the theory of puruṣa refers to the creation of human and divine beings as a result of duplication of the anthropomorphic form of the universe, the (...)
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