These reading sessions are intended for students who have an intermediate knowledge of Sanskrit and are interested in Vedānta texts. This term we will be reading Bhāskara’s commentary on the Brahma-sūtras. Bhāskara was a bhedābheda (‘difference-and-nondifference’) theologian and early critic of Śaṅkara’s Advaita Vedānta whose ideas strongly influenced the early history of Vedānta.