Ancient wisdom · Modern inquiry

One living map of
Indian philosophy

Learn, research, explore and visualize five millennia of thought. Choose where to begin — tap a card to see how it works.

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Knowledge Systems
21
Schools
26
Concepts
24
Texts
19
Thinkers
96
Connections
The traditions

Enter through a doorway

The most richly connected knowledge systems. Each opens into an encyclopedic hub of its schools, concepts, texts and thinkers.

Note

Māyā ≠ illusion, but dependent appearance.

Quote

“Brahman is real; the world is an appearance.”

Link

Upaniṣads — primary source

Question

How does Advaita differ from Viśiṣṭādvaita?

Guided learning

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Enroll in a tradition, mark concepts as you learn them, and keep typed notes — thoughts, quotes, links and questions — pinned to any entity or path. Your progress and personal archive build over time.

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AI Research · bring your own key

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Connect Perplexity, Claude or ChatGPT and research any entity in a streaming, multi-turn chat — then save cited answers to your notes.

Researching “Ātman”…
UpaniṣadsBrahma SūtrasGītā
Community Curation

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Suggest new entities and enrichments as you learn. Curators review a queue, refine the graph, and merge duplicates — every contribution is stewarded.

Suggest: “Pratyabhijñā”New concept
Enrich: Sāṃkhya · dateEdit
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Search

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BCE
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CE
Ṛgveda
~1500 BCE
Buddha
~5th c. BCE
Yoga Sūtras
~2nd c. CE
Śaṅkara
~8th c. CE
Chronology

Walk five millennia, era by era

A chronological ribbon of texts and thinkers from the Vedic age to the medieval commentators — filter by tradition and watch ideas unfold across BCE and CE.

Visualize

See the whole tradition as one graph

Pan and zoom through an interactive node-link map of 96 relationships — trace how a concept threads through schools, texts and thinkers.

VedāntaĀtmanŚaṅkaraAdvaitaGītā