sankhya (sāṃkhya)

(Language: Sanskrit)

Alternate Spellings: samkhya

Short Description: Literally, “enumeration, calculation;” Hindu cosmological teaching in which nature is understood to result from the union of puruṣa (spirit) and prakṛti (matter)

Long Description: Literally, “enumeration, calculation;” Hindu cosmological teaching in which nature is understood to result from the union of puruṣa (spirit) and prakṛti (matter); one of the six orthodox darśanas, or perspectives, of classical Hinduism.

Sources: The Laughing Buddha of Tofukuji: The Life of Zen Master Keido Fukushima , by Ishwar C. Harris