Question
A metaphor from this text about beads on a necklace is often cited in non-dualist arguments. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this sacred Hindu text that describes 3 forms of “yoga,” or union. J. Robert Oppenheimer conflated time and death when quoting “Now I am become Death” from this text.
ANSWER: Bhagavad Gītā [reject “Bhagavatam”]
[10m] Original-language term required. Another metaphor in the Bhagavad Gītā compares one of these places and a “knower” to Brahman and a realized soul. Arjuna refuses to fight at one of these places named for the Kuru clan.
ANSWER: kshetra [accept kshetrajna; accept Kurukshetra]
[10h] This non-dualist Hindu theologian wrote a commentary of the Bhagavad Gītā promoting Advaita Vedanta. This theologian’s school rivaled the dualist Madhvācārya and the qualified non-dualist Ramanuja.
ANSWER: Adi Shankara [or Ādi Śaṅkara; or Śaṅkarācārya]
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley | 2024-11-16 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Clemson | 2024-11-16 | Y | 8 | 11.25 | 88% | 25% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Clemson | 2024-11-16 | Y | 8 | 12.50 | 25% | 88% | 13% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Lehigh | 2024-11-16 | Y | 9 | 15.56 | 89% | 44% | 22% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern | 2024-11-16 | Y | 9 | 13.33 | 89% | 22% | 22% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State | 2024-11-16 | Y | 8 | 12.50 | 88% | 13% | 25% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Online | 2024-11-16 | Y | 9 | 14.44 | 78% | 56% | 11% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at UBC | 2024-11-16 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Winter at Oxford | 2024-11-16 | Y | 11 | 11.82 | 91% | 18% | 9% |
Data
| Manchester | Bristol A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Oxford A | Cambridge A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Cambridge C | Cambridge B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Durham A | Warwick A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Cambridge D | Imperial B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| LSE A | Imperial A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| LSE B | Durham B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Southampton A | Oxford B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Vanderbilt | Bristol B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Warwick B | Edinburgh | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Birmingham | Southampton B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |