Who are the three most important eastern philosophers?
Eastern philosophy
Sāmkhya is a dualist philosophical tradition based on the Samkhyakarika (c. 320–540 CE),[41] while the Yoga school was a closely related tradition emphasizing meditation and liberation whose major text is the Yoga sutras (c. 400 CE).[42] Elements of proto-Samkhya ideas can however be traced back all the way to the period of the early Upanishads.[43] One of the main differences between the two closely related schools was that Yoga allowed for the existence of a God, while most Sāmkhya thinkers criticized this idea.[44]