Āḷāra Kālāma & Uddaka Rāmaputta - what tradition?

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@Gabriel
Thanks for the reply. Since this is not directly related to the OP. Can you post this to below thread?

Buddhism holds the only available information about jhānas(?)

The Buddha explains his journey before the enlightenment in Ariyapariyesanasutta where he explains how he learned from Āḷāra Kālāma and Uddaka Rāmaputta. He learned arūpa jhānas from these two teachers. There are other suttas that mention people who achieved jhānas with paṭhavi, āpo, etc. Currently it appears that there is no other tradition or a religion that explains jhānas and their nature otherthan Buddhism. Eventhough Hinduism and Upanishads discuss about meditation I could not find any di…