Author: Sengaku Mayeda
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 635
ISBN/UPC (if available): 9788120827707
Description
Sankara, the eighth-century Indian philosopher, is generally regarded as the greatest thinker in the long history of Indian philosophy as well as in the metaphysical tradition known as Vedanta. Advaita Vedanta, the school or system founded by him, stresses the Advaita or non-dualist approach to the problem of existence and ultimate reality, and has been the main current of thought in India for hundreds of years.
Most of Sankara's works are commentaries on other classics of Indian thought, like Upanisads, the Bhagavadgita, and the Brahmasutra. The Upadesasahasri, or "A Thousand Teachings," here critically edited and translated into English, is, however, the only independent and non-commentary work that can safely be attributed to him; the other independent writings traditionally ascribed to him are all probably spurious.
Here Sengaku Mayeda, the author, has provided scholars and general readers with a critical edition based on the study of 27 metrical and 11 prose manuscripts and with an exact and readable English translation based on his definitive edition of the work along with his extensive introduction to the work. With his clear and reliable translation and elaborate introduction to Sankara's life and thought, he has made this classic of Indian philosophy accessible to a wider readership.
Contents
Volume I:
Foreword by
W. NORMAN BROWN
Foreword by
HAJIME NAKAMURA
Preface
Abbreviations
INTRODUCTION
General account of the Manuscripts
Classification and List of the Manuscripts
Interrelations of the Manuscripts
Printed Editions
Authorship
Formation of the Text
THE UPADESASAHASRI
I. Padyabandha (Metrical part)
Caianyaprakarana
Pratisedhaprakarana
Isvaraprakarana
Ahampratyayaprakarana
Mutrasankaprakarana
Chittvaprakarana
Buddhyarudhaprakarana
Citisvarupaprakarana
Suksmataprakarana
Drsiprakarana
Iksitrtvaprakarana
Prakasasthaprakarana
Acaksustvaprakarana
Svapnasmrtiprakarana
Nanyadanyatprakarana
Parthivaprakarana
Samyanmatiprakarana
Tattvamasiprakarana
Jvaranasaprakarana
II. Gadyabandha (Prose part)
Sisyapratibodhana (vidhi) prakarana
Avagatiprakarana
Parisamkhyanaprakarana
Critical Apparatus
Index of quotations in the Upadesasahasri
Index of Words in the Upadesasahasri
Volume II:
Foreword by
JOHN M. KOLLER
Preface
Abbreviations
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE
LIFE AND THOUGHT OF SANKARA
I. The Life and Works of Sankara
II. Sankara’s Central Doctrine and His Position in
The History of the Vedanta
III. Atman’s Identity with Brahman
A. Theological and Cosmological Approach
B. Psychological and Epistemological Approach
C. Exegetical Approach
IV. Transmigration and Final Release
A. Transmigration
B. Final Release
C. Transmigrator
D. Avidya
E. The means to Final Release
F. Sankara’s View of Ethics
A THOUSAND TEACHINGS
(TRANSLATION AND NOTES)
I. Material Part (Padyabandha)
1. Pure Consciousness
2. The Quality of Being the Beholder
II. Prose Part (Gadyabandha)
INDEX