The secret Sankara : on multivocality and truth in Sankara's teaching / / by Yohanan Grinshpon.

• Author: Grinshpon, Yohanan, 1948-
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Jerusalem studies in religion and culture ; v. 12; Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture 12.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 174 pages)

Sankaracharya of the 8th century A.D is considered the greatest philosopher of India up to this day. his teaching of the one and only self has become the most prestigeous expression of the Hindu spirit. Sankara is the author of the Brahmasutrabhasya, the most important text of the school known as Advaita-Vedanta. Sankara teaches of the self by dialogues between a winning exponent and a losing opponent. Up to this day, Sankara's teaching has been invariably identified with the exponent's doctrines. In this book a distinction between the invisible authon and his alleged exponent is offered. Sankara the author is a new intellectual hero different from his exponent. Thus, due to the aforementioned distinction, a new philosophy and theory of freedom emerges, the teaching of Sankara, the author distinguished from his apparent exponent.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Chapter One On the Challenge of Listening to Śaṅkara’s Voices: Dialogue and Monologue in Śaṅkara’s Writing -- Chapter Two On Doubt and Wonder in Advaita-Vedānta: Towards Perceiving a Śaṅkara and a Śaṅkarācārya -- Chapter Three Ātman Disturbed: Self and Mind as its Other in the Upadeśa-sāhasrī -- Chapter Four Individual Losses and Advaitic Consciousness: A Note on Īśvara’s, Śaṅkara’s and Śaṅkarācārya’s Sorrow -- Chapter Five On Doubt and Self-Understanding: The Omniscience of an Author and his Arch-Exponent -- Chapter Six Śaṅkara’s Śaṅkarācārya: The Invisible Author of BSBh and his Beloved Siddhāntin -- Chapter Seven On Rice and Mokṣa: A Note on Śaṅkara’s Voices and Aesthetics -- Chapter Eight On Mud, Negation and the Hungry Space -- Chapter Nine Advaita Messages and Foreign Voices: Some Philosophical Meanings of Śaṅkara’s Art of Writing -- Chapter Ten Commentator’s Advaita, Exponent’s Advaita -- Epilogue The Useless Knowledge of Self as the Highest Good: A Note on Śaṅkara’s Secret Teaching of Viveka-Vedānta -- Bibliography -- Index.