24. No Two Ways About It: Śaṅkara and Advaita Vedānta

Posted on 3 September 2016

Śaṅkara and his “non-dual” (Advaita) Vedānta, which teaches that only brahman is real, and the world of experience and individual self are mere illusion.

Themes:

Monism

Soul and the Self

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Further Reading

• V.H. Date (trans.), Vedānta Explained: Śaṁkara’s Commentary on the Brahma-Sūtras (Bombay: 1954).

• E. Deutsch and J.A.B. van Buitenen, A Source Book of Advaita Vedānta (Honolulu: 1971).

• B. Carr, “Śaṅkara on Memory and the Continuity of the Self,” Religious Studies 36 (2000), 419-34.

• W. Fasching, “On the Advaitic Identification of Self and Consciousness,”in I. Kuznetsova, J. Ganeri, and C. Ram-Prasad (eds), Hindu and Buddhist Ideas in Dialogue: Self and No-Self (Aldershot: 2012), 165–80.

• N. Isayeva, Shankara and Indian Philosophy (Albany: 1993).

• K.H. Potter (ed.), Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies, vol. III: Advaita Vedānta up to Śaṁkara and his Pupils (Delhi: 1981).

• A. Rambachan, The Advaita Worldview: God, World and Humanity (Albany: 2006).

• J.G. Suthren Hirst, Śaṁkara’s Advaita Vedānta: a Way of Teaching (London: 2005).

• S. Timalsina, Consciousness in Indian Philosophy: the Advaita Doctrine of “Awareness Only” (London: 2009).

• F. Whaling, “Śaṅkara and Buddhism,” Journal of Indian Philosophy 7 (1979), 1-42.

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