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Upadeśasāhasrī (A Thousand Teachings)
उपदेशसाहस्री (Upadeśasāhasrī)
A treatise in two parts, one in prose (three chapters on how to teach a pupil) and one in verse (nineteen chapters). It is the only book by Śaṅkara that does not comment on another, and the best way to know his teaching method: the teacher leads the pupil through questions to discriminate between the conscious witness and what is observed. Sengaku Mayeda published its critical edition and the standard translation.
Authorship note
The only independent work whose authenticity has been demonstrated: Mayeda (1965) verified it with Hacker's criteria.
Editions and translations
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English
Adi Shankara
Upadesha Sahasri of Sri Shankaracharya
The Conscious LibraryUpadesha Sahasri of Sri Shankaracharya
Ramakrishna Math (Chennai)
Translation: Swami Nikhilananda
A Thousand Teachings: The Upadeśasāhasrī of Śaṅkara
State University of New York Press, 1992
Translation: Sengaku Mayeda
ISBN 0791409449
Primera edición Tokio, University of Tokyo Press, 1979 (ISBN 0860082423); reed. Motilal Banarsidass 2006 (ISBN 9788120827714)
Adi Shankara
Upadesa Sahasri: A Thousand Teachings
The Conscious LibraryUpadesa Sahasri: A Thousand Teachings
Sri Ramakrishna Math, 1949
Translation: Swami Jagadananda
Other works by Adi Shankara
- Commentary on the Brahmasūtras · 800
- Commentary on the Bhagavadgītā · 800
- Commentaries on the principal Upaniṣads
- Commentary on the Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad
- Commentary on the Chāndogya Upaniṣad
- Commentary on the Māṇḍūkya Upaniṣad and Gauḍapāda's Kārikā
- Vivekacūḍāmaṇi (The Crest-Jewel of Discrimination)
- Ātmabodha (Self-Knowledge)
- Aparokṣānubhūti (Direct Experience)
- Bhaja Govindam (Mohamudgara)
- Nirvāṇaṣaṭkam (Six Verses on Nirvāṇa)
- Saundaryalaharī (Flood of Beauty)
- Hymn to Dakṣiṇāmūrti
- Sub-commentary on the Yogasūtras
- Commentary on the Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad
- Commentary on the Viṣṇusahasranāma
- Pañcīkaraṇa (The Quintuplication of the Elements)
- Vākyavṛtti (Exposition of the Great Saying)
- Method of Teaching Self-Knowledge
- Laghuvākyavṛtti (Short Exposition of the Great Saying)
- Discrimination between the Seer and the Seen
- Tattvabodha (Knowledge of Truth)
- Śataślokī (A Hundred Verses)
- Svātmanirūpaṇa (Definition of One's Own Self)
- Śivānandalaharī (Wave of Śiva's Bliss)
- Sādhana Pañcakam (Five Verses on Practice)
- Commentary on the Sanatsujātīya
- Prapañcasāra Tantra (The Essence of Manifestation)
- Daśaślokī (Ten Verses)
- Kanakadhārā Stotra (Hymn of the Golden Shower)
- Commentary on the Nṛsiṃhapūrvatāpanī Upaniṣad
- Commentary on the Lalitātriśatī (The Three Hundred Names of Lalitā)
- Prabodhasudhākara (Moon of the Nectar of Awakening)
Sources
- Mayeda, Sengaku (trad. y ed.). A Thousand Teachings: The Upadeśasāhasrī of Śaṅkara. Tokio: University of Tokyo Press, 1979; Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992. ISBN 0791409449.
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