Adi Shankara
Tattvabodha (Knowledge of Truth)
Traditional attribution
Tattvabodha (Knowledge of Truth)
तत्त्वबोध (Tattvabodha)
An introductory prose manual which defines, catechism-style, the basic terms of Vedanta: the four qualifications of the aspirant, the three bodies, the five sheaths, the three states, the creation of the world, karma and liberation in life. It is the first text studied in many present-day Advaita schools.
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Authorship note
Attributed to Shankara by tradition; modern scholarship (Hacker, Mayeda) does not count it among his works of secure authorship. No verified Spanish edition: title translated.
Editions and translations
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English
Adi Shankara
Tattva Bodha of Sankaracharya
The Conscious LibraryTattva Bodha of Sankaracharya
Central Chinmaya Mission Trust, Bombay, 1981
Con notas de los comentarios de Swami Dayananda.
Adi Shankara
Vedanta in Outline: Being a Rendering into English of Shri Shankaracharya's Tattwa Bodha
The Conscious LibraryVedanta in Outline: Being a Rendering into English of Shri Shankaracharya's Tattwa Bodha
Shanti Sadan, Londres, 1952
Translation: Hari Prasad Shastri
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
- Upadeśasāhasrī (A Thousand Teachings)
- 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
- 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
- Open Library, registros de ediciones de las obras menores atribuidas a Śaṅkara (Vākyavṛtti, Dṛg-dṛśya-viveka, Tattvabodha, Śivānandalaharī, Śataślokī, Svātmanirūpaṇa, Sanatsujātīya-bhāṣya…), consultados el 2026-10-25.
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