梵经注

简介

The Brahma Sutras, attributed to Badarayana, condense the teaching of the Upanishads into roughly 550 aphorisms in four chapters, so terse that they can hardly be read without a commentary. Shankara’s is the oldest commentary on them that survives in full. Its introduction explains ignorance as “superimposition” (adhyasa): the self and what is not the self are confused, as when a rope is taken for a snake. The second chapter refutes rival schools, among them Samkhya, the atomism of Vaisheshika, the Buddhist schools and the Jains. Sub-commentaries such as Vachaspati Mishra’s “Bhamati” built on it, and it became the reference text of Advaita Vedanta.

联系

承接了

• 广林奥义书约公元前700年年 · 耶若伏吉耶

批评了

• 中论（Mulamadhyamakakarika）约200年 · 龙树
• 唯识二十论（Vimsatika）约380年 · 世亲

被承接于

• 生活的理想主义观1932 · 萨瓦帕利·拉达克里希南

被批评于

• 室利注（Shri Bhashya）约1100年 · 罗摩奴阇
• 梵经注疏（Brahma Sutra Bhashya）约1285年 · 摩陀婆
• 神圣人生（The Life Divine）1940 · 室利·阿罗频多