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Provides an in-depth analysis of the doctrines of early Advaita Vedanta and Indian Mahayana Buddhism in order to examine the origins of Vedanta.
This book provides an in-depth analysis of the doctrines of early Advaita and Buddhism that has important implications for the question of the relationship between Hindu and Buddhist thought. The author examines the central doctrines of the Gaudapadiya-karikain a series of chapters that discuss early Advaita in relation to the Abhidharma, Madhyamaka, and Yogacara schools of Buddhism. The question of the doctrinal diversity of Indian Buddhism is also discussed through an analysis of the concept of 'Buddha-Nature' and its relationship with Vedantic thought.
"The complex relationship between the Vedantic world of ideas and that of the Mahayana Buddhists has for a long time been either completely ignored by traditionalist Hindu scholars, or summarily paid lip service to by Western scholars as a form of 'crypto-Buddhism.' Therefore, a thoroughgoing and well-documented investigation of each and every major Vedantic work's indebtedness to the Buddhist conceptual framework is of great importance for the understanding of Indian philosophical progress." — F. G. Sutton, Pace University
"King's fine grasp of Mahayana thinking enables him to read the Gaudapadiya-karika with insight and develop his argument with cogency." — John P. Keenan, Middlebury College
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Recent Work on the Gaudapadiya-karika
Outline of the Monograph
1. The Date and Authorship of the Gaudapadiya-karika
The Identity and Date of Gaudapada
Authorship of the Gaudapadiya-karika
The Relationship Between the First and Second PrakaranasThe Gaudapadiya-karika and Bhavaviveka
The Relationship of GK II, III, and IV
The Author of the Fourth Prakarana and Buddhist Scholasticism
Conclusion
2. The Vedantic Heritage of the Gaudapadiya-karika
The Three Foundations (Prasthanatraya) of the Vedanta-Darsana
The Upanisadic Heritage of the Gaudapadiya-karika
Cosmogonic Speculation in the UpanisadsThe Bhagavadgita and the Gaudapadiya-karika
Psychology in the Upanisads
The Four States of Experience
The Mandukya Upanisad
The Brahmasutra
Doctrines of the Brahmasutra3. The Abhidharma Context of Non-Origination (Ajativada)
The Non-Origination Date of Dharmas—Absolutism and the Svaghava Debate in Buddhism
The Sarvastivada Abhidharma
The Nature of Samskrta and Asamskrta Dharmas
The Sautrantika Position: Asamskrta-NairatmyaThe Unique Particularity of Dharmas—A Mahayana Critique
The Non-arising (Anutpada) and Immutability of Dharmas4. Non-Origination in the Gaudapadiya-karika: Early Vedantic Ontology and Madhyamaka Buddhism
Mahayana Buddhism and the Fourth Prakarana of the GK
The Two Truths in the Mahayana Tradition: The Nature of SamvrtiFoundations of Non-Origination: The Paradox of Change
The Two Truths in the Gaudapadiya-karika
Nagarjuna's Refutation of Absolutism (Svabhavavada) and the Gaudapadian ResponseNon-Origination and Emptiness: The Madhyamaka and Advaita Perspectives
Emptiness (Sunyata) and Non-dualism (Advaita)
5. Asparsa-yoga in the Gaudapadiya-karika
Asparsayoga as a Meditative Technique
The Four States of Experience in the Agama-Prakarana (GK I)Asparsayoga as a Description of the Ultimate State
Meditation on the Phoneme OM
The Attainment of Gnosis (Jnana) in the GKAsparsayoga: The Gaudapadian Phenomenology of Perception
Non-contact (Asparsa) and Representation-Only (Vijnapti-matra)The Meaning of the Term 'Asparsayoga'
The Yogacara Phenomenology of Perception
The Non-Veridicality (Vaitathya) of Waking and Dream Experience in the GK
Maya in the Gaudapadiya-karika
6. Gaudapadian Inclusiveness and the Mahayana Buddhist Tradition
The Gaudapadian Conception of Buddhism
The Theory of Non-Conflict (Avirodhavada) in the GK
Inclusivism in the Gaudapadiya-karika7. Absolutism in the BK and the Mahayana: the Tathagatagarbha Texts
The Bhavavivekan Response to the Vedantic Inclucivism of the GK
The Tathagatagarbha Texts
The Systematization of Indian Tathagatagarbha: The Ratnagotravighagasastra
A Question of Hermeneutics: Is There a Mahayana Absolutism?
Tathagatabarbha and Two Types of Emptiness in Tibetan MahayanaThe Gaudapadiya-karika and Tathagatagarbha Buddhism
Conclusions
Appendix: A Running Translation of the Gaudapadiya-karika
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Index of Verses