Gaudapada (English spelling)

Japanese: ガウダパーダ - がうだぱーだ(英語表記)Gauapāda
Gaudapada (English spelling)

A philosopher belonging to the Indian Vedanta school. One of his students was Govinda, who in turn was a disciple of Shankara, the founder of the most influential non-dual monist school in the school. Gaudapada's Mandukya Sutra is important in that it is the first surviving independent work to preach non-dual monism (the theory that only the one non-dual real Brahman-Atman is true, and that the phenomenal world is a falsehood that does not exist). The later chapters of this book are more clearly influenced by Mahayana Buddhism, and the final chapter 4 is very similar to the theory of the Yogacara school. The annotations of the Samkhya Sutra are attributed to him, but there is no consensus on the similarities and differences between the two.

[Shima Iwa May 21, 2018]

[References] | Shankara | Advaita Buddhism | Vedanta

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

インドのベーダーンタ学派に属する哲学者。弟子にゴービンダGovindaがおり、さらにその弟子に、同学派中もっとも有力な不二一元論(ふにいちげんろん)派の開祖シャンカラがいる。ガウダパーダの編纂(へんさん)した『マーンドゥーキヤ頌(じゅ)』は、現存する独立の著作のなかで初めて不二一元論(唯一不二の実在ブラフマン・アートマンのみが真実であり、現象世界は実在しない虚妄であるという説)が説かれている点で重要である。本書は、後ろの章ほど大乗仏教の影響が顕著であり、最後の第4章は唯識(ゆいしき)学派の説に酷似している。なお、『サーンキヤ頌』の注釈が彼に帰せられているが、両者の同異については定説がない。

[島 岩 2018年5月21日]

[参照項目] | シャンカラ | 不二一元論派 | ベーダーンタ学派

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