Abbreviations

Note that ‘Bh’ is appended to the other abbreviations to indicate Śaṅkara’s commentary on that work (e.g., ‘TaiUBh’). The numbers following an abbreviation (e.g., "TaiU 2.1.1") indicate the chapter, section, and verse.

Śaṅkara’s Texts in English Translation

• Gambhirananda, Swami, 1992, Chāndogya Upaniṣad With the Commentary of Śaṅkarācārya, Calcutta: Advaita Ashram. (Scholar)
• –––, 1992, Eight Upaniṣads: With the Commentary of Śānkarācārya, 2 volumes, Calcutta: Advaita Ashram. (Scholar)
• –––, 1995, Bhagavadgītā with the Commentary of Śaṅkarācārya, Calcutta: Advaita Ashram. (Scholar)
• –––, 1996, Brahmasūtrabhāṣya of Śrī Śaṅkarāchārya, Calcutta: Advaita Ashram. (Scholar)
• Madhavananda, Swami, 1993, The Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad: with the Commentary of Śaṅkarācārya, Calcutta: Advaita Ashrama. (Scholar)
• Mayeda, Sengaku, 1992, A Thousand Teachings: The Upadeśasāhasrī of Śaṅkara, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
• Nikhilananda, Swami, 2000, The Māṇḍūkya Upaniṣad with Gauḍapāda’s Kārikā and Śaṅkara’s Commentary, Calcutta: Advaita Ashrama. (Scholar)

Secondary Literature

• Albahari, Miri, 2009, “Witness-Consciousness: Its Definition, Appearance, and Reality”, Journal of Consciousness Studies, 16(1) 62–84. (Scholar)
• –––, 2019, “Beyond Cosmopsychism and the Great I Am: How the World Might be Grounded in Universal ‘Advaitic’ Consciousness”, in The Routledge Handbook of Panpsychism, William Seager (ed.), New York: Routledge, pp. 119–130. (Scholar)
• Bader, Jonathan, 1990, Meditation in Śaṅkara’s Vedānta, New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. (Scholar)
• –––, 2000, Conquest of the Four Quarters: Traditional Accounts of the Life of Śaṅkara, New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. (Scholar)
• Bartley, C.J., 2002, The Theology of Rāmānuja: Realism and Religion, London: Routledge Curzon. doi:10.4324/9781315028828 (Scholar)
• Cardona, George, 1981, “On Reasoning from Anvaya and Vyatireka in Early Advaita”, in D. Malvania and N. J. Shah (eds.), Studies in Indian Philosophy. A Memorial Volume in Honour of Pandit Sukhlaji Sanghavi, Ahmedabad: L. D. Institute of Indology, pp. 79–104. (Scholar)
• Cenkner, William, 1983, A Tradition of Teachers: Śaṅkara and the Jagadgurus Today, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers. (Scholar)
• Clark, Matthew, 2006, The Daśanāmī-Saṃnyāsīs: The Integration of Ascetic Lineages into an Order, Leiden: Brill. doi:10.1163/9789047410027 (Scholar)
• Comans, Michael, 1990, “The Self in Deep Sleep According to Advaita and Viśiṣṭādvaita”, Journal of Indian Philosophy, 18(1): 1–28. doi:10.1007/bf00222690 (Scholar)
• –––, 1996, “Śaṅkara and the Prasaṅkhyānavāda”, Journal of Indian Philosophy, 24(1): 49–71. doi:10.1007/bf00219276 (Scholar)
• –––, 2000, The Method of Early Advaita Vedānta: A Study of Gauḍapāda, Śaṅkara, Surśvara and Padmapāda, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers. (Scholar)
• Dalal, Neil, 2016, “Contemplative Grammars: Śaṅkara’s Distinction of Upāsana and Nididhyāsana”, Journal of Indian Philosophy, 44(1): 179–206. doi:10.1007/s10781-014-9258-z (Scholar)
• –––, 2020, “Contemplating Nonduality: The Method of Nididhyāsana in Śaṅkara’s Advaita Vedānta”, in Maharaj 2020: 45–74. (Scholar)
• Deutsch, Eliot, 1966, Advaita Vedanta: A Philosophical Reconstruction, Honolulu: East-West Center Press. (Scholar)
• Doherty, Martha, 2005, “A Contemporary Debate Among Advaita Vedantins on the Nature of Avidyā”, Journal of Indian Philosophy, 33(2): 209–241. doi:10.1007/s10781-004-2599-2 (Scholar)
• Fasching, Wolfgang, 2011, “‘I am the Nature of Seeing’: Phenomenological Reflections on the Indian Notion of Witness Consciousness”, in Self, No Self: Perspectives from Analytical, Phenomenological, and Indian Traditions, Mark Siderits, Evan Thompson, and Dan Zahavi (eds), Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 193–216. (Scholar)
• –––, 2012, “On the Advaitic Identification of Self and Consciousness”, in Kuznetsova, Ganeri, and Ram-Prasad 2012: 165–180. (Scholar)
• –––, 2021, “Prakāśa. A Few Reflections on the Advaitic Understanding of Consciousness as Presence and Its Relevance for Philosophy of Mind”, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 20(4): 679–701. doi:10.1007/s11097-020-09690-2 (Scholar)
• Fort, Andrew O., 1984, “The Concept of Sākṣin in Advaita Vedānta”, Journal of Indian Philosophy, 12(3): 277–290. doi:10.1007/bf00186685 (Scholar)
• –––, 1998, Jivanmukti in Transformation: Embodied Liberation in Advaita and Neo-Vedānta, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
• Fost, Frederic F., 1998, “Playful Illusion: The Making of Worlds in Advaita Vedānta”, Philosophy East and West, 48(3): 387–405. doi:10.2307/1400333 (Scholar)
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• Hacker, Paul, 1995, “Distinctive Features of the Doctrine and Terminology of Śaṅkara: Avidyā, Nāmarūpa, Māyā, Īśvara”, in Philology and Confrontation: Paul Hacker on Traditional and Modern Vedanta, Wilhelm Halbfass (ed.), Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, pp. 57–100. (Scholar)
• Halbfass, Wilhelm, 1991, Traditionand Reflection, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
• Indich, William, 1980, Consciousness in Advaita Vedānta, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. (Scholar)
• Ingalls, Daniel H. H., 1953, “Śaṃkara on the Question: Whose Is avidyā?”, Philosophy East and West, 3(1): 69–72. doi:10.2307/1397364 (Scholar)
• Isayeva, Natalia, 1992, Shankara and Indian Philosophy, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
• Kunjanni Raja K., 1969, Indian Theories of Meaning, Chennai: Adyar Library and Research Centre. (Scholar)
• Kuznetsova, Irina, Jonardon Ganeri, and Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad (eds.), 2012, Hindu and Buddhist Ideas in Dialogue: Self and No-Self, New York: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315586809 (Scholar)
• Lipner, Julius, 1997, “Śaṅkara on satyam jñānam anantaṃ brahma”, in Relativism, Suffering and Beyond: Essays in Memory of Bimal K. Matilal, P. Bilimoria and J.N. Mohanty (eds), Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 301–318.
• MacKenzie, Matthew, 2012, “Luminosity, Subjectivity, and Temporality: An Examination of Buddhist and Advaita Views of Consciousness”, in Kuznetsova, Ganeri, and Ram-Prasad 2012: 181–198. (Scholar)
• Maharaj, Ayon (ed.), 2020, The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Vedāṇta, New York: Bloomsbury Academic. (Scholar)
• Mayeda, Sengaku, 1965a, “The Authenticity of the Bhagavadgītābhāṣya Ascribed to Śaṅkara”, Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Süd-Asiens, 9: 155–197. (Scholar)
• –––, 1965b, “The Authenticity of the Upadeśasāhasrī Ascribed to Śaṅkara”, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 85(2): 178–196. doi:10.2307/597989 (Scholar)
• –––, 1967, “On Śaṅkara’s Authorship of the Kenopaniṣadbhāṣya”, Indo-Iranian Journal, 10(1): 33–55. (Scholar)
• –––, 1992, A Thousand Teachings: The Upadeśasāhasrī of Śaṅkara, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
• Murty, Satchidananda K., 1959, Revelation and Reason in Advaita Vedanta, Waltair: Andhra University and New York: Columbia University Press. (Scholar)
• Nakamura, Hajime, 1983, A History of Early Vedānta Philosophy: Part One, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers. (Scholar)
• –––, 2004, A History of Early Vedānta Philosophy: Part Two, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers. (Scholar)
• Potter, Karl H. (ed.), 1981, Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies Vol III: Advaita Vedānta up to Śaṅkara and His Pupils, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. (Scholar)
• ––– (ed.), 2012, Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies Vol XI: Advaita Vedānta from 800–1200 AD, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. (Scholar)
• Ram-Prasad, Chakravarthi, 2000, “Knowledge and Action I: Means to the Human End in Bhāṭṭa Mīmāṃsā and Advaita Vedānta”, Journal of Indian Philosophy, 28(1): 1–24. doi:10.1023/a:1004744313963 (Scholar)
• –––, 2001a, “Saving the Self? Classical Hindu Theories of Consciousness and Contemporary Physicalism”, Philosophy East and West, 51(3): 378–392. doi:10.1353/pew.2001.0046 (Scholar)
• –––, 2001b, Knowledge and Liberation in Classical Indian Thought, New York: Palgrave Macmillan. (Scholar)
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• –––, 2007, Indian Philosophy and the Consequences of Knowledge: Themes in Ethics, Metaphysics, and Soteriology, Aldershot: Ashgate. (Scholar)
• –––, 2013, Divine Self, Human Self: The Philosophy of Being in Two Gītā Commentaries, New York: Bloomsbury Academic. (Scholar)
• Rambachan, Anantanand, 1991, Accomplishing the Accomplished, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1994, The Limits of Scripture: Vivekananda’s Reinterpretation of the Vedas, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2006, The Advaita Worldview: God, World, and Humanity, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
• Satchidanandendra, Swami, 1964 [1989], Vedānta prakriyā pratyabhijñā. Translated as The Method of the Vedanta: A Critical Account of the Advaita Tradition, A. J. Alston (tr.), London: Keagan Paul International. (Scholar)
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• –––, 2003, “Yoga in Śaṅkaran Advaita Vedānta: a reappraisal”, in Yoga: The Indian Tradition, Ian Wicher and David Carpenter (eds), London: Routledge Curzon, 99–129. (Scholar)
• Vaidya, Anand, 2020, “A New Debate on Consciousness: Bringing Classical and Medern Vedānta into Dialogue with Contemporary Analytic Panpsychism”, in Maharaj 2020: 393–422. (Scholar)
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