Book query

[Guest guest]

I have had a book query from a questioner at my website and wondered if any

member knew of where a copy might be purchased (or even two, since it sounds

interesting!). Here is the relevant part of the email:

 

 

 

" . Professor Siva Shankar Roy's THE HERITAGE OF SHANKAR, Munshiram, New

Delhi, 1982. Professor Roy was the favorite student and descipleof

Professor R.D. Ranade and later, Chair of the Department of Philosophy of

Allahabad University. . crystal clear analytic critique of Kant and

Wittgenstein, as part of his proving that Shankaracharya's Vedanta grew out

of Gaudapada and was pure Vedanta and not proto-Buddhism. "

 

 

 

 

 

Best Wishes,

 

Dennis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

advaitin , " Dennis Waite " <dwaite wrote:

>

> I have had a book query from a questioner at my website and wondered if

> any

> member knew of where a copy might be purchased (or even two, since it

> sounds

> interesting!). Here is the relevant part of the email:

>

>

>

> " . Professor Siva Shankar Roy's THE HERITAGE OF SHANKAR, Munshiram, New

> Delhi, 1982. Professor Roy was the favorite student and descipleof

> Professor R.D. Ranade and later, Chair of the Department of Philosophy of

> Allahabad University. . crystal clear analytic critique of Kant and

> Wittgenstein, as part of his proving that Shankaracharya's Vedanta grew

> out

> of Gaudapada and was pure Vedanta and not proto-Buddhism. "

 

 

Namaste Shri Dennis-ji,

 

A google of Roy Shankara Heritage brought me to this link

http://www.crvp.org/book/Series03/IIIB-4/bibliography.htm

 

which says the following about this book

Roy, S.S.: The Heritage of Shankara, 2nd ed. Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal

Publishers Pvt. Ltd., 1982.

 

That brought me to http://www.mrmlonline.com/?page=shop/index

 

and which seemed to have the book:

 

http://www.mrmlonline.com/?page=shop/flypage & product_id=1375205 & keyword=Roy & sear\

chby=author & offset=30 & fs=1 & CLSN_2864=12506790522864e2fe734d2dd1b22f24

 

Author Name: S.S. Roy

 

Title: The Heritage of Sankara

 

Binding: Cloth

Book Condition: New

Jacket Condition: New

Edition: Second Revised Edition

Size: 14 Cms x 22 Cms

Publisher: New Delhi, India Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 1982

ISBN: 81-215-0162-8 / 9788121501620

 

Seller ID: 014073

 

This work is a study in Comparative Philosophy and Indian Metaphysics. Its

starting-point is an inquiry into the validity of a charge against the

heritage of Sankara-the charge that Sankara is a crypto-Buddhist. For giving

the lie to this indictment of Sankara's heritage, the author has

disentangled the essentials of Advaitism from the principles that determine

the constitution of the Buddhist Absolute, in the traditions of Vijnana and

Sunya. Possible evidences, in favour of the misconceived equation of

Advayavada with the Vedantic Non-dualism, have been considered, and disposed

of. A full-fledged account of the legacy of Gaudapada, and a still fuller

account of Sankara, is most of the relevant aspects, justifies the title of

this essay. A lively and brisk delineation of the symbolic usage of language

in the Advaitavada of Sankara and his followers, helps in a considerable

manner to distinguish the Advaitic heritage from the dialectic-centred

philosophy of the Madhyamikas, and the unreflecting monism of some schools

of Vedanta. The author has brought out very clearly the mature and status of

the Dialectic in the Advaitic system of thought. Without identifying

Advaitism with Buddhist Absolutism, he is prone to thinking that the

dialectic of the Buddhists is a necessary link in the development of Indian

philosophical disputation, they have, by their logical acumen, successfully

reconstructed in theoretic consciousness, a Vision of the Absolute, only

broadly indicated by Sankara. But apart from dispelling certain erroneous

notions about the Advaitic heritage, of which Sankara is the architect, the

author presents a delectably plausible diagnosis of the present-day allergy

to metaphysics and metaphysical thinking. And he uses the Philosophy of

Language itself, for showing a way out of the contemporary whirl-pool of

anti-metaphysical bias. Yet, more remarkable than all this, is the way in

which he attempts to stratify, ideologically, the different trends of Indian

philosophical thought, and knit them together in an architectonical unity,

the keystone of which is the Value-oriented Advaita. This value is Freedom.

Its formulations in different systems of Indian Philosophy, are supported on

different logics, built in different metaphysical moulds. They portray, in

varying degrees of clarity and distinctness, the negation of the

object-seeking attitude-a negation, which finds its ideal fulfillment, not

in the replacement of one object by another, gross or subtle, but in the

transcendence of the attitude itself, which alone is Freedom. Finally and

convincingly too the author shows how this Advaita, synonymous as it is with

Freedom, is the " Criterion-Concept " of Indian Culture at its meridian,

functioning as the undeviating norm of our finer sensibility, expressed in

our larger life, conduct and thought. Printed Pages: 259.

 

INDIA INDIAN RELIGION

 

Price = 3.95 USD

 

Hope it helps!

Ramakrishna

[Guest guest]

Dear Shri Ramakrishna-ji,

 

 

 

Clearly you are far more skilled at Googling than either of us! The

questioner had searched without success and I tried briefly too. Thanks very

much for the information, which I have now forwarded.

 

 

 

Best wishes,

 

Dennis

 

 

 

advaitin [advaitin ] On Behalf

Of Ramakrishna Upadrasta

Wednesday, August 19, 2009 11:57 AM

advaitin

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