Gaudapada
Sign in to saveGauḍapāda (Sanskrit: गौडपाद; ), also referred as Gauḍapādācārya (Sanskrit: गौडपादाचार्य; "Gauḍapāda the Teacher"), was an early medieval era Hindu philosopher and scholar of the Advaita Vedanta school of Hindu philosophy. While details of his biography are uncertain, his ideas inspired others such as Adi Shankara who called him a Paramaguru (highest teacher).
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Gaudapada was a male philosopher who practiced Advaita Vedanta. He wrote in Sanskrit and was described in the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary. His notable works include The Agamasastra, Sankhya-Karika, Uttara-Gītā, and The Mandukyopanishad with Gaudāpada's Kārikās and the Bhāshya of S'ankara.
He had a student named Govinda Bhagavatpada. Gaudapada is also known by the author name Gauḍapāda Ācārya. Other listed works include The Mândûkyopanishad: With Gaudapâda's Kârikâs and the Bhâshya of S'ankara.
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- The Agamasastra
- Sankhya-Karika
- Uttara-Gītā
- The Mandukyopanishad with Gaudāpada's Kārikās and the Bhāshya of S'ankara
- The Mândûkyopanishad: With Gaudapâda's Kârikâs and the Bhâshya of S'ankara
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- philosopher
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- Sanskrit
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- Govinda Bhagavatpada
- date of birth
- 0550-00-00
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- Sanskrit
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- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
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Encyclopedic overview
19 sectionsContents
- Dates
- Mandukya Karika
- Authorship
- Contents
- Chapter One: Traditional Doctrine (Agama)
- Chapter Two: Unreality (Vaitathya)
- Chapter Three: Nonduality (Advaita)
- Chapter Four: The Peace of The Firebrand (Alatasanti)
- Gaudapada's Soteriology
- Relationship to Buddhism
- Other works by Gaudapadacharya
- Advaita guru-paramparā
- Shri Gaudapadacharya Math
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Sources
- Further reading
- External links
Gauḍapāda (Sanskrit: गौडपाद; ), also referred as Gauḍapādācārya (Sanskrit: गौडपादाचार्य; "Gauḍapāda the Teacher"), was an early medieval era Hindu philosopher and scholar of the Advaita Vedanta school of Hindu philosophy. While details of his biography are uncertain, his ideas inspired others such as Adi Shankara who called him a Paramaguru (highest teacher).
Gaudapada was the author or compiler of the '', also known as Gaudapada Karika''. The text consists of four chapters (also called four books), of which Chapter Four uses Buddhist terminology thereby showing it was influenced by Buddhism. However, doctrinally Gaudapada's work is Vedantic, and not Buddhist. The first three chapters of Gaudapada's text have been influential in the Advaita Vedanta tradition. Parts of the first chapter that include the Mandukya Upanishad have been considered a valid scriptural source by the Dvaita and Vishistadvaita schools of Vedanta.
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