Religion W4620. Nonduality in Indian and Tibetan Thought

Columbia University, Fall 2002

Tuesday, November 26
Buddhism and Brahmanism in Dialogue

Assigned Reading

• D. Loy, Nonduality, Chapters 1, 5, 6, and 8.

  (The book is on reserve in Butler, and Labyrinth Books has copies in paperback.)

• Three articles by Daniel H. H. Ingalls in the journal Philosophy East and West:
  • "Samkara on the Question: Whose is Avidya?" 3.1 (1953): 69-72.
  • "Samkara's Arguments Against the Buddhists," 3 (1954): 291-306.
  • "Bhaskara the Vedantin," 17 (1967): 61-67.
  (These were handed out in class, and photocopies are on reserve in the Religion Department.)

• Recommended: (material on Ramanuja and his theistic "Nondualism of the Qualified")
  • "A Summary of Vedic Teachings: Ramanuja's Vedartha Samgraha" (reprinted from the translation by S. S. Raghavachar), in Koller and Koller, A Sourcebook in Asian Philosophy, pp. 115-128.

    (The book is on reserve in Butler Library.)

  • Anyone wishing to read more about Ramanuja should note the treatments of him in Hamilton and in Potter's Presuppositions of India's Philosophies, as well as the following books on reserve in Butler Library:
    • J.B. Carman, The Theology of Ramanuja.

    • Radhakrishnan and Moore, A Sourcebook in Indian Philosophy (includes, for comparison, the opening sections of both Sankara's and Ramanuja's commentaries on the Vedanta Sutras).
    • K. Klostermaier, A Survey of Hinduism.