小型学术研究会（141）

报告题目：On the Upaniṣadic Self

报告人：Diwakar Acharya, University of Oxford

时间：2018年12月27日上午9:30-11:30

地点：复旦大学光华楼西主楼2801

主持人：刘震  复旦文史研究院研究员

报告语言：英文

 

报告人简介：

Diwakar Acharya currently holds the position of Spalding Professor of Eastern Religions and Ethics at Oxford University and is a fellow of All Souls College. In the past, he held positions at Kyoto University, Hamburg University, and Nepal Sanskrit University. He has to his credit a number of research papers and three books: Vācaspatimiśra’s Tattvasamīkṣā: The Earliest Commentary on Maṇḍanamiśra’s Brahmasiddhi (2006), The Little Clay Cart  (2009), and Early Tantric Vaiṣṇavism: Three Newly Discovered Works of the Pañcarātra (2015). His research covers a wide range of topics in Indian religious and philosophical traditions, Upaniṣadic studies, epigraphy, early history of Nepal, and Sanskrit literature.

 

报告简介：

According to Vedānta, ātman as the individual self is experienced directly in the form of witness consciousness, but its true identity beyond the body and mind is brahman, the cosmic essence or the supreme self that permeates all and everything. In my talk, I will try to show that this sophisticated notion of ātman results from Yājñavalkya’s merger of three Vedic notions of brahman, puruṣa and ātman, and that as a result of this ātman comes to mean the eternal essential entity present not only in humans, not only in living beings, but in all and everything in existence.