Veda, Sāṃkhya, Yoga, Pañcarātra and Pāśupata. A Quick Tour Through a Long History

07.11.2014 15:15 - 16:45

Robert Leach | Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, UFSP Asia and Europe, University of Zürich /

Research Associate, Department for South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, University of Vienna

In his Tantravārttika, Kumārila groups the Sāṃkhyas, Yogas, Pāñcarātras and Pāśupatas alongside the Buddhists and Jains as producers of texts which contradict the Veda. Scholars have pointed to this passage as providing evidence that there was, in Kumārila’s time, no sense of a shared orthodoxy among traditions now counted as Hindu. But from the third or fourth century CE, numerous works in Sanskrit also list Sāṃkhya, Yoga, Pañcarātra and Pāśupata alongside the Veda, and assert their partial or total compatibility with it. The lecture will present a brief history of this fivefold grouping, focusing particularly on the ways it has been used within Vedānta.

Organiser:

Institut für Südasien-, Tibet- und Buddhismuskunde

Location:

Seminarraum 1, Bereich Tibet- und Buddhismuskunde Institut für Südasien-, Tibet- und Buddhismuskunde, AAKH, Spitalgasse 2, Hof 2.7 1090 Wien

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