The Semantic Structure of Salvation in the Śaṅkaran Tradition

• SAWAI Yoshitsugu

  天理大学

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• シャンカラ派における救いの意味構造
• シャンカラハ ニ オケル スクイ ノ イミ コウゾウ

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to clarify the semantic structure of salvation in the Śaṅkaran tradition of Śṛṅgeri, focusing on how the present Jagadguru of the Śṛṅgeri Maṭha, i.e., Bhāratītīrtha, discourses on the teachings in order to guide people to salvation. In this religious tradition, the relationship between the Jagadguru and his followers constitutes “the relationship between a teacher and his disciples” (guruśiṣya-sambandha), which consists of both the level of world-renunciation and that of ordinary faith. For the ordinary followers, the Jagadguru has the religious significance of a saint who possesses magico-religious powers. Moreover, the performance of their karman and bhakti has the soteriological implications of the “purification of mind” (citta-śuddhi). In this religious tradition, from the viewpoint of salvation, the same term bhakti contains multi-layered meanings according to the inner commitments of the followers.

Journal

• Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies (Indogaku Bukkyogaku Kenkyu)

  Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies (Indogaku Bukkyogaku Kenkyu) 65 (2), 536-543, 2017

  Japanese Association of Indian and Buddhist Studies

Keywords

• シャンカラ派
• 世師
• 救い
• 心の浄化

Details

• CRID: 1390282680356961536
• NII Article ID: 130006314779
• NII Book ID: AN00018579
• DOI: 10.4259/ibk.65.2_536
• ISSN: 18840051
• ISSN: 00194344
• NDL BIB ID: 028079765
• Web Site: https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000004-I028079765
• Web Site: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ibk/65/2/65_536/_pdf
• Text Lang: ja
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