O Vedāntasāra de Sadānanda (séc. XV): uma leitura hermenêutica sobre a doutrina do Advaita Vedānta

Abstract

The tradition of the Vedānta School, whose philosophical matrix is the Upaniṣads, has a hermeneutic strand radically founded on the notion of non-duality, this non-dualist strand is expressed through the Advaita Vedānta School. The tradition of the Advaita Vedānta School has a lineage of disciple succession (guruśiṣyaparamparā) composed of great philosophers, among which Śaṅkarācārya and Sureśvarācārya, his beloved disciple, excel. These two philosophers stood out for their accomplishments within the Advaita Vedānta tradition, especially with regard to textual production, having both produced commentaries (bhāṣyas) on the Upaniṣads and some independent works (prakaraṇas). In this sense, the Advaita Vedānta tradition is, from time to time, updated with new works on its doctrine. One of the main works ever done on the doctrine of Advaita Vedānta is the work Vedāntasāra, composed by Sadānanda, a renowned 15th-century vedantin. Vedāntasāra is fundamentally a synthesis of vedantin philosophy, especially with regard to its non-dualistic (advaita) strand. Therefore, here in this thesis, we will know the doctrine of Advaita Vedānta, i.e., its essence, through a hermeneutic reading of the work Vedāntasāra.