TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cenkner, William
TI  - A tradition of teachers: Sankara and the Jagadgurus today
SN  - 978-8120817630
U1  - 294.561 
PY  - 1983///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Motilal Banarsidass
KW  - Gurus
KW  - Sankaracarya
KW  - Ancient Tradition
KW  - Vedic teaching
N1  - Recommended By: Shailendra Raj Mehta
-------------------------------------------------------; CONTENTS
 

NOTE TO 2001 EDITION	vii
NOTE TO 1994 EDITION	ix
INTRODUCTION	xi
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS	xvii
PART ONE: THE TRADITION
ONE	ANCIENT TRADITION: VEDIC AND UPANISADIC	3
 	ROOTS	3
 	The Teacher in the Upanisads	8
 	The Guru-Sisya Relationship	15
 	Pedagogy in the Upanishads	19
TWO	SANKARA AND TEACHING TRADITION	29
 	The Nature of the Guru	32
 	The Personality of the Religious seeker	45
 	The Guru-Sisya Relationship	55
THREE	SANKARA'S PEDAGOGY IN RELIGIOS LIFE	60
 	Self-Inquiry	61
 	Triple-Method: Hearing, Reflection, Concentration	65
 	The place of meditation	71
 	Practice of meditation	77
 	The Independence of Self-Realization	80
FOUR	THE TEACHING HERITAGE AFTER SANKARA	84
 	The First Disciples of Sankara	85
 	Works of the Late-Sankara	90
 	Diversity within Advaita Vedanta	96
 	The Threshold of the Present
 

03
PART TWO: PRESENT DAY SANKARACHARYAS
FIVE	THE SANKARACHAYAS AND THE SEATS OF LEARNING	109
 	The Vidyapithas Today	112
 	The Pathasalas and Traditional Education	117
 	The Present Sankaracharyas	122
 	The Ministry of Sankaracharyas	127
 	The Capacity of a Jagadguru
 

132
SIX	THE TEACHING OF THE SANKARACHARYAS	135
 	The Dharma Path	136
 	Themes of special interest	142
 	The Supreme teaching: Advaita Vedanta	146
 	The Exaltation of Adi Sankara
 

152
SEVEN	THE TEACHER-STUDENT RELATIONSHIP TODAY	154
 	The Meaning of the Student Today	161
 	The Experience of a Guru	168
 	The Path of the Student	170
EIGHT	THE GURU IN THE MODERN WORLD	175
 	Hymn to Sri Daksinamurti	175
 	The Guru in the Historical Order	177
 	The Guru in Modern Life	181
BIBLIOGRAPHY	189
GLOSSARY	202
INDEX	209
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