For an intersting and amusing observation on the psychology of pedagogy, see Śaṅkarācārya’s bhāṣya on Chāndogyopaniṣad 8.7.4 where he explains why Prajāpati permits his pupils, Indra and Virocana to temporarily entertain an inaccurate understanding of the ātman. It’s all about your students’ self esteem.

ātmany adhyāropitapāṇḍityamahattvaboddhṛtvau hi indravirocanau tathaiva ca prathitau loke. tau yadi prajāpatinā ‘mūḍhau! yuvāṃ viparītagrāhiṇāv’ ity uktau syātāṃ tatas tayoś citte duḥkhaṃ syāt. taj janitāc ca cittāvasādāt punaḥ praśnaśravaṇagrahaṇāvadhāraṇaṃ praty utsāhavighātaḥ syāt. ato ‘rakṣaṇīyau śiṣyāv’ iti manyate prajāpatiḥ. gṛhṇītāṃ tāvat. tad udaśarāvadṛṣṭāntenāpaneṣyāmi ca.

Cheers   

Bob
Dr. R. P.  Goldman
Catherine and William L. Magistretti Distinguished Professor in South and Southeast Asian Studies
Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies MC # 2540
The University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-2540
Tel: 510-642-4089
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On Sep 8, 2016, at 1:49 PM, Lubin, Tim <LubinT@wlu.edu> wrote:

Add to these:

Hartmut Scharfe, Education in Ancient India, Brill 2002, and Ludo Rocher’s review there of, in the Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 124, No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 2004), pp. 197-
199.

Tim

From: INDOLOGY <indology-bounces@list.indology.info> on behalf of "mkapstei@UCHICAGO.EDU" <mkapstei@UCHICAGO.EDU>
Date: Thursday, September 8, 2016 at 4:39 PM
To: Toke Knudsen <Toke.Knudsen@oneonta.edu>, "indology@list.indology.info" <indology@list.indology.info>
Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Sanskrit material on philosophy of education

Dear Toke,

You may wish to take a look at Jonathan Gold, The Dharma's Gatekeepers (SUNY 2007).
It is based primarily on a 13th c. Tibetan trivium that cleaves closely to Sanskrit sources.

Richard Nance, Speaking for Buddhas (Columbia U Press) addresses Indian Buddhist
instruction in ch. 2.

Altekar's 1944 work, Education in Ancient India, may also prove useful.

Hope this helps,
Matthew

Matthew Kapstein
Directeur d'études,
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes

Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies,
The University of Chicago

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