Faculty Details
Professor Godabarisha Mishra

Professor Godabarisha Mishra
Designation
Professor
Areas of Interest/Specialisation
Indian Philosophy, Advaita Vedanta, Buddhism, Sanskrit, and Western Hermeneutics
Year of Joining at NU
2022
Total Years of Teaching Experience:
40 years
Name and details of Ph.D. Degree awarded Institution
“A Critical Edition of the Anubhūtiprakāśa of Vidyāraṇya (The Philosophy of Upaniṣads: An Interpretative Exposition)” University of Madras, 1986. (This is published as a book by the University of Madras in 1992)
Awards/Honours
Awarded the Charles Wallace Visiting Fellowship at Oxford University, UK, 1995
Awarded Shivdasani Visiting Fellowship at Oriental Institute, and Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, University of Oxford, UK. 2003
Honoured with a Citation and cash award of Rs. 25,000/- for the publication of the book “Vedanta Without Maya?” (by ICPR and MLBD, 2015) by Yathodare Math, Mysore, on September 2, 2015.
Nominated as the National Visiting Professor by the Indian Council of Philosophical Research, New Delhi, for the Academic Year 2020-21.
Best Peer-reviewed Publications (Best 05)
“The Parliament of Philosophies – Majority View Condemned: A Critique of Daya Krishna’s Views on Vedānta in the First Millennium AD” Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, Vol. XVI. No. 1 1998, pp. 135-145.
“Advaita – A Reconciliation and Reconstruction” (An Analysis of Upanisadic and Buddhist Concepts of Advaita vis-à-vis Gauḍapāda and Śaṅkara) Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, New Delhi, Vol. XVII Number 1, September – December, 1999, pp. 99 – 111.
“Viśiṣṭādvaita after Vedāntadeśika”, History of Science, Philosophy, and Culture in Indian Civilization, General Editor D.P. Chattopadhyaya. Theistic Vedanta Ed. by R. Balasubramanian, Centre for Studies in Civilization, New Delhi, 2003, pp.167-204.
“Hinduism and Peace” The Role of Religious and Philosophical Traditions in Promoting World Peace, Edited by Imtiyaz Yusuf, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Bangkok, Thailand, 2007, pp.7-28.
“The Seeker finds his Self: Reading Sārāthadīpikā, the Advaita Commentary on Abhijñānaśākuntalam” in Namrata Chaturvedi (Ed.), Memory, Metaphor and Mysticism in Kālidāsa’s Abhijñānaśākuntalam (London: Anthem Press, 2020), pp. 137-152.
“Non-dualism: Vedāntic and Āgamic (Advaita as Expounded by Śaṅkara and Abhinavagupta)”, (Co-author – Haramohan Mishra) Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, New Delhi, 2021, pp.1-18.
“Ontological Interpretation of Śaṅkara and the Question of Non-Dualism,” in a Special Volume titled: God or the Divine? Religious Transcendence beyond Monism and Theism, between Personality and Impersonality, edited by Bernard Nitsche, Marcus Schmücker. Walter de Greyter, Berlin Boston, 2023, pp. 345-367.