Shankara (ca. 788-820) was an Indian philosopher and reformer. He founded the advaita, or nondual, school of vedanta philosophy. Shankara, also called Shankaracharya, "Master Shankara," was born of Brahman parentage in southern India. His intellectual...

(c. 788–820 CE), Brahman philosopher. Sankara (commonly called Sankaracarya) was born in Kaladi, Kerala, southern India, in about 788 CE. The most important of this philosopher's many works is the Brahmasutra Bhasya, a masterpiece of...

non-dual or monistic view of reality derived from the and elaborated into a system of philosophy whose best known representative is . The teaching about the identity of the universal and the individual, i.e. of the source of reality as a whole and the...

Adi Shankara (Malayalam: ആദി ശങ്കരന്‍, Devanāgarī: आदि शङ्कर, Ādi Śaṅkara, pronounced [aːd̪i ɕəŋkərə]); (possibly 788 – 820 CE, but see below),[1] also known as Śaṅkara Bhagavatpādācārya ("the...

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