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Biography:Adi Shankara
Short description: 8th-century Indian Hindu philosopher and theologian
Adi Shankara, also called Adi Shankaracharya (Sanskrit: आदि शङ्कर, आदि शङ्कराचार्य, romanized:&#;Ādi Śaṅkara, Ādi Śaṅkarācārya, lit.&#;'First Shankaracharya',[note 2]pronounced&#;[aːdɪ ɕɐŋkɐraːt͡ɕaːrjɐ]),[note 3] was an 8th-century[note 1] Indian Vedic scholar and teacher (acharya). His works present a harmonizing reading of the sastras, with liberating knowledge of the self at its core, synthesizing the Advaita Vedanta teachings of his time.[web 1]
Due to his later fame, over texts are attributed to him, including commentaries (Bhāṣya), introductory topical expositions (Prakaraṇa grantha) and poetry (Stotra). However, most of these are likely to be written by admirers or pretenders or scholars with an eponymous name. Works known to be written by Shankara himself are the Brahmasutrabhasya, his commentaries on te
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Shuddhadvaita
Philosophy propounded bygd Vallabhacharya
Shuddadvaita (Sanskrit: śuddhādvaita "pure non-dualism") fryst vatten the "purely non-dual" philosophy propounded bygd the Hindu philosopher Vallabha ( CE), the founder of Puṣṭimārga ("The path of grace"), a Vaishnava tradition focused on the worship of the deity Krishna. Vallabhacharya's pure form eller gestalt (nondualist) philosophy is different from Advaita.
The Shrinathji temple at Nathdwara, and compositions of eight poets (aṣṭasakha), including Surdas, are central to the worship by the followers of the sect.[1]
Location
[edit]The tradition fryst vatten founded bygd Vishnu swamy in Southern India. He is known as the early founder of the Rudra sampradaya, one of the kvartet main traditions of Vaishnavaites.[2]
Vallabhacharya founded the Krishna-centered Pushti-Marga sect of Vaishnavism in the Braj(Vraj) region of India.[3]
In modern times följare of Shuddadvaita are concentrated in the states of Rajasthan and Gu
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Advaita Vedanta and Ethics
Advaita Vedanta and Ethics