biography
pronunciation:
[sangkara, shangka
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| male
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| lived:
| (?700–?750)
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| biography:
| Hindu philosopher and theologian, born in Kalati, Kerala, SE India. The author of commentaries on the Hindu Scriptures, and founder of monastic centres in different parts of India, he is the most famous exponent of Advaita (the Vedanta school of Hindu philosophy), and the source of the main currents of modern Hindu thought. In this approach, Brahma alone has true existence, and the goal of the self is to become one with the Divine. His views were strongly opposed by Ramanuja and his successors. |
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