missing conjuncts instead of Indic text. Advaita Vedanta (/ʌdˈvaɪtə vɛˈdɑːntə/; Sanskrit: अद्वैत वेदान्त, IAST: Advaita Vedānta) is a Hindu tradition of textual...
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Adi Shankara (section Systematizer of Advaita)
ɕɐŋkɐraːt͡ɕaːrjɐ]), was an Indian Vedic scholar, philosopher and teacher (acharya) of Advaita Vedanta. Reliable information on Shankara's actual life is scanty, and...
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Look up Advaita in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Advaita Vedanta is a school of Hindu philosophy and religious practice. Advaita or Adwaita may also...
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Vedanta (section Advaita Vedanta)
traditions of Vedanta are: Bhedabheda (difference and non-difference); Advaita (non-dualism); and the Vaishnavite traditions of Dvaitadvaita (dualistic...
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The Advaita Parivāra (Bengali:অদ্ৱৈত পরিবার) is the succession of disciples descending from Śrī Advaita Ācārya, the joint avatāra of Śrī Sadāśiva (the...
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Nondualism (section Advaita Vedanta)
generally uses the Sanskrit term Advaita, while Buddhism uses Advaya (Tibetan: gNis-med, Chinese: pu-erh, Japanese: fu-ni). "Advaita" (अद्वैत) is from Sanskrit...
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Advaita Acharya (IAST: Advaita Ācārya; 1434–1559) (born Kamalaksha Mishra; কমলাক্ষ মিশ্র) was a companion of the founder of the Gaudiya Vaishnava movement...
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expressed in Adi Shankara's Advaita Vedanta philosophy. Nevertheless, following Ramakrishna, and in contrast to Advaita Vedanta, Vivekananda believed...
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Brahman (section Advaita Vedanta)
different from Atman (Self) in each being. In non-dual schools such as the Advaita Vedanta, the substance of Brahman is identical to the substance of Atman...
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Ātman (Hinduism) (section Advaita Vedanta)
Ultimate Reality (Brahman), stating that they are: completely identical (Advaita, Non-Dualist), completely different (Dvaita, Dualist), or simultaneously...
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Advaita are an Indian fusion band based in New Delhi, formed in 2004. In March 2009, Advaita released their first album with EMI titled Grounded in Space...
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Advaita Ashrama, Mayavati, is a branch of the Ramakrishna Math, founded on 19 March 1899 at the behest of Vivekananda, by his disciples James Henry Sevier...
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Vishishtadvaita (redirect from VisishtAdvaita)
profound interpretation of the Vedas based on Prasthanatrayi. Vishishta Advaita, meaning "non-duality with distinctions", is a non-dualistic philosophy...
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martyr of science. The Hindu philosophy of Advaita Vedanta is thought to be similar to pantheism. The term Advaita (literally "non-secondness", but usually...
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Neo-Advaita, also called the Satsang-movement is a new religious movement, emphasizing the direct recognition of the non-existence of the "I" or "ego...
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Advaita Vedānta is the oldest extant tradition of Vedānta, and one of the six orthodox (āstika) Hindu philosophies (darśana). Its history may be traced...
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Smarta tradition (category Advaita Vedanta)
reflects a synthesis of four philosophical strands, namely Uttara Mīmāṃsā, Advaita, Yoga, and theism. The Smarta tradition rejects theistic sectarianism,...
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Advaita Guru-Paramparā ("Lineage of Gurus in Non-dualism") is the traditional lineage (parampara) of divine, Vedic and historical teachers of Advaita...
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Ramana Maharshi (category Neo-Advaita teachers)
revival of Theravada Buddhism. See also Timothy Conway, Neo-Advaita or Pseudo-Advaita and Real Advaita-Nonduality David Godman: "Because some of the interpreters...
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Advaita Vedanta and Mahayana Buddhism share significant similarities. Those similarities have attracted Indian and Western scholars attention, and have...
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Para Brahman (section Advaita Vedanta)
whatever is beyond. Para Brahman is conceptualised in diverse ways. In the Advaita Vedanta tradition, the Para Brahman is a synonym of nirguna brahman, i...
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Gaudapada (section Chapter Three: Nonduality (Advaita))
Teacher"), was an early medieval era Hindu philosopher and scholar of the Advaita Vedanta school of Hindu philosophy. While details of his biography are...
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Prashant Tripathi, known as Acharya Prashant, is an Indian author and Advaita teacher. He teaches seventeen forms of Gita and sixty forms of Upanishads...
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Advaita Kala is an Indian author, screenwriter, and columnist. She has written screenplays for films such as the romantic drama Anjaana Anjaani (2010)...
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Mahāvākyas (redirect from Tat tvam asi: advaita interpretation)
महावाक्यानि) are "The Great Sayings" of the Upanishads, as characterized by the Advaita school of Vedanta with mahā meaning great and vākya, a sentence. Most commonly...
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Upanishads (section Advaita Vedanta)
Upanishads. Advaita literally means non-duality, and it is a monistic system of thought. It deals with the non-dual nature of Brahman and Atman. Advaita is considered...
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was an Indian Advaita teacher and physical culturist. He was disciple and principle translator of Nisargadatta Maharaj, a renowned Advaita master. From...
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religious title used by the heads of amnaya monasteries called mathas in the Advaita Vedanta tradition of Hinduism. The title derives from Adi Shankara; teachers...
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Jnana yoga (section Classical Advaita Vedanta)
for Advaita Vedanta, where jnana involves the recognition of the identity of jivatman and Brahman. According to Bimal Matilal, jnana yoga in Advaita Vedanta...
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was Yādava Prakāśa, a scholar who according to tradition belonged to the Advaita Vedānta tradition, but probably was a Bhedabheda scholar. Sri Vaishnava...
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