Adi Shankara (8th c. CE), also called Adi Shankaracharya (Sanskrit: आदि शङ्कर, आदि शङ्कराचार्य, romanized: Ādi Śaṅkara, Ādi Śaṅkarācārya, lit. 'First Shankaracharya'...
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the free dictionary. Shankara (also written as Sankara or Samkara, IAST śaṅkara) can refer to: Shiva, the Hindu god Adi Shankara, 8th-century Indian philosopher...
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Shankaracharya (redirect from Shankara Chaurya)
Shankaracharya (Sanskrit: शङ्कराचार्य, IAST: Śaṅkarācārya, "Shankara-acharya") is a religious title used by the heads of amnaya monasteries called mathas...
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Avidyā is a central tenet of Shankara's Advaita, and became the main target of Ramanuja's criticism of Shankara. In Shankara's view, avidyā is adhyasa, "the...
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Shankara is a raga in Hindustani classical music. The raga emerges from Bilaval thaat. The raga is of audav-shadav nature, i.e., it has five swaras (notes)...
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Ranga Shankara is one of Bangalore's well known theatres. It is located in the south Bangalore area of J.P Nagar and is run by the Sanket Trust. The auditorium...
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Shankara is a 1991 Indian Bollywood film directed by Sudarshan Nag and produced by D. Tann. It stars Sunny Deol and Neelam Kothari. Sunny Deol as Shankar...
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Govindapada (section Meeting Adi Shankara)
philosopher Adi Shankara. Little is known of his life and works, except that he is mentioned in all the traditional accounts (Shankara Vijayams) as the...
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Jagadguru Adi Shankara is a 2013 Indian Telugu-language biographical film written and directed by J. K. Bharavi that depicts the life of 8th-century philosopher...
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tradition) foundation of Vedanta. All prominent Vedantic teachers, including Shankara, Bhaskara, Ramanuja, Madhva, Nimbarka, and Vallabha wrote commentaries...
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Smarta tradition (section Shankara and Advaita Vedanta)
tradition is aligned with Advaita Vedanta, and regards Adi Shankara as its founder or reformer. Shankara championed the thesis that ultimate reality is impersonal...
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Sringeri Sharada Peetham (redirect from Sri Vidya Shankara Tirtha)
head of the matha is called Shankarayacharya, the title derives from Adi Shankara. Śri Śringerī Mutt, as the Pītham is referred to in common parlance, is...
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Adi Shankara, a Hindu philosopher of the Advaita Vedanta school, composed a number of commentarial works. Due to his later influence, a large body of works...
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Kalady (section Shankara Temple)
It is notable as the birthplace of 9th century Indian philosopher Adi Shankara. Kalady came to prominence only after its rediscovery in the late 19th...
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6th-7th century CE, with the seminal works of Gaudapada, Maṇḍana Miśra, and Shankara, who is considered by tradition and Orientalist Indologists to be the most...
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Shiva (redirect from Shiva Shankara)
(lord of the universe), Mahadeva, Mahandeo, Mahasu, Mahesha, Maheshvara, Shankara, Shambhu, Rudra, Hara, Trilochana, Devendra (chief of the gods), Neelakanta...
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Vidyaranya (section Madhaviya Shankara (Dig)vijayam)
Sultanate." The Vidyashankara temple in Sringeri is the samadhi of Vidya shankara, the guru of Vidyaranya which was built over the former's samadhi by his...
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Hastamalakacharya (section Meeting Adi Shankara)
of Adi Shankara, the Advaita philosopher. He was made the first Jagadguru (head) of the Dvāraka Pīṭhaṃ, the monastery founded by Adi Shankara in Dwaraka...
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first maṭha (Dakshinamnaya Sringeri Sharada Peetham) established by Adi Shankara, Hindu theologian and exponent of the Advaita Vedanta philosophy. Located...
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well studied commentaries on the Brahma Sūtras include the bhashya by Adi Shankara, and the Vaishna-exegetes Ramanuja, Madhvacharya, Bhaskara, Baladeva Vidyabhushan...
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Shankara is a 2016 Telugu-language action film directed by Tatineni Satya and produced by R. V. Chandramouli Prasad under the Sri Leela Movies banner....
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Kanakadhara Stotra (category Adi Shankara)
Adi Shankara. Kanakadhārā means "the stream (dhārā) of gold (kanaka)", and the hymn is called by this name since legend has it that when Adi Shankara recited...
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Saundarya Lahari (category Adi Shankara)
famous literary work in Sanskrit attributed to Pushpadanta as well as Adi Shankara . Some believe the first part "Ananda Lahari" was etched on mount Meru...
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Nodiswamy, Navirodu Heege (1987). Nag built a theatre space in Bangalore Ranga Shankara: . She is a recipient of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (2008), the Padma...
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Digvijaya (conquest) (redirect from Shankara Vijayam)
[citation needed] Shankara Vijayams (IAST Śaṃkaravijayaṃ) are traditional hagiographies of the Advaita Vedanta exegete Adi Shankara, describing his 'conquest...
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Vedanta tradition. However, the association of the Dasanāmis with the Shankara maṭhas remained nominal. Ēkadandis were already known during what is sometimes...
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Shankara (also spelled Shankra, Sankra) is a census town and a gram panchayat in the Para CD block in the Raghunathpur subdivision of the Purulia district...
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Vedanta and Buddhism. Dasgupta and Mohanta suggest that Buddhism and Shankara's Advaita Vedānta represent "different phases of development of the same...
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the hagiographies based on Madhava's Sankshepa-shankara-vijaya, the 8th century philosopher Adi Shankara died at the mountains near Kedarnath; although...
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Another popular legend associated with Mookambika and Adi Shankara states that Adi Shankara wanted to build a temple for the goddess Saraswati in Kerala...
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