Shankara

[ shuhng-ker-uh ]

noun

1. a.d. 789?–821?, Hindu Vedantist philosopher and teacher.

Example Sentences

Maugham once confided to Christopher Isherwood his unrealized wish, when he turned seventy, to return to India and study Shankara.

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Every swami belongs to the ancient monastic order which was organized in its present form by Shankara.

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This philosophy of monism received its highest expression in the Upanishad commentaries of Shankara.

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We made a pilgrimage to the ancient Srinagar temple of Swami Shankara.

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Shankara's date is a center of the usual scholastic dispute.

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Yet Shankara, the ancient founder of the Swami Order, disregarded the injunctions.

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