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Assess the statement that ‘the philosophy of Shankaracharya revolutionized religious thoughts in India.’
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- Cultural Traditions in India, 750-1200
Adi Shankaracharya, traditionally dated to the eighth century CE (though some scholarship pushes this earlier or later), articulated Advaita Vedanta, a rigorously monistic reading of the Upanishads, and is credited with organising Brahmanical asceticism into an enduring institutional order. Whether his philosophy "revolutionized" Indian religious thought depends on the timeframe applied: judged by long-run structural…
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- The Religious Landscape Before Shankara
- Shankara's Systematisation
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