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Shankaracharya’s philosophy and its impact. Write short answer of not more than 200 words.
- UPSC 1987
- Cultural Traditions in India, 750-1200
Adi Shankara, an eighth-century Kerala-born philosopher-monk, systematized Advaita Vedanta — the non-dualist reading of the Upanishads — at a moment when Brahmanical Hinduism was contending with an entrenched Buddhist intellectual establishment and a landscape of competing sectarian cults. His doctrine offered both a metaphysical closure to Upanishadic speculation and, in its practical afterlife, a mechanism…
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