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  • In calling for renewed theological engagement between our traditions, however, I have in mind the rich history of rational reflection by persons of deep religious commitment as exemplified in the works of saintly scholars such as Shankara and Ramanuja in Hinduism and Aquinas and Augustine in Christianity.

    Archbishop Hosts Annual Inter Faith Lecture 2008

  • Merrell-Wolff (in my booklist above) used the advaita Vedanta philosophy of Shankara.

    Matthew Yglesias » Influential Books 2010

  • I watched as Desmond unplugged a big version of the Shankara Stones from a glowy pool of water in the Sleestak cave.

    Help me, I'm LOST. The finale. wendigomountain 2010

  • Shankara is a Vedantist, and Gareth is a Zen Buddhist.

    Carl McColman: Curiosity May Be Hard On Cats, But It's Great For Interfaith Friendships Carl McColman 2011

  • The other Masters of Vedanta, most notably Ramanuja, Madhva, Nimbarka, Chaitanya, and Swami Narayan, agreed with Shankara that we are of the same nature as Brahman and then added that the Vedas clearly state that inside the Brahman there is another entirely Transcendental world of forms and beings.

    Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar Jeffrey Armstrong 2010

  • Therefore, where Shankara taught advaita Vedanta, these other Masters taught various versions of dvaita Vedanta.

    Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar Jeffrey Armstrong 2010

  • His senior disciple stood up to recite some religious verses, and then Sarasvati clasped his hands in prayer, touching the image of Shankara on the back wall.

    HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010

  • The other Masters of Vedanta, most notably Ramanuja, Madhva, Nimbarka, Chaitanya, and Swami Narayan, agreed with Shankara that we are of the same nature as Brahman and then added that the Vedas clearly state that inside the Brahman there is another entirely Transcendental world of forms and beings.

    Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar Jeffrey Armstrong 2010

  • In the courtyard is a banyan tree, its trunk decorated with ocher cloth, where Shankara, the eighth-century Hindu sage who founded the order, is believed to have sat and meditated.

    HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010

  • Therefore, where Shankara taught advaita Vedanta, these other Masters taught various versions of dvaita Vedanta.

    Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar Jeffrey Armstrong 2010

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