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- Biographies
- Introduction
- A A Milne
- Swami Abhayananda
- A R Ammons
- Abbot Amakuki
- Abraham Maslow
- Adam Smith
- Al Alawi
- Al-Harraq
- Alan Watts
- Albert Camus
- Albertus Magnus
- Al Bistami
- Aldous Huxley
- Al Ghazzali
- Anandamayi
- Angela Of Foligno
- Angelus Silesius
- Apollonius Of Tyana
- Aristotle
- Ashtavakra Gita
- Asvaghosa
- Attar
- Augustine Baker
- Avadhut Gita
- Bankei
- Berdyaev
- Bhagavad Gita
- Blake
- Blosius
- Blue Cliff Record
- Boethius
- Bonhoeffer
- Brihadaranyaka
- Buddha
- Chandogya
- Chang Chen Chi
- Chao Chou Tsung Shen
- Charles Dickens
- Charles Morgan
- Chuang Tzu
- Cicero
- Colin Turnbull
- Conan Doyle
- D.H.Lawrence
- D.T.Suzuki
- Dadu
- Daito Kokushi
- Dante
- De Adhaerendo Deo
- Descartes
- Devikalottara
- Dhammapada
- Dhiravamsa
- Diamond Sutra
- Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
- Dionysius Areopagite
- Dogen
- Dom Chapman
- Dr.Hans Selye
- Eckhart
- Einstein
- Emerson
- Emily Dickinson
- Epictetus
- Erich Fromm
- Erigena
- Ernst Mach
- Eugen Herrigel
- Exodus
- F.H.Bradley
- Father Williams
- Fenelon
- Fo Yen
- Francis Bacon
- Francis Howgill
- Freud
- Galen
- Gampopa
- Gandhi
- Gandavyuha Sutra
- G B Shaw
- Genro
- George Macdonald
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Gospel Of John
- Gospel Of Truth
- H.H.Price
- Hadewijch
- Hafiz
- Hakim Jamal
- Hakuin
- Hakuun Yasutani
- Hans Denk
- Heidegger
- Heraclitus
- Hermann Hesse
- Hildegard
- Hongzhi
- Hora
- Hsin Hsin Ming
- Hsu Yun
- Huang Po
- Hubert Benoit
- Hugh Of St Victor
- Hui Hai
- Hui Ming Ching
- Huineng
- Ibn Arabi
- Isha Upanishad
- J.C.Powys
- J.J.Olier
- J.Maritain
- J.P.De Caussade
- Jacob Bohme
- James Thomson
- Jean Nicholas Grou
- J Krishnamurti
- Joel Goldsmith
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- John Everard
- John Keats
- John Updike
- John Smith Platonist
- John Woolman
- Jose Ortega
- Julian Of Norwich
- Kabir
- Kaivalya
- Katha Upanishad
- Kierkegaard
- Kipling
- Krishna Menon
- Abraham Kook
- Kotzker Rebbe
- Lalla
- Lao Tzu
- Laurens Van Der Post
- Leo Tolstoy
- Lewis Carrol
- Lin Chi
- Lotze
- Lucretius
- M.C.Richards
- Madame Guyon
- Malaval
- Mandukya Upanishad
- Marcus Aurelius
- Margaret Mead
- Marguerite Porete
- Marguerite Yourcenar
- Marie De L'incarnation
- Martin Israel
- Max Planck
- Menachem Mendel Schneerson
- Mechthild Magdeburg
- Michael Mayne
- Milan Kundera
- Molinos
- Nicholas Of Cusa
- Nietzsche
- Nisargadatta
- Padmasambhava
- Pai Chang
- Pali Canon
- Panchadasi
- Papaji
- Pascal
- Patanjali
- Peter Matthiessen
- Peter Sterry
- P G Wodehouse
- Philo
- Plato
- Plotinus
- R.D.Laing
- Rabbi Bunam
- Rabbi Hahman
- Ramakrishna
- Ramana Maharshi
- Ram Dass
- Ramesh Balsekar
- Rilke
- Robert Frost
- Rumi
- Ruysbroeck
- Samuel Johnson
- Sara Banerji
- Sartre
- Secret Of Golden Flower
- Seng T'san
- Seung Sahn
- Shakespeare
- Shankara
- Shelley
- Shen Hui
- Shido Bunan Zenji
- Shih T'ou
- Simone Weil
- Sir Thomas Browne
- Socrates
- St.Athanasius
- St.Augustine
- St.Basil
- St.Bernard
- St. Bonaventure
- St.Catherine Of Genoa
- St.Catherine Of Siena
- St.Francis De Sales
- St.John Of The Cross
- St.John The Divine
- St.Paul
- Stephen Levine
- Surangama Sutra
- Suso
- Svetasvatara Upanishad
- Symeon-New Theologian
- T.H.Huxley
- T.S.Eliot
- Tai Hui
- Tauler
- Teilhard de Chardin
- Tennyson
- Tenzin Palmo
- Teresa Of Avila
- Te Shan
- The Cloud Of Unknowing
- The Gospel Of Thomas
- The Iron Flute
- Theologia Germanica
- Thomas A Kempis
- Thomas Aquinas
- Tozan Ryokai
- Traherne
- Treatise On Resurrection
- Vasishta
- Virginia Woolf
- Vivekananda
- Vladimir Solovyov
- W.B.Yeats
- Walter Hilton
- Walt Whitman
- William Law
- William Of Ockham
- William Of St.Thierry
- William Penn
- Wittgenstein
- Woodrow Wilson
- Wumen
- Yang-shan Hui-ch
- Yuan Wu
- Yung Chia Hsuan Chueh
- Zazengi
Biographies
- Introduction
- A A Milne
- Swami Abhayananda
- A R Ammons
- Abbot Amakuki
- Abraham Maslow
- Adam Smith
- Al Alawi
- Al-Harraq
- Alan Watts
- Albert Camus
- Albertus Magnus
- Al Bistami
- Aldous Huxley
- Al Ghazzali
- Anandamayi
- Angela Of Foligno
- Angelus Silesius
- Apollonius Of Tyana
- Aristotle
- Ashtavakra Gita
- Asvaghosa
- Attar
- Augustine Baker
- Avadhut Gita
- Bankei
- Berdyaev
- Bhagavad Gita
- Blake
- Blosius
- Blue Cliff Record
- Boethius
- Bonhoeffer
- Brihadaranyaka
- Buddha
- Chandogya
- Chang Chen Chi
- Chao Chou Tsung Shen
- Charles Dickens
- Charles Morgan
- Chuang Tzu
- Cicero
- Colin Turnbull
- Conan Doyle
- D.H.Lawrence
- D.T.Suzuki
- Dadu
- Daito Kokushi
- Dante
- De Adhaerendo Deo
- Descartes
- Devikalottara
- Dhammapada
- Dhiravamsa
- Diamond Sutra
- Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
- Dionysius Areopagite
- Dogen
- Dom Chapman
- Dr.Hans Selye
- Eckhart
- Einstein
- Emerson
- Emily Dickinson
- Epictetus
- Erich Fromm
- Erigena
- Ernst Mach
- Eugen Herrigel
- Exodus
- F.H.Bradley
- Father Williams
- Fenelon
- Fo Yen
- Francis Bacon
- Francis Howgill
- Freud
- Galen
- Gampopa
- Gandhi
- Gandavyuha Sutra
- G B Shaw
- Genro
- George Macdonald
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Gospel Of John
- Gospel Of Truth
- H.H.Price
- Hadewijch
- Hafiz
- Hakim Jamal
- Hakuin
- Hakuun Yasutani
- Hans Denk
- Heidegger
- Heraclitus
- Hermann Hesse
- Hildegard
- Hongzhi
- Hora
- Hsin Hsin Ming
- Hsu Yun
- Huang Po
- Hubert Benoit
- Hugh Of St Victor
- Hui Hai
- Hui Ming Ching
- Huineng
- Ibn Arabi
- Isha Upanishad
- J.C.Powys
- J.J.Olier
- J.Maritain
- J.P.De Caussade
- Jacob Bohme
- James Thomson
- Jean Nicholas Grou
- J Krishnamurti
- Joel Goldsmith
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- John Everard
- John Keats
- John Updike
- John Smith Platonist
- John Woolman
- Jose Ortega
- Julian Of Norwich
- Kabir
- Kaivalya
- Katha Upanishad
- Kierkegaard
- Kipling
- Krishna Menon
- Abraham Kook
- Kotzker Rebbe
- Lalla
- Lao Tzu
- Laurens Van Der Post
- Leo Tolstoy
- Lewis Carrol
- Lin Chi
- Lotze
- Lucretius
- M.C.Richards
- Madame Guyon
- Malaval
- Mandukya Upanishad
- Marcus Aurelius
- Margaret Mead
- Marguerite Porete
- Marguerite Yourcenar
- Marie De L'incarnation
- Martin Israel
- Max Planck
- Menachem Mendel Schneerson
- Mechthild Magdeburg
- Michael Mayne
- Milan Kundera
- Molinos
- Nicholas Of Cusa
- Nietzsche
- Nisargadatta
- Padmasambhava
- Pai Chang
- Pali Canon
- Panchadasi
- Papaji
- Pascal
- Patanjali
- Peter Matthiessen
- Peter Sterry
- P G Wodehouse
- Philo
- Plato
- Plotinus
- R.D.Laing
- Rabbi Bunam
- Rabbi Hahman
- Ramakrishna
- Ramana Maharshi
- Ram Dass
- Ramesh Balsekar
- Rilke
- Robert Frost
- Rumi
- Ruysbroeck
- Samuel Johnson
- Sara Banerji
- Sartre
- Secret Of Golden Flower
- Seng T'san
- Seung Sahn
- Shakespeare
- Shankara
- Shelley
- Shen Hui
- Shido Bunan Zenji
- Shih T'ou
- Simone Weil
- Sir Thomas Browne
- Socrates
- St.Athanasius
- St.Augustine
- St.Basil
- St.Bernard
- St. Bonaventure
- St.Catherine Of Genoa
- St.Catherine Of Siena
- St.Francis De Sales
- St.John Of The Cross
- St.John The Divine
- St.Paul
- Stephen Levine
- Surangama Sutra
- Suso
- Svetasvatara Upanishad
- Symeon-New Theologian
- T.H.Huxley
- T.S.Eliot
- Tai Hui
- Tauler
- Teilhard de Chardin
- Tennyson
- Tenzin Palmo
- Teresa Of Avila
- Te Shan
- The Cloud Of Unknowing
- The Gospel Of Thomas
- The Iron Flute
- Theologia Germanica
- Thomas A Kempis
- Thomas Aquinas
- Tozan Ryokai
- Traherne
- Treatise On Resurrection
- Vasishta
- Virginia Woolf
- Vivekananda
- Vladimir Solovyov
- W.B.Yeats
- Walter Hilton
- Walt Whitman
- William Law
- William Of Ockham
- William Of St.Thierry
- William Penn
- Wittgenstein
- Woodrow Wilson
- Wumen
- Yang-shan Hui-ch
- Yuan Wu
- Yung Chia Hsuan Chueh
- Zazengi
Shankara (c. 788–820 CE)
First philosopher in the tradition of Advaita Vedanta, a sub-school of Vedanta, to have consolidated its doctrine. His teachings are based on unity of the soul and God, wherein the latter is viewed as being simultaneously personal and attributeless. In the Smarta tradition, he is regarded as an incarnation of Shiva.Adi Shankara toured India with the purpose of propagating his philosophies primarily through debates with other philosophers. In the process, he founded four mathas (abbeys) which played a key role in the historical development and spread of Hinduism and Advaita Vedanta and continue to do so. Adi Shankara was the founder of the Dashanami monastic order and the Shanmata system of worship.
From Wikipedia
See also Shankara's Life
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