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person8th-9th century CE

Bhāskara

Disciplines:
metaphysics
vedanta

Summary

Vedanta philosopher who criticized Shankara's Advaita from a bhedabheda perspective, arguing that the world's difference from Brahman is real, not illusory.

Core Contribution

Criticized Shankara's maya doctrine: if the world is merely maya (illusion), then devotion, practice, and liberation are equally illusory. The individual soul is both one with and different from Brahman in a real, not merely apparent, sense.

Notable Works & Achievements

Commentary on Brahma Sutras

Historical Influences

Bādarāyaṇa Upanishads

Intellectual Lineage

Vedanta Bhedabheda Tradition

Contemporaries & Peers

Shankara's students

Minds Influenced

Ramanuja

Intellectual Posterity

Bhedabheda Vedanta

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