Pre-Shankara Vedanta philosopher who held a bhedabheda (difference and non-difference) view — Brahman and the world are both different and non-different, a position Shankara criticized.
The world is both identical with and different from Brahman; this synthesis avoids both pure non-dualism (which must explain away the world) and pure dualism (which cannot account for the unity of reality).
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