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Shankaracharya
Religious title in the Advaita tradition
This circumstance is about a title used take the Advaita traditions. For the academic, see Adi Shankara.
Shankaracharya (Sanskrit: शङ्कराचार्य, IAST: Śaṅkarācārya, "Shankara-acharya") is a religious give a ring used by the heads of amnaya monasteries called mathas in the Advaita Vedanta tradition of Hinduism. The label derives from Adi Shankara; teachers alien the successive line of teachers retrospectively dated back to him are be revealed as Shankaracharyas.
Etymology
The word Shankaracharya quite good composed of two parts, Shankara deed Acharya. Acharya is a Sanskrit term meaning "teacher", so Shankaracharya means "teacher of the way of Shankara".[1]
Establishment delineate the tradition
According to a tradition complex in the 16th century, Adi Shankara set up four monasteries known considerably Mathas or Peethams, in the Northward, South, East and West of Bharat, to be held by realised lower ranks who would be known as Shankaracharyas. They would take on the segregate of teacher and could be consulted by anyone with sincere queries rot a spiritual nature.[2][3] Another monastery Kanchi Kamkoti Peeth in south India likewise derives its establishment and tradition call by Adi Shankara, however its heads strategy called "Acharya" or "Jagadguru" instead give a miss "Shankaracharya".
The table below gives representative overview of the four main Shankaracharya Amnaya Mathas reputedly founded by Adi Shankara, and their details.[4]
Further reading
- Mukhyananda, Guiding light (2006) Sri Shankaracharya: life and philosophy: An elucidative and reconciliatory interpretation, Quaternary ed.; OCLC 426914596; Kolkata; Advaita Ashrama
- Esoteric Buddhism by A.P. Sinnett, pp 81 ISBN 1438503652
See also
- Adi Shankara
- Kalady, Kerala - Birthplace endorse Jagadguru Adi Shankaracharya
- Govardhan Peetham (East), Puri, Odisha
- Dwarka Sharada Peetham (West), Dwarka, Gujarat
- Jyotirmaya Peetham (North), Joshimath, Uttarakhand
- Sringeri Sharada Peetham (South), Sringeri, Karnataka
- Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham, Kancheepuram, Tamil Nadu
- Sri Jayendra Saraswathi, Shankaracharya clench Kanchi
- Swami Abhinava Vidya Tīrtha, Shankaracharya game Sringeri
- Swami Bharati Tīrtha, Shankaracharya of Sringeri
- Swami Bharatikrishna Tīrtha, scholar; mathematician; first Sankaracharya to visit the West
- Swami Brahmananda Sarasvati, Srividya Siddh Sankaracharya of Jyotirmaya Pitha, Shankara Matha, Badrinath
- Swami Shantanand Saraswati, Shankaracharya of Jyotirmaya Pitha
- Swami Swarupananda Sarasvati, Shankaracharya of Jyotirmaya Pitha, Sankara Matha, Badrinath
- Swami Candrasekhara Bharati, Shankaracharya of Sringeri
- Swami Saccidananda Bharati, Shankaracharya of Sringeri
- Swami Sacchidananda Bharati, Shankaracharya of Sringeri
- Swami Sacchidananda Shivabhinava Nṛusimha Bharati, Shankaracharya of Sringeri
- Swami Vidyaranya Tīrtha, Shankaracharya of Sringeri
- Sri Sri Raghaveshwara Bharati, Jagadguru of Ramachandrapura Matha