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Advaita Vedanta
Non-dualism
c.8th c. CE – present · Dharmic / Indian · Living · India; global influence on modern spirituality
V. THE MEDIEVAL WORLD — c.500 – 1500 CE
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### Its timeline
- c.800–500 BCE Upanishads.
- c.6th–7th c. CE Gaudapada's non-dualism, showing clear engagement with Buddhist Madhyamaka.
- c.788–820 CE Shankara; the four mathas at Sringeri, Puri, Dwarka and Jyotirmath.
- 1017–1137, 1238–1317 CE Ramanuja and Madhva attack Advaita as effectively atheist and as making devotion meaningless. The three-way argument is the central debate of Indian philosophy.
- 1879–1950 CE Ramana Maharshi at Arunachala; silence and self-enquiry, with no formal organisation.
- 1893 CE Vivekananda presents Advaita at Chicago as the essence of Hinduism — a presentation that shaped what the world thinks Hinduism is.
- 1970s–present Neo-Advaita in the West: the conclusion (there is no self, nothing to attain) taught without the preparatory discipline. Traditional teachers regard this as skipping the entire path and keeping only the last sentence.
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