Ramanuja
Sign in to saveRamanuja ('; Middle Tamil: Rāmāṉujam; Classical Sanskrit: Rāmānuja; 1077 – 1157, trad. date 1017-1137), also known as Ramanujacharya''', was an Indian Hindu philosopher, guru and social reformer. He is one of the most important exponents of the Sri Vaishnavism tradition in Hinduism. His philosophical foundations for devotional practice were influential in the Bhakti movement.
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Ramanuja (1077-1157) was an influential Indian Hindu philosopher and guru who became one of the most important leaders of Sri Vaishnavism, a major tradition within Hinduism centered on devotion to Vishnu. His philosophical ideas about devotional practice significantly shaped the Bhakti movement, a broader religious movement emphasizing personal devotion to God that spread across India.
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27 sectionsContents
- Early life
- Career
- Hagiographies
- Historical background
- Early life
- Induction into Vaishnavism
- Persecution
- Reformation
- Attempts on Ramanuja's life
- Writings
- Philosophy
- Rāmānuja’s Epistemology
- Ramanuja’s Ontology
- Rāmānuja’s Soteriology
- Ramanuja's Ethics
- Criticism of Sankara
- Hermeneutic Criticism
- Vedas as Doctrinally Unified Corpus
- Comparison with other Vedānta schools
- Influence
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Ramanuja ('; Middle Tamil: Rāmāṉujam; Classical Sanskrit: Rāmānuja; 1077 – 1157, trad. date 1017-1137), also known as Ramanujacharya''', was an Indian Hindu philosopher, guru and social reformer. He is one of the most important exponents of the Sri Vaishnavism tradition in Hinduism. His philosophical foundations for devotional practice were influential in the Bhakti movement.
Ramanuja's guru was Yādava Prakāśa, a scholar who, traditionally, is said to have belonged to the Advaita Vedānta tradition, but probably was a Bhedabheda scholar. Sri Vaishnava tradition holds that Ramanuja disagreed with his guru and the non-dualistic Advaita Vedānta, and instead followed in the footsteps of Tamil Alvārs tradition, the scholars Nāthamuni and Yamunāchārya. Ramanuja is famous as the chief proponent of Vishishtadvaita school of Vedānta, and his disciples were likely authors of texts such as the Shatyayaniya Upanishad. Ramanuja himself wrote influential texts, such as Sanskrit bhāsyas on the Brahma Sutras and the Bhagavad Gita.