Advaita Vedānta

School·Founded 800 CE·uncounted — a school, not a membership

Vedic Religion → Hinduism → Advaita Vedānta

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Not two. The self and the absolute are one.

Shankara's nondualism: only Brahman is finally real, the world is appearance, and the innermost self is not like Brahman but is Brahman. The most influential philosophical school of Hinduism.

The founding

Its founding is bound to Adi Shankara — 800 CE.

What it holds

Reality. Only Brahman is finally real; the world is appearance.

The divine. Nondual — god-language is provisional.

Death and after. Liberation is recognizing what you already are.

The line

descent is public here — where it came from, what left it
Vedic Religion — c. 1500 BCE Hinduism Advaita Vedānta — 800 CE

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Back to the overview — the living page: elements, discussion, the web The Belief room — the claims themselves, with sources and context Branch Advaita Vedānta — inherit everything, change what you must

Numbers count Panfaith activity only — never real-world adherence; the global following above is a stated estimate, not a Panfaith count.

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