Ramanuja teaches Vishishtadvaita, the qualified non-dualism in which souls and world are God's body, and opens the Sri Vaishnava community's teaching beyond a narrow circle; his Sri Bhashya stands against Shankara's reading of the same texts.
Tagged: Hindu Vaishnavism
The Event
- Date
- 1017–1137 (exact)
- Also called
- Ramanujacharya
- Era
- Classical; Standard periodization of Hindu history
- Location
- Srirangam; today Tamil Nadu, India
- Traditions
- Hinduism
- Streams
- Vaishnavism
- Key figures
- Ramanuja
- Key texts
- Sri Bhashya
Primary Sources
- Ramanuja, Sri Bhashya
Secondary Sources
- Flood, An Introduction to Hinduism (Cambridge, 1996)
- Bryant, Krishna: A Sourcebook (Oxford, 2007)
Provenance: HIST-0316; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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