Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c7.s7.t15.52

v1.c7.s7.t15.52

Since Shankara, Madhva was another famous thinker of this school. He was born in southern India and accepted the education of traditional ideology of Brahmanism. In his early years, the relationship between Brahman and Atman by Shankara influenced him, but later there were some new opinions in this aspect, and Madhva proposed his theory. There are many works written by Madhva, and he had the notes and commentaries to the ancient canons of Brahmanism. The annotations of “*Brahma-sutra*” were deeply influenced. He also concentrated on the ideas of some other schools of philosophy, absorbing the theories from Samkhya, Vaisesika, Nyāya and Jainism. Like great majority of ideologists of Vedanta, Madhva inherited and differences between god (Brahman) and small self, god and material, one kind of substance and another kind of substance, small self and small self, small self and matter.