Adi Shankaracharya
Adi Shankaracharya (Sanskrit: आदि शङ्कर, आदि शङ्कराचार्य) was an Indian Vedic scholar and teacher whose works present a harmonizing reading of the sastras, with liberating knowledge of the self at its core, synthesizing the Advaita Vedanta teachings of his time. The title of Shankracharya , used by heads of the amnaya monasteries is derived from his name.
