Kallil Temple is 22 km away from Kalady, the birthplace of Adi Sankaracharya.

It is located very near the accepted birthplace of Sri Shankara.

In Missouri ( which we are including in our general Midwest region ) you can glance into Mark Twain's birthplace at Hannibal, see the landmarks of his life and writings and visualize where Huck Finn hatched his boyish mischief.

Anatolia is known as the birthplace of minted coinage ( as opposed to unminted coinage, which first appears in Mesopotamia at a much earlier date ) as a medium of exchange, some time in the 7th century BC in Lydia.

The third is the artist's only reference to music, created for a monument at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Claude Debussy's birthplace.

( her birthplace ); in Attica at Brauron and Mounikhia ( near Piraeus ); in Sparta.

After Heine's German birthplace of Düsseldorf had rejected, allegedly for anti-Semitic motives, a centennial monument to the radical German-Jewish poet ( 1797 – 1856 ), his incensed German-American admirers, including Carl Schurz, started a movement to place one instead in Midtown Manhattan, at Fifth Avenue and 59th Street.

He is referring to the twinned monasteries of Monkwearmouth and Jarrow, near modern-day Newcastle, claimed as his birthplace, there is also a tradition that he was born at Monkton, two miles from the monastery at Jarrow.

Cambridge is also the birthplace of Thai king Bhumibol Adulyadej ( Rama IX ), who is the world's longest reigning monarch at age 82 ( 2010 ), as well as the longest reigning monarch in Thai history.

Babbage's birthplace is disputed, but he was most likely born at 44 Crosby Row, Walworth Road, London, England.

Statue of Gauss at his birthplace, Braunschweig

* Photo of the birthplace of Columcille at Gartan

The hope was to have both buried at their birthplace in Fenghua if and when it was possible.

The house which was his birthplace at 62 Carver Street no longer exists ; also, the street has since been renamed " Charles Street South ".

These attract around 1500-3000 speakers, and the best-attended conferences are regularly those held in Central or Eastern Europe, close to the birthplace of Esperanto ( see statistics at World Congress of Esperanto ).

The birthplace of FDR at SpringwoodRoosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in the Hudson Valley town of Hyde Park, New York.

Homereia also stood at Chios, Ephesus, and Smyrna, which were among the city-states that claimed to be his birthplace.

In 2002, the Espace Rousseau was established at 40 Grand-Rue, Geneva, Rousseau's birthplace.

Examples include the concrete obelisk located at the Jefferson Davis State Historic Site in Fairview, Christian County, Kentucky, marking his birthplace.

Keats believed that he was born at the inn, a birthplace of humble origins, but there is no evidence to support his belief.

However, the ship's roster from his family's arrival at Ellis Island lists his birthplace as Párdány, Kingdom of Hungary, in what is today the village of Međa in Serbia, not far from the Romanian border.

Kagoshima was the birthplace and scene of the last stand of Saigō Takamori, a legendary figure in Meiji Japan in 1877 at the end of the Satsuma Rebellion.

Lykaion as the birthplace of Zeus, although tradition had handed down at least two other locations for Zeus ’ birth.

Larissa was indeed the birthplace of Meno, who thus became, along with Xenophon and a few others, one of the generals leading several thousands Greeks from various places, in the ill-fated expedition of 401 ( retold in Xenophon's Anabasis ) meant to help Cyrus the Younger, son of Darius II, king of Persia, overthrow his elder brother Artaxerxes II and take over the throne of Persia ( Meno is featured in Plato's dialogue bearing his name, in which Socrates uses the example of " the way to Larissa " to help explain Meno the difference between true opinion and science ( Meno, 97a – c ) ; this " way to Larissa " might well be on the part of Socrates an attempt to call to Meno's mind a " way home ", understood as the way toward one's true and " eternal " home reached only at death, that each man is supposed to seek in his life ).

Historical marker located at the birthplace of Martin Van Buren.

Nova Scotia was also the birthplace and home of Samuel Cunard, a British shipping magnate, born at Halifax, Nova Scotia, who founded the Cunard Line.

Hindu monotheist notions of Brahman likewise reached their classical form with the teaching of Adi Shankara.

Adi Shankara visited the pre-existing ( Sharada Peeth ) in Kashmir in late 8th century or early 9th century AD.

Adi Shankara opened the southern door by defeating in debate all the scholars there in all the various scholastic disciplines such as Mimamsa, Vedanta and other branches of Hindu philosophy ; he ascended the throne of Transcendent wisdom of that temple.

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* Adi Shankara, the first philosopher to consolidate the doctrine of Advaita Vedanta, a sub-school of Vedanta

* Adi Shankara, Hindu sage ( b. 788 ).

Narendra and other members of the Math spent their time in meditation, discussing the philosophies and teachings of spiritual teachers including Ramakrishna, Adi Shankara, Ramanuja, and Jesus Christ.

Swami Vivekananda believed that the essence of Hinduism was best expressed in the Vedanta philosophy, based on the interpretation of Adi Shankara.

Most famous among them are the chatur-amnaya mathas established by Adi Shankara which formed the nodal centres of under whose guidance the ancient Order of Vedantic monks were re-organised under ten names Dashanami Sampradaya, Ashta matha ( Eight monasteries ) of Udupi founded by Madhvacharya ( Madhwa acharya ) a dwaitha philosopher.

Adi Shankara, on the other hand, always used Lokāyata, not Cārvāka.

The concept of māyā was introduced by the ninth-century Hindu philosopher Adi Shankara.

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Adi Shankara has said that there is only one Supreme Para-Brahman and all the other deities are the forms and expansions of this Para-Brahman.

They were against Vedanta system of Adi Shankara which preaches love and affection and shuns violence.

Some argues that it was founded by the ruler of Venad Udaya Marttanda Varma ( a feudatory with capital at Kollam ) or by the Vedic philosopher Adi Shankara on the backdrop of the shivite revival among the vaishnavite Nambuthiri Community who are considered to be the ' Nampthali ' lost Tribe of the Jews or simply it is a derivation of the Saptarshi Era.

It focuses on the knowledge of Brahman provided by traditional vedanta literature and the teachings of its founder, Adi Shankara.

Though Advaita philosophy existed from the period of the Vedanta and the Upanishads, and was advocated by many saints like Sukha, Sanaka, Goudapada and Govinda Bhagvatpada, Adi Shankara is its most famous and profound presenter ..

According to Adi Shankara in his Vivekachudamani morally right action ( characterised as humbly and compassionately performing the primary duty of good to others without expectation of material or spiritual reward ), helps " purify the heart " and provide mental tranquility but it alone does not give us " direct perception of the Reality ".

Adi Shankara (, pronounced, ) ( 789 CE ), also known as and was an Indian philosopher from Kaladi in present day Eranakulam district, Kerala who consolidated the doctrine of advaita vedānta.

Adi Shankara is believed to be the organizer of the Dashanami monastic order and the founder of the Shanmata tradition of worship.

Traditional accounts of Adi Shankara's life can be found in the Shankara Vijayams, which are poetic works that contain a mix of biographical and legendary material, written in the epic style.