# Adi Shankara (@adi-shankara)

Adi Shankara is an influential figure in philosophy, religion, political thought, or cultural criticism. The profile centers documented teachings, works, institutions, and historical setting. Dates, biography, textual authorship, and later tradition are distinguished where the evidence is uncertain. Reception is diverse and sometimes contested.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Adi Shankara's public record._

## Topics

- [Works and biography](/@adi-shankara/biography.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Ideas and Practice](/@adi-shankara/ideas-and-practice.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Knowledge and liberation](/@adi-shankara/knowledge.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Nonduality](/@adi-shankara/nonduality.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Reception and Legacy](/@adi-shankara/reception-and-legacy.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Texts and Historical Context](/@adi-shankara/texts-and-historical-context.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://plato.stanford.edu/search/searcher.py?query=Adi%20Shankara
- blog: https://www.britannica.com/search?query=Adi%20Shankara
- blog: https://iep.utm.edu/

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "adi-shankara", "question": "…"}`.