MADHVACHARYA

About:

• Madhvacharya (CE 1199-1278 or CE 1238–1317) was also known as Purna Prajna and Ānanda Tīrtha.
  
  
• He was a Hindu philosopher and the chief proponent of the Dvaita (dualism) school of Vedanta.
  
  
• Madhva called his philosophy Tattvavāda meaning "arguments from a realist viewpoint".
  
  
• His greatest work is considered to be the Anuvyakhyana, a philosophical supplement to his bhasya on the Brahma Sutras composed with a poetic structure.
  
  
• Madhvacharya was a critic of Adi Shankara's Advaita Vedanta and Ramanuja's Vishishtadvaita Vedanta teachings.
  
  
• Madhva established the Krishna Mutt at Udupi with a murti secured from Dwarka Gujarat in CE 1285.