Advaita Vedanta Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Dvaita=== {{main|Dvaita}} Madhvacharya was also a critic of [[Advaita]] Vedānta. Advaita's nondualism asserted that Atman (Self) and Brahman are identical (both in bondage and liberation<ref name=":1">Tapasyananda, Swami. ''Bhakti Schools of Vedanta'' pg. 180-181</ref>), there is interconnected oneness of all Selfs and Brahman, and there are no pluralities.<ref name=stoker2011mc/><ref name=staffordbetty215/> Madhva in contrast asserted that Atman (Self) and Brahman are different (both in bondage and liberation<ref name=":1" />), only [[Vishnu]] is the Lord (Brahman), individual Selfs are also different and depend on Vishnu, and there are pluralities.<ref name=stoker2011mc>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Madhva (1238–1317) |first=Valerie |last=Stoker |encyclopedia=Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy |year=2011 |access-date=2 February 2016 |url=http://www.iep.utm.edu/madhva/ |archive-date=12 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161012131604/http://www.iep.utm.edu/madhva/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=staffordbetty215>Stafford Betty (2010), Dvaita, Advaita, and Viśiṣṭādvaita: Contrasting Views of Mokṣa, Asian Philosophy: An International Journal of the Philosophical Traditions of the East, Volume 20, Issue 2, pp. 215–224</ref> Madhvacharya stated that both Advaita Vedānta and [[Mahayana Buddhism]] were a [[nihilism|nihilistic]] school of thought.<ref name=smschari6/> Madhvacharya wrote four major texts, including ''Upadhikhandana'' and ''Tattvadyota'', primarily dedicated to criticizing Advaita.<ref name=smschari6>SMS Chari (1999), Advaita and Visistadvaita, Motilal Banarsidass, {{ISBN|978-8120815353}}, pp. 5–7</ref> Followers of [[ISKCON]] are highly critical of Advaita Vedānta, regarding it as ''māyāvāda'', identical to Mahayana Buddhism.<ref group=web>Gaura Gopala Dasa, [https://gosai.com/writings/the-self-defeating-philosophy-of-mayavada ''The Self-Defeating Philosophy of Mayavada''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709183434/https://gosai.com/writings/the-self-defeating-philosophy-of-mayavada |date=9 July 2021 }}</ref><ref group=web>{{Cite web |url=http://www.harekrishnatemple.com/chapter21.html |title=''Mayavada Philosophy'' |access-date=3 January 2019 |archive-date=14 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170214115618/http://www.harekrishnatemple.com/chapter21.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page