Shankara travelled across the subcontinent to propagate his philosophy through discourses and debates with other thinkers. He is reputed to have four mathas ("monasteries"), which helped in the historical development, revival and spread advaita Vedanta of which he is known as the greatest revivalist Adi Shankara is believed to be the organizer of the Dashanami monastic order and the founder of the shanmata tradition of worship.
His works in sanskrit concern themselves with establishing the doctrine (nondualism). He also established the importance of monastic life as sanctioned in the upanishads and the Brahma Sutra in a time when the mimamsa school established strict ritualism and ridiculed monasticism.
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