Vedantadeshika

Vedantadeshika (born 1268, Tuppule, near Kanchipuram, Vijayanagar, India—died 1370, Srirangam) was a leading theologian of the Vishishtadvaita (Qualified Nondualist) school of philosophy and founder of the Vadakalai subsect of the Shrivaishnavas, a religious movement of South India. Vedantadeshika was born into a distinguished Shrivaishnava family that followed the teachings of Ramanuja, an 11th–12th-century saint. A precocious child, Vedantadeshika was said to have been taken at age five to meet the sect’s leader, Vatsya Varadacharya, who...