Madhva
1190 CE – 1278 CElived
Pajaka, Hoysala country
- Dvaita
Took the opposite extreme from Śaṅkara: God, souls and matter are permanently and irreducibly distinct. Unusually for Vedanta, he argued that some souls are never liberated.
Known for
- unqualified dualism
- the fivefold difference
- hierarchy of souls