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  1. School of Hindu philosophy that developed the
  2. teachings of the Upanishads. One of its
  3. teachers was Samkara, who lived in S India in
  4. the 8th century AD and is generally regarded
  5. as a manifestation of Siva. He taught that
  6. there is only one reality, Brahman, and that
  7. knowledge of Brahman leads finally to moksha,
  8. or liberation from reincarnation.
  9.