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An eighth-century philosopher and monk, Shankara systematized Advaita Vedanta, which teaches the identity of the self with the absolute (Brahman) and the illusory nature of the world (maya), founded monasteries across India and reorganized Hinduism in the face of Buddhism.
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Adi Shankaracharya leans further toward religious than 94% of the 560 personalities in the catalog.
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On Trade, Adi Shankaracharya sits close to the catalog median.
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Aristotle's political philosophy, defending a mixed constitution of monarchical, aristocratic and popular elements to avoid both tyranny and radical democracy, reserving full citizenship for those with virtue, property and the education to deliberate.
Branch that unites conservatism and environmental protection, defending the preservation of nature as part of the tradition and heritage to be passed on to future generations, with prudence toward change.
Current advocating a monarch who actually governs, as constitutional head of the executive or absolute sovereign, over a federation of states or regions with broad self-government, as in the German Empire of 1871, the United Arab Emirates, and Malaysia.
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Techno-SocialismRadical Left31%
A Greek philosopher and community leader in southern Italy, Pythagoras linked mathematics and cosmology to religious discipline. Later accounts connect Pythagoreans to political influence in Magna Graecia, though his own ideas are hard to separate from those of his followers.
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An island province of Indonesia, Bali is the only Hindu-majority one in a Muslim-majority country, with a religious culture that organizes life, temples and the calendar, a tourism economy and tension between tradition, migration and overdevelopment.
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A Hindu monarchy founded by Prithvi Narayan Shah in 1768, the Kingdom of Nepal resisted the East India Company, passed through hereditary Rana rule and absolute monarchy until 1990 and was abolished in 2008, at the end of the Maoist civil war.
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