Born in South India, Ramanuja was founder of the Vishista-Advaita ("Qualified Nondualism") school of Vedanta and leading theologian of the medieval bhakti (devotion) movement. He championed Vaishnavism (devotion to Vishnu) and was the chief opponent of Shankara's philosophy.
Ramanuja taught that the Absolute is not merely impersonal and unqualified but includes in its being the phenomenal world. He wrote brilliant commentaries on the Bhagavad Gita, the Brahma-Sutra and the major Upanishads.
links
Introducing
Vedanta,
from "Darshana
Indian Philosophy Page"
Sri
Ramanuja
from the "Sri
Vaishnava Home Page"
also www.ramanuja.org
Self-Consciousness
In Ramanuja's Vedanta
Prof. K. R. Sundararajan, Ph.D.
bibliography
The Body Divine:
The Symbol of the Body in the Works of Teilhard De
Chardin and Ramanuja
(Cambridge Studies in Religious Traditions, No 2)
Anne Hunt Overzee / Hardcover / Published 1992
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The Face of Truth:
A Study of Meaning and Metaphysics
in the Vedantic Theology of Ramanuja
Julius J. Lipner
Paperback / Published 1986
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The Impact of Ramanuja's Teaching on Life and Conditions in Society
Ramanuja Gita Bhasya
The ethical philosophy of the Gita:
a comparative and critical study of the interpretations
of
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Tilak and Ramanuja
The Theology of RAmAnuja;
An Essay in Interreligious Understanding
John B. Carman / Published 1974
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Brahma-Sutras according to Sri Ramanuja
Badarayana
translated by Swami Vireshwarananda
and Swami Adidevananda
from Vedanta
Press
The Bhagavata Bhakti Cult and the Three Great Acharyas:
Sankara, Rumanuja and Vallabha
by Ramnarayan Vyas, Sahitya-Ratna.
Life of Sri Ramanuja
by Swami Ramakrishnananda.
Translated from Bengali by Swami Budhananda.
Fourth edition, 1986
from Vedanta
Press
Ramanuja on the Bhagavadgita
A condensed rendering of His Gitabhasya,
notes and an intro, by J. A. B. Van Buitenen
Ramanuja's Teachings in His Own Words
Yamunacharya.
2d ed. Bombay:
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 1970.
Sri Ramanuja on the Gita
S.S. Raghauachar.
Mangalore, India:
Sri Ramakrishna Ashrama, 1969.
Books
on Ramanuja at UC Berkeley