Sankara
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Sankara can refer to:
- Thomas SankaraThomas SankaraThomas Isidore Noël Sankara was a Burkinabé military captain, Marxist revolutionary, Pan-Africanist theorist, and President of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987...
(1949-1987), Marxist revolutionary leader of Burkina Faso (from 1983-1987) - Adi Sankara, Hindu philosopher of roughly 800 CE credited with reviving Hinduism
- ShivaShivaShiva is a major Hindu deity, and is the destroyer god or transformer among the Trimurti, the Hindu Trinity of the primary aspects of the divine. God Shiva is a yogi who has notice of everything that happens in the world and is the main aspect of life. Yet one with great power lives a life of a...
, whom Hindus, especially Shaivites, worship as supreme God or their Supreme Being - SankharaSankhara' or ' is a term figuring prominently in the teaching of the Buddha. The word means "that which has been put together" and "that which puts together". In the first sense, refers to conditioned phenomena generally but specifically to all mental "dispositions"...
, mental formations in Buddhist philosophy - Sankara Stones, magical rocks from the 1984 film Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
- Sankara (Introspection), the debut film by Sri Lankan film director Prasanna Jayakody
- SankaraSankara, Burkina FasoSankara, Burkina Faso is a village in the Tiéfora Department of Comoé Province in south-western Burkina Faso. The village has a population of 891....
, a village in Burkina FasoBurkina FasoBurkina Faso – also known by its short-form name Burkina – is a landlocked country in west Africa. It is surrounded by six countries: Mali to the north, Niger to the east, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and Côte d'Ivoire to the southwest.Its size is with an estimated... - Sankara Eye FoundationSankara Eye FoundationSankara Eye Foundation USA, is a US-based non-profit organization that works toward eliminating curable blindness in India. SEF's mission is to realize the goal of "Vision 20/20 by the year 2020," - perform 1 million free eye surgeries annually by the year 2020.SEF is a 501 registered non-profit...
, a US-based non-profit working to eradicate curable blindness in IndiaIndiaIndia , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...