Sankara Explained

Sankara can refer to:

People

• Danladi Abdullahi Sankara (born 1954), Nigerian politician and senator
• Mariam Sankara (born 1953), First Lady of Burkina Faso, widow of Thomas Sankara
• Thomas Sankara (1949–1987), Marxist revolutionary leader of Burkina Faso (from 1983–1987)
• Adi Shankara (788–820), Hindu philosopher credited with reviving Hinduism
• Shiva, whom Hindus, especially Shaivites, worship as supreme God or their Supreme Being

Films

• Sankara (2007 film), a Sri Lankan film directed by Prasanna Jayakody
• Shankara (2016 film), a 2016 Indian Telugu-language action film by Tatineni Satya

Other

• Sankara, Burkina Faso, a village in Burkina Faso
• Sankara Eye Foundation, a US-based non-profit working to eradicate curable blindness in India
• Sankara Stones, magical rocks from the 1984 feature film Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
• Sankhara, mental formations in Buddhist philosophy

See also

• Sankar (disambiguation)
• Shankara (disambiguation)
• Shankar (disambiguation)