What is "sankara"

Sankara can refer to:

• Shiva, whom Hindus, especially Shaivites, worship as supreme God or their Supreme Being
• Adi Sankara, Hindu philosopher of roughly 800 CE credited with reviving Hinduism
• Thomas Sankara (1949–1987), Marxist revolutionary leader of Burkina Faso (from 1983–1987)
• Sankara (2006 film), a 2006 film
• Shankara, a 2015 Telugu film
• Sankara (Introspection), the debut film by Sri Lankan film director Prasanna Jayakody
• Sankara Eye Foundation, a US-based non-profit working to eradicate curable blindness in India
• Sankara, Burkina Faso, a village in Burkina Faso
• Sankhara, mental formations in Buddhist philosophy
• Sankara Stones, magical rocks from the 1984 feature film Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
• Sankara, a clan from the south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, India
• Sankara, a rock band from South Wales, UK

Sankara is a 2006 Sinhalese language film directed by debutant, Prasanna Jayakody. The film is about the inner struggle of a young Buddhist monk who finds himself attracted to a pretty village girl.