Facts: - philosophy: hindu philosophy , shuddhadvaita , pushtimarg , vedanta - honors: venerated sampraday samudhhar sambhrut shri purushottam vadananlavatar srvamnay sanchar vaishnavmnay prachryaprakar as shri bilwamangalacharya sampradayi karpit samrajya sanakhand bhoomandalacharya varya jagadguru mahaprabhu '' shrimad vallabhacharya '' shriman narayana narada ved vyas vishnuswami - birth date: 1479 - name: shree vallabhacharya - image: shri_mahaprabhuji . jpg - birth place: champaran chhattisgarh , india -rrb- , chhattisgarh -lrb- in present-day raipur district , Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of vallabha acharya .
vallabhacharya -lrb- 1479 -- 1531 ce -rrb- was a devotional philosopher , who founded the pushti sect in india , following the philosophy of shuddha advaita -lrb- pure non-dualism -rrb- .vallabhacharya accepted the ' acharya ' designation of vishnuswami sampraday -lrb- rudra sampraday -rrb- upon request of bilvamangala acharya , the last vishnuswami sampraday acharya before vallabhacharya .this was after vallabhacharya won the famous debate of brahmavada over shankaras in the courtyard of the emperor krishna deva raya of vijayanagara empire -- the prosperous south indian empire .apart from being the acharya of vishnuswami sampradaya , vallabhacharya also propagated the pushtimarga upon the god krishna 's order and thus became the acharya of not only vishnuswami sampradaya but also pushti sampradaya .he is the acharya and guru within the vaishnava traditions as promulgated and prescribed by the vedanta philosophy .he is associated with vishnuswami , a prominent acharya of rudra sampradaya out of the four vaishnava sampradayas .within indian philosophy , he is known as the writer of anubhashya -lrb- a commentary on brahm sutra -rrb- , shodash granth or sixteen ' stotras ' -lrb- tracts -rrb- and several commentaries on the bhagavata purana , which describes the many lilas -lrb- pastimes -rrb- of the avatar , krishna .vallabhaacharya occupies a unique place in indian culture as a scholar , a philosopher and devotional -lrb- bhakti -rrb- preacher .he is widely considered as the last of the four great vaishnava acharyas who established the various vaishnava schools of thought based on vedantic philosophy , the other three -lrb- preceding him -rrb- being ramanujacharya , madhvacharya and nimbarkacharya .he is especially known as a lover and a propagator of bhagavata dharma .he was born in champaranya in india .