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Brahma Sampradaya

ब्राह्म सम्प्रदाय hi

Disciplic succession of gurus starting with Brahma

  • Also called Madhva tradition

A path that branches,
meets and parts.

Schools and lineages

Branches and affiliations

Many paths. Shared histories.

What this means

Association and branching, in both directions. Traditions overlap, split and re-merge; this is not a single-origin family tree, and being listed under another tradition is not the same as being recognised by it.

Does not imply a clean single-origin family tree · that the parent recognises the branch

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Recorded as a branch of

Brahma Sampradaya Disciplic succession of gurus starting with Brahma

Overview

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Attributed founding

Whom the records name as founder

What this means

An attribution, and a contested one in most traditions: it does not mean the tradition began fully formed, nor that later adherents accept the attribution.

Does not imply that the tradition began fully formed · that later adherents accept the attribution

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Connections

How Brahma Sampradaya connects

Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.

Identification 1

What this means

One figure treated as another in some context. Not literal identity in all contexts, and usually a claim by a third party.

Does not imply literal identity in all contexts · that either tradition made the identification

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Sources

Sources and evidence

Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.

3 statements on this record

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Data
Wikidata · CC0 1.0
Text
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged

Review

Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.

Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.

Saileshpat · CC BY-SA 4.0

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