Ramanandi sect

Ramanandi sect

This Vaishnava denomination has played an important role in shaping the social and spiritual climate of the populous Ganges valley. The Ramanandi movement owes its origin to the saint Ramananda, who lived in Varanasi in the 14th century, and influenced such popular Indian saints like Tulsidas and Kabir among others. 1It is one of the largest and most egalitarian Hindu sects around the Gangetic plains, and its ascetic wing constitutes the largest Vaishnava monastic order and may possibly be the largest monastic order in all of India. [2]

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1 http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8107/bios2.html

2 Pinch, William R. Peasants and Monks in British India. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1996. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft22900465/


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