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Identification with and
followership of
sampradayas is not static, as
sampradayas allows flexibility where one can
leave one
sampradaya and
enter another or practice...
- Nārada Muni is
recorded as main
teacher in all four of the Vaiṣṇava
Sampradāyas.
According to tradition, he
initiated Śrī Nimbārkācārya into the sacred...
- also
known as
Pushtimarg (Path of
Nourishing or Flourishing) or
Vallabha Sampradāya, is a sect
within the
Vaishnavism tradition of Hinduism. It was established...
- In Hinduism, the
Rudra Sampradaya is one of four
Vaishnava sampradayas, a
tradition of
disciplic succession in the religion.
Vaishnavism is distinguished...
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Vedic knowledge descends from Brahma. In the
Vedic conception,
these sampradayas began at the
creation of the
universe and
endure to the
present moment...
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classical philosophical positions and
previous four
major Vaishnavite sampradayas. It
declines to
produce theological and
philosophical commentaries, based...
- The
Adinath Sampradaya was a
sadhu sub-sect of the
greater Nath tradition.
Followers of this
tradition were
given Sannyasa diksha, thus
renouncing householder...
- the
understanding of Vedanta.
Other examples are the
Tantric Avadhūta
Sampradāyas and Ekadaṇḍi sannyāsa
traditions outside the
control of the Shankara...
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Beyond the four
major sampradayas, the
situation is more complicated, with the
Vaikhanasas being much
older than
those four
sampradayas, and a
number of additional...
- type of vegetarianism,
similar to that
practiced generally by
Vaishnava sampradayas, that
entails abstaining from
animal flesh, eggs, onions, and garlic...