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The Bhakti Movement

Devotion over ritual and caste — the poet-saints who reshaped Hindu religious life from the seventh century onward. 3 entries.

Overview

Bhakti movementThe Bhakti movement was a devotional current in Hinduism, emerging in Tamil Nadu by the 6th century CE and spreading across the subcontinent through the 17th century, that emphasized personal devotion to a chosen deity over Brahminical ritual and caste hierarchy.
Guru NanakGuru Nanak was the founder of Sikhism, a teacher of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Punjab whose compositions form the opening of the Guru Granth Sahib.
TulsīdāsTulsīdās was the sixteenth-century poet-saint who composed the Rāmcaritmānas, the Awadhi Rāmāyaṇa that became the central devotional text of the Hindi-speaking north.