Acintya-bhedābheda
A living tradition within Vedānta (Uttara Mīmāṃsā).
Acintya-bhedābheda is a living tradition within Vedānta (Uttara Mīmāṃsā). Also written Achintya Bheda Abheda.
Origin
Founder named in the sources: Caitanya. No founding year is given below, because the sources read do not agree on one and a date has not been chosen for them. Britannica: the Gauḍīya sect founded by Caitanya (1485–1533) teaches acintya-bhedābheda, 'inconceivable duality and nonduality' — 'the belief that the relation between God and the world is beyond the scope of human comprehension'.
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Citation
English
The language and the date you read it belong in the citation: this corpus is multilingual and articles are revised after publication.
John Shaqi. “Acintya-bhedābheda.” English version. 11 August 2026. https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-acintya-bhedabheda.
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title = {Acintya-bhedābheda},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {English version},
url = {https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-acintya-bhedabheda},
note = {Accessed n.d.}
}The word count is counted from this edition. The minute estimate uses 238 words a minute, the silent reading rate for English non-fiction reported by Brysbaert (2019). The Urdu, Hindi and Roman Urdu editions carry a word count and no estimate, because no comparable rate has been published for those scripts.