Brahma Sampradāya (Mādhva)
A living tradition within Vaiṣṇavism. The disagreements in the sources are shown rather than settled.
Brahma Sampradāya (Mādhva) is a living tradition within Vaiṣṇavism. Also written Madhva Sampradaya.
Origin
Founder named in the sources: Madhva (Madhvācārya). No founding year is given below, because the sources read do not agree on one and a date has not been chosen for them. IEP: Madhva 'founded the Dvaita (dualist) school of Hindu Vedanta philosophy in 13th-century South India'; the living community is centred on Uḍupi, Karnataka. Later figures named by IEP: Jayatīrtha (1356–1388), Vyāsarāya (1478–1589). No founding year given.
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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. “Brahma Sampradāya (Mādhva).” English version. 11 August 2026. https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-brahma-sampradaya-madhva.
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}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.