Rāmānandī Sampradāya
A living tradition within Vaiṣṇavism. The disagreements in the sources are shown rather than settled.
Rāmānandī Sampradāya is a living tradition within Vaiṣṇavism. Also written Ramanandi, Ramavat.
Origin
Founder named in the sources: Rāmānanda. 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: Rāmānanda, 'born c. 1400—died c. 1470', a North Indian Brahman 'held by his followers to be fifth in succession in the lineage of the philosopher-mystic Ramanuja'; he preached against caste and urged the equality of all people before God. Britannica adds that 'the history of the present Ramanandi sampradaya apparently does not reach back before the 17th century, but it is the largest Vaishnava monastic order in North India today.'.
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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. “Rāmānandī Sampradāya.” English version. 11 August 2026. https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-ramanandi-sampradaya.
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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.