Śrī Vaiṣṇavism (Śrī Sampradāya)
A living tradition within Vaiṣṇavism. The disagreements in the sources are shown rather than settled.
Śrī Vaiṣṇavism (Śrī Sampradāya) is a living tradition within Vaiṣṇavism. Also written Sri Vaishnavism.
Origin
Founders named in the sources: Yāmuna, Rāmānuja. 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: Rāmānuja 'became the successor to Yamuna and formally joined the Śrī Vaiṣṇava Sampradāya, a Tamil Vaiṣṇava community centered on devotional worship of Vishnu (Nārāyaṇa) and his consort Lakṣmī (Śrī)' — the community predates him; he is its systematiser, not its founder. No founding year in any source consulted. [CORRECTION] Nāthamuni removed from founders[]: the IEP article cited for this note does not mention him, and the only other citation is a Britannica sub-article the tree itself records as unfetchable. IEP names only Yāmuna as Rāmānuja's predecessor - 'the spiritual head of the fledgling Tamil Vaiṣṇava community' who 'died just before Rāmānuja could reach him'.
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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. “Śrī Vaiṣṇavism (Śrī Sampradāya).” English version. 11 August 2026. https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-sri-vaisnavism-sri-sampradaya.
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