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The guruship of the collective Khalsa, as realized through the collective body of "committed" Amritdharis (baptized Sikhs), is known as the Guru Panth. [55] The Sikh Rehat Maryada states "The Guru Panth (Panth’s status of Guruhood) means the whole body of committed baptized Sikhs. This body was fostered by all the ten Gurus and the tenth Guru ...
Nihangs – the Sikh Panth's warriors or armed troops. [294] There are two main groups within this order: Buddha Dal, or the army of veterans, and Tarna Dal, or the army of youth. There are other smaller sub-orders connected to these two. [294]
Nanakpanthi [1] (Gurmukhi: ਨਾਨਕਪੰਥੀ; nānakapathī, "follower of the way of life of Nanak"), [2] also known as Nanakshahi, [3] is a syncretist movement which follows Guru Nanak (1469–1539), the founder of Sikhism, but without necessarily formally identifying as being Sikh in terms of religious affiliation, as it's the case with numerous Punjabi Hindus and Sindhi Hindus.
Guru Gobind Singh, tenth of the ten Sikh Gurus, founded the Khalsa panth in the Punjab region of the northern part of the Indian subcontinent in the end of seventeenth century. [2] He baptised five Sikh people from different parts of India, with different social backgrounds, to form the Khalsa.
Panth (also panthan, meaning "path" in Sanskrit), also called the Sampradaya, is the term used for several religious traditions in India. A panth is founded by a guru or an acharya in guru-shishya parampara , and is often led by scholars or senior practitioners of the tradition.
The Sikhs are adherents to Sikhism, the fifth largest organized religion in the world, with around 25 million adherents. [1] Sikh History is around 500 years and in that time the Sikhs have developed unique expressions of art and culture which are influenced by their faith and synthesize traditions from many other cultures depending on the locality of the adherents of the religion.
Takht Sri Keshgarh Sahib is incredibly significant historically since it is the home of the Khalsa, a Sikh community of initiated individuals. The Khalsa Panth was founded here on April 13, 1699, by the tenth Sikh Guru, Guru Gobind Singh. Every year, during the Vaisakhi festival, this event is remembered.
[52]: 178 They would not impact Sikh society the way as the Minas did, leaving little behind besides a janamsakhi tradition and attempts to link their tradition to Bhai Bala, a Sandhu Jatt, as they were a Jatt-led sect. [53] Despite the majority of the Sikh panth being Jatt, the Hindalis did not draw a large following. The Hindalis, compared to ...