Shaktas

Ramakrishna (18 February 1836 – 16 August 1886), also called Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (; ; ), born Ramakrishna Chattopadhyay (his childhood nickname was Gadadhar), was an Indian Hindu mystic. He was a devotee of the goddess Kali, but adhered to various religious practices from the Hindu traditions of Vaishnavism, Tantric Shaktism, and Advaita Vedanta, as well as Christianity and Sufi Islam. His parable-based teachings advocated the essential unity of religions and proclaimed that world religions are "so many paths to reach one and the same goal". He is regarded by his followers as an avatar (di

Shakta poet of eighteenth century Bengal

Hindu spiritual leader (1880–1935)

19th century Indian philanthropist

Bengali writer 18th Century.

Bamakhyapa (; 1837–1911), born Bamacharan Chattopadhyay, was an Indian Hindu saint who resided in Tarapith and whose shrine is also located in the vicinity of the Tarapith Temple in Birbhum. He was born at Atla village in the Rampurhat subdivision of the Birbhum district.

130px|thumb|Bhaskararaya was Lalitaʻs devotee. Bhāskararāya Makhin (1690–1785) was a religious exponent and writer known for his contributions to the Shakta tradition of Hinduism. He was born in a Maharashtrian Brahmin family at Hyderabad, Telangana. Bhaskara raya was welcomed by king Serfoji II of Bhonsle dynasty in South India, and thereupon he settled in Tamil Nadu. According to Douglas Renfrew Brooks, a professor of Religion specializing in Shaktism studies, Bhāskararāya was "not only a brilliant interpreter of Shri Vidya, he was an encyclopedic writer", and that he was a "thinker who had

King of Krishnanagar, Nadia, West Bengal