Vaishnava sects

religious organisation

Ayyavazhi (, Ayyāvaḻi , ) is a Hindu denomination that originated in South India during the 19th century.

Vārkari ( ; Marathi: ; Pronunciation: ) meaning: 'The one who performs the Vari' is an Advaita Vaishnavsampradaya (religious movement) within the Bhakti spiritual tradition of Hinduism, geographically associated with the Indian state of Maharashtra. Varkaris worship Shri Krishna as Vitthal (also known as Vithoba), the presiding deity of Pandharpur, regarded as a form of Vishnu, and his consort Rakhumai (also known as Rahi), regarded as a form of Lakshmi. Saints and gurus of the bhakti movement associated with the Warkaris include Dnyaneshwar, Namdev, Chokhamela, Eknath, and Tukaram all of whom

denomination within the Vaishnavism tradition of Hinduism

Hindu sampradaya founded in 1801 by Sahajanand Swami

a panentheistic religion propagated by Srimanta Sankardeva in the 15th-16th century in the Indian state of Assam

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The Haridasa Bhakti Sahitya devotional movement (sampradaya) originated in Karnataka, India, after Madhvacharya, and spread to eastern states such as Bengal and Assam of medieval India. Over a span of nearly six centuries, several saints and mystics helped shape the culture, philosophy and art of South India in general and Karnataka in particular by exerting considerable spiritual influence over the masses and kingdoms that ruled South India.

Iyengars (also spelt Ayyangar, Aiyengar, or Aiyangar, pronounced ) are an ethnoreligious community of Tamil-speaking Hindu Brahmins, whose members follow Sri Vaishnavism and the Visishtadvaita philosophy propounded by Ramanuja. Iyengars are divided into two denominations, the Vadakalai and the Tenkalai and live mostly in the Southern Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh. The community belongs to the Pancha Dravida Brahmana classification of Brahmins in India.

Branch of the Vaishnava Hinduism

Hindu tradition that consider Radha as the Supreme being

Hindu community