Rambhadracharya
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Jagadguru Ramanandacharya Swami Rambhadracharya (born Giridhar Mishra on 14 January 1950) is an Indian Hindu spiritual leader, educator, Sanskrit scholar, polyglot, poet, author, textual commentator, philosopher, composer, singer, playwright and Katha artist based in Chitrakoot, India. He is one of four incumbent Jagadguru Ramanandacharyas, and has held this title since 1988.
Key facts
- Hindu leader.name
- Swami Rambhadracharya Ji
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- Jagadguru Rambhadracharya.jpg
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- Rambhadracharya Ji in 2009
- Hindu leader.religion
- Hinduism
- Hindu leader.birth_place
- Sachipuram earlier known as Shandikhurd, Jaunpur district, Uttar Pradesh, India
- Hindu leader.birth_name
- Giridhar Mishra
- Hindu leader.sect
- Ramanandi sect
- Hindu leader.philosophy
- Vishishtadvaita Vedanta
- Hindu leader.honours
- Dharmacakravartī, Mahāmahopādhyāya, Śrīcitrakūṭatulasīpīṭhādhīśvara, Jagadguru Rāmānandācārya, Mahākavi, Prasthānatrayībhāṣyakāra, and others
- Hindu leader.literary_works
- Śrīrāghavakṛpābhāṣyam on Prasthanatrayi, Śrībhārgavarāghavīyam, Bhṛṅgadūtam, Gītarāmāyaṇam, Śrīsītārāmasuprabhātam, Śrīsītārāmakelikaumudi, Aṣṭāvakra, and others
- Hindu leader.disciples
- Abhiraj Rajendra Mishra, Dhirendra Krishna Shastri, Prem Bhushan, Nityanand Misra
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- Thumb impression of Rambhadracharya
- Hindu leader.Successor
- Acharya Ramchandra Das
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Encyclopedic overview
42 sectionsContents
- Birth and early life
- Loss of eyesight
- Childhood accident
- First composition
- Mastering Gita and Ramcharitmanas
- Upanayana and discourses
- Discrimination by family
- Formal education
- Schooling
- Graduation and masters
- Doctorate and post-doctorate
- Later life
- 1979–1988
- Post of Jagadguru Ramanandacharya
- Deposition in the Ayodhya case
- Multilingual
- Institutes for the disabled
- Critical edition of Ramcharitmanas
- Assassination threats
- Participation in 84-kosi yatra
- Works
- Poetry and plays
- Prose
- Sanskrit commentaries on Prasthanatrayi
- Other prose works
- Audio and video
- Literary style
- Overview
- Features
- Rasas
- Styles of individual works
- ''Śrībhārgavarāghavīyam''
- ''Śrīrāghavakṛpābhāṣyam''
- Other works
- Recognition, awards and honours
- Recognition
- Awards and honours
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Works cited
- External links
Jagadguru Ramanandacharya Swami Rambhadracharya (born Giridhar Mishra on 14 January 1950) is an Indian Hindu spiritual leader, educator, Sanskrit scholar, polyglot, poet, author, textual commentator, philosopher, composer, singer, playwright and Katha artist based in Chitrakoot, India. He is one of four incumbent Jagadguru Ramanandacharyas, and has held this title since 1988.
Rambhadracharya is the founder and head of Tulsi Peeth, a religious and social service institution in Chitrakoot named after Tulsidas. He is the founder and lifelong chancellor of the Jagadguru Rambhadracharya Handicapped University in Chitrakoot, which offers graduate and postgraduate courses exclusively to four types of disabled students. Rambhadracharya has been blind since the age of two months, had no formal education until the age of seventeen years, and has never used Braille or any other aid to learn or compose.
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