sampradaya
Sign in to saveSampradaya (; ), in Indian-origin religions, namely Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, can be translated as 'tradition', 'spiritual lineage', 'sect', or 'religious system'. To ensure continuity and transmission of dharma, various sampradayas have the Guru-shishya parampara in which a parampara or lineage of successive gurus (masters) and shishyas (disciples) serves as a spiritual channel and provides a reliable network of relationships that lends stability to a religious identity. Shramana is vedic term for seeker or shishya. Identification with and followership of sampradayas is not st
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- Guru-shishya parampara
- Continuity of sampradaya
- Diksha: Initiation into sampradaya
- Authority on knowledge of truth
- Types of sampradayas
- Āstika and nāstika sampradayas
- Āstika or orthodox sampradayas
- Nastika sampradayas
- Polycentric or syncretic sampradayas
- Hindu sampradayas
- Vaishnava sampradayas
- Shaiva sampradayas
- Advaita Vedanta sampradaya
- Advaita Mathas
- Dashanami sampradaya
- Kaumaram sampradaya
- Indonesian Hinduism
- Shakta sampradaya
- Smarta Sampradaya
- Other classic vedic sampradayas
- Shrautism
- Suryaism / Saurism
- Later sampradayas
- Ganapatism
- Newer sampradayas
- Buddhist sampradaya
- Jain sampradaya
- Sikh Samprada
- Early Sampardayas (Sampardai)
- Later sampardayas
- Syncretic sects
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Written citations
- Web citations
- Sources
- Further reading
Sampradaya (; ), in Indian-origin religions, namely Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, can be translated as 'tradition', 'spiritual lineage', 'sect', or 'religious system'. To ensure continuity and transmission of dharma, various sampradayas have the Guru-shishya parampara in which a parampara or lineage of successive gurus (masters) and shishyas (disciples) serves as a spiritual channel and provides a reliable network of relationships that lends stability to a religious identity. Shramana is vedic term for seeker or shishya. Identification with and followership of sampradayas is not static, as sampradayas allows flexibility where one can leave one sampradaya and enter another or practice religious syncretism by simultaneously following more than one sampradaya. Samparda is a Punjabi language term, used in Sikhism, for sampradayas.
==Guru-shishya parampara==
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