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Kabīrpanthīs
(5,320 words)
“Kabīrpanth” designates a religious community having Kabīr, the 15th-/16th-century poet, as its central reference and founding figure. Though usually the term “Kabīrpanth” is used in the singular, there are many branches (
śākhās) and sub-branches (
upaśākhās) that can be very dif…
Date:
2020-05-18
Kabīr
(5,093 words)
In the 15th–16th centuries, there lived in Benares a poet-singer known as Kabīr (?–1518), weaver by trade and rebel in religious matters, who bequeathed to posterity a living tradition of singing his “truth” about worldly and divine questions and proposing a new, direct practice to experience extraworldly dimensions. For the last five hundred years, his poem-songs have enjoyed tremendous acclaim, locally and internationally, and are a source of inspiration and imitation. For many adherents to his views, he is a spiritual master (
guru) and founder of a recognized community (
panth); his poems have multiplied over centuries to become a living oral and written tradition under the name of Kabīr. However, Kabīr as a historical personality has to be seen against the religious background of his time and place. Tradition has preserved (and at the same time created) a number of details about his biography and person. Yet, whatever is known comes from the sources that constitute that very tradition. The dates of available manuscripts and…
Date:
2020-05-18