Home›Hindu Monastic Orders›Rooted InBrowse ByRooted InThis page groups religious orders by the spiritual lineage they claim to descend from. Wikipedia notes that Sufi orders each keep a chain of transmission and that "almost all orders trace their silsila back to the Islamic prophet Muhammad." Browsing by rooted-in lets a visitor trace an order back to the figure its own claimed lineage begins with.FactsRooted InSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsDirectoryCategoryWell-attestedReligious Orders 1Rooted InFilter Results3 entriesBasis of the Membership FigureAllChurch-Reported Rolls (1)Defining Doctrinal PositionAllAchintya bhedabheda: inconceivable oneness and difference (1)Shiva as the supreme reality (1)Vishnu as the supreme reality (1)FounderAllChaitanya Mahaprabhu, 1486 to 1534 (1)No founder. (2)GovernanceAllAuthority in a living teacher and their succession (2)Authority in monastic seats (mathas) and their heads (1)No central authority (2)Liturgical LanguageAllSanskrit (3)The vernacular (3)Membership Figure As OfAll2019-01-01 (1)OrdinationAllAuthority conferred by initiation rather than by ordination (1)Office passes by descent (2)Restricted to men (2)Origin Period End YearAll900 (1)1200 (1)1534 (1)Origin Period Start YearAll800 BCE (1)200 BCE (1)1486 (1)Status TodayAllLiving tradition, practised today (3)Show ResultsBrowseCompareGaudiya VaishnavismRooted In1 entryShaivismRooted In7 entriesVaishnavismRooted In2 entriesSources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category TreeComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.