Sikhism

Explanation I deems the wearing and carrying of kirpans included in the profession of the Sikh religion.

Sikhism originated in the Punjab region of India and remains centered there.

The Guru Granth Sahib is composed chiefly in Punjabi and Braj Bhasha, both Indo-Aryan languages within the Indo-Iranian family, which already carries edges to Zoroastrianism, Buddhism, Jainism and Hinduism.

Kartal or manjira lets any member of a congregation join in keeping rhythm during devotional singing.

Sikh communities in Punjab, concentrated on both sides of the new border, suffered and inflicted some of the heaviest violence of the Partition, and Punjab's division split the Sikh homeland itself between the two new states.

Punjab is the homeland of Sikhism.

The Guru Granth Sahib is written in the Gurmukhi script, and Punjabi in Gurmukhi is its primary script and the everyday liturgical medium, though its verses draw on Sant Bhasha and several regional languages.

Sikhism took shape in Punjab and this is its homeland, though its teaching holds membership open regardless of ethnicity.

The Guru Granth Sahib includes compositions by fifteen figures who were not Sikh Gurus, among them Kabir, Ravidas and Namdev.

Much of the Guru Granth Sahib is composed in Sant Bhasha.

Hereditary custodians of the Kartarpur Bir, held to be the original 1604 manuscript of the Adi Granth.

Tabla keeps rhythm under devotional singing in this tradition, though the instrument itself is shared with secular Hindustani classical and film music.

The Sikh Panth, under its Gurus and then under Banda Singh Bahadur, conducted the armed resistance to Mughal authority that the war names.

The Amrit Sarovar surrounds the Harmandir Sahib, Sikhism's most important gurdwara, and gives Amritsar its name.

Bhai Daya Singh was among the first Sikhs initiated into the Khalsa.

Bhai Dharam Singh was among the first Sikhs initiated into the Khalsa.

A gurdwara is run by an elected committee and its authority in Britain and North America is local, though the Rahit Maryada issued from Amritsar functions as an agreed standard of practice.

Clergy or specialist role within Sikhism.

The campaign was fought over the control of Sikh places of worship.

Senior leadership office of Sikhism.

Clergy or specialist role within Sikhism.

Jot, the divine light common to all beings and to the line of Sikh Gurus, is stated directly in the Guru Granth Sahib and underlies the 1708 transfer of Guruship to the scripture itself.

The Guru Granth Sahib preserves several hundred compositions under his name, which makes him part of Sikh scripture rather than only a subject of it.

Khalsa Aid International is founded on and organizes its work around the Sikh principles of seva and langar, so linked to Sikhism.

Mai Bhago, warrior who led the Chali Mukte back to Guru Gobind Singh, belongs to Sikhism, its own tradition field.

The Sikh Religion vol. 1 places her, as Guru Angad's wife, at the founding institutional center of the Sikh community.

Prominent in Sikh wedding customs across South Asia.

Naam simran is the primary devotional discipline taught throughout the Guru Granth Sahib and named explicitly in the Sikh Rehat Maryada.

A dramatized biography of Guru Nanak made for a Sikh audience by a Sikh producer, whose central controversy is an argument within Sikhism about the film's own method rather than an outside portrayal of the tradition.

Sikhism arose among Punjabi speakers in the Punjab region and the large majority of its adherents remain ethnically Punjabi, though the tradition itself is not ethnically exclusive.

Clergy or specialist role within Sikhism.

Sach Khand is the culminating realm of the Five Khands described in Guru Nanak's Japji Sahib, the opening composition of the Guru Granth Sahib.

Chief of the Kanhaiya Misl, one of the Sikh confederacies of the pre-Empire period.

Sat, Truth, opens the Mul Mantar and is foundational to Sikh ethical teaching against the Five Thieves.

The publishing university's own department page names this recording as one of its own releases made specifically to promote Sikh sacred music, and the artist's own family tradition traces to Guru Nanak's companion Bhai Mardana, the first musical work the atlas holds for the tradition.

The Committee is a Sikh religious body.

The Singh Sabha was a movement of Sikh reform.

The Sodhi family of Kartarpur are descendants of the Guru line and hold the Kartarpur Bir as a family trust. Custody here is hereditary and religious, not institutional.

The Janamsakhis are the traditional hagiographic literature of Guru Nanak's life, studied extensively by W. H. McLeod and other Sikh studies scholars.

Its own record calls it the order of initiated Sikhs.

Its own record calls it the five seats of Sikh temporal authority.

He executed the ninth Sikh Guru, Tegh Bahadur, at Delhi in 1675.

The fifth Sikh Guru, Arjan, was executed at Lahore in 1606 under his authority, which Sikh tradition holds as the first martyrdom of a Guru.

Not a Sikh movement. The connection runs through the Sikh-adjacent Radhasoami and Sant Mat lineage, in particular Kirpal Singh's Ruhani Satsang, which Paul Twitchell studied within before founding Eckankar and from which Eckankar's inner-sound cosmology and much of its early written material closely draws.

The Harmandir Sahib and the Akal Takht stand here, and the Adi Granth was first installed in the temple in 1604.

Patna Sahib, the birthplace of Guru Gobind Singh, is one of the five takhts.

The forty liberated ones are named in the daily Sikh prayer.

The first Sikh community was gathered at Kartarpur around work, worship and the shared meal.

Adds a milestone in Sikh history between Banda Singh Bahadur capturing Sirhind and proclaiming the first Sikh state in 1710 and the Sikh Empire rising in Punjab in 1799, both already recorded here: Ahmad Shah Durrani's massacre of an estimated ten to thirty thousand Sikhs at the Vadda Ghallughara on 5 February 1762, an episode the Khalsa survived and rebuilt from within a generation.

Adds a specific, dated milestone in Sikhism's history between Guru Arjan installing the Adi Granth at Harmandir Sahib in 1604 and Guru Gobind Singh founding the Khalsa at Anandpur Sahib in 1699, both already recorded here: the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb's execution of Guru Tegh Bahadur at Chandni Chowk in Delhi on 11 November 1675, a martyrdom made in defense of another community's freedom to worship.

Adds a specific, dated milestone in Sikh history between Guru Gobind Singh declaring the Guru Granth Sahib the eternal Guru in 1708 and the Sikh Empire rising in Punjab in 1799, both already recorded here: Banda Singh Bahadur's capture of Sirhind and proclamation of the first Sikh state in May 1710.

Closes a two year gap since 2019's opening of the Kartarpur Corridor, moving the map's Canadian thread from Sikh migrants first reaching Canada in 1897 to the state's own count of what that migration, and the century of arrivals since, had become.

Adds a specific, dated event between Guru Nanak's 1522 founding of the Sikh community at Kartarpur and the Khalsa's founding at Anandpur Sahib in 1699 already recorded here: Guru Arjan's own 1604 compilation and installation of the Adi Granth at Harmandir Sahib, fixing an authoritative scripture and beginning the continuous daily recitation that has marked the shrine ever since.

Adds a specific, dated milestone in Sikh institutional history between the Khalsa's founding at Anandpur Sahib in 1699 and the Sikh Empire's founding in Punjab in 1799, both already recorded here: Guru Gobind Singh's 1708 declaration at Nanded that the Guru Granth Sahib, not a living person, would be the Sikh Panth's Guru from then on.

Adds a milestone in Sikhism's relationship to temporal power between Guru Arjan installing the Adi Granth at Harmandir Sahib in 1604 and Aurangzeb executing Guru Tegh Bahadur in Delhi in 1675, both already recorded here: Guru Hargobind's 1606 installation as the sixth Guru, at which he adopted the doctrine of miri and piri and built the Akal Takht at Amritsar.

Adds a milestone in Sikh history between Guru Nanak founding the Sikh community at Kartarpur between 1522 and 1539 and Guru Arjan installing the Adi Granth at Harmandir Sahib in 1604, both already recorded here: Guru Ram Das founding the city of Amritsar around 1577 on land granted by Akbar, giving the Sikh community its own sacred center.

Closes a 42 year gap since 1984's Operation Blue Star Triggers Violence Against Sikhs, the most recent event already on Sikhism's map, with the two governments reopening pilgrim access to Guru Nanak's own shrine across the same partition era border.

Drew on Greek myth, alongside Indian, Native American, Polynesian and biblical material, as comparative evidence for the monomyth pattern in The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949).

Its own text: "the single most important symbol of Sikhism."

The Khanda is the emblem of Sikhism.