Revision as of 13:05, 20 October 2024 view source Hbanm (talk \| contribs) Extended confirmed users 626 edits Undid revision 1241510595 by Dāsānudāsa (talk) Restored old image with avatars, avatars play a major role in Vaishnavism. Tags: Undo Reverted ← Previous edit		Latest revision as of 14:56, 20 October 2024 view source Chariotrider555 (talk \| contribs) Extended confirmed users 5,621 edits Undid revision 1252236600 by Hbanm (talk) This image shows Vishnu being worshipped, which is a a better representation of Vaishnavism than a 19th century Dashavatara lithograph. Tag: Undo
Line 5: {{Infobox \| title = Vaishnavism \| image = [[File:Vishnu ~~Avatars~~with an adorer.jpg\|200px]] \| caption = Vaishnava traditions centre on [[Hindu]] god [[Vishnu]] (~~centre~~left), depicted with a devotee, and his [[avatars]]. }} {{Vaishnavism}}{{Hinduism}} Line 12: According to a 2010 estimate by Johnson and Grim, Vaishnavism is the largest Hindu sect, constituting about 641 million or 67.6% of Hindus.<ref name=johnson400/><ref>{{Cite web \|date=January 2012 \|title=Chapter 1 Global Religious Populations \|url=http://media.johnwiley.com.au/product_data/excerpt/47/04706745/0470674547-196.pdf \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131020100448/http://media.johnwiley.com.au/product_data/excerpt/47/04706745/0470674547-196.pdf \|archive-date=20 October 2013}}</ref> The ancient emergence of Vaishnavism is unclear, and broadly hypothesized as a [[History of Hinduism\|fusion]] of various regional non-Vedic religions with worship of [[Vishnu]]. It is considered a merger of several popular non-Vedic theistic traditions, particularly the [[Bhagavata]] cults of [[Vāsudeva\|Vāsudeva-~~krishna~~Krishna]]{{sfn\|Dandekar\|1987\|p=9499}}<ref name=ucsm>{{cite web \|title=Vaishnava \|publisher=philtar.ucsm.ac.uk \|url=http://philtar.ucsm.ac.uk/encyclopedia/hindu/devot/vaish.html \|access-date=22 May 2008 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120212183626/http://www.philtar.ac.uk/encyclopedia/hindu/devot/vaish.html \|archive-date=12 February 2012 \|url-status=dead}}</ref> and ''[[Gopala-Krishna]]'',{{sfn\|Dandekar\|1987\|p=9499}}{{sfn\|Flood\|1996\|p=120}} as well as [[Narayana]],{{sfn\|Flood\|1996\|p=119,120-121}} developed in the 7th to 4th century BCE.{{sfn\|Dandekar\|1987\|p=9499}}<ref>{{cite book \|last1=Eliade \|first1=Mircea \|last2=Adams \|first2=Charles J. \|title=The Encyclopedia of religion \|date=1987 \|publisher=Macmillan \|isbn=978-0-02-909880-6 \|page=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofre15elia/page/168 168] \|url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofre15elia \|url-access=registration}}</ref> It was integrated with the Vedic God [[Vishnu]] in the early centuries CE, and [[Origins of Hinduism\|finalized]] as Vaishnavism,{{sfn\|Dandekar\|1987\|p=9499}}{{sfn\|Gonda\|1993\|p=163}}{{sfn\|Klostermaier\|2007\|pp=206–217, 251–252}} when it developed the [[avatar]] doctrine, wherein the various non-Vedic deities are revered as distinct incarnations of the supreme God [[Vishnu]]. [[Rama]], [[Krishna]], [[Narayana]], [[Kalki]], [[Hari]], [[Vithoba]], [[Venkateswara\|Venkateshvara]], [[Shrinathji]], [[Ranganatha]] and [[Jagannath]] are among the names of popular avatars all seen as different aspects of the same supreme being.{{sfn\|Matchett\|2001\|pp=3-9}}{{sfn\|Anna King\|2005\|pp=32–33}}{{sfnm\|1a1=Mukherjee\|1y=1981\|1p= \|2a1=Eschmann\|2a2=Kulke\|2a3=Tripathi\|2y=1978\|2p=\|3a1=Hardy\|3y=1987\|3pp=387–392 \|4a1=Patnaik\|4y=2005\|4p= \|5a1=Miśra\|5y=2005\|5loc=chapter 9. Jagannāthism\|6a1=Patra\|6y=2011\|6p=}} The Vaishnavite tradition is known for the loving devotion to an avatar of Vishnu (often Krishna), and as such was key to the spread of the [[Bhakti movement]] in [[Indian subcontinent]] in the 2nd millennium CE.{{sfn\|Hawley\|2015\|pp=10–12, 33–34}}{{sfn\|Lochtefeld\|2002b\|pp=731–733}} It has four [[Vedanta]]-schools of numerous denominations (''sampradaya''): the medieval-era [[Vishishtadvaita]] school of [[Ramanuja]], the [[Dvaita Vedanta\|Dvaita]] school of [[Madhvacharya]], the [[Dvaitadvaita]] school of [[Nimbarkacharya]], and the [[Shuddhadvaita]] of [[Vallabha]]charya.{{sfn\|Beck\|2005a\|pp=76–77}}{{sfn\|Fowler\|2002\|pp=288–304, 340–350}} There are also several other Vishnu-traditions. [[Ramananda]] (14th century) created a Rama-oriented movement, now the largest monastic group in Asia.{{sfn\|Raj\|Harman\|2007\|pp=165–166}}{{sfn\|Lochtefeld\|2002b\|pp=553–554}}

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