Nanak is born at Talwandi, the village later renamed Nankana Sahib in his honor; after his awakening at Sultanpur Lodhi he teaches that there is no Hindu and no Muslim, only the one God known by the Name, and gathers the first Sikh community around his hymns.
Tagged: Sahajdhari Sikh
The Event
- Date
- 1469 (exact)
- Era
- The Guru Period; Standard periodization of Sikh history
- Location
- Talwandi; today Nankana Sahib, Punjab, Pakistan
- Traditions
- Sikhism
- Streams
- Sahajdhari
- Key figures
- Guru Nanak
- Key texts
- Japji Sahib
Primary Sources
- Janamsakhis (the traditional life accounts)
Secondary Sources
- McLeod, Sikhism (Penguin, 1997)
- Grewal, The Sikhs of the Punjab (Cambridge, 1990)
Provenance: HIST-0501; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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