Amar Das becomes the third Guru and builds the community's institutions at Goindwal: the pilgrimage well with its eighty-four steps, the strengthening of the langar where all eat together without distinction of caste, and the sending of preachers across the Punjab.
Tagged: Sahajdhari Sikh
The Event
- Date
- 1552 (exact)
- Era
- The Guru Period; Standard periodization of Sikh history
- Location
- Goindwal; today Punjab, India
- Traditions
- Sikhism
- Streams
- Sahajdhari
- Key figures
- Guru Amar Das
Primary Sources
- Janamsakhis
Secondary Sources
- Grewal, The Sikhs of the Punjab (Cambridge, 1990)
- Khushwant Singh, A History of the Sikhs, vol. 1 (Oxford, 2nd ed. 2004)
Provenance: HIST-0504; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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