The path of Guru Nanak and his nine successors: one God, honest work, sharing with others, and the Guru Granth Sahib as the eternal Guru.
Sikhism grew in the Punjab from Guru Nanak's teaching into the Khalsa Panth Guru Gobind Singh founded, and it carries internal streams shaped by questions of succession, discipline, and the Guru's image. This tree models those streams as first-class entities.
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The Khalsa Panth
The community of the initiated, founded by Guru Gobind Singh in 1699, marked by the five Ks and governed in its collective life by the Panth under…
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Namdhari
The stream of Baba Ram Singh, which holds the line of living Gurus to continue and keeps a discipline of white dress, vegetarianism, and the Name…
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Nirankari
The stream of Baba Dayal Singh, which turned the community back to the formless God against image and tomb worship, and divided from the mainstream…
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Udasi
The ascetic order founded by Guru Nanak's son Sri Chand, which carried the teaching through the early centuries in its own celibate line.
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Sahajdhari Sikhs
The slow adopters: Sikhs who revere the Gurus and the Granth without taking the Khalsa initiation or keeping its full discipline.
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Sources
Primary
- The Guru Granth Sahib.
Secondary
- W. H. McLeod, Sikhism (1997).