The traditions that worship Vishnu as supreme, in his avatars Rama and Krishna, through devotion ordered by the great acharyas and their lineages.
Vaishnavism is the largest of the Hindu traditions. Its schools were founded by the Vedantic acharyas, Ramanuja, Madhva, and their successors, and its devotion runs from the temple liturgy of Srirangam to the kirtan of the Gaudiya line and the worldwide mission of ISKCON.
Denomination / School
Denomination / School
ISKCON
The International Society for Krishna Consciousness, founded in New York in 1966, which carried the Gaudiya devotion of Chaitanya to the world.
Denomination / School
Swaminarayan Sampradaya
The tradition of Swaminarayan, the Gujarati teacher revered by his followers as the supreme reality, carried by its temples and its two historic…
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Sources
Primary
- The Bhagavad Gita; the Bhagavata Purana.
Secondary
- S. M. Srinivasa Chari, Vaishnavism: Its Philosophy, Theology and Religious Discipline (2000).