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Mahaprabhu founded Gaudiya Vaishnavism (a.k.a. the Brahma-Madhva-Gaudiya Sampradaya). He expounded Bhakti yoga and popularised the chanting of the Hare Krishna Maha-mantra. [5] He composed the Shikshashtakam (eight devotional prayers). Chaitanya is sometimes called Gauranga (IAST: Gaurāṅga) or Gaura due to his molten gold–like complexion. [6]
The academic director of Sri Chaitanya is Sushma Bopanna. It was founded in 1986 by B.S Rao and his wife, Jhansi Lakshmi Bai. With over 321 state board-affiliated junior colleges, 322 K-10 Sri Chaitanya Techno Schools and 107 CBSE-affiliated schools, [1] it is one of Asia's largest educational franchises with over 8.5 Lakh students. [2]
Yogapith temple at Chaitanya's birthsite in Mayapur established in 1880s by Bhaktivinoda Thakur, presently caretaken by the Sri Chaitanya Math. Sri Gaudiya Math ( Kolkata , estd. 1930) is the formal headquarters of Gaudiya Math , now headquarter of Gaudiya Mission .
Caitanya-caritamrta is the seventeenth-century account of the life and teachings of Chaitanya, who founded the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition. [242] Written in the Bengali language, it runs to more than 15,000 verses and “is regarded as the most authoritative work on Śrī Caitanya”, a work of “rare merit”, with “no parallel in the whole ...
Madhavendra Puri is often accepted as initial inspiration or initiator of the movement of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, [18] [19] who accepted Madhavendra's intimate disciple, Isvara Puri as his diksa guru. [20] He is believed to have been preaching the principles of Gaudiya Vaishnavism prior to Chaitanya. [21]
On 7 March 1918, [2] the same day he took sannyasa, he established the Sri Chaitanya Math in Mayapura in West Bengal, later recognised as the parent body of all the Gaudiya Math branches. [2] Its purpose was to spread Gaudiya Vaishnavism , the philosophy of the medieval Vaisnava saint Chaitanya Mahaprabhu , through preaching and publishing .
Krishnadasa (born 1496, died 1588), known by the honorific Kaviraja (Bengali: কৃষ্ণদাস কবিরাজ, romanized: Kṛṣṇôdas Kôviraj; IAST: Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja), was the author of the Chaitanya Charitamrita, a biography on the life of the mystic and saint Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1486–1533), who is considered by the Gaudiya Vaishnava school of Hinduism to be an ...
Krishna Dasa Kaviraja composed the Chaitanya Charitamrita in his old age after being requested by the Vaishnavas of Vrindavana to write a hagiography about the life of Chaitanya. Although there was already a biography written by Vrindavana Dasa, called the Chaitanya Bhagavata, the later years of Chaitanya's life were not detailed in that work ...