Bhakti - Sufi Traditions: Changes in Religious Beliefs and Devotional Texts
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- Puranas received their present shape around the mid-first millennium CE.
- Poet-saints’ compositions were usually compiled after their death by disciples or devotees.
- Hagiographies show how followers understood saints.
- Jagannatha at Puri was identified by the twelfth century as a form of Vishnu.
- Jagannatha was originally a local wooden tribal deity.
- Local goddesses were incorporated as Lakshmi or Parvati.
- Alvars are devotees of Vishnu.
- Nayanars are devotees of Shiva.
- Bhakti traditions are divided into saguna and nirguna.
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Bhakti and Sufi traditions were the same movement with the same beliefs.
All Bhakti traditions worshipped a personal god with attributes.
Alvars and Nayanars were the same group because both sang devotional hymns in Tamil.
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Saguna and nirguna bhakti
Alvars and Nayanars
Nalayira Divyaprabandham as Tamil Veda
Tevaram compilation
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