RE333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Ghee, Kashmiri Pandit, Nanakshahi Calendar
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1. 1 population statistics: there are roughly 25 million sikhs worldwide, most live in the punjab area of northwest india and eastern pakistan, which you"ve seen in your google maps exercise, canada is now home to 300,000 sikhs. India is a land of gurus ( teachers or guides ), that is, individuals who help people seeking to develop themselves spiritually: this help can come in the form of teachings, meditative practices, and the like. 1. 2. 1 ten human gurus: this is the leadership lineage that starts with guru nanak (1469-1539), who founded the religion in. 1499, and ends with guru gobind singh (1666-1708: take a few minutes to review the full list, and their major life highlights: It is part of sikh religious belief that the spirit of guru nanak"s sanctity, divinity and religious authority descended upon each of the nine subsequent gurus and the guruship was devolved on to them.
