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The Chaitanya Charitamrita is the biography written by Sri Krishnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, a pivotal figure of the Hindu sectGaudiya Vaishnavism. As a religious text, the Chaitanya Charitamrita is the main theological resource for Gaudiya Vaishnava Theology. This is an article on biographies. ... Sri Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami, a Gaudiya Vaishnava acharya, was born in a Nadiya family of physicians at the village of Jhamatpur, within the district of Barddhaman, near Naihati, in 1496 CE. His father was Sri Bhagiratha, and his mother was Sri Sunanda. ... Deities of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (right) and Sri Nityananda (left) at Radha-Krishna temple in Radhadesh, Belgium Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (also transliterated Chaitanya) (1486 - 1534), was an ascetic Hindu monk and social reformer in 16th century Bengal, India (present-day West Bengal and Bangladesh). ... Hinduism (सनातन धरà¥à¤®; also known as SanÄtana Dharma, and Vaidika-Dharma) is a worldwide religious tradition that is based on teachings of the Veda scriptures. ... A sect is a small religious or political group that has branched off from a larger established group. ... Gaudiya Vaishnavism, (Bengal) Vaishnavism, is a sect of Hinduism founded by Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. ... Gaudiya Vaishnava Theology, is a type of Vaishnava Theology that began with Caitanya Mahaprabhu (1486-1534), a Bengali Vaishnava sadhu. ...
The Chaitanya Charitamrta was frequently copied and widely circulated amongst the Vaishnava communities of Bengal and Orissa during the early 17th Century.
CE) was the author of the ChaitanyaCharitamrita, a hagiography 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 incarnation of Radha and Krishna combined.
Krishna Dasa relates in his ChaitanyaCharitamrita that, once his brother argued with a prominent Vaishnava devotee Minaketana Ramadasa over the ontological positions of Chaitanya and Nityananda (Chaitanya’s life-long companion) and belittled the position of Nityananda.
In composing his Charitamrita, Krishna Dasa used the diaries of Murari Gupta and Swarupa Damodara, both of whom were intimate asssociates of Chaitanya.
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