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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Indian religious leader who broke from orthodox Hinduism to found Sikhism.
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- noun Indian religious leader who founded Sikhism in dissent from the caste system of Hinduism; he taught that all men had a right to search for knowledge of God and that spiritual liberation could be attained by meditating on the name of God (1469-1538)
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Examples
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Guru Gobind Singh had taught Sikhs to eliminate fear itself, to become fearless, one of the divine virtues that Nanak taught his Sikhs to assimilate.
Ravinder Singh Taneja: The Incomparable Guru Gobind Singh Ravinder Singh Taneja 2012
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The lesson they learned was a reiteration of the message of Nanak, who had, more than two centuries earlier, similarly asked for a head as a pre-condition for the playing the game of love life.
Ravinder Singh Taneja: The Incomparable Guru Gobind Singh Ravinder Singh Taneja 2012
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Gurinder Osan/Associated Press A devotee took a ritual bath at the water tank of the illuminated Bangla Sahib Sikh temple on the birth anniversary of Guru Nanak in New Delhi, Thursday.
India in Pictures 2011
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He is Guru, and a father figure Dashmesh Pita, who lost his own father, the ninth Nanak, Guru Tegh Bahadar, at the age of 9 -- executed on orders of the Emperor Aurangzeb.
Ravinder Singh Taneja: The Incomparable Guru Gobind Singh Ravinder Singh Taneja 2012
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In his autobiographical account, Bichitra Natak or "Wondrous Play," we learn that Guru Gobind Singh, whose 346th birthday we celebrate today, viewed his earthly sojourn as a duty to fulfill a divinely ordained purpose -- that of fulfilling the mission of Guru Nanak, who had established the Sikh religion a little more than two centuries earlier.
Ravinder Singh Taneja: The Incomparable Guru Gobind Singh Ravinder Singh Taneja 2012
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Sikhs are members of the faith founded by Guru Nanak 1469-1539 CE in Punjab.
Ranbir S. Sandhu, Ph.D.: Sikh Teachings For Mother's Day Ph.D. Ranbir S. Sandhu 2011
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Guru Nanak was followed by a succession of nine other gurus.
Ranbir S. Sandhu, Ph.D.: Sikh Teachings For Mother's Day Ph.D. Ranbir S. Sandhu 2011
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Guru Nanak was followed by a succession of nine other gurus.
Ranbir S. Sandhu, Ph.D.: Sikh Teachings For Mother's Day Ph.D. Ranbir S. Sandhu 2011
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Sikhs are members of the faith founded by Guru Nanak 1469-1539 CE in Punjab.
Ranbir S. Sandhu, Ph.D.: Sikh Teachings For Mother's Day Ph.D. Ranbir S. Sandhu 2011
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The earthly stop for Guru Gobind Singh, the 10th Nanak, was a brief 42 years, but what an eventful one!
Ravinder Singh Taneja: The Incomparable Guru Gobind Singh Ravinder Singh Taneja 2012
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