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Guru Nanak

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Guru Nanak [ˈnaːˌnʌk]
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(Biographies / Guru Nanak (1469-1539) M, Indian, RELIGION: religious leader, RELIGION: founder of Sikhism) 1469-1539, Indian religious leader and founder of Sikhism. Born near Lahore in India, he spent many years as a missionary before returning to the Punjab, where he gained many followers See also Ten Gurus
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Noun1.Guru Nanak - 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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Sikhism - the doctrines of a monotheistic religion founded in northern India in the 16th century by Guru Nanak and combining elements of Hinduism and Islam


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This religion's founder, Guru Nanak, instructed his followers to direct each day's activities to the celebration of God.
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Historians will be astonished to learn that "it was out of the anguish caused by Muslim persecution of Hindus that the Sikh religion had arisen", a view totally ignorant of the Hindu-Muslim synthesis of Guru Nanak.
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