Ebook: A popular dictionary of Sikhism
Author: Cole William Owen, Sambhi Piara Singh
The word 'sikh' comes from the Punjabi verb 'sikhna', to learn. A Sikh is therefore a learner, that is, onewho learns and follows the path of liberation taught by a man called Gur N nak and his nine successors, who lived in the Punjab region of India between 1469 and 1708. The Sikh religion has only recently come to the academic attention of western scholars. There were a fewbooks written earlier than M.A. Read more...
Abstract: The word 'sikh' comes from the Punjabi verb 'sikhna', to learn. A Sikh is therefore a learner, that is, onewho learns and follows the path of liberation taught by a man called Gur N nak and his nine successors, who lived in the Punjab region of India between 1469 and 1708. The Sikh religion has only recently come to the academic attention of western scholars. There were a fewbooks written earlier than M.A. Macauliffe's monumental study of the lives and times of the Gur s, The SikhReligion (Oxford 1909), but these were often the work of soldiers or administrators, like Macauliffehimself, who neede