About: Gopalas

An Entity of Type: animal, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

The Gopalas, or Twelve Gopalas (IAST: dvādaśa-gopāla, lit. 'twelve cowherds'), were a group of 16th-century Indian missionaries who are credited with spreading Gaudiya Vaishnavism throughout Bengal. They were major disciples of the Gaudiya-Vaishnava saint Nityananda (c. 1474–c. 1540), who is considered to be an incarnation of Krishna's brother, Balarama.

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • The Gopalas, or Twelve Gopalas (IAST: dvādaśa-gopāla, lit. 'twelve cowherds'), were a group of 16th-century Indian missionaries who are credited with spreading Gaudiya Vaishnavism throughout Bengal. They were major disciples of the Gaudiya-Vaishnava saint Nityananda (c. 1474–c. 1540), who is considered to be an incarnation of Krishna's brother, Balarama. (en)
dbo:religion
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 70955864 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 5569 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1094296276 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:guru
dbp:name
  • Gopalas (en)
dbp:philosophy
dbp:religion
dbp:sect
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • The Gopalas, or Twelve Gopalas (IAST: dvādaśa-gopāla, lit. 'twelve cowherds'), were a group of 16th-century Indian missionaries who are credited with spreading Gaudiya Vaishnavism throughout Bengal. They were major disciples of the Gaudiya-Vaishnava saint Nityananda (c. 1474–c. 1540), who is considered to be an incarnation of Krishna's brother, Balarama. (en)
rdfs:label
  • Gopalas (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
foaf:name
  • Gopalas (en)
is dbo:wikiPageDisambiguates of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License