Baba Ganesha Singh Bedi

Reading the Janamsakhis: Devotional Life-Narrative and the Memory of Guru Nanak

This course studies the janamsakhi tradition, the devotional life-accounts of Guru Nanak Dev Ji, taking the manuscript known as the Guru Nanak Surjode Janam Sakhi as a point of entry. Students learn what a janamsakhi is, how it narrates the Guru's life through episodes called sakhis, and why it belongs to a…