sankirtana
सङ्कीर्तन sankirtanaThe communal singing or chanting of the divine names (nama-sankirtana), central to bhakti traditions such as Chaitanya's Gaudiya Vaishnavism; also called kirtan.
Where this term appears
- Karma, bhakti and jnana: the three paths to moksha Essentials
…ements, the ecstatic name-chanting of Chaitanya, the whole culture of sankirtana .
- What is bhakti? Essentials
Chaitanya's contribution to Bengal was public sankirtana , singing in the street.
- The Great Mantras Treatise
…Bengali saint who made the communal singing of the divine names, nama-sankirtana , the center of a whole devotional movement, and in the twentieth century it travelled out of India to become, through the Gaudiy…
- The Sound That Remains Treatise
Chaitanya in Bengal, dancing and weeping the names of Krishna and making nama-sankirtana , the communal singing, into a flood that swept a region.