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The Ten Gurus of Sikhism

The Ten Gurus are the great teachers of Sikhism.

The basic tenet was to wean people away from the caste system predominant in India. Another thing advocated was "no idol worship". Sikhism believes that God is inside a person, rather than stones and symbols.

The Gurus taugh the path of enlightenment to the disciples.

The gurus were:

Guru Nanak Dev

Guru Angad Dev

Guru Amar Das

Guru Ram Das

Guru Arjan Dev

Guru Hargobind

Guru Har Rai

Guru Har Krishan

Guru Teg Bahadur

Guru Gobind Singh

The perpetual and current Guru of the Sikhs is the Guru Granth Sahib, which is sometime referred to as the Holy Book of the Sikhs.

See also Sikhism and Sikh Religious Philosophy

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