Other sampradayas

Sampradaya  can be translated as ‘tradition’ or a ‘religious system’, although the word commands much more respect and power in the Indian context than its translations in English does.  It relates to a disciplic succession serving as a spiritual channel and providing a delicate network of relationships that lends stability of religious identity being clarified precisely when that network becomes unstable.

 In the contrast with it a particular guru lineages are called parampara and by receiving an initiation (diksha) into a parampara of a living guru, one belongs to its proper sampradaya. The concept of sampradaya therefore is closely tied to the concrete reality of guru-parampara — the lineage of spiritual masters who are both carriers and transmitters of the tradition. Initiation diksa is a means by which one can become a member of a sampradaya, it is a ritual procedure, or to an individual in the parampara, is one of the primary functions of sampradaya; one cannot become a member by birth, as is the case with gotra, a seminal, or hereditary,dynasty.

There are four Vaishnava sampradayas according to Padma Purana.

Four Vaisnava disciplic successions, inaugurated by Sri, Lord Brahma, Lord Rudra, and Sanaka, one of the four Kumaras, according to the scriptural source, appear in the holy place of Jaganatha Puri, and purify the entire earth during the Kali yuga. Sri chooses Ramanuja to represent her disciplic succession. In the same way Lord Brahma chose Madhvacharya in Brahma sampradaya, Rudra chose Visnuswami in Rudra Sampradaya, and the four Kumaras chose Nimbaditya (Nimbarka Sampradaya)." Number of traditions due to assumption of the god-like status of their founder, rejected the parent sampradaya in favour of the new, as would be an example with Ramanandis, Vallabhacharya and Swaminarayan. 

http://smvs.org/       - Swami narayana mandir

http://www.sanatanadharmafoundation.com/       - Sanatana Dharma Foundation web site.

http://www.auroville.org/       - Universal city in South India, inspired by Sri Aurobindo.

http://www.saranagathi.org/       - Web site about to learn Sri Vaishnava Philosophy. With audio

http://www.brajdhamsewa.org/       - Satsang By Shri Ramesh Baba Ji Maharaj From Barsana India

http://www.ramakrishnananda.com/       - Visva Dharma Mandalam Web site by Ramakrishnananda Babaji

http://www.dvaita.org/index.shtml       - Madhvacarya site

http://www.dvaita.net/       - Madhvacarya site

http://srirangamtemple.net/       - Sri Vaishnava site

http://www.ramanuja.org/       - Sri Vaishnavism, one of the main religious traditions of Hinduism

http://www.madhva.org/       - Comprehensive site about and for the Madhva community

http://www.pushtimarg.net/pushti/       - Pustimargiya site

http://www.arunachala-ramana.org/       - Ramana Maharishi's ashram, Arunachala (inc. photos and tour)

http://www.hinduwebsite.com/hinduism/siva.asp       - Siva site

http://www.srivaishnava.org/       - Sri Vaishnava sampradaya site

http://www.advaita-vedanta.org/       - The advaita vedanta site - Sankara

http://www.himalayanacademy.com/       - Shivaites site

http://www.swami-krishnananda.org/       - The Divine life society - Sivananda ashram

http://www.sriaurobindoashram.org/       - Sri Aurobindo Society, Pondicherry, India

http://www.vrindavan-dham.com/       - Vrindavan Dham, description and history

http://krishnasharanam.blogspot.it/        - Gaudiya Vaishnava Samaj

http://www.kripanidhi.com/       -  Pustimarga and Sri Natji

http://www.nathdwara.in/about_nathdwara.php       - Nathadwar - Sri Natji

http://www.pustimarg.com/       - Pustimarga site

http://dvaita.org/haridasa/       - Haridasa site

http://www.shreeswaminarayan.org.uk/       - Swami Narayan temple, Villesden

http://www.shaivam.org/       - Shaivam (inc. audio, picture , temples, philosophy)

https://nyganeshtemple.org/       - The Hindu Temple Society of North America, Sri Maha Vallabha

http://www.svtemple.org/       - Sri Venkateswara temple, Pittsburg, USA

http://www.tirumala.org/       - Sri Venkateswaraswami in Tirumala, India

http://barnard.edu/hinduismhere/shilpa.html       - Vaishnava Pustimarga temple, USA

http://www.satramana.org/       - Ramana Maharisi site, advaita vedanta

http://nonduality.com/ramana.htm       - Not duality philosophy conception

http://www.arunachala-ramana.org/       - Ramana maharisi site (inc. audio and video downloads)

http://vivekananda.org/       - Vivekananda site, Ramakrishna society, Boston, USA

http://www.sivananda.org/       - Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centers International

http://www.dlshq.org/index.html       - The divine life society, Swami Sivananda

http://www.searchforlight.org/       - Sri Aurobindo Yoga

http://www.yogananda-srf.org/       - Site of Paramahansa Yogananda (methods of meditation

http://www.aurosociety.org/       - Sri Aurobindo society

http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~malaiya/jainhout1.html       - Jain history - outline

http://www.jainnet.com/       - The comprehensive resource for Jainism

http://www.panthkhalsa.org/index.php       - Sikh resources for Panjab, India

http://www.sikh-history.com/       - History of the Sikhs

http://www.dasamguru.com/       - Various aspects of Sikh religion

http://www.hinduwebsite.com/links/sikhism/general.asp       - Information on the Sikh religion

http://www.tukaram.com/       - Tukarama site (the great 17th century saint from Maharashtra )

http://www.onlinedarshan.com/       - treasure house of information on Hindu religion and spirituality

http://www.parakalamatham.org/       - Sri Parakala Matham, Hayagriva sampradaya (inc. picture gallery)

http://www.vedanta.org/       - Vedanta society, Ramakrishna Mission