Caitanya — the Bhakti-movement founder-saint, incarnation of Krishna
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu (1486–1534 CE) was born in Nabadwip (West Bengal) — the central town of the Bengali Bhakti movement. In Gauḍīya theology, Caitanya IS Krishna himself, returned to earth to teach the nāma-saṅkīrtana (singing Krishna's name). His saṅkīrtana-movement transformed Bengali culture and is the spiritual ancestor of ISKCON globally. His birthplace (Māyāpur, across the Ganges from Nabadwip) is now an ISKCON world-center; the Candranātha-dvīpa temple in Nabadwip is the original Caitanya site. The annual Dola Pūrṇimā / Gaura Pūrṇimā (his birth-tithi) draws a million pilgrims.
Hare Kṛṣṇa Hare Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Hare Hare / Hare Rāma Hare Rāma Rāma Rāma Hare Hare
Every tradition in India — textual, oral, tribal, regional, syncretic — deserves first-person recognition. This entry honours Hindu on its own terms.
