Baba Buddha
Disciple of Guru Nanak who lived to anoint five more Gurus and was the first granthi of the Harmandir Sahib.
Bura was a boy of the village of Kathu Nangal near Amritsar, born in 1506, who brought milk and butter to Guru Nanak when he passed. The Guru was struck by the wisdom of his questions about death and called him Buddha, the wise old man.
He lived for more than a hundred years and served six Gurus. By tradition it was he who placed the tilak of Guruship on the foreheads of Guru Angad, Guru Amar Das, Guru Ram Das, Guru Arjan and Guru Hargobind, and who girded Guru Hargobind with the two swords of miri and piri. He supervised the digging of the Amritsar pool.
In 1604 Guru Arjan made him the first granthi of the Harmandir Sahib when the Adi Granth was installed there. He died in 1631 at Ramdas, and his descendants kept the right to anoint the Gurus. Gurdwara Bir Baba Buddha Sahib near Amritsar marks the forest where he grazed the Guru's cattle.
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Founder of Sikhi. A poet and teacher who rejected caste and empty ritual and taught devotion to one formless God through the Name, honest work and sharing.
Fifth Guru. Built the Harmandir Sahib, compiled the Adi Granth in 1604 and became the first Sikh martyr, tortured to death in Lahore in 1606.
Sixth Guru. Wore two swords, miri and piri, for worldly and spiritual authority, built the Akal Takht and fought the first Sikh battles against Mughal forces.
Baba Buddha, as a young boy, seeks the blessings of Guru NanakGovernment Museum, Chandigarh · photo family workship of Nainsukh of Guler (Wikimedia Commons) ↗