SATRAS A satra is a monastery for Vishnu worship, mountainside ski shop Assam s distinctive form of everyman Hinduism. Formulated by 15th-century Assamese philosopher Sankardev, mountainside ski shop the faith eschews the caste system and idol worship, focussing on Vishnu as God, especially in his Krishna incarnation. Much of the worship mountainside ski shop is based around dance and melodramatic play-acting of scenes from the holy Bhagavad Gita. The heart of any satra is its namghar, a large, simple, prayer hall usually open sided and shaped like an upside-down oil tanker. Beneath mountainside ski shop the eastern end, an inner sanctum hosts an eternal flame, mountainside ski shop the Gita and possibly a horde of instructive (but not divine) images.
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