The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1649 page)

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as a centre of worship.
Eventually N
nak settled in
Kart
rpur
where followers gathered and observed a daily regimen of bathing, hymn-singing, and eating together in the
Gur
-k
-la
gar
. Among these devotees was Leh
, later Gur
A
gad
, whom N
nak designated his successor as Gur
, in preference to his sons. Thus the Sikh movement continued with a succession of human Gur
s beyond his death, which probably occurred in Sept. 1539.
Gur
N
nak's teachings, as recorded in the

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