Uddharan Dutta Thakura

Srila
Uddharana Dutta
Thakura
Statue of Uddharana Dutta at Uddharanpur
Personal life
Born
Dibakara Dutta

c. 27 August 1481 (1481-08-27)
Saptagram (সপ্তগ্রাম), Hooghly district, Bengal Sultanate, present-day West Bengal, India)
Diedc. November 25, 1541(1541-11-25) (aged 60) Krishna Troyodoshi 1541 AD, or Krishna Troyodoshi 1463 Saka Year
Resting placeVrindavan, India
NationalityIndian
SpouseSuprasanna Devi Sister of Haladhar Sen
ChildrenPriyankar Dutta Later named Srinivas Dutta Thakur
Parents
  • Srikara Dutta (father)
  • Bhadravati Devi, (mother)
Known forCodifying Gaudiya Vaishnavism
RelativesUmapati Dhara, Haladhar Sen, Gouri Sen
HonorsDwadasha gopas, the 12 cowherd-boy associates from Goloka Vrindavan who were always in the company of Krishna and Balaram.
Religious life
ReligionHinduism
DenominationVaishnavism
PhilosophyAchintya Bheda Abheda
LineageBrahma-Madhva-Gaudiya
SectGaudiya Vaishnavism
Religious career
GuruNityananda
Based inVrindavan, India

Uddharan Dutta Thakur (উদ্ধারণ দত্ত ঠাকুর) (c.1481 – c.1541) was an Indian philosopher and saint from the Gaudiya Vaishnava school of Vedanta tradition, producing a great number of philosophical works on the theology and practice of Bhakti yoga, Vaishnava Vedanta and associated disciplines. He is known as one of the Dwadasha gopas, (the 12 cowherd-boy associates from Goloka Vrindavan who were always in the company of Krishna and Balaram).