Pir Budhan Shah (died 1643), also called Baba Budhan Ali Shah, was a venerated
Sufi pir who had religious discourse with
Guru Nanak
Gurū Nānak (15 April 1469 – 22 September 1539; Gurmukhi: ਗੁਰੂ ਨਾਨਕ; pronunciation: , ), also referred to as ('father Nānak'), was the founder of Sikhism and is the first of the ten Sikh Gurus. His birth is celebrated w ...
in
Rawalpindi and later accepted
Gurmat
Gurmat (Punjabi: ਗੁਰਮਤਿ ; gur-mat, mat, Sanskrit mati, i.e. counsel or tenets of the Guru: more specifically, focusing the mind towards the Guru) is a term which may in its essential sense be taken to be synonymous with Sikhism itself. ...
thought during times of
Guru Har Gobind
Gurū Hargobind (Gurmukhi: ਗੁਰੂ ਹਰਿਗੋਬਿੰਦ, pronunciation: l 19 June 1595 – 28 February 1644), revered as the ''sixth Nānak'', was the sixth of ten Gurus of the Sikh religion. He had become Guru at the young age of ...
. His name is also
romanised
Romanization or romanisation, in linguistics, is the conversion of text from a different writing system to the Roman (Latin) script, or a system for doing so. Methods of romanization include transliteration, for representing written text, and ...
as Peer Buddan Shah.
Renunciation
Buddan Shah, a
Muhammedan, belonged to a family of chieftains, but left everything to become a Sufi mystic. He lived near Rawalpindi. Guru Nanak met him during his travels.
He was very close to
Bhai Bidhi Chand Chhina
Baba Bidhi Chand (Gurmukhi: ਬਿਧੀ ਚੰਦ; 26 April 1579 - 30 August 1638) was a Sikh religious preacher, from Chhina Bidhi Chand village, 37 kilometers south of Amritsar and Chhina Bidhi Chand was part of Amritsar District not Lahore. H ...
. His disciple Sunder Shah, died together with Bhai Bidhi Chand at Devnagar near
Ayodhya
Ayodhya (; ) is a city situated on the banks of holy river Saryu in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
Ayodhya, also known as Saketa, is an ancient city of India, the birthplace of Rama and setting of the great epic Ramayana. Ayodhya wa ...
.
[Page 37, H. S Singha, Encyclopedia of Sikhism]
Death
Budhan Shah lived up to the time of
Sikh Guru Hargobind
Gurū Hargobind (Gurmukhi: ਗੁਰੂ ਹਰਿਗੋਬਿੰਦ, pronunciation: l 19 June 1595 – 28 February 1644), revered as the ''sixth Nānak'', was the sixth of ten Gurus of the Sikh religion. He had become Guru at the young age of e ...
Sahib and died in 1643 and his
Mausoleum is located on hilltop in
Kiratpur Sahib about 200 meters to east of the
ashram of
Baba Gurditta
Baba Gurditta (5 November 1613–15 March 1638, Gurmukhi: ਗੁਰਦਿੱਤਾ) was the son of Guru Hargobind (sixth Sikh guru), and the father of Guru Har Rai (seventh Sikh guru) of Sikhism. There is a gurudwara in Kiratpur Sahib, Punjab w ...
and he is visited by both the
Sikhs and
Muslims of the region.
References
History of Sikhism
Converts to Sikhism
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