Tulsi Das

Goswami Tulsidas
Statue of Goswami Tulsidas at Kanch Mandir, Tulsi Peeth, Chitrakuta, India
Religion	Hinduism
Philosophy	Ramanandi Sampradaya
Personal
Born	Rambola 1511 Soron, Delhi Sultanate (Now in Uttar Pradesh, India)
Died	1623 Assi Ghat, Varanasi, Mughal Empire (Now in Uttar Pradesh, India)
Guru	Naraharidāsa
Literary works	Ramcharitmanas, Vinaya Patrika, Geetawali, Dohavali, Sahitya Ratna, Hanuman Chalisa, Vairagya Sandipani, Janaki Mangal, Parvati Mangal, and others
Honors	Gosvāmī, Sant, Abhinavavālmīki, Bhaktaśiromaṇi

I bow down to the whole world by folding both hands, considering all of it to be it to be a manifestation of Sita and Rama. [ Note - सीयराममय means to be manifest of Sita and Rama. It doesn not mean to be born of Sita and Rama.]

Tulsidas (Hindi: तुलसीदास; Hindi pronunciation: [t̪ʊls̪iːd̪aːs̪], also known as Goswami Tulsidas (गोस्वामी तुलसीदास); 1497/1532–1623) was a Hindu poet-saint, reformer and philosopher from Ramanandi Sampradaya in the lineage of Jagadguru Ramanandacharya renowned for his devotion to the Lord Shri Rama. A writer of several popular works in Sanksrit and Awadhi, he is best known as the author of the epic Ramcharitmanas, a retelling of the Sanskrit Ramayana based on Rama's life in the vernacular Awadhi.

Tulsidas was acclaimed in his lifetime to be a reincarnation of Valmiki, the composer of the original Ramayana in Sanskrit. He is also considered to be the composer of the Hanuman Chalisa, a popular devotional hymn dedicated to Hanuman, the divine devotee of Rama.

Tulsidas spent most of his life in the city of Varanasi. The Tulsi Ghat on the Ganges River in Varanasi is named after him. He founded the Sankatmochan Temple dedicated to Hanuman in Varanasi, believed to stand at the place where he had the sight of Hanuman. Tulsidas started the Ramlila plays, a folk-theatre adaption of the Ramayana.