The section on Brahmanism I found particularly interesting, being a religion which is a fore-runner of both Hinduism and Buddhism. |
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Should we not wonder why masses of people are changing their religions and abandoning Hinduism? |
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Here, both in tribal religion and mainstream Hinduism, the tiger occupies prime place. |
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Karma, in this strain of Hinduism, is very definitely a matter of intention and not result. |
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By giving such advice, Giriraj wants to prove that Hinduism is the best religion on earth for mankind. |
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The day Hinduism becomes a minority religion in India, it will be no different from Pakistan. |
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Thapar even doubts whether Hinduism as a religion really existed until recent times. |
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It can therefore safely be said that this teaching of Manu was against Hinduism. |
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Basically, Hinduism teaches monogamy, which is marriage to one person at a time. |
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For example a common myth is that caste system and untouchability is fundamental to Hinduism. |
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These books are the primary source for our knowledge of the most ancient Indian mythology, forming the basis for the development of Hinduism. |
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In case your Hinduism is a little rusty, the Brahmans are the priest caste in traditional Hindu society. |
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The deification of the cow was undoubtedly linked with the rise of the priestly Brahmin caste in early Hinduism. |
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Hindu Mahasabha and RSS combine, for whom Hinduism is pure and simple Brahminism in a newer garb of modern language, opposed his interpretation. |
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The Hindu temple is not simply a place we go to socialize or listen to lectures on Hinduism. |
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And maybe we can use Hinduism, not in the form of New Ageism, but as a source of inspiration for our struggles. |
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Perhaps the most philosophically sophisticated reincarnational theory is the Vedantic school of Hinduism. |
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Hinduism asserts that all ways of belief are equally valid, and Hindus readily venerate the saints, and the sacred objects, of other faiths. |
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Hinduism is the only religion, whose God does not have any enemy, like the Devil or the Satan. |
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He sees this balance most clearly in the Eastern religions, particularly Buddhism and Hinduism. |
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This is not true Hinduism, which has always shown its tolerance and accepted in its fold other creeds and faiths. |
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There are so many aspects of Hinduism that link it to the land and to the natural world in India. |
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Upanishads which form part of the Vedas are the real foundations of Hinduism. |
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Under Babur Hinduism was tolerated and new Hindu temples were built with his permission. |
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It is possible to a great extent to speak of Hinduism as culture rather than as religion. |
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Is Hinduism a religion like others, and what are the principal characteristics which define it? |
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This trend has sparked debate among Hindus about the nature of Hinduism and its boundaries. |
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In Hinduism, then, the wanton destruction of forests is not just something merely inexpedient, it is a sacrilege. |
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The traditional repertoire of most classical dance styles is strongly based on the stories and characteristics surrounding divinity in Hinduism. |
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For many decades it was the male swamis from India who were the most well-known exponents of Hinduism touring in the Western countries. |
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In particular, Hinduism and the lingam, or phallic symbol associated with the god Siva, are highlighted. |
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Author of several books on Hinduism, his writings seek to contrast the generally flippant and dry academic presentations of western Indologists. |
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The bad name attributed to Hinduism on account of the caste discrimination will vanish in one stroke. |
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They have to tell people that Swami is a messenger of Hinduism like the other swamis of this ancient tradition. |
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In fact, respect and tolerance of other religions is one of the premises of Hinduism. |
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We accept converts with open arms who learn about Hinduism of their own free will. |
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Hinduism encourages fasting on the eleventh day after a new moon, after the full moon, and every Monday in November. |
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The Tamils emigrated to the north of the island from southern India, bringing Hinduism and their Dravidian language with them. |
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However it was probably developments in Hinduism itself that helped the faith to grow. |
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This makes Hinduism unique in the sense that it is a monotheistic religion with a pantheon of manifested forms of God. |
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The three theories of monism, qualified monism and dualism were synthesized, as branches of the same religion, Hinduism. |
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They are even more closely related to mainstream Hinduism than are tribals. |
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Their culture is of prehistoric origin and precedes the arrival of Hinduism to Bali. |
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The Vajrayana sect took this a step further and introduced female divinities to Buddhist worship akin to Hinduism. |
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In Hinduism many sects advanced their theories about the nature of Reality. |
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Three important concepts within Hinduism are dharma, karma, and reincarnation. |
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Hinduism has survived the ravages of thousands of years in spite of its own inherent weaknesses. |
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Nirvana, in Hinduism, is achieved through a continuous cycle of birth, life, death, and rebirth. |
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The majority of Khojas are also converts from Hinduism and their customs are a reflection of this. |
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Any amount of opposing forces can be withstood without any harm to Hinduism. |
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Hinduism and the relationship of religion to society have undergone a massive redefinition from the 18th to the 20th Centuries. |
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In fact, this freedom is at the root of the composite nature of Hinduism as they worship many deities. |
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The prime condition is that returning Muslims must renounce their faith and convert to Hinduism. |
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But Buddha was of the renunciative path so that may have contributed to his split from Hinduism. |
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According to the mythologies of Hinduism, each world cycles is subdivided into four yugas or world ages. |
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Buddhism, Sikhism, Zoroastrianism and to some extent Jainism came from Hinduism. |
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Thai beliefs actually reflect a mix of Theravada Buddhism, Hinduism, and animism. |
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In a beautifully appointed room near the gallery entrance, he has assembled Nepalese marionettes in the images of the Gods of Hinduism. |
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Moreover, it presents the drama of the birth and beginning of Hinduism with elegance and beauty. |
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Hinduism might have started as Dravidian civilization and later merged with Aryan civilization. |
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All insisted that she should mention her religion as Hinduism and write her name as Tehmina Mitra! |
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It was the religion of Truth, not Hinduism, that every satyagrahi affirmed. |
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They were excommunicated by the successor of Guru Nanak and gradually turned to Hinduism. |
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Early Manipuris were followers of Hinduism, and believed in the hierarchy of the Gods. |
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Hinduism influenced cultures throughout Southeast Asia, but only one people are Hindu, the Balinese. |
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Jainism is different than Hinduism or Buddhism in that it is not possible for a layman to attain Nirvana without strict self-deprivation. |
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He inherited from his father a composite culture which included elements of Sufism and Hinduism. |
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In general they said it was the elders and the pundits who kept Hinduism alive in the early days. |
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A unique and redeeming feature of Hinduism through the ages has been tolerance, a certain willingness to live and let live. |
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My own learning has taken place at the fertile conjunction of Hinduism and Buddhism, although my deistic inclination firmly locates me in the former tradition. |
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To his Russian Orthodoxy he added freemasonry, spiritualism, and a huge dose of the Yoga, Hinduism and Buddhism that were a legacy of the many years he lived in the Himalayas. |
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We love receiving Hinduism Today.It is real yogic skill in action. |
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In Hinduism you have many deities with various temperaments and nature, so you have the luxury of choosing and bonding with the deity which suits your nature. |
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Hinduism recognises four varnas based on occupation and ancestry. |
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They are far from being Descartian soulless machines, though they have not been imbued with the sacred, godlike character which they have attained in Hinduism. |
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I was sent on assignment to Thailand by Hinduism Today to meet the Indian Hindus of Thailand and to explore the ways in which Thais worship the Hindu Gods and Goddesses. |
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With the strengthening of Brahmanic Hinduism and orthodox traditions, the Hindu woman's role within the family and community was redefined in the late 19th century. |
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Emblazened by his illumination, his ordination as a satguru and the blessings of Gods and devas, Gurudeva contributed to the revival of Hinduism in immeasurable abundance. |
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Hinduism is a subtle, complex, multi-dimensional spiritual cosmos. |
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The mass hysteria by the zealots does not bode well for India or Hinduism. |
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Despite the noisy celebration with loud conches and raucous bells, the essence of practice of Hinduism is a quiet introspection and contemplative meditation. |
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Conversely, Shah's proposals that we should all resign to being Hindus is not only based on mysticism and some New-Age notion of limited Hinduism, it is also impracticable. |
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From the fifth to the fifteenth centuries the dominant power in the area was the Khmer empire, in which various forms of Hinduism and Mahayana Buddhism were popular. |
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India is the birthplace of Hinduism as well as Buddhism, motherland of Sikhs and Jains, the abode of more rishis, sadhus, mahatmas, and maharishis than any place on earth. |
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Little or no reference is made by anyone to the Vedas as the source of Hinduism, or the Upanishads or even the Mahabharata, except for the Bhagavad Gita. |
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From the evidence of 5,000 ashrams at Maha Kumbh it is clear and obvious that there are many different shades of ideas, opinions, philosophies and practices in Hinduism. |
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Hinduism is a combination, a collection, of all the teachings and practices of thousands of rishis, gurus, philosophers, mystics and teachers throughout many centuries. |
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There is in the first place, despite an abundance of detail, a certain ethnographic thinness which reflects partly her incuriosity about Hinduism as such. |
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Hinduism developed from the Vedic tradition in India and Zoroastrianism out of the early Aryan religion and mythology expressed eventually in the Avesta in Iran. |
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Buddhism coexisted with archaic Hinduism in India and Sri Lanka, Taoism and Confucianism in China, the Bon religion in Tibet, and Shinto in Japan. |
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Roy used the philosophical ideas found in the earliest Hindu scriptures to criticize the polytheism and some of the practices of popular Hinduism, such as sati. |
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In Benaras he came in close contact with Karpatriji Maharaj, who inducted him into the Shaivite school of Hinduism and he was renamed Shiv Sharan. |
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The man behind some of the complaints is Rajan Zed, president of the Universal Society of Hinduism. |
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Hinduism directs its followers to spiritual teachers, who, according to traditional belief, are a necessary connection to God. |
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Hinduism is not a unified system of belief and practice, and should at best be regarded as a convenient shorthand for a complex social and cultural phenomenon. |
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By following Hinduism they should be able to lead a very good life, so that when they reincarnate, they get a good birth to continue their spiritual education. |
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Hinduism is a complex religion, and there are many paths in it. |
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Historical Vedic polytheist ritualism survives as a minor current in Hinduism, known as Shrauta. |
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The other world religions of Buddhism, Hinduism and Sikhism are also represented in the EU population. |
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The Senas were staunch promoters of Brahmanical Hinduism and laid the foundation of Bengali Hinduism. |
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Hinduism is a religion, or a way of life, found most notably in India and Nepal. |
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Scholars regard Hinduism as a fusion or synthesis of various Indian cultures and traditions, with diverse roots and no founder. |
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Because of the wide range of traditions and ideas covered by the term Hinduism, arriving at a comprehensive definition is difficult. |
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Hinduism as it is commonly known can be subdivided into a number of major currents. |
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From tribal Animism to Buddhism, everything was subsumed as part of Hinduism. |
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The term has also more recently been used by Hindu leaders, reformers, and nationalists to refer to Hinduism as a unified world religion. |
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According to Vivekananda, there is an essential unity to Hinduism, which underlies the diversity of its many forms. |
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Some forms of religious expression are central to Hinduism and others, while not as central, still remain within the category. |
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Part of the problem with a single definition of the term Hinduism is the fact that Hinduism does not have a founder. |
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The proper pursuit of artha is considered an important aim of human life in Hinduism. |
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In Hinduism, Kama is considered an essential and healthy goal of human life when pursued without sacrificing Dharma, Artha and Moksha. |
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A release from this eschatological cycle, in after life, particularly in theistic schools of Hinduism is called moksha. |
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God is called Ishvara, Bhagavan, Parameshwara, Deva or Devi, and these terms have different meanings in different schools of Hinduism. |
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Both theistic and atheistic ideas, for epistemological and metaphysical reasons, are profuse in different schools of Hinduism. |
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According to Graham Schweig, Hinduism has the strongest presence of the divine feminine in world religion from ancient times to the present. |
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But there is also a strong tradition of the questioning of authority, internal debate and challenging of religious texts in Hinduism. |
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Hinduism has no central doctrinal authority and many practising Hindus do not claim to belong to any particular denomination or tradition. |
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The term Smartism is derived from Smriti texts of Hinduism, meaning those who remember the traditions in the texts. |
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The Bhagavad Gita is an integral part of the Mahabharata and one of the most popular sacred texts of Hinduism. |
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In Agamic schools of Hinduism, the Vedic literature and the Agamas are equally authoritative. |
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Bhakti marga is considered in Hinduism as one of many possible paths of spirituality and alternate means to moksha. |
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Pilgrimage is not mandatory in Hinduism, though many adherents undertake them. |
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Hinduism has a developed system of symbolism and iconography to represent the sacred in art, architecture, literature and worship. |
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Flowers, birds, animals, instruments, symmetric mandala drawings, objects, idols are all part of symbolic iconography in Hinduism. |
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Sannyasa is not religiously mandatory in Hinduism, and elderly people are free to live with their families. |
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Early colonial era orientalists proposed that the Puranas were religious texts of medieval Hinduism. |
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Between 14th and 18th century, Hinduism revived in certain provinces of India under two powerful states, viz. |
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Hinduism underwent profound changes, aided in part by teachers such as Ramanuja, Madhva, and Chaitanya. |
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Hinduism is attracting Western adherents through the affiliated practice of yoga. |
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In the 20th century, Hinduism also gained prominence as a political force and a source for national identity in India. |
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In the modern era, religious conversion from and to Hinduism has been a controversial subject. |
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Some state the concept of missionary conversion, either way, is anathema to the precepts of Hinduism. |
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Sikhs believe in reincarnation and karma concepts found in Hinduism and Buddhism. |
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The practice of using mantras was adopted from Hinduism, where they were first used in the Vedas. |
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Prior to the 13th century CE, Hinduism and Buddhism were the main religions in Southeast Asia. |
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Cambodia was first influenced by Hinduism during the beginning of the Funan kingdom. |
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Balinese Hinduism is somewhat different from Hinduism practised elsewhere, as Animism and local culture is incorporated into it. |
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The arts and literature in some of Southeast Asia is quite influenced by Hinduism, which was brought to them centuries ago. |
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Hinduism and Buddhism each have about 5,000 adherents in Wales, with the rural county of Ceredigion being the centre of Welsh Buddhism. |
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In the following millennium, the oldest scriptures associated with Hinduism began to be composed. |
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In North India, Hinduism asserted patriarchal control within the family, leading to increased subordination of women. |
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Under the Guptas, a renewed Hinduism based on devotion rather than the management of ritual began to assert itself. |
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They were imitated all over India and led to both the resurgence of Hinduism and the development of all modern languages of the subcontinent. |
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The same is often true in Hinduism, where the very simple and ancient form of the lingam is the most common. |
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Though now minority religions, Hinduism and Buddhism remain defining influences in Indonesian culture. |
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The concept of ahimsa grew gradually within Hinduism, one of the signs being the discouragement of ritual animal sacrifice. |
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Consumption of beef is taboo, due to cows being considered sacred in Hinduism. |
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In addition, a broad array of other religious movements have established congregations, including Hinduism, and Buddhism. |
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He received support and encouragement from his colleagues and bosses and was invited to give talks on Hinduism. |
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According to a 1987 article in Hinduism Today, Chinmoy as a yoga spiritual master was an unmarried celibate. |
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Although influenced by Hinduism, his path catered to an international community of seekers from diverse backgrounds. |
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Other notable snakes in Hinduism are Ananta, Vasuki, Taxak, Karkotaka and Pingala. |
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Indian Brahmins and traders brought Hinduism to the region and made contacts with local courts. |
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The religions of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism originated in India, South Asia. |
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Many overseas Indians in countries such as Burma, Singapore and Malaysia also adhere to Hinduism. |
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In both Hinduism and Jainism, garlic is thought to stimulate and warm the body and to increase one's desires. |
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Some have suggested that the concept of missionary conversion, either way, is contrary to the precepts of Hinduism. |
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Important polytheistic religions practiced today include Chinese traditional religion, Hinduism, Japanese Shinto, and various neopagan faiths. |
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More widespread is folk Hinduism, with rituals dedicated to various local or regional deities. |
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Theistic Hinduism encompasses both monotheistic and polytheistic tendencies and variations on or mixes of both structures. |
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Since the 1960s, many westerners attracted by the world view presented in Asian religious systems have converted to Hinduism. |
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Hinduism was introduced into Java by travelers from India in ancient times. |
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Dang Hyang Nirartha was responsible for facilitating a refashioning of Balinese Hinduism. |
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Historically, Hinduism has only recently had a large influence in western countries such as the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Canada. |
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Buddhism, Hinduism, and traditional Animism are also practiced among large populations. |
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Thai Buddhism has evolved over time to include many regional beliefs originating from Hinduism, animism, as well as ancestor worship. |
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Mauritius is the only country in Africa where Hinduism is the largest religion. |
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Hinduism is the second most prevalent religion in Sri Lanka and predates Buddhism. |
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Their authority derived from the ideologies of Hinduism and Buddhism as well as from natural leadership. |
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Other religions in the region include Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism and Jainism. |
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The Bhakti movement refers to the theistic devotional trend that emerged in medieval Hinduism and later revolutionised in Sikhism. |
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The Vijayanagara Empire created an epoch in South Indian history that transcended regionalism by promoting Hinduism as a unifying factor. |
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In Weber's view, Hinduism in India, like Confucianism in China, was a barrier for capitalism. |
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I was particularly interested by Anantanand Rambachan's nine-point summary of the social implications of Advaita Hinduism. |
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Tulsi Gabbard, meanwhile, is ethnically an American Samoan, but a follower of Hinduism like her mother who adopted the faith. |
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But the absence of dogma gives Hinduism an almost amoebic ability to mold itself to the socio-economic needs of its times. |
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Zed, who is the president of Universal Society of Hinduism, says that Roma live in deep poverty. |
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However, it is not treated anthropomorphically as in Hinduism, and it is never washed or offered food. |
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The core of Nepal is perceived as the Hill territory and its traditional cultural ethos is conditioned by Sanskritic Hinduism. |
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Ambedkar clearly distinguished Brahminic Vedic Hinduism from the Buddhism in his book Buddha and His Dhamma. |
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To give one example, Radhakrishnan identifies high Hinduism with the hidebound casteism of Durvasapura brahmins throughout. |
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Courses offered by it also teach classical Sanskrit, traditional Hinduism, Hare Krishna, Hindu views on war and peace, etc. |
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Hinduism told us that joy and renunciation needed each other and renunciation was not deprival, it was freedom. |
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The practice of ishta devata in Hinduism allows a person to worship a particular chosen deity without necessarily denying that other gods exist. |
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The henotheistic belief supports the possibility of worshiping one deity without denying the worship of other deities as central to Hinduism. |
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Hinduism originated in India and is the oldest of the major religions on earth, being well over 3,000 years old. |
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Similar forms of religious life also exist in other faiths, most notably in Buddhism, but also in Hinduism and Jainism, although the expressions differ considerably. |
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Mall's book offers in twelve brief chapters and two appendices a very general introduction to Hinduism within a wider context of interreligious dialogue. |
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The Universal Society of Hinduism has failed to persuade the Arkansas secretary of state to permit a statue of a Hindu god, Lord Hanuman, at the state Capitol. |
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It was presented in the Upanishad texts of India and has been used in the sacred chants of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism and by the Zoroastrians. |
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This therefore opposes exclusionary concepts of Hinduism that reject those not of Indian, high-caste, or male birth, or those unpurified by rituals. |
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Rajan Zed, who is President of Universal Society of Hinduism, argued that such trivialization of faith hurt the devotees and should not be taken lightly. |
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In Hinduism, they are forbidden to mount a horse, ox, or elephant, although there is no mention of all the skydiving women do in the tampon adverts. |
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Those who ascribe to Jainism and Hinduism, Sikhism and Buddhism understand that their path to holiness will entail a lifelong struggle with karma. |
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Hinduism is a zigsaw puzzle in that it contains every philosophy and most religions and outlooks, practices and observances, innumerable gods one fighting the other. |
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The latter stated that while caste discrimination was harmful to spiritual and national growth, it had nothing to do with Hinduism and its texts such as Manusmriti. |
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Swami Vivekananda was a key figure in introducing Vedanta and Yoga in the Western world, raising interfaith awareness and making Hinduism a world religion. |
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Around 7,000 people belonging to the Manusela tribe follow Hinduism. |
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The name of the city indicates the influence of Hinduism in the region. |
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Today, Hinduism is dominant in Northern, Eastern and Central Sri Lanka. |
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More recently, Hinduism was introduced to Madagascar through Gujarati people immigrating from the Saurashtra region of India in the late 19th century. |
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Academically speaking, the ancient Vedic scriptures, upon which Hinduism is derived, describe four authorized disciplic lines of teaching coming down over thousands of years. |
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India is becoming militarized and Hinduized, with a plethora of new security forces created to crush dissent and Hinduism used as a tool to manipulate the masses. |
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In its diffuse and open structure, numerous schools and sects of Hinduism have developed and spun off in India with help from its ascetic scholars, since the Vedic age. |
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Hinduism is a diverse system of thought with beliefs spanning monotheism, polytheism, panentheism, pantheism, pandeism, monism, and atheism among others. |
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Theravada Buddhism was the predominant religion of these city states, while the presence of other Indian religions such as Mahayana Buddhism and Hinduism were also widespread. |
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In Hinduism, an owl is the vahana, mount, of the Goddess Lakshmi. |
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Hinduism in Scotland is all aspects of the Hindu religion in Scotland. |
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From the 7th century CE, the powerful Srivijaya naval kingdom flourished as a result of trade and the influences of Hinduism and Buddhism that were imported with it. |
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Zoroastrianism, Buddhism, Hinduism and Confucianism include this idea. |
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Both Hinduism and Buddhism were well established in the Malay Peninsula by the beginning of the 1st century CE, and from there spread across the archipelago. |
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The appropriateness of conversion from major religions to Hinduism, and vice versa, has been and remains an actively debated topic in India, and in Indonesia. |
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Within India, archeological and textual evidence such as the 2nd century BCE Heliodorus pillar suggest that Greeks and other foreigners converted to Hinduism. |
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Merchants and traders of India, particularly from the Indian peninsula, carried their religious ideas, which led to religious conversions to Hinduism in southeast Asia. |
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Religious conversion to Hinduism has a long history outside India. |
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The majority of the Vietnamese Cham people also follow Hinduism. |
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This, state Patrick Olivelle and other scholars, is likely because the monasteries of Advaita tradition of Hinduism had become well established in ancient times. |
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The acceptance of the ideas in the Vedas and Upanishads became a central criterium for defining Hinduism, while the heterodox movements rejected those ideas. |
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The Ashramas system has been one facet of the Dharma concept in Hinduism. |
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It is a space and structure designed to bring human beings and gods together, infused with symbolism to express the ideas and beliefs of Hinduism. |
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While there are different yet similar pilgrimage routes in different parts of India, all are respected equally well, according to the universality of Hinduism. |
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A Hindu may worship multiple deities, all as henotheistic manifestations of the same ultimate reality, cosmic spirit and absolute spiritual concept called Brahman in Hinduism. |
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Authority and eternal truths play an important role in Hinduism. |
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Dharma is considered the foremost goal of a human being in Hinduism. |
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Pennington, while concurring that the study of Hinduism as a world religion began in the colonial era, disagrees that Hinduism is a colonial European era invention. |
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The modern syncretization is a fusion between Buddhism, hinduism, and the native beliefs. |
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