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  Hinduism (printable copy)
Hinduism is based on the concept of reincarnation, in which all living beings, from plants to gods, live in a cycle of living and dying.
Rama is a Hindu deity worshiped throughout Hinduism as the seventh incarnation of Vishnu.
Yoga is one of the six classic systems of Hindu philosophy that practices certain disciplines to achieve freedom from the limitations of the flesh and lead to the fulfillment of knowledge.
library.thinkquest.org /28505/hinduism/print.html   (1048 words)

  
 WORLD RELIGIONS: HINDUISM
At its core Hinduism has pagan background, in which the forces of nature and human heroes are personified as gods and goddesses.
Hinduism can be divided in to Popular Hinduism, is characterized by the worship of gods, through offerings, rituals and prayers; and Philosophical Hinduism, is the complex belief system understood by those who can study ancient texts, meditate and practice yoga.
The other valid paths for moksha are: the way of works (karma marga), the way of knowledge (jnana marga), or the way of love and devotion (bhakti marga).
sub.namb.net /root/resources/beliefbulletins/religions/hinduism.asp   (1295 words)

  
 Hinduism: Introduction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Hinduism originated in the area now called India and is still practiced by 80% of its inhabitants.
Hinduism is considered a major world religion because of its approximately 700 million believers and its has influence on many other religions during its long history.
This religion cannot be traced to a specific founder and does not have only one "holy book" as a spiritual guide.
library.thinkquest.org /28505/hinduism/intro.htm   (124 words)

  
 Sundaram, Hinduism and its Philosophy
Hinduism, in the strict sense, cannot be described as a religion.
Hinduism (unlike other religions which are based on a specific book or set of books) evolved throughout the centuries with different schools of thoughts coming up with refreshing ideas, continually evolved through highly qualitative debates.
But where Hinduism differs from the other two is on one salient point - Christianity or Islam does not say why a person is born in a particular way (that is rich, noble, a leader, devout, etc., as compared to a poor, murderer or a thief, etc.).
www.geocities.com /aaditya55/religion.html   (1288 words)

  
 Hinduism - Hindu Culture, Hindu Religion, Hindu Beliefs
Hinduism allows absolute freedom to the rational mind of man. Hinduism never demands any undue restraint upon the freedom of human reason, the freedom of thought, feeling and will of man. Hinduism is a religion of freedom.
Hinduism, unlike other religions, does not dogmatically assert that the final emancipation is possible only through its means and not through any other.
Hindu Yoga and Vedanta teachers lay great stress on self-restraint, Tapas, renunciation and practical Sadhana, which are best calculated to control the mind and the senses and unfold the Divinity within or attain Self-realization.
hinduism.8k.com /hindu.html   (1786 words)

  
 Hinduism
Hinduism represents a life of hopelessness, where people are dependent on their own works to escape from samsara (rebirth).
Hinduism claims 1/6 of the world's population, with over 750 million followers worldwide and its influence is being felt more and more in western countries.
The religious tradition of Hinduism is solely responsible for the original creation of such concepts and practices as Yoga, Ayurveda, Vastu, Jyotisha, Yajna, Puja, Tantra, Vedanta, Karma, etc. These and countless other Vedic-inspired elements of Hinduism belong to Hinduism, and to Hinduism alone.
www.inplainsite.org /html/hinduism.html   (1183 words)

  
 hinduism
Hinduism is not a religion in the strict sense of the word.
Hindus believe that every human being is divine by nature and the purpose of life is to expose that divinity to the fullest possible extent.
Coexistence with other religions with respect and humbleness is the core of the Hindu way of life.
www.cs.indiana.edu /~port/teach/relg/hinduism.questions.html   (3460 words)

  
 Hinduism
Hinduism is not a religion of mere theories.
The doctrine of reincarnation or transmigration is a fundamental tenet of Hinduism.
Despite all the difference of metaphysical doctrines, modes of religious discipline, and forms of ritualistic practices and social habits prevalent in the Hindu society, there is an essential uniformity in the conception of religion, and in the outlook on life and the world, among all sections of Hindus.
www.sivanandadlshq.org /religions/hinduism.htm   (1582 words)

  
 HINDUISM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Hinduism is the religion of the majority in India.
Educated Hindus though have rejected the primitive features and have developed a refined religion which they follow alongwith the cruder versions that resemble primitive animism followed by their rural and tribal brethren.
The existence of finer features among the caste Hindus (especially among the Brahmins) and darker and coarser features among the scheduled castes and scheduled tribes in particular is also stated as a physical evidence of the thesis supporting the AIT, that the pre-Aryans were dark and coarse featured and the Aryans were fair.
www.hindutva.org /hinduism.html   (5705 words)

  
 Hinduism and other religions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This coincided with the peak of Hindu vedanta revival and its idelogical reintegration of Buddhism and Jainism.
However, Muslim and Hindu conflict still exists in India feuled by a history of regional politics, nationalism, continued Pakistani sponsored terrorism and the history of the partition movements during independence from the British Raj.
The Religion of India: The Sociology of Hinduism and Buddhism
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hinduism_and_other_religions   (1681 words)

  
 Inter-religious Attitude
Hindu kings, frequently helped the Moslems to build their mosques, in spite of the fact that the Moslem rulers of India destroyed Hindu temples, disfigured Hindu images, and converted the Hindus to their faith often by ruthless methods.
Hinduism has never developed the theory of a jealous God or exclusive salvation; the idea of a chosen people is alien to it.
When a so-called civilized religion destroys, in the name of enlightenment, the beliefs and practices of a primitive people, it destroys something of their soul; religion is a part of the soul.
www.hinduism.co.za /inter-re.htm   (5686 words)

  
 Is the space of Hinduism shrinking?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Hinduism has its focus on spiritual upliftment of man and all the moral and social codes were formed with that as goal.
Unlike other religions, in Hinduism there is no authority, person or religious leader or organisation to declare any group or a section of the people as higher or lower or untouchable or socially renegade or unequal.
Though conversion of lower castes and Dalits from Hinduism to other religions had been taking place for several hundreds of years, and they form part of those religions precious little appears to have been done by those religions to eradicate the evil as could be seen from the prevalence of the evil in those religions.
www.hvk.org /articles/0202/159.html   (1940 words)

  
 Hinduism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hinduism is sometimes considered a polytheistic religion, but such a view tends to oversimplify a diverse system of thought with beliefs spanning polytheism, monotheism, panentheism, monism and even atheism.
Pilgrimage is not mandatory in Hinduism as it is in Islam.
Other holy places in India include Kedarnath and Badrinath in the Himalayas, the Jagannath temple at Puri, Rishikesh and Haridwar in the foothills of the Himalayas, Allahabad (also known by the ancient name Prayāg, located at the confluence of multiple holy rivers), Rameshwaram in the South and Gaya in the east.
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 lokpriya!
Hinduism is perhaps the only religious tradition that is so diversified in its theoretical premises and practical expressions as to be called a "museum of religions".
Although the popular image of Krishna is that of a god who steals butter as a child, and who, as a youth, plays the flute and entices cows and cowherd girls alike; in his mature years he is depicted as the wise philosopher with a more serious side to his nature.
The Hindu gods are very much alive and live in temples, snow-capped peaks, in rivers and oceans and in the very hearts and minds of the Hindus.
www.lokpriya.com /culture/religions/hinduism.html   (702 words)

  
 Founder of Hinduism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
And so long as this does not develop in the life of an initiate, so long is religion a mere empty word to him, and it is to be understood that he has not taken yet the first step in religion.
The Hindu can worship any sage and any saint from any country whatsoever, and as a fact we know that we go and worship many times in the churches of the Christians, and many times in the Mohammedan mosques and that is good.
All the ideals of religion that already exist in the world can be immediately included, and we can patiently wait for all the ideals that are to come in the future to be taken in the same fashion, embraced in the infinite arms of the religion of the Vedanta.
www.hinduism.co.za /founder.htm   (3530 words)

  
 India's Religions
The ancient Vedic religion which is now known as Hinduism or Hindu religion has been the dominant religion in India ever since the prehistoric days.
Subsequently several other religions with their roots in this Vedic- Upanishad philosophy were born in India.
Openness of Hinduism towards other religions and the ability to amalgamate foreign religions and cultures have resulted in a country where all the major religions of the world can coexist and flourish side by side.
www.gatewayforindia.com /other_religions.htm   (135 words)

  
 Hindu Press International May 21, 2005
They believe that Hinduism has never indulged in converting people of other religions to its own, and some go further to demonstrate the unwillingness of many of today's saints to accept followers of other religions into their fold.
On the other hand, there are also those who sincerely believe that Hinduism should transform into at least a passively proselytizing religion to survive the onslaught of the, not only actively, but aggressively, proselytizing Abrahamic religions.
On reading many accounts in Indian history of conversions from Hinduism to other religions and re-conversions as well as original conversions from other religions to Hinduism, I find it hard to believe that Hinduism has been a non-proselytizing religion.
www.hinduismtoday.com /hpi/2005/5/21.shtml   (572 words)

  
 Hinduism Today | Dec 1994
I regard Hinduism as a civilization which respects freedom of choice and encourages rational inquiry in matters relating to the spirit.
The indigenous name for Hinduism is Sanatana Dharma, "The eternal religion." That which is eternal is, by very definition, beyond both time and space: it embraces truth everywhere and not only the truths expressed in a particular body of belief.
The need nowadays is to show that the religions of the world are essentially one; that their underlying oneness is not exclusive to a few, that it is eternally present in all of them, and also infinitely beyond them all.
www.hinduismtoday.com /archives/1994/12/1994-12-11.shtml   (1144 words)

  
 hinduism and other religions
GANDHI M.K. / Hindu Dharma: The glory and the abuses / 1978 / New Delhi
AITKEN William Mckay / Contribution of Gandhi to the development of Hindu religions experience, with special reference to the Hindu spiritual discipline of Yoga.
GANDHI M.K. / Hindu Dharma / 1950-1950;3 / Ahmedabad
www.gandhiserve.org /sale/library_books_english/hinduism/hinduism.html   (267 words)

  
 hinduism.htm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Hinduism is not a religion in the strict sense of the
Other religions have strict laws and beliefs to
religions with respect and humbleness is the core of the Hindu way of life.
www.hsh.k12.nf.ca /religion/hinduism.htm   (331 words)

  
 Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, Spiritualism and Self-development resources from Hinduwebsite   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Essays on Hinduism, Saivism, history of Hinduism, temples, spiritual masters, a huge data base of links.
A huge resource base of translations of many ancient scriptures of Hinduism, Buddhism and other eastern religions.
Your use of the website is subject to the terms of use attached hereto.
www.hinduwebsite.com   (376 words)

  
 Ask a Minister - Are the good people in Islam, Hinduism and other religions going to hell?
It is such a privilege to attempt to answer this question, for I can sense that it comes from a heart that is genuinely concerned for the welfare of eternal souls.
With that in mind, the obvious question is raised concerning those who have been deceived by a false religion, and have not been given the glorious message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
The job of the Holy Ghost is "to reprove the world of sin"; in other words, to convict men, no matter who they are or where they are, of this sin.
misslink.org /chapel/askaminister/religion/religions.html   (1201 words)

  
 1 Million Links, Religions, Other, Hinduism
Asceticism, Religion and Civilization in South Asia: Hinduism, Buddhism, Jaini
Hindu Temple and Cultural Center of South Carolina
Religion, Hinduism (part of The WWW Virtual Library)
www.wonderfulword.com /1millionlinks/Hinduism.html   (971 words)

  
 EduNet - Religions of the World, Hinduism
The Hindu Family Newspaper Affirming the Dharma and Recording the Modern History of Nearly a Billion Members of a Global Religion in Renaissance.
Along with Hinduism and Buddhism, Jainism is one of the three most ancient of India's religions still in existence.
For comparision, other corresponding events in Indian and world history are included in the table.
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 Hindutva - Issues relating to Hinduism and other religions - Message Board - ezboard.com
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