Hinduism
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- noun
- /ˈhɪnduˌɪzəm/
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hinduismo
- So I think when people think Hinduism, they think temple worship, going to and praying to a deity.
- Hinduism and Buddhism
- Hinduism and Islam
- Hinduism and Christianity
Vivekananda was the first Hindu teacher to come to the West and teach Hinduism.
- Vivekananda was the first Hindu teacher to come to the West and teach Hinduism.
- In Hinduism, there's a similar practice.
- So I think when people think Hinduism, they think temple worship, going to and praying to a deity.
- So, so, so if you look at Lord Buddha, he basically he got tired of, of too many rituals in Hinduism.
- But as luck would have it, somewhere along the line, she was introduced to another lifestyle and that was to the form of Hinduism.
- Well, for example, I look at Hinduism, and for literally thousands of years, people saw this as something that was scientifically viable.
- So there's three main gods in Hinduism, Correct?
- What's different though is Buddhism and Hinduism don't seem to have that effect.
- There have been groups that have used Judaism, Hinduism, Christianity, Islam.
- And Christianity has it, Islam has it, Judaism has it, Hinduism, Buddhism have it.
- But there's a lot of engagement with Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, Hinduism, a little bit with Jaina.
- What's the difference between Buddhism and, you know, Hari Krishna or Hinduism?
- I was always fascinated by Hinduism, Buddhism, kind of a lot of like Indian rooted gods and especially like Ganesh.
- I mean, I, I mentioned one earlier about the guy in India who was brought up by gurus who's realized that Hinduism had too many contradictions to be true.
- Now, Hinduism isn't, I would say not as scalable as let's have many of the other religions because it's not standardized.
- It's Hinduism as well, and the animist religions, the religions of the extent we understand them or know about them, of the American Indians all the same.
Examples
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In Hinduism, the Garuda is a massive sun bird that ultimately becomes the vehicle, the mount, for the god Vishnu.
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Certain religions tend to include explicit spiritual philosophies and practices, such as yoga in Hinduism.
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Well, this is the very heart of Hinduism...
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I came to faith through Hinduism and I found God's love through Christ.
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My daughter is studying Hinduism.
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In Hinduism, there's a similar practice.
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Wherever you went, you were aware how important Hinduism was to these people and how it was completely linked to the river, because you saw ritual bathing all the way up the river.
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My biggest test when God asked me to go to India, to a city called Varanasi, the oldest city in the world and the birthplace of both Hinduism and Buddhism.
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Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, they all agree suffering is unavoidable, but human beings still find a way to persevere.
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My daughter is studying Hinduism to learn about its beliefs and practices.
Synonyms
An old, now outdated spelling of the religion Hinduism
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Hinduism comes from Hindu + -ism, where -ism means 'belief' or 'system'. Hindu comes from an old name Sindhu for the Indus river, so Hinduism originally named the beliefs and cultural way of the people living by that river and today means the major religion and traditions of South Asia.