Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Hinduism
- Early
Beginnings
- Indus valley civilization
- 54. Mohenjo- daro
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- major city center on indus valley people
- 31. Harappa
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- major city center of indus valley civilization
- 23.Dravidian
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- IVC most likely transformed in to dravidian
-preistly class; high purity
- 69.sanskirt
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- "cultured/perfected" language of the Aryans
- The Aryans Migration
- The 94.Vedas
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- religious text of the Aryans; originally oral; include for collections of eloquent hymns addresses to the Vedic deities
- Vedic
scripture
- 32. Henotheism
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- each god when worshiped is elevated to the highest position; there is no clear defined hierarchy among the gods
- sacrificial text
- 90. upanishads (last portion of anta)
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- philosophical speculation of absolute reality and the induvudual
- who am i? what is the absolute truth of the world? what is the relationship between the two?
- 93. vedanta
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- schools of philosophy based on Upanishads
- 14. Brahmanas
- 96. Yajna (vedic sacrifice)
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- offerings into a ritually constructed square fire pit
- vedic hymns are recited as certain point in the ritual ; the Brahmans were skilled in Vedic hymns and rituals
- Vedas
- Rig- Veda
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- the oldest collection; over 1000 hymns; palm leaf; vedic deities are personified power of nature
- some examples of god
- 2.Agni - god of fire; transports sacrificial offerings to other gods
- 36. Indra - god of thunder and lightning (200 hymns)
- 79. Soma - sacred (hallucinodenic) plant
- 25. Dyaus- pitri - sky God
- 59. Prithivi - earth goddess
- 81. Surya - the sun
- special status
- they are known as 75. shruti
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- divinely heard i.e., revealed
- composed by the 64. rishi
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- seerers ; semi-divine sages
- all other Hindu scripture is regarded as 78.
smriti
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- trasdidtional rememdered)
- 75. shruti - scripture
- the source came from something beyond the gods
- channeled through the seers ( may be more important/ healed higher)
- orthodox hindu values
- the 4 classes of hindu society
- the 4 stages of life and the 4 goals of life
- 1.student
- 2. householder
- 3.forest dweller
- 4. samnyasin (renouncer)
- Hindu Cosmology and Moksha
- The Epics
- Ramayana
- Mahabharata
- The Bhagavad gita and its 3 types of yogas
- Karma yoga
- Bhaki yoga
- Jnana yoga
- Hindu devotion worship
- Some important deities
- Vedanta
- Shankara's non-dualism