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Hinduism and terms
Hinduism uses the terms Aikantya, Apamarga, Brahma-upalabdhi, Sahaj, Sakshatkara, Sayujya, Videhalcivalyam and Yogakshemma, while Buddhism also uses the term Bodhi.
Conceptually, it is closely allied to the injunctions and ordinances thought to uphold it, collectively referred to as Dharma, and the action of the individual in relation to those ordinances, referred to as Karma-two terms which eventually eclipsed Ṛta in importance as signifying natural, religious and moral order in later Hinduism.
In Hinduism sutra denotes a distinct type of literary composition, based on short aphoristic statements, generally using various technical terms.
In the Thomas Covenant stories, Donaldson takes several terms from Sanskrit that are significant in Hinduism and Buddhism and reassigns them meanings in the Land.
Brahma, Indra, Bhagavan, Ishvara, and Paramatman are among the most commonly used terms for God in the scriptures of Hinduism.
TM has been described in terms of being a neo-Hindu adaptation of classical Vedantic Hinduism, and it is listed as neo-Hindu by Neusner, although other authors maintain that it retains " only shallow connections " to Hinduism.
According to the 2001 UK census, Christianity is the major religion, followed by Islam, Hinduism, Neo-Paganism, Sikhism, Judaism and Buddhism in terms of number of adherents.
A lot of indigenous beliefs and mythology were either influenced by Sanskrit terms used in Hinduism ( whether superimposed onto similar indigenous beliefs or imported into the belief system ), or indirectly influenced by Hinduism via neighboring Southeast Asian kingdoms.
In terms of their political affiliation, many contemporary Javanists and recent converts to Hinduism had been members of the old PNI, and have now joined the new nationalist party of Megawati Sukarnoputri.
Dr. Beck is the author of Sonic Theology: Hinduism and Sacred Sound ( University of South Carolina Press, 1993 ) where he examined Hindu theology and Indian philosophy in terms of sacred sound, and Sonic Liturgy: Ritual and Music in Hindu Tradition ( University of South Carolina Press, 2012 ), where he traced the historical relation between Hindu ritual and Indian classical and devotional music.
Āstika ( ; " it exists ") and Nāstika (, ; " it doesn't exist ") are technical terms in Hinduism used to classify philosophical schools and persons, according to whether they accept the authority of the Vedas as supreme revealed scriptures, or not, respectively.
In terms of religion, 95. 72 % dwellers of Kushtia are Muslims, 4. 22 % follow Hinduism and others religions make up 0. 06 %.
" In the same journal, Roz Kaveney calls it " a stupid and dishonest book ", and says " intention is to claim Wittgenstein for his own brand of contemplative mysticism, which he defines as the great insight that IndoEuropeans ( or, as he unregenerately terms them, Aryans ) brought to Hinduism and Buddhism.
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