Sacred Jewish texts written in the Holyland at this time are the Gemara ( 400 ), the Jerusalem Talmud ( 500 ) and the Passover Haggadah.

* Sacred texts

* Sacred Texts site hosts texts — scriptures, literature and scholarly works — on Satan, Satanism and related religious matters

* Thelema at the Internet Sacred Texts Archive — a collection of texts on the topic of Thelema

Christianization was fostered by the Asturian kings, who did not base their power on the indigenous religious traditions ( unlike other medieval European kings, e. g. Penda of Mercia or Widukind ), but on the texts of the Christian Sacred Scriptures ( particularly, the books of Revelation, Ezekiel and Daniel ) and the Fathers of the Church, which furnished the new monarchy with its foundational myths.

Sacred texts from Jainism mentions the legend of Vamana.

Many of his texts are also used in the American hymnal The Sacred Harp, using what is known as the shape note singing technique.

Sacred and magical texts from Hattusa were often written in Hattic, Hurrian, and Luwian, even after Hittite became the norm for other writings.

* Secrets and in-depth information on Brahmacharya from Hindu Sacred texts

* Sacred texts.

It was titled A Collection of Sacred Hymns, for the Church of the Latter Day Saints and contained 90 hymn texts ( no music ).

Sacred music ( on liturgical texts, in Latin ), melodically rich, with polyphonic sound, in particular using brass instruments ( trumpets, trombones ), strings and organ.

The General Instruction of the Roman Missal speaks as follows of those who, without being lectors in the specific sense, carry out their functions at Mass: " In the absence of an instituted lector, other lay people may be deputed to proclaim the readings from Sacred Scripture, people who are truly suited to carrying out this function and carefully prepared, so that by their hearing the readings from the sacred texts the faithful may conceive in their hearts a sweet and living affection for Sacred Scripture.

Translations of major Hindu texts in the Sacred Books of the East began in 1879.

The texts of Sacred Scripture never address the question of deliberate abortion and so do not directly and specifically condemn it.

* Collection of Sacred Hymns ( Kirtland, Ohio ) First hymnal of the Latter Day Saint Church, published 1835 or 1836, 90 hymn texts

* Collection of Sacred Hymns ( Manchester, England ), published 1840, 277 hymn texts

* Collection of Sacred Hymns ( Nauvoo, Illinois ), published 1841, 304 hymn texts

November 2011: The Church introduced the new English translation of the Roman Missal, the book of texts and prayers used in the Mass, that encouraged worshipers to embrace a new translation of the Mass that more faithfully tracks the original Latin, changing words prayed for nearly four decades to deepem the understanding of the Sacred Liturgy.

In 1940, he founded the series Sources Chrétiennes (" Christian Sources "), co-edited with fellow Jesuit Jean Daniélou, a collection of bilingual, critical editions of early Christian texts and of the Fathers of the Church that has reinvigorated both the study of Patristics and the doctrine of Sacred Tradition.

" Sumerian expert Anna Partington summarized some of the problems, stating that The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross " uses a number of hypothetical Sumerian words not attested in texts.

With T. W. Rhys Davids, he edited and translated into English three volumes of Vinaya texts ( presumably the Theravada Vinaya ), as two volumes of the ( Vedic ) Grhyasutras and two volumes of Vedic hymns on his own account, in the monumental Sacred Books of the East series edited by Max Müller.

He prepared five volumes of Pahlavi texts ( the Marvels of Zoroastrianism ) for Prof. Max Müller's monumental Sacred Books of the East series, published from the years 1880 to 1897.

In Hinduism, Sacred Feminine or Shaktism is one of the three major Hindu denominations of worship along with Vishnu and Shiva.

However, in Buddhism, Jainism, and some forms of Hinduism, the Sacred lies outside the flux of the material world ( called maya, or " illusion "), and one can only reach it by escaping from the cycles of time.

Category: Sacred trees in Hinduism

Category: Sacred trees in Hinduism

Category: Sacred trees in Hinduism

Category: Sacred trees in Hinduism

Category: Sacred trees in Hinduism

* Sacred Writings: Hinduism – The Rig Veda ( 1992 ) Book of the Month Club, no ISBN

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.

His other edited volume, Sacred Sound: Experiencing Music in World Religions ( Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006 ), includes chapters on Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism and Buddhism by distinguished scholars, as well as a CD of forty selections of chant and music performed by the authors (".... highly recommended.

Category: Sacred trees in Hinduism

Allegory has been used widely in ancient sacred texts of Hinduism and all the religions that have sprouted off it ; and throughout the history of art in all forms of artwork.

These texts are the central shruti ( revealed ) texts of Hinduism.

In addition to the Vedas, the principal texts of Hinduism, the core themes of the Sanskrit epics Ramayana and Mahabharata are said to have their ultimate origins during this period.

Hymns to the sun can be found in the Vedas, the oldest sacred texts of Hinduism.

Max Weber published four major texts on religion in a context of economic sociology and his rationalization thesis: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism ( 1905 ), The Religion of China: Confucianism and Taoism ( 1915 ), The Religion of India: The Sociology of Hinduism and Buddhism ( 1915 ), and Ancient Judaism ( 1920 ).

Linga-Yoni at the Cat Tien sanctuary, Lam Dong province, Vietnam In Hinduism, the ancient Indian texts contain the word yoni in various contexts.

The earliest evidence of the group is from Vedic Sanskrit, the language used in the ancient preserved texts of the Indian subcontinent, the foundational canon of Hinduism known as the Vedas.

The great flood finds mention in Hinduism texts like the Satapatha Brahmana, where in the Matsya Avatar takes place to save the pious and the first man, Manu, and advises him to build a giant boat.

Vamana ( Devanagari: व ा मन, IAST: Vāmana ) is described in the Puranic texts of Hinduism as the Fifth Avatar of Vishnu, and the first incarnation of the Second Age, or the Treta yuga.

Yashoda () was wife of Nanda within the Puranic texts of Hinduism.

Gautama Buddha is mentioned as an Avatar of Vishnu in the Puranic texts of Hinduism.

Brahmins, basically adhere to the principles of the Vedas, related to the texts of the Śruti and Smriti which are some the foundations of Hinduism, and practise Sanatana Dharma.

All religions in general use invoking prayers, liturgies, or hymns ; see for example the mantras in Hinduism and Buddhism, the Egyptian Coming Out by Day ( aka Book of the Dead ), the Orphic Hymns and the many texts, still preserved, written in cuneiform characters on clay tablets, addressed to Shamash, Ishtar, and other deities.

The subject – object problem was also discussed in several sections of the Vedas, the earliest sacred texts of Hinduism, and in several schools of Indian philosophy such as Advaita Vedanta and Buddhism.

" hearing, listening "), often spelled sruti or sruthi mainly in South India, is a term that describes the sacred texts comprising the central canon of Hinduism and is one of the three main sources of dharma and therefore is also influential within Hindu Law.

These sacred works span much of the history of Hinduism, beginning with some of the earliest known Hindu texts and ending in the early modern period with the later Upanishads.

* Sanskrit, the tongue of the Vedas and other sacred texts of Hinduism as well as the original language of Mahayana Buddhism and a language of Jainism.

Carlson's wife Dorris got him interested in Hinduism, particularly the ancient texts known as the Vedanta, as well as in Zen Buddhism.

Brahmacharya (; Devanagari: ब ् रह ् मचर ् य behavior that leads to Brahman ) is one of the four stages of life in an age-based social system as laid out in the Manu Smrti and later Classical Sanskrit texts in Hinduism.

The Vedas form the oldest layer of Sanskrit literature and the oldest sacred texts of Hinduism.

" Biruni argued that Hinduism was a monotheistic faith like Islam, and in order to justify this assertion, he quotes Hindu texts and argues that the worship of idols is " exclusively a characteristic of the common people, with which the educated have nothing to do.

The Yajurveda ( Sanskrit:, a tatpurusha compound of " sacrificial formula ', + " knowledge ") is one of the four canonical texts of Hinduism, the Vedas.

The Sanskrit word smṛti स ् म ृ त ि ( also transliterated variously as smriti, smRti, or sm ' Rti ) literally means " that which is remembered ", and refers both to " mindfulness " in Buddhism and " a category of metrical texts " in Hinduism, considered second in authority to the Śruti scriptures.