Kshetra is also an etymon of the Avestan term Xšaθra " Dominion ", which holds the semantic field " power " and is also a personal name for a divinity or immortal who comprises one of the Amesha Spentas of Zoroastrianism.

This active participation is a central element in Zoroaster's concept of free will, and Zoroastrianism rejects all forms of asceticism and monasticism.

In Zoroastrianism, active participation in life through good thoughts, good words and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep the chaos at bay.

This active participation is a central element in Zoroaster's concept of free will and Zoroastrianism rejects all forms of asceticism and monasticism.

The religion of Zoroastrianism in the country, which reached its peak under the Sassanids, taught that all homosexuals ( active or passive ) are inherently demonic and as such they must be put to death when detected.

Symbolic hand gestures known as mudras have been employed in religious contexts in Hinduism, Buddhism and Zoroastrianism for many centuries, although these religious traditions have often excluded deaf people from participation in ritual or religious membership.

In later Zoroastrianism this was explained as fleeing from the experiences of life, which was the very purpose that the urvan ( most commonly translated as the ' soul ') was sent into the mortal world to collect.

The exact date of Zarathustra's life is debated by scholars with some, such as Mary Boyce, arguing that Zoroastrianism itself is significantly older.

These were another mobed named Zardusht ( of the same name, but not the same person as the founder of Zoroastrianism ) and / or a Zoroastrian philosopher known as Mazdak the Elder, who taught a combination of altruism and hedonism: " he directed his followers to enjoy the pleasures of life and satisfy their appetite in the highest degree with regard to eating and drinking in the spirit of equality, to aim at good deeds ; to abstain from shedding blood and inflicting harm on others ; and to practice hospitality without reservation ".

After his death, with the help of his uncle Emperor Xuānzong, Buddhism was able to recover from the persecution ; but Christianity, Manichaeism, and Zoroastrianism never again played as significant a role in Chinese religious life.

While Hellenistic influence had been felt amongst the religiously tolerant Parthians, the Sassanids intensified the Persian side of life, favored the Pahlavi language, and restored the old monotheistic religion of Zoroastrianism which became the official state religion.

In present-day Zoroastrianism, the faravahar is said to be a reminder of one's purpose in life, which is to live in such a way that the soul progresses towards frasho-kereti, or union with Ahura Mazda, the supreme divinity in Zoroastrianism.

To attain a sufi life and seclude himself he sought a quiet haven in Kurdistan, an area strongly associated with indigenous Iranian religious movements such as Zoroastrianism.

On the other hand, some scholars hold that Judaism refined its concept of monotheism and adopted features such as its eschatology, angelology and demonology through contacts with Zoroastrianism .< ref >

Nietzsche achieves all of this through the character of Zarathustra ( referring to the traditional prophet of Zoroastrianism ), who makes speeches on philosophic topics as he moves along a loose plotline marking his development and the reception of his ideas.

* In classic Zoroastrianism, humanity is created to withstand the forces of decay and destruction through good thoughts, words and deeds.

Zoroastrianism states that for the righteous souls, a beautiful maiden, which is the personification of the soul's good thoughts, words and deeds, appears.

Zoroastrianism is a monotheistic religion that believes that Ahura Mazda is the eternal creator of all good things.

In the original conception of Zoroastrianism, for example, Ahura Mazda was the spirit of ultimate good, while Ahriman ( Angra Mainyu ) was the spirit of ultimate evil.

In Zoroastrianism, good transpires for those who do righteous deeds.

Ethical monotheism and the associated concept of absolute good and evil emerge in Zoroastrianism and Judaism, later culminating in the doctrines of Christology in early Christianity and later ( by the 7th century ) in the tawhid in Islam.

Zoroastrianism, claimed to be “ the oldest of the revealed world-religions ” and founded by the Prophet Zoroaster ( or Zarathustra ) opposed animal sacrifices but held the rooster as a " symbol of light " and associated the cock with " good against evil " because of his heraldic actions.

* Humata, Hukhta, Hvarshta, " good thoughts, good words, good deeds " in Zoroastrianism

Such name roots back to the " Zoroastrianism " era of Persia ( Iran ); However after the Arab invasion of Persia ( Iran ) many Persian words lost their original form as in Arabic there are no letter for pronouncing " G / P / ZH / CH "; Hence " Azar Paigān " came to be known as Azarbaijan.

Throughout the Gathas, Zoroaster emphasizes deeds and actions, and accordingly asceticism is frowned upon in Zoroastrianism.

Zoroastrianism states that the urvan, the disembodied spirit, lingers on earth for three days before departing downward to the kingdom of the dead that is ruled by Yima.

The metaphor of the ' path ' of Daena is represented in Zoroastrianism by the muslin undershirt Sudra, the ' Good / Holy Path ', and the 72-thread Kushti girdle, the " Pathfinder ".

Thus, central to Zoroastrianism is the emphasis on moral choice, to choose between the responsibility and duty for which one is in the mortal world, or to give up this duty and so facilitate the work of druj.

Although the names are old, this opposition is a modern western-influenced development popularized by Martin Haug in the 1880s, and was in effect a realignment of the precepts of Zurvanism ( Zurvanite Zoroastrianism ), which had invented a third deity, Zurvan, in order to explain a mention of twinship ( Yasna 30. 3 ) between the moral and immoral.

Mongols were also exposed to Zoroastrianism ( Qormusta Tengri is still worshipped ), Manicheism, Nestorianism, Islam and Catholicism from the west.

There are monist pantheists and panentheists in Zoroastrianism, Hinduism ( particularly in Advaita and Vishistadvaita ), Judaism ( monistic panentheism is especially found in Kabbalah and Hasidic philosophy ), and in Islam ( among the Sufis, especially the Bektashi ).

Monotheism is characteristic of Atenism, Bahá ' í Faith, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Ravidassia, Judaism, Sabianism, Sikhism and Zoroastrianism.

Millennialism is also a doctrine of medieval Zoroastrianism concerning successive thousand-year periods, each of which will end in a cataclysm of heresy and destruction, until the final destruction of evil and of the spirit of evil by a triumphant king of peace at the end of the final millennial age ( supposed by some to be the year 2000 ).

In Zoroastrianism, the priesthood is reserved for men and is a mostly hereditary position.

During different periods, Bactria was a center of various Kingdoms or Empires, and is probably where Zoroastrianism originated.

The " Avesta "— the holy book of Zoroastrianism — was written in the old-Bactrian dialect ; it is also thought that Zoroaster was most likely born in Bactria.

He is credited with the authorship of the Yasna Haptanghaiti as well as the Gathas, hymns which are at the liturgical core of Zoroastrianism.

While there is no absolute consensus on the kings before Darius, such as Cyrus and Cambyses, it is well established that Darius was an adherent of Zoroastrianism or at least a firm believer in Ahura Mazda.

In the other early monotheistic religion Zoroastrianism the sun is called Ahura Mazda's eye.

A fire temple in Zoroastrianism is the place of worship for Zoroastrians.

Ordering forcible conversions to the state religion, Zoroastrianism, lest the Christians disrupt his realm while he is away fighting the Romans in Armenia and Mesopotamia.