Many Sadhus ( Hindu monks ) are also celibate as part of their ascetic discipline.

Some Hindu and most Buddhist monks and nuns shave their heads upon entering their order, and Korean Buddhist monks and nuns have their heads shaved every 15 days.

* Saffron robes are often worn by Hindu swamis and Buddhist monks in the Theravada tradition.

Tonsure, usually qualified by the name of the religion concerned, is now sometimes used more generally for such cutting or shaving for monks, devotees, or mystics of other religions as a symbol of their renunciation of worldly fashion and esteem, e. g., by Buddhist novices and monks, and some Hindu streams.

Tonsure is the practice of some Christian churches and some Hindu, Jain and Buddhist ( usually only monks or nuns ) temples of shaving or plucking the hair from the scalp of priests and nuns as a symbol of their renunciation of worldly fashion and esteem.

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Hinduism blended easily into both animism and Buddhism, so many Hindu gods are considered Thaen and Buddhist monks have incorporated much of Brahmanic rituals.

For example, Benzaiten is a Japanese name for the Hindu goddess Saraswati, and the ancient Siddhaṃ script, which disappeared from India by 1200 CE, is still written by monks in Japan.

Buddhist monks associated with the temple claim that this represents an attempt by Hindu nationalist elements to assert control over the temple, and to establish the primacy of Hinduism by advancing the claim that the Buddha was an incarnation of the god Vishnu.

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While working at the Herald, Balan went to meet Swami Sivananda at the Swami's Ashram at Ananda Kutir, in Rishikesh because he wanted to write an article criticizing Hindu monks.

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At the same time, Hindu monks ( sanyaasis ), who are usually expected to withdraw from samsaara (' the world '), usually practice celibacy.

During some Mughal Emperors time, in the Indian continent, improper terminology were inserted in Sufism and Islam and " faqir " was quoted for street beggars and Hindu monks.

Most Hindu, Buddhist and Jain monks take the vow for life, committing themselves to work of religious service and study.

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According to Romila Thapar " If we do not take Hindu theology in account the first historical description of the city dates back recently to the 7th century, when the Chinese pilgrim Xuan Zang observed there were 20 Buddhist temples with 3000 monks at Ayodhya, amongst a large Hindu population.

As the name suggests, it is a transit point for the Sanyasis ( the Hindu monks ). it has the idols of all the major Gods and Goddesses.

At the death of her husband, she is about to be sacrificed by Hindu monks as a suttee at her husband's funeral pyre.

Some Hindu and most Buddhist monks and nuns shave their heads upon entering their order, and Korean Buddhist monks and nuns have their heads shaved every 15 days.

Western astrology places the equinox at the beginning of Aries, about 23 degrees after the equinox in the Hindu system.

At the beginning of October each year, the Dussehra Hindu Festival is also held on Calton Hill.

Hsuan Tsang refers to the name as Kaofu in the 7th century AD, which is the appellation of one of the five tribes of the Yuezhi who had migrated from across the Hindu Kush into the Kabul valley around the beginning of the Christian era.

* Ugadi, the Telugu and Kannada New Year is celebrated by the people of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka ans TamilNadu in India as the beginning of a new year according to the Hindu Calendar.

The new moon in its original meaning of first crescent marks the beginning of the month in lunar calendars such as the Muslim calendar, and in lunisolar calendars such as the Hebrew calendar, Hindu calendars, and Buddhist calendar.

At least until the beginning of the 20th century it was a Hindu custom to present a completely new, undrilled pearl and pierce it during the wedding ceremony.

While the Zamorin was willing to sign a new treaty, Gama made a preposterous call to the Hindu king to expel all Muslims from Calicut before beginning negotiations, which was naturally turned down.

* The Chandra Hindu Dynasty ends, thus beginning a time of chaos in areas belonging to modern-day India.

The Hindu Kush, Karakoram, Himalaya, and Patkai ranges bound the bioregion on the northwest, north, and northeast ; these ranges were formed by the collision of the northward-drifting Indian subcontinent with Asia beginning 45 million years ago.

In contrast to their successor, Chandragupta I, who is mentioned as Maharajadhiraja, he and his son Ghatotkacha are referred to in inscriptions as Maharaja At the beginning of the 5th century the Guptas established and ruled a few small Hindu kingdoms in Magadha and around modern-day Bihar.

It is placed at the beginning of most Hindu texts as a sacred incantation to be intoned at the beginning and end of a reading of the Vedas or prior to any prayer or mantra.

The warriors of ancient India blew conch shells to announce battle, as is described in the beginning of the war of Kurukshetra, in the Mahabharata, the famous Hindu epic.

Both the Qur ' an and sharia ( Islamic law ) provided the basis for enforcing Islamic administration over the independent Hindu rulers, but the sultanate made only fitful progress in the beginning, when many campaigns were undertaken for plunder and temporary reduction of fortresses.

Vedic science may refer to a number of disciplines: ancient and modern, scientific and unscientific, religious, metaphysical, Hindu, occultist, New Age, proto-scientific, or pseudoscientific found in or based on the Vedas ( the oldest holy texts of the Hindu religion, written beginning ca.

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.

From the very beginning of Lord Chaitanya's bhakti movement in Bengal, Haridasa Thakur and others Muslim or Hindu by birth were the participants.

Its construction also marked the end last of Hindu kingdoms in North India, and the beginning of Muslim rule in India, which ended only in the 19th century with the arrival of the British, and even today the Qutb remains one of the most important " Towers of Victory " in the Islamic world.

The day marks the beginning of the New Year in the traditional Hindu Solar Calendar.

At the beginning of the 15th century, the whole country had come under the rule of the kings of Vijayanagar ; but in the anarchy that followed the overthrow of the Vijayanagar empire by the Mussulmans in the 16th century, the Hindu viceroys ( nayakkas ) established in Madura, Tanjore and Kanchi made themselves independent, only in their turn to become tributary to the kings of Golconda and Bijapur, who divided the Carnatic between them.

In North India, Diwali marks the beginning of the traditional New Year, and is held on the night of the new moon in the Hindu month of Kartik ( usually October or November ).

From the beginning of the 9th century, Rajput dynasties dominated northern parts of India, and the many petty Rajput kingdoms became the primary obstacle to the complete Muslim conquest of Hindu India.

The architecture of the colonial period varied from the beginning attempts at creating authority through classical prototypes to the later approach of producing a supposedly more responsive image through what is now termed Indo-Saracenic architecture-a mixture of Hindu, Islamic and Western elements.