The term ‘ Hindu ’ came to include persons professing any Indian religion ( i. e. Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism or Sikhism ) after India became an independent country

This period heralded the beginning of much of what became classical Hinduism, with the composition of the Upanishads, later the Sanskrit epics, still later followed by the Puranas.

It became a centre of Zoroastrianism followed by Buddhism and Hinduism later.

In the first half of the first millennium, the Kashmir region became an important center of Hinduism and later of Buddhism ; later still, in the ninth century, Kashmir Shaivism arose.

The introduction of Hinduism in itself became the cataclysmic event in the undoing of the Magar empire.

The Prakrits became literary languages, generally patronized by ancient Indian kings identified with the Kshatriya Varna of Hinduism, but were regarded as illegitimate by the orthodoxy.

" According to Brian Pennington, Ward's book " became a centerpiece in the British construction of Hinduism and in the political and economic domination of the subcontinent.

Sanskrit was adopted as a scholarly language, and Hinduism, especially Shaivism, became the state religion.

Beginning in the 10th century, Hinduism again became the predominant religion of Champa.

In this period, consumption of beef became taboo, due to cattle being considered sacred in Hinduism.

Buddhism, Hinduism and Taoism became popular among Bulgarians in the time of perestroika and especially after the fall of communist regime and are usually a co-religion or co-belief to Bulgarians who otherwise are Christians ( Roman Catholicism or Orthodoxy ).

He became a spokesman for Hinduism at global gatherings, despite ( directly ) representing fewer than three million of the world's estimated one billion Hindus.

A Shakti who in Hinduism gradually became one of the saptamatara, she was regarded as of evil intent, inflicting sickness on children under seven years of age.

Around this time ( according to indications reproduced by his biographer P. Chacornac ), it is likely that René Guénon became acquainted with Hinduism, specifically via the initiatic lineage of Shankarâchârya, as well as with Taoism.

Hinduism, and the Sanskrit language through which it was transmitted, became highly prestigious in Java.

After Hindu Dharma was brought to the island, it took hold in many areas, especially after Hinduism became a recognized religion in 1964.

Vivekanada who studied in Scottish Church College became a champion of this new Hinduism and he carried it to the West.

Per the tenets of Hinduism, she became a ghost trapped mid-way between Heaven and Earth due to her untimely death.

While the early nāstika systems such as Cārvāka and Ājīvika gradually became extinct or evolved into others, the Jain and Buddhist traditions spun off into what may be described today as separate religions, distinct from Hinduism ( which is now restrictively meant to encompass only the six orthodox Āstika philosophical systems ).

Officially identifying their religion as Hinduism was not a legal possibility for Indonesians until 1962, when it became the fifth state-recognized religion.

Religious identity became a life and death issue for many Indonesians around the same time as Hinduism gained recognition, in the wake of the violent anti-Communist purge of 1965-66 ( Beatty 1999 ).

As Islamic persecution of Sikhs, Hinduism increased, Sikhism became more militant coining the theory " saint-soldier " in which Sikhism maintained its martial tenants.

Because of the huge Indian population, Hinduism became one of the growing religions of Barbados.

He studied Hindi and Sanskrit and became a local expert on Hinduism, as well as exploring the philosophers of Western Civilization.

Other faiths are even more subtle: the doctrine of karma shared by Buddhism and Hinduism is a divine law similar to divine retribution but without the connotation of punishment: our acts, good or bad, intentional or unintentional, reflect back on us as part of the natural working of the universe.

According to the various Indian religions, such as Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, and Sikhism, beings that live in accordance with dharma proceed more quickly toward dharma yukam, moksha or nirvana ( personal liberation ).

With more than a billion adherents, Hinduism is the world's third largest religion.

In the Bhakti tradition within Hinduism, it is believed that execution of devotional service to God leads to the development of Love for God ( taiche bhakti-phale krsne prema upajaya ), and as love for God increases in the heart, the more one becomes free from material contamination ( krishna-prema asvada haile, bhava nasa paya ).

This is more than many well known traditions such as Rastafarian, Bahá ' í and Zoroastrian groups, but fewer than the ' Big Six ' of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism, Judaism and Buddhism.

The actual process of change from one life to the next is called punarbhava ( Sanskrit ) or punabbhava ( Pāli ), literally " becoming again ", or more briefly bhava, " becoming ", and some English-speaking Buddhists prefer the term " rebirth " or " re-becoming " to render this term as they take " reincarnation " to imply a fixed entity that is reborn .< ref >" Reincarnation in Buddhism: What the Buddha Didn't Teach " By Barbara O ' Brien, About. com < sup > Popular Jain cosmology and Buddhist cosmology as well as a number of schools of Hinduism posit rebirth in many worlds and in varied forms.

Sūtra (, Pāli: sutta, Ardhamagadhi: sūya ) is an aphorism ( or line, rule, formula ) or a collection of such aphorisms in the form of a manual or, more broadly, a text in Hinduism or Buddhism.

He spoke several more times at the Parliament on topics related to Hinduism, Buddhism and harmony of religions.

* Historically and culturally, saffron, red and white have always been the most prominent colours of Hinduism and have been regularly worn, particularly in religious ceremonies, in India for more than 2000 years.

* Orange, or more specifically deep saffron, is the most sacred colour of Hinduism.

Hinduism teaches that there have been multiple avatars throughout history and that there will be more.

In Hinduism, an avatar (; ; from Sanskrit अवत ा र in the Devanagari script, meaning " descent ") is a deliberate descent of a deity to earth, or a descent of the Supreme Being ( i. e., Vishnu for Vaishnavites ) and is mostly translated into English as " incarnation ," but more accurately as " appearance " or " manifestation ".

Nonetheless, most philosophic traditions of Hinduism and Buddhism maintain that plants and even more obviously rocks cannot be included in samsāra since they lack the possibility of experience ( bhoga ) and, hence, of karma.

The idea of a single religious truth was more apparent among Sufi mystics, who borrowed from both the Judaeo-Christian tradition and from Hinduism, than it was among orthodox scholars, who accepted the Jewish and Christian truths, but rejected all beliefs that ran counter to Islam ( such as the Trinity, the sonship of Christ, or the reality of the crucifixion ).

The state has more than 32 large and small rivers ; of them, the Ganges, Yamuna, Saraswati, Sarayu, Betwa, and Ghaghara are larger and of religious importance in Hinduism.

In Hinduism and Jainism, a jiva (, alternate spelling, jiwa ) is a living being, or more specifically, the immortal essence of a living organism ( human, animal, fish or plant etc.

Hinduism, with its conception of multiple deities being expressions of one Supreme God, is more open to the possibility that other religions might be ' correct ' for their followers, but this same principle requires the rejection of the exclusivity demanded by each of the Abrahamic faiths.

By setting aside metaphysical issues ( such as a Christian phenomenologist would do with monotheism / polytheism while studying Hinduism ), phenomenologists keep religious studies separate from theology and ( hopefully ) decrease their bias and come away with a more accurate picture.

However, it is far more likely this depicts a Hindu sannyasi particularly since Benares is the holiest city in Hinduism where large numbers of ascetics gather.

Anarchism has also historically gained much more support amongst religious communities and at various times and places explicitly anarchist forms of Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, and other religions have claimed tens of thousands of members.

In Hinduism specifically the name gopi ( sometimes gopika ) is used more commonly to refer to the group of cow herding girls famous within Vaishnava Theology for their unconditional devotion ( Bhakti ) to Krishna as described in the stories of Bhagavata Purana and other Puranic literatures.

After all, the distinction between Hinduism and Buddhism in India was purely sectarian and never more than the difference between saivism and vaishnavism.

Hinduism has a history of co-existence with Buddhism and Jainism ( the Shramana traditions ), and more recently, with Sikhism, within the Indian subcontinent.

There has been some debate on historical connections between Christianity and Indian religion, although this has focussed on Buddhism and Christianity ( via Greco-Buddhism ) more than on Hinduism proper.

Hunter hypothesized that with the passage of time, the Aryan elements assimilated Jagannath into fold of Hinduism where as per more sophisticated customs, Jagannath is being offered cooked food.