Islamism can also be described as part of identity politics, specifically the religiously-oriented nationalism that emerged in the Third World in the 1970s: " resurgent Hinduism in India, ultra-Orthodox Judaism in Israel, militant Buddhism in Sri Lanka, resurgent Sikh nationalism in the Punjab, ' Liberation Theology ' of Catholicism in Latin America, and of course, Islamism in the Muslim world.

The Chola navy played a vital role in the expansion of the Chola Tamil kingdom, including the conquest of the Sri Lanka islands, Kadaaram ( Present day Burma ), Sri Vijaya ( present day Southeast Asia ), the spread of Hinduism, Tamil architecture and Tamil culture to Southeast Asia and in curbing the piracy in Southeast Asia in 900 CE.

* 13th century: Theravada overtakes Mahayana — previously practised alongside Hinduism — as the dominant form of Buddhism in Cambodia ; Sri Lanka is an influence in this change.

* Sri Venkateswara Gosamrakshana Trust: Protection of Cow, a sacred animal in Hinduism

Tirumala is one of the 108 shrines of the Sri Vaishanava sect of Hinduism.

* Hinduism Today's farewell tribute to Sri Ram Swarup

According to Sri Nisargadatta, our true nature is perpetually free peaceful awareness, in Hinduism referred to as Brahman.

In Hinduism and Sikhism, the Sikh Bhagats (, from Sanskrit भक ् त ) were holy men of various sects whose teachings are included in the Sikh holy book the Sri Guru Granth Sahib.

Shaiva Siddhanta encompasses tens of millions of adherents, predominantly in Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka ( see Hinduism in Sri Lanka ).

Sri Chaitanyananda Natha Saraswathi ( far right ) of the Sri Rajarajeshwari Peetam, a Shakta temple in Rush, N. Y., leads devotees in performing the Tantra | Tantric ritual known as Kamakhya Puja ( Hinduism ) | Puja, 2007.

She is worshiped as goddess Pattini in Sri Lanka by the Sinhalese Buddhists, Kannaki Amman by the Sri Lankan Tamil Hindus ' ( See Hinduism in Sri Lanka ) and as Kodungallur Bhagavathy and Attukal Bhagavathy in the South Indian state of Kerala.

In Iran, Hinduism is the fastest growing religion, spurred mainly by interest in New Age gurus like Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and Mahesh Yogi.

Sri Surya Pahar, a very significant but relatively unknown archaeological site in Assam, a hill which showcases the remains of cultural heritage of three important religions of India, Buddhism, Jainism and Hinduism.

* Hinduism: India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Malaysia, Singapore, Bali.

"-" All About Hinduism " by Sri Swami Sivananda

On 21 January 2006 Naik held an inter-religious dialogue with Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in Bangalore about the concept of God in Islam and Hinduism.

Four Vaisnava disciplic successions, inaugurated by Sri, Lord Brahma, Lord Rudra, and Sanaka, one of the four Kumaras, according to the scriptural source, appear in the holy place of Jaganatha Puri, and purify the entire earth during the Kali yuga ( believed to be the current age in Hinduism ).

In Hinduism the God Hanuman is benign and in the Ramayana he and his monkey people are pivotal for Rama to reach Sri Lanka and slay Ravana, probably Howard decided to depict him as a demon after having read Rudyard Kipling's The Mark of the Beast, a short story where a drunken British officer in India is struck by a curse after having defaced a Hanuman statue with his cigar.

Shaivism ( devotional worship of Lord Shiva ) was the dominant branch practiced by the Tamil peoples thus most of the traditional Hindu temple architecture and philosophy of Sri Lanka drew heavily from this particular strand of Hinduism.

Among other practices and philosophies, Hinduism includes a wide spectrum of laws and prescriptions of " daily morality " based on karma, dharma, and societal norms.

The Atharvaveda, a sacred text of Hinduism dating from the Early Iron Age, is the first Indian text dealing with medicine, like the medicine of the Ancient Near East based on concepts of the exorcism of demons and magic.

Even within Hinduism, there are different approaches to reaching the Divine based on an individual ’ s own characteristics.

* In Hinduism, all festival are according to the Hindu calendar, based on the Vikram Samvat, which also functions as the national calendar of Nepal and Bangladesh.

Swami Vivekananda believed that the essence of Hinduism was best expressed in the Vedanta philosophy, based on the interpretation of Adi Shankara.

Hinduism has no single founder, and is formed of diverse traditions, including a wide spectrum of laws and prescriptions of " daily morality " based on the notion of karma, dharma, and societal norms.

Classical ( Puranic, Vedantic ) Hinduism as it emerged in the medieval period de-emphasizes animal sacrifice, and indeed any meat processing, based on the doctrine of ahimsa.

Pandurang Vaijnath Shastri Athavale () ( October 19, 1920 – October 25, 2003 ), also known as Dada-ji (), which literally translates as elder brother in Marathi, was an Indian philosopher, spiritual leader, social reformer and Hinduism reformist, who founded the Swadhyay Movement and the Swadhyay Parivar organization ( Swadhyay Family ) in 1954, a self-knowledge movement based on the Bhagavad Gita, which has spread across nearly 100, 000 villages in India, with over 5 million members.

Hinduism in Southeast Asia gave birth to the former Champa civilization in southern parts of Central Vietnam, Funan in Cambodia, the Khmer Empire in Indochina, Langkasuka Kingdom, Gangga Negara and Old Kedah in the Malay Peninsula, the Srivijayan kingdom on Sumatra, the Singhasari kingdom and the Majapahit Empire based in Java, Bali, and parts of the Philippine archipelago.

Hinduism is based on the concept of omnipresence of the Divine, and the presence of a soul in all creatures, including bovines.

The main problem was that the first movements were based on limited folklore sources and influenced by Far Eastern traditions such as Hinduism and Buddhism.

In Hinduism sutra denotes a distinct type of literary composition, based on short aphoristic statements, generally using various technical terms.

The number 108 is considered sacred in many Eastern religions and traditions, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism and connected yoga and dharma based practices.

Hinduism is based on the concept of one all-embracing supreme spirit known as Nirguna Brahman, that is, Brahman without form.

Guru Maharishi Yogi ( based on Maharishi Mahesh Yogi )-A man who in different sketches is either shown giving completely made up lectures about Hinduism, or going door to door saying silly things to the people who answer.

The bosses are based on real-world religion or mythology, such as Greek mythology and Hinduism.

* Eastern religion as sought and practiced by some western converts into faiths based in East Asia and South Asia, like Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Shintoism and so on, as opposed to Monotheism or Judeo-Christian belief systems.

However, the essential similarities between the Samkhya and Patañjali's system remained even after the addition of the Isvara principle, with Max Müller noting that " the two philosophies were in popular parlance distinguished from each other as Samkhya with and Samkhya without a Lord ...." The Bhagavad Gita, one of the chief scriptures of Hinduism, is considered to be based on this synthetic Samkhya-Yoga system.

At a film festival in Umbria ( where he was invited to introduce the 2011 film about exorcism called The Rite ), he is quoted as saying that yoga is satanic because it leads to practice of Hinduism and " all eastern religions are based on a false belief in reincarnation " and " practising yoga is satanic, it leads to evil just like reading Harry Potter "..

Basava fought against the inhuman practice of caste system, which discriminated people based on their birth, and certain rituals in Hinduism.

They divested the mythological aspect of Hinduism and introduced a new Hinduism based on Christian ideals of love and peace.

Hinduism is based on the concept of omnipresence of the Divine, and the presence of a soul in all creatures, including bovines.

The traditional Kiranti religion, predating Hinduism and Buddhism, is based on ancestor-worship and the placation of ancestor spirits through elaborate rituals governed by rules called Mundhum.

Hinduism is based on numerous texts, some of which date back to 2000 BCE or earlier.