The coastal Karnataka has a different tradition of praying to spirits ( see also Folk Hinduism ).

For some schools of Hinduism and Buddhism the received textual tradition is an epistemological category equal to perception and inference ( although this is not necessarily true for some other schools ).

Hinduism is a complex of various belief systems that sees many gods and goddesses as being representative of and / or emanative from a single source, Brahman, understood either as a formless, infinite, impersonal monad in the Advaita tradition or as a dual god in the form of Lakshmi-Vishnu, Radha-Krishna, Shiva-Shakti in Dvaita traditions.

Ancient hymns include the Egyptian Great Hymn to the Aten, composed by Pharaoh Akhenaten ; the Vedas, a collection of hymns in the tradition of Hinduism ; and the Psalms, a collection of songs from Judaism.

... While often employing concepts shared with Hinduism and Buddhism, the result of a common cultural and linguistic background, the Jain tradition must be regarded as an independent phenomenon.

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 ).

As an old religion, Hinduism inherits religious concepts spanning monotheism, polytheism, panentheism, pantheism, monism, and atheism among others ; and its concept of God is complex and depends upon each individual and the tradition and philosophy followed.

The hymn is an early example of enumerating the names of a deity, a tradition developed extensively in the sahasranama literature of Hinduism.

According to the particular tradition, with the experience of nirvana the mind ( Buddhism ) or soul ( Jainism ) or spirit ( Hinduism ) has ended its identity with material phenomena and experiences a sense of great peace.

Hoysala temples were not limited to any specific organised tradition of Hinduism and encouraged pilgrims of different Hindu devotional movements.

Hinduism – predominant and indigenous religious tradition of the Indian Subcontinent.

* A. C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada who founded the International Society for Krishna Consciousness ( the ' Hare Krishnas ') in New York in 1965, an organization following the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition of Hinduism.

Hinduism has a long tradition of veneration of saints, expressed toward various gurus and teachers of sanctity, both living and dead.

Hinduism has a longstanding and living tradition of reverence toward saints, with the line often blurring between humanity and divinity with some Hindu deities.

Outside the European tradition of the philosophia perennis, one of the best known traditions to propose a similar idea of a common truth residing within all religions is Sanatana Dharma of Hinduism.

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 ).

This mode of worship is largely unchanged today within Hinduism ; however, only a small fraction of conservative Śrautins continue the tradition of oral recitation of hymns learned solely through the oral tradition.

Historically significant systems of mentorship include traditional Greek pederasty, the guru-disciple tradition practiced in Hinduism and Buddhism, Elders, the discipleship system practiced by Rabbinical Judaism and the Christian church, and apprenticing under the medieval guild system.

The archives of the Hinduism Today publication appear to be a solid and faithful storehouse of Hindu theory and practice ; they seem to be an ideal starting point for those interested in this ancient religious tradition.

In April 2010, Hindu American Foundation co-founder Aseem Shukla, on a Washington Post-sponsored blog on faith and religion, criticized Chopra for suggesting that yoga did not have origins in Hinduism but is an older Indian spiritual tradition which predated Hinduism.

Its importance stems from its association with the indigenous cultures that inhabited these islands prior to the influences of Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity or the West, making Kulintang the most developed tradition of Southeast Asian archaic gong-chime ensembles.

Hinduism has a long tradition of aarti songs, simply referred to as ' Aarti ', sung as an accompaniment to the ritual of aarti.

Some other authors have suggested that there are many similarities between the Kanun and the Manusmṛti, the earliest work of the Dharmaśāstra textual tradition of Hinduism, which indicate a common origin.

In Hinduism, Chandra ( Sanskrit चन ् द ् र lit.

In Hinduism, the Daityas ( द ै त ्‍ य ) are a clan or race or Asura as are the Danavas.

In Hinduism, Devaki ( द े वक ी) is the wife of Vasudeva and biological mother of Krishna .< ref >

The Guardians of the Directions ( Sanskrit: द ि क ् प ा ल, Dikpāla ) are the deities who rule the specific directions of space according to Hinduism and

In Hinduism, Durvasa ( द ु र ् व ा स ) is an ancient sage, son of Atri and Anasuya.

Prasād ( Sanskrit: प ् रस ा द, Bengali: প ্ রস া দ, Marathi: प ् रस ा द, Hindi / Urdu: प ् रश ा द / پرشاد / prashad, Kannada: prasāda ಪ ್ ರಸ ಾ ದ, Gujarati: પ ૃ સ ા દ, Oriya: ଭ ୋ ଗ, Tamil: ப ி ரச ா தம ் and Malayalam: പ ് രസ ാ ദ ം prasādam, Punjabi: ਪ ੍ ਰਸ ਾ ਦ ਿ, Telugu: prasadam, Bhojpuri: persādi ) is a material substance that is first offered to a deity in Hinduism and then consumed.

In Hinduism, Mahadevi ( Sanskrit: Mahādevī, Devanagari: मह ा द े व ी) or " Great Goddess " is a term used to denote the Goddess or Devi that is the sum of all other Devis-an all encompassing Female Deity as the consort or complement to an all encompassing Male Deity ( Deva ) or the Ultimate Reality ( Brahman ) in Shaktism.

Nandinatha Sampradaya ( नन ् द ि न ा थ सम ् प ् रद ा य ) is a denomination of Hinduism that places great importance on the practice of yoga.

The Alaknanda ( or Alakananda ; Sanskrit: अलकनन ् द ा) is a Himalayan river in the state of Uttarakhand, India that is one of the two headstreams of the Ganges which is the major river of Northern India and the holy river of Hinduism.

Satsvarupa das Goswami During ISKCON diksa ceremony in 1979. Diksa ( Sanskrit: द ी क ् ष ा in Devanagari,, Tamil: த ீ ட ் ச ை) also spelled deeksha or deeksa in common usage, translated as a " preparation or consecration for a religious ceremony ", is giving of a mantra or an initiation by the guru in Indian religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism.

Dvapara Yuga or Dwapara Yuga ( Devanagari: द ् व ा पर य ु ग ) is the third out of four yugas, or ages, described in the scriptures of Hinduism.

In Hinduism, an acharya ( आच ा र ् य ) is a mahāpuruśa ( मह ा प ु र ु श, divine personality ) who is believed to have descended as an avatāra ( अवत ा र, incarnation ) to teach and establish bhakti in the world and write on the siddhānta ( स ि द ् ध ां त, doctrine ) of devotion to Bhagwan ( भगव ा न ्, lord, God, blessed one, see also iśvara ).

Jambudvīpa ( Devanagari: जम ् ब ु द ् व ी प ) is the dvipa (" island " or " continent ") of the terrestrial world, as envisioned in the cosmologies of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, which is the realm where ordinary human beings live.

David Frawley ( or Vāmadeva Śāstrī व ा मद े व श ा स ् त ् र ी) is an American Hindu author, publishing on topics such as Hinduism, Yoga and Ayurveda.

Treta Yuga ( Devanagari: त ् र े त ा य ु ग ) is the second out of four yugas, or ages of mankind, in the religion of Hinduism, and follows the Satya Yuga of perfect morality and precedes the Dvapara Yuga.

In Hinduism, Vayu ( Sanskrit व ा य ु ), also known as Vāta व ा त, Pavana पवन ( meaning the Purifier ), or Prāna, is a primary deity, who is the father of Bhima and the spiritual father of Lord Hanuman.

In Hinduism, Yama () or Yamarāja ( यमर ा ज ) is the god of death, belonging to an early stratum of Vedic mythology.

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.

In Hinduism and Buddhism, the Sanskrit lexical item svāhā ( Romanized Sanskrit transcription ; Devanagari: स ् व ा ह ा, chi.

Radha ( Devanagari: र ा ध ा, IAST: Rādhā ), also called Radhika, Radharani and Radhikarani, is the childhood friend and lover of Krishna in the Brahma Vaivarta Purana, and the Gita Govinda of the Vaisnava traditions of Hinduism.

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 ".

Hinduism ( सन ा तन धर ् म ; Sanātana Dharma, roughly Perennial Moral Duty ) is one of the oldest major world religions.

Samsāra or Sangsāra ( Sanskrit: स ं स ा र ) ( in Tibetan called " khorwa "), literally meaning " continuous flow ", is the repeating cycle of birth, life, death and rebirth ( reincarnation ) within Hinduism, Buddhism, Bön, Jainism, Yoga and Sikhism.

Hinduism and Buddhism have been an influence on the development of many of ayurveda's central ideas – particularly its fascination with balance, known in Buddhism as Madhyathmaka ( Devanāgarī: म ा ध ् य ा त ् म ि क ).

Bahun is a colloquial Nepali term for a member of the Pahari or " hill " Brahmin ( ब ् र ा ह ् मण ) caste, who are traditionally educators, scholars and priests of Hinduism.

In Hinduism, the goddess Tara ( Bengali: দ ে ব ী ত া র া ম া )( Sanskrit: Tārā, Devanagari: त ा र ा) meaning " star " is the second of the Dasa ( ten ) Mahavidyas or " Great Wisdom ", Tantric manifestations of Mahadevi, Kali, or Parvati.

In Hinduism, sādhu ( skt स ा ध ु sādhu, “ good ; good man, holy man ”) denotes an ascetic, wandering monk.

In Hinduism, Mahavishnu ( Devanāgarī: मह ा व ि ष ् ण ु) is an aspect of Vishnu, the Absolute which is beyond human comprehension and is beyond all attributes.