The impersonalist schools of Hinduism also worship various deities, but only as a means of coming to this understanding-both the worshiped and worshiper lose their individual identities.

Hinduism also has the sacred thread ceremony, called Upanayana for Dvija ( twice-born ) boys that marks their coming of age to do religious ceremonies.

In Hinduism and Buddhism, a Yajñopavītam ( Sanskrit: यज ् ञ ो पव ी तम ्, yajñopavītam ) is a thin consecrated cord, composed of distinct cotton strands, worn to symbolize coming of age.

Not much is known about their religion about them, but their religion may include worshipping of Hindu and Animist gods, with this influence coming from the Mindanao during the early periods, and presence of Hinduism is evidenced from the fact that archaeologists have found several statues of Hindu gods in Mindanao.

This temple was built in 1936 by a European lady, who on coming to Celon, converted to Hinduism. She changed her name to Leelavathi and married Mr. Ponnambalam Ramanathan.

Islam came to the Malay Archipelago via Arab and Indian traders in the 13th century, ending the age of Hinduism and Buddhism.

* Religious impact: Fishing has had an effect on all major religions, including Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, Jainism, Zoroastrianism, Hinduism, and the various new age religions.

In Hinduism, Kalki ( Devanagari: कल ् क ि) is the tenth and final Maha Avatar ( great incarnation ) of Vishnu who will bring to an end the present age of darkness and destruction known as Kali Yuga.

According to Tibetan sources, Atiśa was ordained into the Mahasamghika lineage at the age of twenty-eight by the Abbot Śīlarakṣita and studied almost all Buddhist and non-Buddhist schools of his time, including teachings from Vishnu, Shiva, Tantric Hinduism and other beliefs.

Hinduism teaches both reincarnation and ghosts, as Hindus believe that if a person were to die at an early age, such as by suicide or unnatural death, the spirit then roams the earth until their natural date of death.

Sutjipto ( an Indonesian archeologist ) believe Indonesian batik is a native tradition, regions such as Toraja, Flores, Halmahera, and Papua, which were not directly influenced by Hinduism and have an old age tradition of batik making.

In Hinduism, Kalki ( Devanagari: कल ् क ि; also rendered by some as Kalkin and Kalaki ) is the tenth and final Maha Avatara ( great incarnation ) of Vishnu who will come to end the present age of darkness and destruction known as Kali Yuga.

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.

* Kali Yuga, the age of Káli in Hinduism

For example, satyaloka is the " highest heaven ' and Satya Yuga is the " golden age " or best of the four cyclical cosmic ages in Hinduism, and so on.

For example, satyaloka is the " highest heaven ' and Satya Yuga is the " golden age " or best of the four cyclical cosmic ages in Hinduism.

Historical examples are the religion of Athens during the golden age and some forms of Hinduism.

In Udhampur, 13 % of the population is under 6 years of age. About 87 % of the population practices Hinduism, followed by Islam-12 % and about 1 % population is Sikh.

Banggarma, who was born a Hindu, but was forcibly converted to Islam at a young age, desired to reconvert back to Hinduism and appealed to the courts to recognize her reconversion.

In Hinduism also it is believed that God Vishnu will incarnate Himself to destroy this age of hypocrisy.

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 ).

Founded by Maharaja Sri-Gupta, the dynasty was the model of a classical civilization. Maurya and Gupta empires are called as the Golden Age of India and were marked by extensive inventions and discoveries in science, technology, art, religion and philosophy that crystallized the elements of what is generally known as Indian culture. The religions of Hinduism and Buddhism, which began in India, were an important influence on South, East and Southeast Asia

With the rise of Shaivism and Vaishnavism in the early centuries of the Common era, Hinduism is generally monistic and henotheistic: there is practically a consensus that there is a supreme, absolute, and omnipresent divine entity.

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.

Reincarnation-known as Punarjanma is one of the core beliefs of Hinduism that is generally accepted by many of its practitioners.

In Hinduism, incarnation generally refers to an Avatar of Vishnu, the preserver in the Trimurti.

Within both the Vaishnava traditions and Hinduism generally he is known as being a manifestation of Shesha, the serpent on whom Vishnu rests.

This reformism generally developed in response to an external threat ( the influence of Hinduism on Islam, for example.

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

Within Hinduism, there are a number of names of God which are generally in Sanskrit, each supported by a different tradition within the religion.

Whereas Duff and many of his fellow evangelists saw Christianity and Hinduism as diametrically opposed, Hindus did not generally consider the knowledge either tradition provided as mutually exclusive with the other.

The Tenggerese generally profess Hinduism as their religion, although they have incorporated many Buddhist and Animist elements.

The name Durga can refer to a specific aspect of the Goddess but in the Shakti forms of Hinduism generally refers to the Great Goddess as AdyaShakti: the primoridal Shakti who incorporates all aspects.

The people have strong culture and beliefs, generally follow Buddhism and Hinduism, believing the Pandavas came and resided in the land while in the exile.

Born in Rome on June 14, 1955, Massimo Introvigne reported in a partially autobiographical paper presented at the 2008 yearly conference of the American Academy of Religion in Chicago how his interest in non-Christian religions dates back to his reading as a young boy of the novels of Emilio Salgari, Rudyard Kipling, and Luigi Ugolini ( 1891 – 1980, the author of the 1950 Italian novel L ' isola non trovata ), which included references to Hinduism, Islam and other religions not generally well-known at that time in Italy.

Within the context of the Indian religions, or dharmas, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism, sex is generally either seen as a moral duty of each partner in a long term marriage relationship to the other, or is seen as a desire which hinders spiritual detachment, and so must be renounced.

They are Hindus and generally follow Dvaita ( Dual ) Saiva Siddhantam school of thought in Hinduism.

In Hinduism and Buddhism, rūpa ( Sanskrit ; Pāli ; Devanagari: ; ) generally refers to material objects, particularly in regards to their appearance.

In Hinduism, altars generally contain pictures or statues of gods and goddesses.

However, Tantra is an esoteric teaching of Hinduism and Buddhism not generally accepted by most other forms of these religions.

These differences and the understanding of these differences is now generally diminishing between the Hindus, and the current practitioners of Hinduism are converging towards the Smarta philosophy, where Shaivites accept and pray to forms of Vishnu and vice-versa.

Hinduism generally disapproves of the use of non-pharmaceutical drugs.

In Hinduism, the term generally denotes a powerful ruler, whose dominion extended to the entire earth.