Hinduism

In this essay I will provide a detailed explanation of the worship of Shiva in relation to the bhakti tradition. I will use an iconic visual representation of this deity to assist with my explanation of the beliefs and values associated with the devotion of the Deity. To do so, I shall begin my essay…

            Gender is one of the many issues that are tackled in almost all aspects of life. Throughout history, the issues on gender have helped in distinguishing a society from the other. For instance, among the great cities in Athens, it is in Greece where women have not been given the any rights, not even…

Introduction Hinduism is considered to be the third largest world religion after Christianity and Islam. Its affiliates account for about thirteen percent of the world’s population. However, it differs from Christianity and other Western religion in various aspects. Such include lack of single founder; it does not have a specific theological system, a single system…

HinduismIntroduction Hinduism is a religion that originated in India and is stillpracticed by most of the Natives as well as the people who have migrated fromIndia to other parts of the world. Statistically there are over seven hundredmillion Hindus, mainly in Bharat, India and Nepal. Eighty five percent of thepopulation in India is Hindu. The…

dhismThe Differentiation of Beliefs in Hinduism and BuddhismWhile Hinduism and Buddhism come from the same cultural backgrounds, they are extremely diverse in their beliefs on afterlife, deity, and rituals. Both religions believe in reincarnation, but it is where an individual goes after he or she gets off the endless cycle that differs. These religions also…

The Bijak [Account] was the first of Kabir’s works to attract the attention of Western scholars. The members of the Kabirpanth compiled this topic after the death of Kabir, and considered it the most important and most representative of his doctrine. The Granth [Book], compiled at the beginning of the 17th century, became the sacred…

Inspiring personality was well known both in India and in America during the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth. The unknown monk of India suddenly leapt into fame at the Parliament of Religions held in Chicago in 1893, at which he represented Hinduism. His vast knowledge of Eastern…

The Shri Shiva Vishnu Temple, located in Lanham, Maryland, is unique in that it houses both an icon to Shiva and an icon to Vishnu. Shiva is represented with a stone lingam and Vishnu is portrayed lying upon a bed of snakes. These two icons are the center of the temple and are housed in…

Introduction In today’s world Hinduism is overpoweringly significant: peacefulness, lenience, reverence and four dignified objectives of life. Evolution of Modern day Hinduism has been from centuries of gnosis, reasoning and alteration of Vedic idea. As observed previously several dissimilar pathways to the understanding of Brahman had been engraved with the extreme and often provoking truth-seeking…

Hinduism was founded sometime between 1500 and 500 CE in the are of the Indus valley civilization. There is no individual founder and no names given to say who developed it. They are many gods in the religion of Hinduism. Many Hindu followers believe that one of the gods is the true god, this creates…