Encyclopedia of Hinduism

Within the Brahmanas two subdivisions are important in the development of later tradition. One of the subdivisions is called the ...

epics Ramayana and Mahabharata showed the emergence of the forms of religion called, in cur- rent academic terms, Hinduism. Thes ...

at one time but became absorbed in the Shaivite tradition. Likewise, Lakshmi, the wife of Vishnu, has characteristics of a local ...

Islam presided over India. Its reach encompassed nearly the entire country, although the far reaches of the south were spared it ...

attack the social evils of Hinduism their actions must not be seen as merely a mimicking of Chris- tians and the British. It sho ...

assertion of Hindu majority privilege. It is often referred to as Hindu fundamentalism, but this phraseology glosses over the co ...

K xxvi Encyclopedia of Hinduism Society and the teachings of many Hindu adepts in the West. Today, every major form of Hindu pra ...

xxvii chronology K 3600 B.C.E. to 1700 B.C.E. ¶ Indus Valley civilization, including sites at Mohenjodaro and Harappa, prospers. ...

K xxviii Encyclopedia of Hinduism 563 ¶ Birth of Siddhartha Gautama (563–483), the Buddha. c. 500 to 200 ¶ Over these 300 years ...

Chronology xxix J the sect has left a permanent mark on many Hindu schools. The Samhita of Sandilya and his followers embody the ...

K xxx Encyclopedia of Hinduism c. 850 ¶ Birth of Manikkavacakar, Tamil Shaivite saint. c. 880 ¶ Birth of Nammalvar (c. 880–930), ...

Chronology xxxi J c. 1400 ¶ Birth of Kabir, Vaishnavite reformer who has both Muslim and Hindu followers. His Hindi songs remain ...

K xxxii Encyclopedia of Hinduism 1675 ¶ Aurangzeb executes Sikh Guru Tegh Bahadur, beginning the Sikh-Muslim tensions that con- ...

Chronology xxxiii J 1836 ¶ Birth of Sri Paramahansa Ramakrishna (1836– 1886), God-intoxicated Bengali saint, devotee of goddess ...

K xxxiv Encyclopedia of Hinduism social reform movement led by women that stresses meditation and world peace. 1876 to 1890 ¶ Ma ...

Chronology xxxv J 1917 ¶ Last Hindu Indian indentured laborers are taken to British colonies of Fiji and Trinidad. ¶ U.S. govern ...

K xxxvi Encyclopedia of Hinduism 1948 ¶ Establishment of Sarva Seva Sangh, Gandhian movement for new social order (sarvodaya). ¶ ...

Chronology xxxvii J 1993 ¶ Chicago hosts centenary Parliament of World Religions, in September. 1994 ¶ Harvard University study ...

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