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208 Part III: South Asia done, the king has a garment spread for himself on the ground and sits down on it in front of the chair ...
Chapter 6 Religions of South Asia 209 to establish their own places of worship in Bodh Gaya. From that year on, Bud- dhist group ...
210 Part III: South Asia tury B.C.E.^1 was the son of a chief of the Shakya tribe in the foothills of the Hima- layas. His name ...
Chapter 6 Religions of South Asia 211 He began to eat normally again and wandered on, coming to a small river in south Bihar. He ...
212 Part III: South Asia After his Enlightenment, the Buddha reunited with his former companions, who became his first disciples ...
Chapter 6 Religions of South Asia 213 dha’s followers to gather together during the three months of the rainy season, often in a ...
214 Part III: South Asia women in his harem. He employed an executioner who contrived to carry out all the tortures of the Buddh ...
Chapter 6 Religions of South Asia 215 achieving nirvana through life-long self-discipline and meditation, a simpler path allows ...
216 Part III: South Asia Monasticism was at its peak with vast monasteries filled with new art forms. Many of these monasteries ...
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INDIA India—“Old Buddhism”—Fifth to First Centuries B.C.E. During the first 500 years of Buddhism, simple metaphors portrayed th ...
220 Part III: South Asia Islam Soon after the Prophet Muhammad began preaching in the Arabian Penin- sula in the seventh century ...
Chapter 6 Religions of South Asia 221 texts known as the hadith (“traditions”), which became secondary texts to the Quran in pre ...
222 Part III: South Asia tance can hardly be overemphasized. Charismatic Sufi figures were patronized by sultans as “inheritors ...
Chapter 6 Religions of South Asia 223 Sufi saints often combined powerful religious authority with political ambitions. One famo ...
224 Part III: South Asia by far the most important Muslim event was the holy month of Muharram, a very specifically Shia commemo ...
Chapter 6 Religions of South Asia 225 commemorated Muharram with “illuminations and processions... brilliant and costly” (Hasan ...
226 Part III: South Asia underrepresented in Muslim colleges. Instructive tracts for Muslim women emphasized the need to observe ...
Chapter 6 Religions of South Asia 227 guided, apostates or not even Muslims at all. The key was to heighten the sense of Muslim ...
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