Hindu Flashcards
(43 cards)
This experience of Hindus seeing or being seen by a deity or a guru is called ________ .
Darshana
The origins of the four classes (varnas) is traced to ________ .
the cosmic sacrifice of Purusha, the ‘Supreme Person’
What Hindu festival means ‘necklace of lights’?
Deepavali (or Divali).
Bhakti refers to ________ .
Devotion
What is the most important school of Hindu philosophy?
Vedanta
The most famous text outlining the norms of moral and social duty according to the caste system is the ________ .
Laws of Manu
The trimurti (‘three forms’) includes which three gods?
Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva
The god Ganesha has the head of what animal?
Elephant
In the form of Nataraja, Shiva is commonly portrayed iconographically as a ________ .
Dancer
The practice of sati involves ________.
The self-immolation of a widow on her husband’s cremation pyre
The earliest compositions in the Hindu tradition are the ________ .
Vedas
What does the term moksha mean?
‘liberation’ from the cycle of rebirth
What American movement incorporated Hindu traditions and scriptures?
Transcendentalism
Which of the following is NOT a form of the Goddess?
Hanuman
To when are the Upanishads approximately dated?
600 BCE
The Bhagavad Gita is an extract from what larger work?
The Mahabharata
Bhakti yoga, discussed in the Bhagavad Gita, refers to ________ .
The way of devotion
From where does the term ‘Hinduism’ derive?
The word ‘Sind’, referring to the region of the river Sindhu (Indus).
How many incarnations will Vishnu have in the present cycle of creation, according to Hindu tradition?
10
What are the three ways to liberation described in the Gita?
Action, Knowledge, Devotion
In what Hindu text is the Creation Hymn found?
The Rig Veda
Ayurveda referred to an important system of ________ .
Medicine
In a Hindu wedding, what does the couple take seven steps around together?
Ritual Fire
The Bhagavad Gita take the form of a conversation between ________ .
Arjuna and Krishna
