HINDUISM Flashcards

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4 major sects

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Vaishnavism - vishnu as supreme leader & it’s incarnation

Shavism - shiva as supreme leader

Shaktism - feminine power & devi or goddess as supreme

smartism: shiva, shakti, vishnu, ganesh, surya - based on teaching of purana

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varkari panth/sampraday - vishnu-vitthal

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devotees of lord vishnu
Eknath, tukarama (16th centuary)
main pilgrimage - vithoba temple (god vitthal), pandarpur, Maharashtra

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Ramanandi sampraday - vishnu-Ram

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teaching of advaita scholar Ramananda

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Brahma sampraday - vishnu-krishna

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ISCKON
founder - Madhvacharya
prominent - chaitanya mahaprabhu (15th century)

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Pushtimarg sampraday - vishnu-krishna

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founder vallabhacharya (15th century)

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Nimbarka sampraday - vishu-radha/krishna

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Nath Panthi - shiv-adinath

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teaching of Gorakhnath & Matsyendranath
Hath yoga
shoti, forehead ashes, heair deadlock

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Lingyatism/veershaiv - shiv

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lord shiva in the form of linga, rejests the authority of vedas & caste system.
founder - 12th century - Basava (kannada poet)

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Dashnami sanyasi - shiv

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advaita vadanta tradition
shankaracharya

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Aghori - shiv/bharava

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ritual practice

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Siddhars - shiv

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they are mystic, saints, doctors, alchemist all are once in Tamil nadu

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Arya samaj - monotheism

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swami Dayanand Sarasvati - 1870
believed veda as eternal truth

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Brahma samaj - monotheism

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raja ram mohan rai - 1830

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Shramana schools - who perform ascetic

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Jainism
Buddhism
Ajivika
Ajnana
charvaka

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Ajivika

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founder - Makkhali Gosala - 5th BC
Absolute determinism - no free will & no karma
without cloth
opposed buddhism and jainism
rejects vedas

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Ajnanas - radical scepticism - संदेहवाद
अजनाना ( संस्कृत : अज्ञान )

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impossible to attain knowledge
opposed buddhism and jainism
ignorance is the best
rejects veda