Frawley and Malhotra use the term "Dharmic traditions" to highlight the similarities between the various Indian religions. According to Frawley, "all religions in India have been called the Dharma", a ...
James Mill (1773–1836), in his The History of British India (1817), distinguished three phases in the history of India, namely Hindu, Muslim and British civilisations. This periodisation has been cri ...
Sanskrit Brahman (an n-stem, nominative bráhmā) from a root b?h- "to swell, expand, grow, enlarge" is a neutral noun to be distinguished from the masculine brahmán—denoting a person associated wi ...
Main article: Bhakti movementScholarly consensus sees bhakti as a post-Vedic movement that developed primarily during the era of Indian epic poetry. The Bhagavad Gita is the first text to explicitly u ...
Moksha is attained by realizing the identity of Atman and Brahman. According to Potter,8. The true Self is itself just that pure consciousness, without which nothing can be known in any way.9. And tha ...
Advaita Vedanta existed prior to Shankara, but found its most influential expounder in Shankara.Pre-Shankara VedantaOf the Vedanta-school before the composition of the Brahma Sutras (400–450 CE) almo ...
The tīrtha?karas' teachings form the basis for the Jain canons. The inner knowledge of tīrtha?kara is believed to be perfect and identical in every respect and their teachings do not contradict on ...
However, from the point of view of potentiality of mok?a, Jain texts bifurcates the souls in two categories–bhavya and abhavya. Bhavya souls are those souls who have faith in mok?a and hence will m ...
The Oxford English Dictionary (2007) does not have an entry for nontheism or non-theism, but it does have an entry for non-theist, defined as "A person who is not a theist", and an entry for the adjec ...
During the Early Middle Ages, the Islamic world underwent a Golden Age. With the associated advances in science and philosophy, Arab and Persian lands produced outspoken rationalists and atheists, inc ...
Non-violenceMain article: Ahimsa in JainismThe principle of nonviolence or ahimsa is the most fundamental and well known aspect of Jain religious practice. Nonviolence is seen as the most essential re ...
Writers disagree how best to define and classify atheism, contesting what supernatural entities it applies to, whether it is an assertion in its own right or merely the absence of one, and whether it ...
Main article: MonotheismMonotheism (from Greek μ?νο?) is the belief in theology that only one deity exists. Some modern day monotheistic religions include Zoroastrianism, Christianity, Islam, Jud ...
Religious philosophy is philosophical thinking that is inspired and directed by religion. There are different philosophies for each religion such as those of :Buddhist philosophyChristian philosophyHi ...
He was born in Greifswald, Germany. Zimmer began his career studying Sanskrit and linguistics at the University of Berlin where he graduated in 1913.CareerBetween 1920-24 he lectured at the University ...
