com/webapps/blackboard/content/listContent.jsp?course_id=_24285_1&content_id=_2176505_1 Terms & Potential Essay Questions for Exam 1 NOTE: This list will continuously be updated until 24 hours before the exam date. 1. aniconic 2. avatar 3. Brahma/Brahman 4. Brahmin 5. chaitya 6. chattri 7. continuous narrative 8. Ganesh 9. garbhagriha 10. gopura 11. Indo-Saracenic 12. jataka 13. Jina 14. karma 15. Krishna 16. lakshanas 17. Lakshmi 18. linga 19. mandala 20. mandapa 21. mandorla 22. mihrab 23
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atonement that happens. The atonement happens between Siddhartha and his son. Siddharth learns that he needs to let his son go just as his father did to him. “His face resembled that of another person.... It resembled the face of his father‚ the Brahmin. He remembered how once‚ as a youth‚ he had compelled his father to let him go and join the ascetic‚ how he had taken leave of him‚ how he had gone and never returned.” (Page 131-132) When young Siddhartha runs away‚ Siddhartha goes and looks for
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Secularism and Equality Secularism ensures equal treatment to all citizens; one group cannot be more privileged than other. A secular state provides each individual freedom to practice‚ choose and change his or her religion. You and I will have no fewer shrines to visit. Though it is not inscribed in the law‚ secularism was already partly embodied in our country. People amiably living together‚ since decades‚ in harmony with diverse religious structure‚ however‚ dominated by Hinduism testify it.
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reject the extreme asceticism that the Hindus value; they agree with renouncing the world‚ but do not condone religious practices that harm the body (Hopfe and Woodward‚ 68). Both religions believe that things will reach enlightenment‚ only Hindu Brahmins can achieve release (Brians‚ 146-152). While Buddhism says anyone can enter enlightenment (Brians‚
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Garlic is a story which combines fiction with culture and health. While Mohini was distributing ‘amruth’ (Elixir)‚ all the demons were soo enchanted by her beauty that‚ they didn’t realize the treachery. So one demon named Rahu‚ disguised as a Brahmin went and sat next in line to receive the ‘amruth’. He got a share of ‘amruthu’‚ but before he could swallow it‚ Vishnu cut his head off. It is said that the blood drops which fell on earth became the onion‚ and the drops of ‘amruthu’ became garlic
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Knowledge of Aryans came from Vedas: collection of prayers‚ hymns‚ and religious teachings Lived in tribes Advised by council of elders Sanskrit Language Used iron in 800 BCE Wealth measured in cattle and slaughter of them forbidden. Four Castes Brahmins (priests): Aryan Kshatriyas (warriors): Aryan Vaisyas (herders‚ farmers‚ artisans‚ merchants): Aryan Sudras (farmworkers‚ servants laborers): Dravidian Dravidian Civilization: Descendants from Indus Valley people that were conquered. Lowest
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he religions Hinduism and Buddhism originated from India and both have shared similar principles and philosophies but also have pronounced differences on the concepts of God and the meaning of life. Hinduism has a abstract view of God. He is not a person; he is the absolute Ultimate Reality called Brahman. Hinduism believes that there is only one supreme Absolute‚ however it does not condemn the worship of any one deity. The gods and goddesses of Hinduism number in the thousands‚ representing the
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novels. She found herself difficult to adapt to the culture‚ customs‚ and traditions‚ which she depicts through her female protagonists’ cultural crisis. Bharati Mukherjee’s first novel The Tiger’s Daughter (1972) deals with an upper class Bengali Brahmin girl named Tara Banerjee Cartwright‚ who goes to America for higher studies.. This paper throws light on the cross cultural conflict of the 22-year old heroine when she revisits India after a seven year stay in the United States. It highlights the
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THE COMING OF INDIANS TO TRINIDAD Indians came to Trinidad to perform the most important job anybody can do for a country - save it from collapsing. They did that job‚ but received no thanks or recognition. Instead they were cheated and denied their rightful place in the country they helped to build. This situation still exists today. This is a brief idea of the story of those early Indians‚ the greatest story inTrinidad in modern times. Indians came after to work after the end of
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Marriage Compatibility through Matching of Horoscopes yenbeeyes Marriage Compatibility (Part – I) Through Anukulyas (Sources of Agreement) By yenbeeyes 1 Marriage Compatibility through Matching of Horoscopes yenbeeyes Index No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Description Introduction Marriage Important things to be seen while matching What is Kuta system of matching Importance of the Kutas Tables required for matching Anukulyas (Sources of agreement) explained Principles
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