What’s the Rig Veda? Hinduism – India
The Rig Veda in Sanskrit (from the 1800s AD) What is the Rig Veda? The Rig Veda is a group of poems that people in India first sang and recited [...]
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What is Nirvana? Indian religion
Wheel of Life (Konark Sun temple, Odisha, India, 1200s AD) About 300 BC, Hindu people in India began to feel that they didn't like the idea of being reincarnated over and over again forever. [...]
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Buddhist monks in India and China
Takht-i Bahi, a Buddhist monastery in eastern Pakistan (about 50 AD) where Buddhist monks could study Holy men and women While Gautama Buddha was still alive, about 500 BC, he had many followers. [...]
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Who is Lakshmi? Hindu god – India
Lakshmi (Sanchi Stupa, central India, 200s BC) What is she the god of? Lakshmi was (and is) a Hindu god of light, wealth, good luck and success. Her name comes from the Sanskrit word laks, [...]
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Who is Krishna? Hinduism in India
The god Krishna killing the horse demon (Guptan Empire, 400s AD,now in Metropolitan Museum, NYC) Who is Krishna? Krishna is one of the Hindu gods. He was actually just one of [...]
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Jainism – religion in medieval India
Jainism: A Jain statue, possibly Mahavira, from about 1200 AD When did Jains get started? Nobody knows when people first began to follow Jain ideas. Some Jain traditions take their [...]
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Indra, god of rain – Ancient India
Indra, 4-5th c. AD (Mathura, India) Who was Indra? In the earliest Hindu stories that we know of, from the Rig Veda, Indra is the ruler of the Hindu gods, the [...]
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Who was the god Ganesh? – Hinduism – India
The god Ganesh (Musee Guimet, Paris, from Tamil Nadu, ca. 1500 AD) Who was Ganesh? Ganesh was one of the Hindu gods. He has an elephant head, so he's easy to spot in [...]
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Rangoli – Colored patterns – Hinduism project
A woman creates a pattern with colored sand for Diwali All over India, women use colored rice flour or wheat flour, or colored sand, to make patterns on the ground to celebrate holidays like Diwali. People [...]
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Hinduism project – India religions
Airavetesavara temple to Shiva in southern India (1100s AD) For a great project on Hinduism, and to learn the important vocabulary of this religion, write words related to Hinduism on pieces of [...]
