RELIGST 1B06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Shikhara

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELIGST 1B06
• Professor: Philippa Carter

Document Summary

Relig st 1b06 - feb 4 - film: the hindu temple. Building a hindu temple is building a house for a god. Hindus have been building temples to their gods for thousands of years, Wherever hindus move, they take their culture with them, building new particularly in india temples. Often in canada, hindu communities will buy old buildings, often churches, and create temples. No 2 temples are the same because there is no one single hindu religion. There are a wide variety of rites and practices with no single governing authority. Because of this, people can make their temples any way they want. They do usually share the same fundamental ideas such as being models of the hindu universe itself (square bordered by a range of mountains surrounding an ocean, with mt.