RLGA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Signify, Fetus, Pleasure
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Textbook notes: characteristics of the hindu tradition are dual emphasis on seeing and hearing the sacred, rishi: a seer, the composers of the ancient vedic hymns are viewed as rishis. Mantra: an expression of one or more syllables, chanted repeatedly as a focus of concentration in devotion. 900 millions hindus in the world today: do not refer their religious identity as hinduism but rather their caste/community, sanatana dharma: eternal faith (designating a comprehensive tradition) The term seldom is used to refer to local manifestations of the faith: hindu applies not only to members of a hindu domination" such as vira shaiva or. Head-dress and animal surrounding him suggest a prototype of shiva: theme on seals->spirit emerging from a pipal tree and worshippers standing in front of it funeral pyre. The indo-europeans: sati: the culturally expected suicide of a widow, who throws herself onto her husband"s, most bodies were cremated around the river bank (burial was also practised)
