Hinduism
- A diverse body of religion, philosophy, and cultural practice
- Native to India
- Belief in reincarnation and a supreme being of many forms and natures
- Brahma- Hindu creator god
- Senior member of the triad of great gods
- He felt alone and separated from the world
- Split himself and created the god Shatapura
- Vishnu- The Hindu preserver god
- God of preservation and protection of creation
- Often represented resting on the coiled serpent Shesha
- Never sleeps
- When the forces of good and evil are not balanced, he comes down to earth to make them balanced
- Shiva- The destroyer god
- Shiva is the destroyer of the world
- Often seen with a third eye, cobra necklace, vibhuti, and a trident. Sometimes represented as half man and half woman
- Is known to have a wild passion, which causes extreme behavior and his relationship with his wife. Paryati brings him balance
- Brahma- Hindu creator god
- Stupas: Mound-like structure
- typically the ashes of the deceased
- used by buddhists as a place of meditation
- five types of stupas:
- Relic:Remains of Buddhist leaders.
- Object: Objects that belonged to Buddhist leaders.
- Commemorative:Commemorative events in life of Buddha and his disciples
- Symbolic: aspects of Buddhist theology
- Votive: Contructed to commemorate visits or to gain spiritual benefits.
Theravada: is the oldest survivng buddhist brach
the more conservative of the two major traditions of Buddhism.
It is practice mainly in Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos.
Buddhism:
- Historians estimate that the founder of Buddhism is Siddhartha Gautama commonly known as Budda.
- It's a religion home to the indian subcontinent that enncompases a variety of traditions, beliefs, and practices largely based on teachings where the people worshiped Buddha.
- Buddha is recognixed as being an awakening and enlighting teacher.
- Though of more as woy of life than religion.
- Practice meditation.
- The four noble Truths: the truth of suffering, the cause of suffering, the truth of the end of suffering, and the truth of the path that leads to the end of suffering.
- Believe in Karma, which in turns detirmines reincarnation
- There are six planes in which they can be reborn. Into the three fortunate realms and thee unfortuanate realms.
- The three fortuanate realms.The realm of demigods
- The three unfortunate realms.
Buddhism and Hinduism Art
- Buddhism art originated in Indian subcontinent.
- Influenced Hindu art.
- Worked with brick, wood, thatch, and bamboo
- painted scrolls.
Hinduism Art: Dharm, Okama, Artha, Moksha
- Costume decorations
- Jewlerly making
- Magic and illustions
- sowing
- cooking
Medicine: Ayurveda is the ancient science of medicine
Vata- Motion including blood circulation
Pitta-
Kapha-Growth
Surgey: Sushruta Came up with 120 surgical instruments, 300 procedures and 8 surgery classifications.
Literature: Kalidasa was an Indian Dramaist and poet and it was a good time for poetry and drama.
2 categories of literature- Sruti-listened to or heard
Smriti- Remembered
Math- decimal system, zero is a number, negative numbers, and Algebra, Trigonometry developed in India
Sutras- set of rules or problems
Prose commentary- composed by several scholars that described the problem in detail.
Astronomy- Ancient india used stars and plants to create astological charts.
Calculation of occurences of eclipses
Determination of Earth's circumference.
Aryabhata- presented that The sun spins of it's axis.
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