Hinduism's Online Lexicon - A-Z Dictionary

Introduction to Hinduism PPT by COHHE, 2022

This PowerPoint document has over 30 pages with short quotes about Hindu Heritage, along with an image. Also included are a few suggested activities for teachers and students and a some videos, reading and research references to further explore the topic.

International Journal of Hindu Studies, 2016

2012

The purpose of this course is to provide an historical overview of the many different indigenous religious movements in India that we now call "Hinduism." Through the reading of mythological, philosophical, ethical, meditative, and devotional primary texts, as well as historical and anthropological studies, we will show how Hindu traditions were constructed through a set of ongoing tensions: Between ascetic/contemplative and sacrificer/priest, villager and city-dweller, low caste and high caste, poet and philosopher, colonized and colonizer, and "secular" citizen and "religious" citizen. In tracing these tensions and the developments they brought about throughout Indian history, we will: 1) examine the roots of Indian tradition; 2) master the basic vocabulary of Indian thought; 3) use that terminology to study developments in Hindu doctrine and popular practice; and 4) examine the religio-political significance of contemporary beliefs and rituals.

Religions of South Asia

The Oxford History of Hinduism: Modern Hinduism, edited by Torkel Brekke. New York:Oxford University Press, 2019. xi + 317 pp., £73 (hb). ISBN 9780198790839.

Concordia University

Office hours: Tuesdays, 1-2 p.m by appointment Course Description There are two main parts to this course. The first part surveys Hinduism's fundamental subjects including its early history, philosophies, sects, texts, art, gods and goddesses, and gender and rituals within South Asia. The purpose of this part is to provide students with a foundation and background to understand the history, development and practices of what today is generally termed as "Hinduism." In the second part of the course, we will begin by exploring the spread of Hinduism to Southeast Asia during the early medieval period. We will examine the role of the maritime trade route or the Southern Silk Road in facilitating the transmission of Hinduism to Southeast Asia. Then, we will focus on how Hinduism was adopted, developed, and practiced in countries such as Indonesia, Cambodia, and Vietnam (Champa) through an investigation of extant inscriptions, archeological evidence, temple architecture and art iconography. The course concludes with a presentation on contemporary religious practice of a Hindu Cham Ahier community in Southern Vietnam. In short, the goal of this course is to familiarize students with the history, doctrines, and religious practices of Hinduism in South Asia and how it was adopted, developed, and represented in Southeast Asia. Course Readings 1.Gavin Flood 1996. An Introduction to Hinduism. Cambridge University Press. 2.Additional readings and handout materials will be posted on E-reserves and Moodle. Assignments and Evaluation Assignments of various types will be given for assessment so that each student will have a chance to use their own strengths to shine. Essay assignments will help students foster their abilities to think, read and write critically. * I would like to acknowledge that Concordia University is located on unceded Indigenous lands, particularly those of the Kanien'kehá:ka Nation, who are recognized as the custodians of the lands and waters on which we are situated.

In its material instantiations, prasāda is found in an infinite variety of forms according to differing regional, sectarian, and individual contexts. The concept of prasāda is common to Sanskrit, almost all modern South Asian languages, and some Southeast Asian languages (e.g. Thai) in orthographically modified forms. Looked at broadly in Hindu and Indic civilizations, prasāda, or the “sacred share,” has multiple levels of meanings. While no treatment of prasāda can ever be comprehensive, I take a multidisciplinary approach in this article to highlight some contexts for prasāda that are widely applicable to many of the literally infinite forms that it can take.

Religion, 2021

In 2002, the Government of India published a Universities Handbook based on a survey of 273 institutions of higher learning in India (excluding the 12,000-odd colleges that existed at the time) and of their academic programs [...]

1 Indian Lexicon: An introduction Discovering the language of India circa 3000 B.C. This is a comparative study of lexemes of all the languages of India (which may also be referred to, in a geographical/historical phrase, as the Indian linguistic area). This lexicon seeks to establish a semantic concordance, across the languages or numraire facile of the Indian linguistic area: from Brahui to Santali to Bengali, from Kashmiri to Mundarica to Sinhalese, from Marathi to Hindi to Nepali, from Sindhi or Punjabi or Urdu to Tamil. A semantic structure binds the languages of India, which may have diverged morphologically or phonologically as evidenced in the oral tradition of Vedic texts, or epigraphy, literary works or lexicons of the historical periods. This lexicon, therefore, goes beyond, the commonly held belief of an Indo-European language and is anchored on proto-Indian sememes. The work covers over 8,000 semantic clusters which span and bind the Indian languages. The basic finding is that thousands of terms of the Vedas, the Munda languages (e.g., Santali, Mundarica, Sora), the so-called Dravidian languages and the so-called Indo-Aryan languages have common roots. This belies the received wisdom of cleavage between, for example, the Dravidian or Munda and the Aryan languages. The lexicon seeks to establish an areal 'Indian' language type, by establishing semantic concordance among the so-called Indo-Aryan, Dravidian and Munda languages. The area spanned is a geographical region bounded by the Indian ocean on the south and the mountain ranges which insulate it from other regions of the Asian continent on the north, east and west. This lexicon is a tribute to the brilliant work done by etymologists and scholars of Indian linguistics, and to a number of scholars who have contributed to unravelling the enigma of the Indus (Sarasvati-Sindhu) Script and to the study of ancient Indian science and technology.

2022

This is a collection of the notes that I give to my tenth-grade students during our four-week unit on Hinduism.