RELIGST 2K03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Mcmaster University, Digital Library, Middle Kingdoms Of India

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELIGST 2K03
• Professor: Joe Larose

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*atla electronic library catalogue shit for assignment shit * Atla data base thing mcmaster university libraries course textbook, look at the footnotes. Peoples, places and practices in classical india: 500 bce to c. 500 ce, towards the beginnings of it bc he was born around then and grew up. A place of great diversity and lots of interesting religious, ideas already we are in the. Indian subcontinent and by the time we get to 500bce there is already a lot of religion there. Prehistory to buddhism there was lots of religious development. It"s a pla(cid:272)e (cid:449)ith lots of literature a(cid:374)d lots of differe(cid:374)t ge(cid:374)res of it. Vedic religion: is what becomes hinduism, it is what we associate most of india with it. It is also home to 3 other world traditions; buddhism, jainism which arose around the same time as. There are lots of similarities and differences to give them to different names.