01:840:112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Jnana Yoga, Upanishads, Anthropomorphism
25 Aug 2016
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Death and afterlife in east religion hinduism, buddhism, and chinese religion. There are differences between religious outlook between eastern religion and. No place for god god is not much important. People continue their lives. (they born die reborn die reborn die forever) Because people believe they will reborn, they do cremate or when someone die. One of the oldest religion in the world. It is so old so that we don"t know when it begins. No system of beliefs that all hinduism must do. Hinduism is sometimes called the religion of vedas. Began to compose in probably in year of 1500 b. c. A group of people, aryans, composed the vedas. But we don"t know who is this aryans. Aryans are probably from southern europe and russia. But we don"t know sure who is aryan but we sure that aryan wrote vedas. 2 theories: the aryans came to india from outside southern europe.
