RLGA01H3 Chapter : Lecture and textbook notes on Hinduism
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85% of the one billion people in india are known to the world as hindus . india: these are not terms that originate from the indigenous words in india there is no equivalent word for. Religion , they do not call their natural habitat india , and they did not name themselves hindus : each one of these terms suggest uniformity and consistency that does not actually exist. In the east, actual practices of the religion may differ, as well as the belief in different deities eastern religions are not as institutionalized: when we study the religious tradition of the east, we must accustom ourselves to: People usually have tilaks or forehead markings to indicate which deity they are following. In eastern cultures, you typically did not find terms to mean religion after many centuries these words were developed and did not find the concept of it either.
