PHLB11H3 Lecture Notes - Indus River, Upanishads, Dharma
Document Summary
The name india was first named by the outsiders refer to the land surroundings the indus river. Hindiusm is the dominant religion of india. In the 1960/s india attracted the hippies from the wesk, seeking mystical experience and enrichment from the indian sages. India is known the place of as philosophy and inspirational many people dissatisfied with their religion would go to india to adopt and learn the knowledge. Indus valley culture flourished between 3000 to 1500 bce. Every religion has some sort of things which are forbidden for example. Hindus are forbidden to eat meet or beef. These are traditions which all these religion follows. Femal principal: may have been revered as a goddess. Purification practices, meditation, and the well-organized cities suffest the importance of order and restraint. They were nomads rather than settled agriculture/ they came from centurial asia. The aryan language evolved into the sanskirt, the official language of the hindu religion.
