RLG100Y1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Mantra, Gautama Buddha, Aranyaka
Document Summary
When hindus go on pilgrimage or visit a temple they seek an experience known as. Dharshana: to see and be seen by a paricular deity or guru. Telling stories, reciing from ancient text, chaning or meditaing holy mantra these are just some way of hindus acively maintaining their tradiion. Brahmins- the class that historically has considered itself the highest. The upanishads: by the ime of aranyakas and upanishads in the 7th and 6th century the early vedic emphasis on placaing the gods through ritual sacriice had given way criical philosophical inquiry. This period around the ime of shakyamuni buddha and the jaina teacher mahavira was one of the intellectual ferment of quesioning and rejecing- authoritarian structures. Yet the upanishads do not totally reject the early hymns and sacriicial rituals. Thus some rituals are interpreted allegorically and symbolic structures of the sacriices are analyzed in some detail.
