HUMA 2800 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Wu Wei, Tao Te Ching, Pandava
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Puja - hinduism, india, type of bhakti yoga because it is devotion. It is the ritual and household worship of deities. Hindus set aside space at home for a shrine to hold pictures or small images of the figure, either god of guru. The rituals performed at home are sim- plified versions of temple rituals. The rituals are simple and involve things like feeding the the diety, lighting a candle and reciting prayers. It is a type of ritual that is good for the lower castes because typically rituals and prayers are done solely by the highest caste, which is brahmin. Ise - shinto, refers to architecture, the temples, where you worship kami. There is ise vil- lage where shrines, ise grand shrine talk about kami. Ise is both a place referring to ise city it also refers to the architecture of shrines and how they are built. Made out of natural materials, and need to be rebuilt every.