what are these things about hinduism?

Question

1) who founded it
2) name of supreme bieng
3) place of worship
4) religious book or writings
5) basic belifs (min 5)

oh, and for budhism 2 please (for best answer)

freke im cuorious thats all. i do my own hw

so no 1 know who founded em?

Answer 1

Hi! It's a very old religion dating back about 5,000 years. We don't know who started it, but the basic books of the religion, the Vedas, are believed to be written from 5000 BCE to 4000 BCE during an invasion from Persia. Many of the gods included in the Vedas are believed to be based on the gods brought by the Persians. The godhead, creator, is Brahman but he isn't given much thought or attention by Hindus. Then you have Shiva, the god of death and destruction, fertility, and the dance. Vishnu is a benevolent god who loves and cares for humans. It is believed that other gods, i.e. Krishna, are avatars of these two gods or their female counterparts. The basic belief as I understand it is that every point of view is considered valid, a part of a greater whole that cannot be understood by man. It is the most tolerant of religions; as new ones are introduced they are absorbed by Hinduism. For example there are Christians who live and worship in India, but Hinduism takes on the idea that Jesus was an avatar of Vishnu, and therefore Christianity is part of Hinduism. Later books were added to the Vedas, called the Upanishads, which deal with ethics, behavior, and philosophy instead of the gods. Depending on the individual's take on Hinduism determines where worship takes place; some schools of Hinduism don't even recognize a godhead.

Take a class when you can. It's fascinating.

EDIT: there are more schools of Buddhism than there are sects of Christianity. Google the Four Noble Truths, that's the most basic teaching of the Buddha.

Answer 2

1) who founded it
It is Sanathanam=from time immemorial About 10,000 years old.The Core Religious Texts(4 Vedham or combinedly "Sruthi") were "Revealed" by GOD to many Arshas(Saints) by GOD over a period of time.The "Gloss" on these Reveleations by Intellectual Giants formed a seperate group of litreature, combinedly known as "Smrithi".
2) name of supeme bieng
BRAHMAM (this is different from Brahma ,where many people are confused)
3) place of worship
Temples and most Hindus reserve a Seperate "Worship(Pooja) Room" in their Houses( big or small according to their economical capacity) and certain conventions are strictly follwed in maintaining the "ceremonial purity" of that room.
4) religious book or writings
Vedham (4-Supremely Authoritative--Supreme Court which can overrun any other Religious Litreature.--Any Religious litreature,not in tune with Vedham will be summarily rejected as NonHindu--it is why Bhuddhism was rejected. ) -Saastram(6) -Puraanam (18)-Aagamam (Saiva=28---Vaishnava=2)--Kalpam---Sutram---Aithikaasam(2)---Sooktham (108 of which only 8 are considered as "Sacred" and the remaing are only just "Informative" about Religion and some "Upa vedham" (man made)

5) basic belifs (min 5)
you can brouse any Internet sites.

Sutram---Aithkaasm(2) and Sooktham =108 are missing in the main post

Answer 3

Hinduism is not a structured religion like Christianity and Islam. It evolved over a period of at least several thousand years (per some estimates 8000-10000 years) as a way of living. It never had any name (because it was just a way of life not a structured religion!!). The name Hinduism was given by outsiders only about 1000-1500 years back and it comes from the mispronunciation of river “Sindhu” (flows in India and present day Pakistan) which was the doorway to India from west. It is not founded by one person. Several sages and saints, who born in this civilization contributed their thoughts, beliefs and ideas to it. These ideas were not only religious and spiritual but these also dealt with science, medicine, surgery, mathematics, astrology and a lot more. It continued assimilating the great teachings of various other Great people like Budhha and Mahavir who later taught their own religions.

“Warriorpooflinger: (above) has got it all wrong when he said people coming from Persia brought Hinduism to India. This is a 200 year old colonial theory which has been discarded quite some time back due to disqualification of all the evidences that it stood on. According to latest theory Hinduism grew in India.

One of the names of the Supreme Being is Parabrahma Parmeshwar (the One contrary to various beliefs) or just Brahm (not Brahma the creator). Per Hinduism there is just one God / force / energy / consciousness / being whatever we call it. It is omnipresent, shapeless, formless, limitless, beyond words and beyond human intellect. It exists / resides in every thing – being, matter (animated or unanimated), particle, atom and so on. We can’t perceive its identity in human form, we can just believe in it. However this entity can take forms if it wants to. Brahma the creator, Vishnu the Sustainer and Shiva the destroyer are the representation of three of its characteristics most important to humans. Millions of Hindu god are the representation of infinite other traits / characteristics of this Supreme Being / super soul.

Mandir is the place of worship for Hindus but per Hinduism one can pray wherever he likes because god is omnipresent. Hindus fold their hands together when they worship. They also fold their hands when they greet other which represents worshiping the presence / part of Supreme Being in the other person.

Too many Religions book to mention. However most of the important books in Hinduism are spiritual and not religious. Spiritual books are 4 Veda (Rig, Sam, Atharv and Yajur), Geeta, Mahabharat, Ramayan, Purans and many others.

Basis belief is too complex and some of it I have already described above. Some other important ones are Satya (truth), Ahinsa (non-violence), Karma. Dharma, righteousness, Yoga (posture, Dhyan (meditation) and Prayanam), fighting against injustice to self and others, type of food and many others.

Buddha was a born Hindu who was seeking for truth and found it through his own effort and became God realized. In other words (it may offend some..) Buddhism (and also Jainism and Sikhism (Khalsa)) are the branches of same way of life that is now known as Hinduism.

Answer 4

1) Hinduim is a new name which came later; it is actually sanatana dharma; THE VEDIC RELIGION. It was found by GODS. As govt. puts rules and regulations. Dharma were putforth by GOD. Maxmuller's concocted theory says it is 5000 yrs old but there are millions of evidences by NASA that its untracable.

Budhism is in part hinduism, Gauthama Buddha is Indian. He spread the principal of shanthi. It is non theistic religion. He is considered as an incarnation of Vishnu.

2) NAME of Supreme? There are two major conceptions in Indian Philosophy. One is personal and other is impersonal.
As per personal theorists name is Vishnu/Rama/ Krishna.
As per Impersonalists, Brahman, or the impersonal all pervading energy is termed as god and he is no person.

3)Place of worship? Temples are the best engineered architectural evidences for Indian Math. They are myriads of math which goes behind temple construction, which are per vedas. These are places of worship.

4) 4 Vedas (Rug, Yajur, Sama, Atharva) which speak rituals and spirituals, 108 Upanishads which speak spiritual, 18 Puranas which are epic true stories.

5) Basic beliefs -- Both personal and impersonal believe that this material world in full of miseries. Material advancement is inferior to spiritual advancement. We are souls and not physical bodies. After death of physical body our soul again enters into another physical body as per our good bad deeds in our births. Soul is indestructable, imperishable. As long as we keep sinning we are in this vicious circle of births and deaths. When we become pure we go back to god as pure soul. Once we go back to God We never come back.

Answer 5

Founder- Unknown

Supreme being- Brahma (has various manifestations like Shiva, Vishnu, etc.)

Place of Worship- Mandir/temple

Religious books- the Vedas, Upanishads, and Bhagvad Gita

Beliefs- Non-violence, meditation, reincarnation, Monotheism (contrary to popular belief), karma (What goes around comes around.) No heaven or hell

Answer 6

We as Muslims shouldn't insult different religions, even even with the indisputable fact that all of us recognize 3 of them could make the least experience. yet did u recognize this? "An diagnosis of the Vedas exhibit that ‘Brahma’ is honestly Abraham, the place the preliminary letter A in Abraham is moved to the top making it Brahma. This diagnosis is precise whilst one writes the two words in Arabic script, a language on the factor of that spoken by using Prophet Abraham. in addition, Abraham’s first spouse Sarah is pronounced in the Vedas as Saraswati, and Prophet Nuh (Noah of The Flood) is pronounced as Manuh or Manu. some Pundits evaluate Atharva Veda by means of fact the e book of Abraham. Prophets Ismail (Ishmael) and Ishaq (Isaac) are named Atharva and Angira, respectively, in the Vedas." Their scriptures honestly comprise prophecies of our Prophet Muhammad, that's tremendously strange, i'm getting goosebumps once I study this. P.S. that's truly unhappy to hearken to what they worship. could Allah open their minds and hearts and handbook them to Islam, the real Monotheistic faith of Allah.

Answer 7

Are you trying to get us to do your homework? Because that's what it sounds like.

Both religions are way too complicated for the simplistic question you asked above.

And they say that Hinduism is the religion with 300 million gods.

Answer 8

For Hinduism:
Go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/hinduism/


read as much as you wanna know

For Buddhism:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/buddhism/

Answer 9

Hinduism, the world’s oldest religion, has no beginning--it precedes recorded history. It has no human founder. It is a mystical religion, leading the devotee to personally experience the Truth within, finally reaching the pinnacle of consciousness where man and God are one. Hinduism has four main denominations--Saivism, Shaktism, Vaishnavism and Smartism.

Sanatana Dharma, meaning “Eternal or Universal Righteousness” is the original name of what is now called Hinduism. Sanatana Dharma comprises of spiritual laws which govern the human existence.

NINE FACTS

The following nine facts, though not exhaustive, offer a simple summary of Hindu spirituality or about Hinduism.

1 Hindus believe in a one, all-pervasive Supreme Being who is both immanent and transcendent, both Creator and Unmanifest Reality.
2 Hindus believe in the divinity of the four Vedas, the world's most ancient scripture, and venerate the Agamas as equally revealed. These primordial hymns are God's word and the bedrock of Sanatana Dharma, the eternal religion.
3 Hindus believe that the universe undergoes endless cycles of creation, preservation and dissolution.
4 Hindus believe in karma, the law of cause and effect by which each individual creates his own destiny by his thoughts, words and deeds.
5 Hindus believe that the soul reincarnates, evolving through many births until all karmas have been resolved, and moksha, liberation from the cycle of rebirth, is attained. Not a single soul will be deprived of this destiny.
6 Hindus believe that divine beings exist in unseen worlds and that temple worship, rituals, sacraments and personal devotionals create a communion with these devas (divine beings) and God.
7 Hindus believe that an enlightened master, or satguru, is essential to know the Transcendent Absolute, as are personal discipline, good conduct, purification, pilgrimage, self-inquiry, meditation and surrender in God.
8 Hindus believe that all life is sacred, to be loved and revered, and therefore practice ahimsa, noninjury, in thought, word and deed.
9 Hindus believe that no religion teaches the only way to salvation above all others, but that all genuine paths are facets of God's Light, deserving tolerance and understanding.

GOD AND LORDS IN HINDUISM

God is a one being, yet we understand Him in three perfections: Absolute Reality, Pure Consciousness and Primal Soul. As Absolute Reality, God is unmanifest, unchanging and transcendent, the Self God, timeless, formless and spaceless. As Pure Consciousness, God is the manifest primal substance, pure divine love and light flowing through all form, existing everywhere in time and space as infinite intelligence and power. God is all and in all, great beyond our conception, a sacred mystery that can be known in direct communion.

Hindus believe in one Supreme Being. In the Hindu pantheon there are said to be three hundred and thirty-three million Lords(divine beings). The plurality of Lords are perceived as divine creations of that one Being. So, Hinduism has one supreme God, but it has an extensive hierarchy of Lords.

Hinduism views existence as composed of three worlds. The First World is the physical universe; the Second World is the subtle astral or mental plane of existence in which the devas, angels and spirits live; and the Third World is the spiritual universe of the Mahadevas, "great shining beings," our Hindu Lords. Hinduism is the harmonious working together of these three worlds.

Hinduism is a family of four main denominations - Saivism, Shaktism, Vaishnavism, Smartism - under a divine hierarchy of Mahadevas. These intelligent beings have evolved through eons of time and are able to help mankind without themselves having to live in a physical body. These great Mahadevas, with their multitudes of angelic devas, live and work constantly and tirelessly for the people of our religion, protecting and guiding them, opening new doors and closing unused ones.

TEMPLE WORSHIP IN HINDUISM

It is in the Hindu temple that the three worlds meet and devotees invoke the Lords of our religion. The temple is built as a palace in which these Lords live. It is the home of the God and Lords, a sacred place unlike every other place on the earth. The Hindu must associate himself with these divine beings in a very sensitive way when he approaches the temple. Though the devotee rarely has the psychic vision of the Deity, he is aware of the God's divine presence. As he approaches the sanctum sanctorum, the Hindu is fully aware that an intelligent being, greater and more evolved than himself, is there. This Lord is intently aware of him, safeguarding him, fully knowing his inmost thought, fully capable of coping with any situation the devotee may mentally lay at his Holy Feet. It is important that we approach the Deity in this way - conscious and confident that our needs are known in the inner spiritual worlds.

The physical representation of the God, be it a stone or metal image other sacred form, simply marks the place that the Lord will manifest in or hover over in his etheric body. It can be conceived as an antenna to receive the divine rays of the Lord or as the material body in or through which the Lord manifests in this First World. When we perform puja, a religious ritual, we are attracting the attention of the devas and Mahadevas in the inner worlds. That is the purpose of a puja; it is a form of communication. To enhance this communication we establish an altar in the temple or in the home. This becomes charged or magnetized through our devotional thoughts and feelings which radiate out and affect the surrounding environment. You can feel the presence of these divine beings, and this radiation from them is known as shakti. It is a communication more real than the communication of language that you experience each day.
Finally, it must be clearly understood that God and the Lords are not a psychological product of the Hindu religious mind. They are far older than the universe and are the fountainheads of its galactic energies, shining stars and sunlit planets. They are loving overseers and custodians of the cosmos, earth and mankind. The Hindu cosmological terrain envelopes all of humanity.

HINDU HOLY BOOK

The Veda is the Hindu holy book. The four books of the Vedas—Rig, Yajur, Sama and Atharva—include over 100,000 verses. The knowledge imparted by the Vedas ranges from earthy devotion to high philosophy. Their words and wisdom permeate Hindu thought, ritual and meditation. The Vedas are the ultimate scriptural authority for Hindus. Their oldest portions are said by some to date back as far as 6,000 bce, orally transmitted for most of history and written down in Sanskrit in the last few millennia, making them the world’s longest and most ancient scripture. The
Vedas open a rare window into ancient Indian society, proclaiming life’s sacredness and the way to oneness with God.

For untold centuries unto today, the Vedas have remained the sustaining force and authoritative doctrine, guiding followers in ways of worship, duty and enlightenment. The Vedas are the meditative and philosophical focus for millions of monks and a billion seekers. Their stanzas are chanted from memory by priests and laymen daily as liturgy in temple worship and domestic ritual. All Hindus wholeheartedly accept the Vedas, yet each draws selectively, interprets freely and amplifies abundantly. Over time, this tolerant allegiance has woven the varied tapestry of Indian Hindu Dharma. Each of the four Vedas has four sections: Samhitas (hymn collections), Brahmanas (priestly manuals), Aranyakas (forest treatises) and Upanishads (enlightened discourses). The Samhitas and Brahmanas affirm that God is immanent and transcendent and prescribe ritual worship, mantra and devotional hymns to establish communication with the spiritual worlds. The hymns are invocations to the One Divine and to the Divinities of nature, such as the Sun, the Rain, the Wind, the Fire and the Dawn— as well as prayers for matrimony, progeny, prosperity, concord, protection, domestic rites and more. The Aranyakas and Upanishads outline the soul’s evolutionary journey, provide yogic philosophical training and propound realization of man’s oneness with God as the destiny of all souls. Today, the Vedas are published in Sanskrit, English, French, German and other languages. But it is the popular, metaphysical Upanishads that have been most amply and ably translated.

KARMA AND REINCARNATION IN HINDUISM

Karma

Karma literally means "deed or act," but more broadly describes the principle of cause and effect. Simply stated, karma is the law of action and reaction which governs consciousness. In physics-the study of energy and matter-Sir Isaac Newton postulated that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Push against a wall. Its material is molecularly pushing back with a force exactly equal to yours. In metaphysics, karma is the law that states that every mental, emotional and physical act, no matter how insignificant, is projected out into the psychic mind substance and eventually returns to the individual with equal impact.
The akashic memory in our higher chakras faithfully records the soul's impressions during its series of earthly lives, and in the astral/mental worlds in-between earth existences. Ancient yogis, in psychically studying the time line of cause/effect, assigned three categories to karma. The first is sanchita, the sum total of past karma yet to be resolved. The second category is prarabdha, that portion of sanchita karma being experienced in the present life. Kriyamana, the third type, is karma you are presently creating. However, it must be understood that your past negative karma can be altered into a smoother, easier state through the loving, heart-chakra nature, through dharma and sadhana. That is the key of karmic wisdom. Live religiously well and you will create positive karma for the future and soften negative karma of the past.

Truths and Myths About Karma

Karma operates not only individually, but also in ever-enlarging circles of group karma where we participate in the sum karma of multiple souls. This includes family, community, nation, race and religion, even planetary group karma. So if we, individually or collectively, unconditionally love and give, we will be loved and given to. The individuals or groups who act soulfully or maliciously toward us are the vehicle of our own karmic creation. The people who manifest your karma are also living through past karma and simultaneously creating future karma. For example, if their karmic pattern did not include miserliness, they would not be involved in your karma of selfishness. Another person may express some generosity toward you, fulfilling the gifting karma of your past experience. Imagine how intricately interconnected all the cycles of karma are for our planet's life forms.

Reincarnation

The soul functions with complete continuity in its astral/mental bodies. It is with these sensitive vehicles that we experience dream or "astral" worlds during sleep every night. The astral world is equally as solid and beautiful, as varied and comprehensive as the earth dimension-if not much more so. Spiritual growth, psychic development, guidance in matters of governance and commerce, artistic cultivation, inventions and discoveries of medicine, science and technology all continue by astral people who are "in-between" earthly lives. Many of the Veda hymns entreat the assistance of devas: advanced astral or mental people. Yet, also in the grey, lower regions of this vast, invisible dimension exist astral people whose present pursuits are base, selfish, even sadistic. Where the person goes in the astral plane at sleep or death is dependent upon his earthly pursuits and the quality of his mind.
Because certain seed karmas can only be resolved in earth consciousness and because the soul's initial realizations of Absolute Reality are only achieved in a physical body, our soul joyously enters another biological body. At the right time, it is reborn into a flesh body that will best fulfill its karmic pattern. In this process, the current astral body-which is a duplicate of the last physical form-is sluffed off as a lifeless shell that in due course disintegrates, and a new astral body develops as the new physical body grows. This entering into another body is called reincarnation: "re-occupying the flesh."

During our thousands of earth lives, a remarkable variety of life patterns are experienced. We exist as male and female, often switching back and forth from life to life as the nature becomes more harmonized into a person exhibiting both feminine nurturing and masculine intrepidness. We come to earth as princesses and presidents, as paupers and pirates, as tribals and scientists, as murderers and healers, as atheists and, ultimately, God-Realized sages. We take bodies of every race and live the many religions, faiths and philosophies as the soul gains more knowledge and evolutionary experience.

Therefore, the Hindu knows that the belief in a single life on earth, followed by eternal joy or pain is utterly wrong and causes great anxiety, confusion and fear. Hindus know that all souls reincarnate, take one body and then another, evolving through experience over long periods of time. Like the caterpillar's metamorphosis into the butterfly, death doesn't end our existence but frees us to pursue an even greater development.

Dharma
Dharma yields Heaven's honor and Earth's wealth. What is there then that is more fruitful for a man? There is nothing more rewarding than dharma, nor anything more ruinous than its neglect.
When God created the universe, He endowed it with order, with the laws to govern creation. Dharma is God's divine law prevailing on every level of existence, from the sustaining cosmic order to religious and moral laws which bind us in harmony with that order. Related to the soul, dharma is the mode of conduct most conducive to spiritual advancement, the right and righteous path. It is piety and ethical practice, duty and ob ligation. When we follow dharma, we are in conformity with the Truth that inheres and instructs the universe, and we naturally abide in closeness to God. Adharma is opposition to divine law. Dharma is to the individual what its normal development is to a seed--the orderly fulfillment of an inherent nature and destiny.

SIGNIFICANCE OF HINDUISM

Hinduism is unique among the world's religions. I boldly proclaim it the oldest religion in the world. To begin with, it is mankind's oldest spiritual declaration, the very fountainhead of faith on the planet. Hinduism's venerable age has seasoned it to maturity. It is the only religion, to my knowledge, which is not founded in a single historic event or prophet, but which itself proceeds recorded history. Hinduism has been called the "cradle of spirituality," and the "mother of all religions," partially because it has influenced virtually every major religion and partly because it can absorb all other religions, honor and embraces their scriptures, their saints, and their philosophy. This is possible because Hinduism looks compassionately on all genuine spiritual effort and knows unmistakably that all souls are evolving toward union with the Divine, and all are destined, without exception, to achieve spiritual enlightenment and liberation in this or a future life.
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