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Hindus: diversity of your religion?

an anarchist

an anarchist

Your local anarchist.
Hello Hindu, can you elaborate on your specific beliefs? Like, what kind of Hindu are you? I want this thread to explore the diversity of the Hindu faith.

I've seen a lot of non dualist Hindus on this site.
 
Vinayaka

Vinayaka

devotee
Premium Member
Xavier Graham said:
Hello Hindu, can you elaborate on your specific beliefs? Like, what kind of Hindu are you? I want this thread to explore the diversity of the Hindu faith.

I've seen a lot of non dualist Hindus on this site.
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There are nowhere near enough Hindus on RF here to do justice to the diversity of Hinduism. We're a small sampling of thousands of viewpoints. India itself has 14 major languages, which shows the diversity of India somewhat. Religion is more diverse than that for sure. Most Hindus themselves have a poor sense of it, and are often rather surprised at what they encounter outside of their own ethnic/religious group.
 
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Aupmanyav

Aupmanyav

Be your own guru
Vinayaka said:
We're a small sampling of thousands of viewpoints. India itself has 14 major languages, which shows the diversity of India somewhat.
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India has 11 languages spoken by at least >30 million people, 3 spoken by >10 million, 17 languages spoken by >1 million, 29 languages spoken by >100,000. Hindi and English are used by Central government for official purposes.
 
Vinayaka

Vinayaka

devotee
Premium Member
Aupmanyav said:
India has 11 languages spoken by at least >30 million people, 3 spoken by >10 million, 17 languages spoken by >1 million, 29 languages spoken by >100,000. Hindi and English are used by Central government for official purposes.
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I was often surprised by how many languages many people spoke, especially when I only knew one. One doctor from Kerala I met maybe 30 years ago knew Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi, German, French, and English ... all fluently. That was a major learn for me. I am no longer surprised like that. Still the misconception that Hindus speak Hindi only persists over here. Many do, but lots don't as well.
 
R

required

New Member
Another aspect is the overseas Hindu teachings.
Traders from India have been connected with Indonesia for over 2000 years. Until the 1500s there were Hindu-Buddhist communities and kings, with a retreat from Islam to the island of Bali where the last Hindu-Buddhist kings were shot by the Dutch in 1906, The kings merged Hindu with Buddhist teachings and with Javanese traditions and then with Balinese traditions. Old Java language was about 25% Sanskrit words, as recorded in religious texts. Bali today is viewed as mainly Hindu in faith.

It seems that Javanese ships reached Australia with a date of the 13th century as likely for one contact. The syncretic teachings evidently were further blended with Aboriginal traditions and some Skt-Javanese words were adopted. So depending on your standards of authenticity, 'Australia' possibly was a Hindu-Buddhist area.
 
metis

metis

aged ecumenical anthropologist
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Another aspect is the overseas Hindu teachings.
Traders from India have been connected with Indonesia for over 2000 years. Until the 1500s there were Hindu-Buddhist communities and kings, with a retreat from Islam to the island of Bali where the last Hindu-Buddhist kings were shot by the Dutch in 1906, The kings merged Hindu with Buddhist teachings and with Javanese traditions and then with Balinese traditions. Old Java language was about 25% Sanskrit words, as recorded in religious texts. Bali today is viewed as mainly Hindu in faith.

It seems that Javanese ships reached Australia with a date of the 13th century as likely for one contact. The syncretic teachings evidently were further blended with Aboriginal traditions and some Skt-Javanese words were adopted. So depending on your standards of authenticity, 'Australia' possibly was a Hindu-Buddhist area.
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