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- Author: D M Thornton
- Publisher: Gyan Books
- ISBN-10: 9351285863
- ISBN-13: 9789351285861
- Format: 14 x 21.6 x 0.6 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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Excerpt from Parsi, Janina, and Sikh, or Some Minor Religious Sects in India: The Maitland Prize Essay for 1897
The distinctive tenets of the J aina take us, for their origin, back to the Buddhist era in India - that greatest era of religious specula tion that the world has ever known. And hence the, study of J aina philosophy throws many side-lights on the origin of Buddhism and the period which gave it birth. It is time that this were recognized more widely by anglo-indians.
The Sikh remind us of the entrance of Islam into India, and the era of its struggle with reforming Hinduism. Their faith em bodies both the pantheism of the Brahman and the monotheism of the Muslim, being itself the product of the reflections of successive teachers under both these influences.
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- Author: D M Thornton
- Publisher: Gyan Books
- ISBN-10: 9351285863
- ISBN-13: 9789351285861
- Format: 14 x 21.6 x 0.6 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
Excerpt from Parsi, Janina, and Sikh, or Some Minor Religious Sects in India: The Maitland Prize Essay for 1897
The distinctive tenets of the J aina take us, for their origin, back to the Buddhist era in India - that greatest era of religious specula tion that the world has ever known. And hence the, study of J aina philosophy throws many side-lights on the origin of Buddhism and the period which gave it birth. It is time that this were recognized more widely by anglo-indians.
The Sikh remind us of the entrance of Islam into India, and the era of its struggle with reforming Hinduism. Their faith em bodies both the pantheism of the Brahman and the monotheism of the Muslim, being itself the product of the reflections of successive teachers under both these influences.
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