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19 Cards in this Set
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The Hindu practice in which a widow is is expected to accompany her husband to the grave is known as the |
Suttee |
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The greatest and longest Hindu epic is the |
Mahabharata |
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The shortest of the major Hindu epics is the |
Ramayana |
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Which religious book is regarded by many including Ghandi as the most important of all Hindu religious books? |
Bhagavad Gita |
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What is the earliest Indian civilization known as? |
Indus Valley civilization |
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What is the meaning of the term Veda |
Knowledge |
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What collection are the instructions of a teacher? |
Upanishads |
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Who are the 3 trinity beings of Hinduism |
Brahma Vishnu Shiva |
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What are Puranas |
Popular expressions of Hindu piety |
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What where the 3 religious Hindu practices during the period from the fifth to seventh centuries AD? |
yoga Puja Sacrifice |
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Of the 6 Hindu philosophical schools which one is based upon a cosmic dualism that divides the universe into matter and the self, or soul? |
Sankhya |
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Ram Mohan Roy |
- admirer of Christianity - Sought to remove ethically questionable practices from Hindu life - rejected worhip of idols |
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Historically which area close to India is said to have payed a significant role in Indian history because it was a staging area for invaders |
Afghanistan |
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Recent scholarship suggests that the civilization of the Indus valley came to an end because of: |
Ecological disaster |
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. According to the traditional evolutionary view of the Hindu tradition a series of devotionalmovements arose in response to the Upanishadic traditions which were seen as abstract andimpersonal. These devotional movements are referred to as:
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Bhakti |
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The earliest Hindu-style temple was discovered in 1952 Afghanistan. It is generally thought to date to ... |
2 century AD |
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The term Hindu originated in? |
Persia |
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Historically which area close to India is said to have payed a significant role in Indian historybecause it was a staging area for invaders |
Afghanistan |
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After India gained independence from the British, many Indian intellectuals rejected the terms“Hindus” and “Hinduism.” What was their reason for doing so
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They saw the term "Hindu" as something imposed upon Indian people by the British |
