Gurdwara

According to the article Sikhism, “A Sikh gurdwara includes the house of worship proper and its associated langar, or communal refectory.” During the worshipping ceremonies, the Adi Granth, or the first book, must be present (“Sikhism”). This book consist of 6,000 hymns of the ten Gurus (“Adi Granth”)…

your Agya Chakra, in other words it is your third eye and is the center of clarity and wisdom and taking off your shoes is a sign of respect. Sikhs are actually supposed to keep their heads covered everywhere, but non-Sikhs must cover their head in Gurdwara or they can't…

the kinship of all people, and the equality of men and women (Ganeri 23). The Sikh community has flourished for the past five hundred years. While their heartland is in the Punjab in northwest India, Sikhs have now settled throughout the world. The Gurdwara, “the gateway of the Guru,” is the place for community gathering and worship in the Sikh tradition (Dhavan). Today, the United States is home to 500,000 of the world’s twenty-five million Sikhs…

The Three Great Eastern Religions The three great eastern religions are, Hinduism, Buddhism and Sikhism that developed at different times, but their places of origin are relatively close geographically. There are some similarities, but also many differences between the three. Hinduism is reported to be the world’s oldest religion while Sikhism is one of the newest. Buddhism and Hinduism believe in reincarnation. Buddhists do not believe in a god while Hindus believe in many gods all based on…

Fliers at the Peace Parade In my understanding the Pastor Kent Brandenburg from the Bethel Baptist Church failed to developed a constructive interfaith with the Sikh community in El Sobrante, California. Interfaith allows us to understand other groups faith and views to facilitate a dialogue. Pastor Kent Brandenburg flier was a not a reach out context but a proselytization one. For instance, the flier start by saying "…God is the Eternal Truth. If we were to agree on this, even as in John…

Sikhism is a Religion of uniqueness. It has beliefs from two other religions; Hinduism and Islam(Borak 53). This religion is very scarce in the United States. However, the main area for Sikhs is in the Northwest India (Borak 53). Sikhs has a very rare formation. However, this religion is a mixture of two religions, known as Hinduism and Islam. Therefore, this joining together is known as syncretism (Hopfe188). The Hindus and Islam began to mix and some thoughts of joining the two together. Not…

Sikhism. There are many similarities in the two religions. Sikhism and Hinduism are both from the Indian sub-continent. Sikhism was created in Punjab which is in northern India. Hindus pray in a temple, also known as a Mandir while Sikhs pray in a Gurdwara, but Sikhs can pray anywhere such as their house to the streets. This is known as personal worship. Some similarities are both religions have daily prayers and practice yoga. Sikhism and Hinduism both believe in reincarnation which means…

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Sikhism is over five centuries old and is followed by over 20 million people worldwide—making it the fifth largest religion in the world. Despite this, it rarely gets any attention here in America, even though there is an estimated 78,000 Sikh adults living here, in America. Sikhism is often described as a mixture of Islam and Hinduism, because it shares many similar traits to both, but many things also make it unique to both religions. Sikhism began over five hundred years ago in present-day…

After analyzing Hinduism and Sikhism both religions have similarities but they also contrast each other. Some of the similarities and contrast they have are in the rituals they do when they visit Mandir or the Gudwara, whorshiping, following a certain conduct, and even diets. In Hinduism when people go to worship to the deity in the Mandir the type of worshiping they do involves meditation, yoga and as well as contemplation. This happened when they offering to the gods. Although they do…