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The religious beliefs of ancient India as prescribed in the sacred Vedas and Brahmanas and Upanishads
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brahmanism
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Wiktionary
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alt. 1 The principles and religious practice of the Brahmins, aspects of Hinduism as practiced by the Brahmin caste of India. 2 Historical Vedic ritualism, contrasted with Shramana traditions. 3 The conduct or attitudes ascribed to the social or cultural ...
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__NOTOC__ Brahmanism is the religion that developed out of the historical Vedic religion in ancient India. The term is different from Brahminism , the latter is sometimes used to identify a ritualistic system led by the Brahmin priests in the Hindu society. ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brahmanism \Brah"man*ism\, Brahminism \Brah"min*ism\, n. The religion or system of doctrines of the Brahmans; the religion of Brahma.
Usage examples of brahmanism.
In its ground germs it was, it seems to us, unquestionably imported into Celtic thought and Cymrian song from that prolific and immemorial Hindu mind which bore Brahmanism and Buddhism as its fruit.
Both Brahmanism and Buddhism are in essence nothing else than methods of securing release from the chain of incarnated lives, and attaining to identification with the Infinite.
According to the system of Brahmanism, the creation is regularly called into being and again destroyed at the beginning and end of certain stupendous epochs called kalpas.
Buddha emerged out of Brahmanism, which may also have given elements to early Judaism and thence to Christianity.
Then he read the Bible, the Koran, and other major religious works: he covered Islam, Zoroastrianism, Mazdaism, Zarathustrianism, Dharma, Brahmanism, Hinduism, Vedanta, Jainism, Buddhism, Hinayana, Mahayana, Sikhism, Shintoism, Taoism and Confucianism.
Tripitaka of Buddhism, the Agama of Hinduism, the Zend-Avesta of Zoroastrianism, and the Veda of Brahmanism.