Crossword clues for brahmanism
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.
Wiktionary
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 elite within a given society. n. 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 elite within a given society.
Wikipedia
__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 term Brahmanism is derived from the central metaphysical and pantheistic concept of Brahman that developed during the Vedic era, which was posited as that which existed before the creation of the universe, which constitutes all of existence thereafter, and into which the universe will dissolve into, followed by a similar endless creation-maintenance-destruction cycles. The term Brahmanism is considered synonymous with Hinduism, by some scholars. Others consider the transition from ancient Brahmanism into schools of Hinduism that emerged later as a form of evolution, which happened imperceptibly, and one that preserved many of the central ideas and theosophy in the Vedas, and synergistically integrated new ideas. Of the major traditions that emerged from Brahmanism are the six darshanas, particular the Vedanta, Samkhya and Yoga schools of Hinduism.
The term Brahmanism has been used sometimes to distinguish the Vedic system that evolved into various Hindu traditions from Buddhism which denies the Brahman metaphysical concept, and suggests the Anatta concept instead. Jainism too is considered a break away tradition from mainstream Brahmanism, while Hindu traditions are considered those that evolved while accepting the core concepts of Brahmanism such as the Brahman and the Atman. There were other schools of thought in ancient India, those that disagreed with Brahmanism, Buddhism and Jainism, such as the materialists Charvakas.
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.