Crossword clues for brahminism
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
n. (alternative spelling of Brahmanism English)
Wikipedia
Brahminism refers to the domination of Indian society of the priestly class of Brahmins and their Hindu-ideology. This domination is being criticised by Anti-Brahmanism. Brahmanism is the religion that developed out of the historical Vedic religion, and formed one of the constituents of the complex of Indian religions called Hinduism. The Srauta tradition still preserves elements of Brahminism.
Usage examples of "brahminism".
Thomas Aquinas do with the mythology of Brahminism, he who set forth all the science and rationality and even rationalism of Christianity?
Buddhism had to divide itself from Brahminism, and why in every age and country outside Christendom there has been a feud for ever between the philosopher and the priest.
The modified Brahminism after Buddha, in connection with the worship of Vishnu and Siva.
With Brahminism the religion lost its original and natural character, and became characterized by a slavish submission to a priesthood, which abrogated the truly human.
While in Brahminism man was deprived of his individuality, and regarded only as an effluence from Brahma, and tormented by the fear of hell, and by the thought of a ceaseless process of countless new births awaiting him after death, whence the necessity of the most painful penances and chastisements, Sakya-muni began with man as an individual, and in morals put purity, abstinence, patience, brotherly love, and repentance for sins committed above sacrifice and bodily mortification, and opened to his followers the prospect, after this weary life, no more to be exposed to the ever-recurring pains of new birth, but released from all suffering to return to Nirvana, or nothingness.
Later modification of Brahminism in connection with the worship of Siva and Vishnu.
To this later period of Brahminism belongs also the alteration of the old epics, the Ramayana and Mahabharata, by which the heroes Rama and Krishna are represented as avatars, that is incarnations or human impersonations, of Vishnu.