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how many followers
935,000,000
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worlds religions by number
- christianity
- islam
- hinduism (third)
- buddhism
- sikhism
- judaiusm
- bahai
- confucionism
- jainism
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Hindi is the world's ___ most widely spoken language
2nd
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goddess of wisdom, education and the arts
Saraswati
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how many hindu gods and goddesses
330,000,000
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who is the preserver
vishnu
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who is the creator
brahma
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who is the destroyer
shiva
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what are some examples of reduced rights for women
- prearranged marriage
- girl infanticide
- sati
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What is sati
Widow burning
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What is the eternal essent of reality and source of the universe which is beyond human perception
Brahman
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what is the eternal self, reincarnated from one body to the next
Atman
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what is the wheel of rebirth (reincarnation)
Samsara
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what is the moral law of cause and effect
karma
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what is one's ethical duty
dharma
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what is the final liberation from the individual self and the cycle of samsara
moksha
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What are the ancient philosophical texts called?
Upanishads
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What are they ancient philosophical texts?
Bhagavad Gita and Rig Veda
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What established the rules of the caste system
Book of Manu - which told them who they could marry and what they could eat
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What are the four castes
- Brahmin - priests
- Kshatriya - military, government
- vaishya - shopkeepers, farmers, artisans
- Shudra - servants, laborers
- dalit, harijan, untouchables
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What are the four stages of life
- student
- householder
- forest dweller
- wandering ascetic
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What are the four goals of life
- kama - sensual pleasure
- artha - material success
- dharma - ethical duty
- moksha - liberation
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What are the three paths to liberation
- karma marga - path of acts
- jnaba marga - pathe of knowledge/learning
- bhakti marga - path of devotion to gods and goddesses
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What are the paths of knowledge
- Vedanta - brahman
- Maya - cosmic illusion
- Sankhya - matter and atman
- yoga - free one's self from personhoood
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What is a trancelike state in yoga called
samadhi
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what are living incarnations of deities
avatar
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When was Mohandas Ghandi alive
from 1869-1948
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what was Mohandas Ghandi also called
Mahatma
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Mahatman means .....
Great Soul
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What was the partition
whem pakistan was created
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when was pakistan created
1947
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When was Bangladesh created
1971 out of e pakistan
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What is Hindu's nationalist group called
RSS
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What are two recent branches of Hindo
Hare Krishna and Vendanta Society
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