Word: hinduism
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...members gather to participate in weekly meetings for prayer and to discuss topics that relate Hinduism to the lives of college students. In addition to being a religion, said Dharma member Karthik Muralidharan '98, Hinduism also is "a way of life...
Several students attested to Hinduism's connection to their lives as students...
Speaking of the position of Hindus and Hinduism in American society at large, Muralidharan said that he believes American Hindus feel more comfortable practicing their religious traditions privately, as opposed to the more public expressions of faith common in India...
...group's theology--a combination of Christianity and science fiction, with elements of Hinduism mixed in--was the work of 66-year-old Marshall Herff Applewhite, one of the 39 dead. The son of a minister, Applewhite taught music at several universities in the 1960's, marrying and having two children. He was dismissed in 1971, reportedly after a sexual liaison with a male student, and he sought therapy for a "cure" for his homosexuality. Applewhite then met a nurse and astrologer, Bonnie Lu Trusdale Nettles, who led him to believe that the pair were aliens incarnated on earth...
Buddhism has as many paradises as there are Buddhas. Each enlightened being has his or her own heaven, a concept probably borrowed from Hinduism, in which gods and goddesses inhabit a series of heavens. The primal heaven, however, was probably the one called Sukhavati, which may itself have borrowed some elements from the florid paradises of Zoroastrian Persia (whence the word pairi-daeza, or enclosure, the origin of our word paradise). As Sakyamuni, the Buddha of our cosmos, teaches, if the denizens of Sukhavati "desire cloaks of different colors and many hundred thousand colors, then with these very best cloaks...