BHAKTI-SUFI TRADITIONS Flashcards
TERM GREAT AND LITTLE TRADITIONS WERE COINED BY______ TO DESCRIBE________.
ROBERT REDFIELD TO DESCRIBE THE CULTURAL PRACTICES OF PEASANT SOCIETIES.
MARICHI IS A________ GODDESS (RELIGION)?
BUDDHIST.
SCULPTURE OF MARICHI (c. TENTH CENTURY) IS FOUND IN WHICH STATE?
BIHAR.
MARICHI IS AN EXAMPLE OF THE PROCESS OF_______.
INTEGRATION OF TWO DIFFERENT RELIGIOUS BELIEFS AND PRACTICES.
TANTRIC PRACTICES WERE OPEN TO WOMEN AND MEN, AND PRACTITIONERS OFTEN IGNORED DIFFERENCES OF CASTE AND CLASS WITHIN THE RITUAL CONTEXT.
MANY OF THESE IDEAS INFLUENCED ________ AS WELL AS ________.
SHAIVISM AND BUDDHISM.
TANTRIC PRACTICES UPHELD THE AUTHORITY OF VEDAS.
TRUE/FALSE.
FALSE. THEY FREQUENTLY IGNORED THE AUTHORITY OF THE VEDAS.
CATEGORIES OF BHAKTI TRADITIONS?
- SAGUNA (WITH ATTRIBUTES)- WORSHIP OR SHIVA, VISHNU AND HIS AVATARS ETC, ALL OFTEN CONCEPTUALIZED IN ANTHROPOMORPHIC FORMS.
- NIRGUNA BHAKTI- WORSHIP OF AN ABSTRACT FORM OF GOD.
WHO ARE CHATURVEDINS?
BRAHMANAS VERSED IN THE FOUR VEDAS.
THE CHATURVEDIN AND THE OUTCASTE IS AN EXCERPT FROM A COMPOSITION OF AN______ NAMED_________, WHO WAS A BRAHMANA.
ALVAR, TONDARADIPPODI.
ALVARS AND NAYANARS CLAIMED THAT THEIR COMPOSITIONS WERE AS IMPORTANT AS THE VEDAS.
TRUE/FALSE.
TRUE.
ONE OF THE MAJOR ANTHOLOGIES OF COMPOSITIONS BY THE ALVARS, THE ________, WAS FREQUENTLY DESCRIBED AS THE TAMIL VEDA, THUS CLAIMING THAT THE TEXT WAS AS SIGNIFICANT AS THE FOUR VEDAS IN SANSKRIT THAT WERE CHERISHED BY THE BRAHMANAS.
NALAYIRA DIVYAPRABANDHAM (FOUR THOUSAND SACRED COMPOSITIONS).
________, A DEVOTEE OF SHIVA, ADOPTED THE PATH OF EXTREME ASCETICISM IN ORDER TO ATTAIN HER GOAL.
KARAIKKAL AMMAIYAR.
- WOMEN ALVARS AND NAYANARS RENOUNCED THEIR SOCIAL OBLIGATIONS.
- THEY JOINED AN ALTERNATIVE ORDER OR BECOME NUNS.
- THEIR VERY EXISTENCE AND THEIR COMPOSITIONS POSED A CHALLENGE TO PATRIARCHAL NORMS.
TRUE/ FALSE
- TRUE.
- FALSE. THEY DID NOT JOIN AN ALTERNATIVE ORDER OR BECOME NUNS.
- TRUE.
THE POEMS OF ______,______&_______ FORM TEVARAM.
APPAR, SAMBANDAR AND SUNDARAR.
MAJOR THEMES IN TAMIL BHAKTI HYMNS IS THE POETS’ OPPOSITION TO _______ AND_______.
THIS IS PARTICULARLY MARKED IN THE COMPOSITIONS OF_______.
BUDDHISM AND JAINISM.
NAYANARS.
SHIVA TEMPLES INCLUDING THOSE AT CHIDAMBARAN, THANJAVUR AND GANGAIKONDACHOLAPURAM WERE CONSTRUCTED UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF WHICH RULERS (DYNASTY)?
CHOLA RULERS.
THEY SUPPORTED BRAHMANICAL AND BHAKTI TRADITIONS, MAKING LAND GRANTS AND CONSTRUCTING TEMPLES FOR VISHNU AND SHIVA.
BOTH NAYANARS AND ALVARS WERE REVERED BY_______ PEASANTS.
RULERS TRIED TO WIN THEIR SUPPORT AS WELL.
VELLALA.
CHOLA RULER _______ HAD CONSECRATED METAL IMAGES OF APPAR, SAMBANDAR AND SUNDARAR IN A SHIVA TEMPLE.
PARANTAKA 1.
BASAVANNA (1106-68)- WAS A MINISTER IN THE COURT OF?
KALACHURI RULER.
BASAVANNA’S FOLLOWERS WERE KNOWN AS?
VIRASHAIVAS (HEROES OF SHIVA) OR LINGAYATS (WEARERS OF LINGA).
WHO ARE JANGAMA?
JANGAMA OR WANDERING MONKS.
1. ARE SHAIVA ORDER OF RELIGIOUS MONKS.
2. ARE CONSIDERED AS MOVABLE LINGAS.
3. MEN USUALLY WEAR A SMALL LINGA IN A SILVER CASE ON A LOOP STRUNG OVER THE LEFT SHOULDER.
WHY DO LINGAYATS DO NOT PRACTICE FUNERARY RITES SUCH AS CREMATION PRESCRIBED IN THE DHARMASHASTRAS?
THEY BELIEVE THAT IN DEATH THE DEVOTEE WILL BE UNITED WITH SHIVA AND WILL NOT RETURN TO THIS WORLD. THEREFORE THEY DO NOT PRACTICE FUNERARY RITES SUCH AS CREMATION, PRESCRIBED IN THE DHARMASHASTRAS.
INSTEAD THEY CEREMONIALLY BURY THEIR DEAD.
LINGAYATS ON CASTE SYSTEM AND PRACTICES OF DHARMASHASTRAS?
- CHALLENGED THE IDEA OF CASTE AND THE “POLLUTION” ATTRIBUTED TO CERTAIN GROUPS BY BRAHMANAS.
- QUESTIONED THE THEORY OF REBIRTH.
- ENCOURAGED CERTAIN PRACTICES DISAPPROVED IN THE DHARMASHASTRAS SUCH AS POST PUBERTY MARRIAGE AND THE REMARRIAGE OF WIDOWS.
OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE VIRASHAIVA TRADITION IS DERIVED FROM________ COMPOSED IN______ BY WOMEN AND MEN WHO JOINED THE MOVEMENT.
VACHANAS (LITERALLY, SAYINGS).
KANNADA.
MANY IDEAS OF THE TAMIL BHAKTAS ESPECIALLY THE VAISHNAVAS ARE INCORPORATED WITHIN THE SANSKRIT TRADITION, CULMINATING IN THE COMPOSITION OF ONE OF THE BEST KNOWN PURANAS, THE _________.
BHAGAVATA PURANA.
- NATHS, JOGIS AND SIDDHAS QUESTIONED THE AUTHORITY OF THE VEDAS AND EXPRESSED THEMSELVES IN LANGUAGES SPOKEN BY ORDINARY PEOPLE.
- BECAUSE OF THEIR POPULARITY THEY TRIED TO WIN THE SUPPORT OF THE RULING ELITES.
TRUE/FALSE.
- TRUE
- FALSE, INSPITE OF THEIR POPULARITY THESE RELIGIOUS LEADERS WERE NOT IN A POSITION TO WIN THE SUPPORT OF THE RULING ELITES.
THE COMING OF THE TURKS WHICH CULMINATED IN THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE DELHI SULTANATE UNDERMINED THE POWER OF MANY OF THE RAJPUT STATES AND THE BRAHMANAS WHO WERE ASSOCIATED WITH THESE KINGDOMS.
TRUE/ FALSE.
TRUE.
SOURCES OF LEGISLATION FOR SHARI’A (THE LAW GOVERNING MUSLIM COMMUNITY).
- HADIS- TRADITIONS OF THE PROPHET INCLUDING A RECORD OF HIS REMEMBERED WORDS AND DEEDS.
- QIYAS- REASONING BY ANALOGY.
- IJMA- CONSENSUS OF THE COMMUNITY.
WHAT IS JIZYA?
ZIMMI, MEANING PROTECTED (DERIVED FROM THE ARABIC WORD ZIMMA, PROTECTION) DEVELOPED FOR PEOPLE WHO FOLLOWED REVEALED SCRIPTURES, SUCH AS THE JEWS AND CHRISTIANS, AND LIVED UNDER MUSLIM RULERSHIP.
THEY PAID A TAX CALLED JIZYA AND GAINED THE RIGHT TO BE PROTECTED BY MUSLIMS.
IN INDIA THIS STATUS WAS EXTENDED TO HINDUS AS WELL.
SEVERAL MUGHAL RULERS LIKE AKBAR AND AURANGZEB GAVE LAND ENDOWMENTS AND GRANTED TAX EXEMPTIONS TO_____,______,______,_____&_______ RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS AND ALSO EXPRESSED RESPECT AND DEVOTION TOWARDS NON MUSLIM RELIGIOUS LEADERS.
HINDU, JAINA, ZOROASTRIANS, CHRISTIAN AND JEWISH RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS.
FIVE PRINCIPLES OF ISLAM?
- SHAHADA- THERE IS ONE GOD, ALLAH, AND PROPHET MUHAMMAD IS HIS MESSENGER (SHAHADA).
- NAMAZ/SALAT- OFFERING PRAYERS FIVE TIMES A DAY.
- ZAKAT- GIVING ALMS.
- SAWM- FASTING DURING THE MONTH OF RAMZAN.
- HAJJ- PERFORMING THE PILGRIMAGE TO MECCA.
WORD GINAN MEANING?
DERIVED FROM SANSKRIT WORD JNANA, MEANING KNOWLEDGE.
TERM KHOJAHS MEAN?
KHOJAHS IS A BRANCH OF ISMAILIS (A SHI’A SECT).