HINDUISM Flashcards
4 major sects
Vaishnavism - vishnu as supreme leader & it’s incarnation
Shavism - shiva as supreme leader
Shaktism - feminine power & devi or goddess as supreme
smartism: shiva, shakti, vishnu, ganesh, surya - based on teaching of purana
varkari panth/sampraday - vishnu-vitthal
devotees of lord vishnu
Eknath, tukarama (16th centuary)
main pilgrimage - vithoba temple (god vitthal), pandarpur, Maharashtra
Ramanandi sampraday - vishnu-Ram
teaching of advaita scholar Ramananda
Brahma sampraday - vishnu-krishna
ISCKON
founder - Madhvacharya
prominent - chaitanya mahaprabhu (15th century)
Pushtimarg sampraday - vishnu-krishna
founder vallabhacharya (15th century)
Nimbarka sampraday - vishu-radha/krishna
Nath Panthi - shiv-adinath
teaching of Gorakhnath & Matsyendranath
Hath yoga
shoti, forehead ashes, heair deadlock
Lingyatism/veershaiv - shiv
lord shiva in the form of linga, rejests the authority of vedas & caste system.
founder - 12th century - Basava (kannada poet)
Dashnami sanyasi - shiv
advaita vadanta tradition
shankaracharya
Aghori - shiv/bharava
ritual practice
Siddhars - shiv
they are mystic, saints, doctors, alchemist all are once in Tamil nadu
Arya samaj - monotheism
swami Dayanand Sarasvati - 1870
believed veda as eternal truth
Brahma samaj - monotheism
raja ram mohan rai - 1830
Shramana schools - who perform ascetic
Jainism
Buddhism
Ajivika
Ajnana
charvaka
Ajivika
founder - Makkhali Gosala - 5th BC
Absolute determinism - no free will & no karma
without cloth
opposed buddhism and jainism
rejects vedas
