Can Sikhism continue to exist without the Guru Granth Sahib?

The Sikhs are devotees to Sikhism, Sikhism is the youngest of the world’s religion with 25 million followers. Sikhism is only five hundred years old. The founder of Sikhism is Guru Nank, he was born in 1469. Guru Nank spoke a message of “Ek Ong Kar”: we are all one, created by the One Creator of all Creation. Guru Nank was the first of the ten Gurus in Sikhism. Throughout my research I have discovered what each Guru represents to the Sikh community and where Sikhism originated from. The appearance of Sikh devotees is a very important part of the Punjabi Sikh culture. Sikhs are very misunderstood in America and when people see images of Sikhs they are often mistaken for Muslims or terrorists, which often times leads to hate crimes. I’ll be focusing on the history of the Sikhism, Sikhs appearance, ethnocentrism, and cultural relativism. In the end I would like my audience to have an understanding of the Sikh religion, ethnocentrism, and cultural relativism.

Religious Sikhs get up in the morning before dawn, take a bath, and then start praying. A Sikh is required to attend the Gurdwara as a part of their daily routine or often as possible. A religious Sikh is baptised known as “Amrit Shak”. Being Amrit Shak, you need to follow the meaning of the five K’s. The five K’s symbolize Sikhs who are dedicating themselves to the Guru. The five K’s are five physical symbols worn by Sikhs who are Amrit Shak. The five K's are Kesh, Kara, Kanga, Kaccha, and Kirpan. Kesh represents not to cut any part of your body hair. You are not allowed to cut your hair because

The Dhammapada is a Pali version of one of the most popular text of the Buddhist canon. The Dhammapada, or “sayings of the Buddha”, is a collection of 423 verses that tell about the ideals and teachings of the Buddha. When taken together, these verses provide a structured form of teaching within the Buddhist religion. These verses are a kind of guiding voice to the path of true enlightenment.

In Chapter ten the history of Hinduism is discussed in America and India. Instead of illustrating the religious doctrines of Hinduism. The author lists statistics about the livelihoods of Asian Indians. For example, there are eighteen different official languages in India. As the author emphasizes that doctrines have nothing to do with Hinduism, but the actions that individuals commit. The orthodoxy is a set of responsibilities that Hindus must carry out. If they wish to be reincarnated into a higher caste. In addition, the origin of Hinduism is mentioned within the chapter. That Hinduism is the only major religion that does not have a founder and has no beginning as there is not a specific known date of when it originated. Moreover, Hinduism is the oldest major religion and is the only polytheistic faith among the five popular creeds.

They express their love for their deity through song, dance, rituals, and communal worship, which were all displayed at the Ganesh Temple. There were young girls practicing a dance in the basement and various groups gathered around different representations of Gods. Some worshipped quietly in corners while others sat in a service and engaged in chants lead by priests. All of these ways of worshipping were intended to display their affection for their Gods, which can help them achieve better rebirth. The most striking form of worship I observed was the practice of puja. Many Hindus would walk up to their God and leave a basket of fruit. Moreover, the priests were putting the offerings around the statue and pouring liquids on them. I especially

Read the assigned chapters for the week and complete the following table. Be as specific as possible when identifying practices, beliefs, rituals, and historical elements. Cite sources in course-level APA formatting.

The Hindu service is performed by a male Brahmin priest (‘Pundit’), in accordance with the holy verses (‘mantras’) from the Vedas – the Hindu Holy Book. Often the ceremony can be conducted in Sanskrit which gets its roots from Hinduism and embraces a rich tradition of poetry as well as practical and philosophical texts.

The source shows An elderly Tibetan women holding a prayer wheel on the Lhasa's pilgrimage circuit of Barkhor. The Barkhor, a quadrangle of streets that surrounds the Jokhang Temple, is both the spiritual heart of the holy city and the main commercial district for Tibetans. This source helped me understand how believers use their mantras to pray with this sacred object. As they use speech, mind, modivation, and hands to bring enlightenment and

He began preaching the way to enlightenment and God after receiving a vision. After his death a series of nine Gurus, regarded as reincarnations of Guru Nanak. Led the movement until 1708. At this time these functions passed to the Panth and the holy text. This text, the Shri Guru Granth Sahib, was finished by the tenth Guru, Gobind Singh. It consists of hymns and writings of the first 10 Gurus, along with texts from different Muslim and Hindu

American Guru is a reality show where two final contestants will go against each other to find the most divine. To determine the winner, we will have to take a close look into which important lessons each figure has to teach mainstream U.S. society. After much consideration, this year’s top two final contestants are Krishna and Rama. As a judge, I will pay attention to our course texts for Hinduism to determine who is more divine and has more important lesson to teach. For Krishna, I will pay attention to the short play of John Stratton Hawley ‘“The Butter Thief’ of Swami Ramsvarup” and from the textbook World Religions in Dialogue: A Comparative Theological Approach. For Rama, I will consider R.K. Narayan’s, The Ramayana: A

The festival Gurpurb of usually comes in the month of November, but the date varies from year to year, based on the traditional dates of the Indian calendar (Kalsi 94). Sikhs celebrate Gurpurb with great enthusiasm, reinforcing the Sikh commitment to community service and devotion to God (Hoffman 77). Gurpurb is a three day festival. The first two days of Gurpurb, Sikhs do akhand path or out loud recitation of the Siri Guru Granth Sahib (the sacred book of the Sikhs). The Akhand Path is a forty-eight hour non-stop reading session of the holy book, Siri Guru Granth Sahib. The Sikhs read the Siri Guru Granth Sahib non-stop from beginning to the end.

* How do different social groups act as part of the ritual? Do men and women have different roles? Do younger people and older people have different roles? Buddha-lama-effigy-patron

My choice to compare two religions with so many similarities as Islam and Sikhism is mainly based on the fine, but very distinct differences and the interesting fact that they geographically meet in the Punjab Region between India and Pakistan.

The enduring issue raised by the set of documents is conflict. Conflict is a serious disagreement or an argument. There can be a conflict between individuals, groups or even nations. This enduring issue is important because in these sets of documents it talks about different having different ideas and beliefs and how disagreements arose. For example, Sikhism was based on equality. As the religion, Sikhism extended, the Muslims thought the way Sikhism was spreading was a threat and thought they would be overthrown. Emperor Aurangzeb tried to make the Sikhs to accept Islam, but he failed. The conflict between these two is they both have different beliefs which leads to an argument. Therefore, this enduring issue is important.

According to Eck (p.2), the meaning of darshan is religious seeing in which the core mandate of the individual is to experience the presence of the deity and be seen by the god. While there are prayers and offerings offered the critical aspect of the ceremony is the worship the image and through the eyes gain and experienced blessings from the deity (Eck, p.2). Love and loyalty aspects are coined in a much serious manner, and all the expectations from the deity are not in any way a part of the ritual. The ceremony of puja is done in homes or a temple in which the icon is bathed, dressed coupled with offerings, incense, and drums (Flood, p.209). The act of quality of the Puja is dependent on the intensity, the loyalty of the devotion and purity of the individual performing the