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Hinduism

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To begin, my part of the project focused on the gods Krishna, Parvati and Shiva and these three gods play a significant role in Hinduism. Hinduism has many deities within this religion and it is most commonly practiced in South Asia in countries such as India. Hinduism currently has over 900 million followers. The first topic, in my essay, I am going to compare and contrast Hinduism from the Abrahamic religions to Hinduism. Most religions like Christianity, Islam and Judaism have a founder and a main religious text but Hinduism on the other hand is unique in its own way. In the second topic I am going to talk about the gods that I chose for my part in the project. The god Krishna in Hinduism is one of the most popular gods of the religion. …show more content…

Because Hinduism was started in India, some are offshoots of it, one is considered to be a direct link of it and the others are movements of it based on a certain guru they follow. Here are some of the religions that are similar to Hinduism, Buddhism and the movements are Hare-Krishna’s and followers of both the Sai Baba gurus. Here are some of things that make Buddhism and Hinduism similar, both believe in reincarnation and practice different kinds of yoga. Another thing that is common between the two is that Ashoka Gautama was a Hindu and he is the founder of Buddhism and his religion still incorporates some of the practices that are from Hinduism. Hare-Krishna is a movement that was founded in the U.S. in recent times and they focus their belief on Krishna. The founder of this movement was A.C. Bhaktivedanta and he was told to bring the teachings he learned to the west to spread the word and spark interest to join this movement. Their teachings come primarily from the Bhagavad gita and another text. Another thing that they practice is they view the cow very sacred and are vegetarians just like other Hindus. Also they are very small in numbers but they do have their own temples. This group is similar because of how they look at only one part of the yoga’s Bhakti, but they do follow everything else of the religion. Another movement of Hinduism, are the followers of Satya Sai Baba and believed he was the reincarnation of the god Shiva and also a living god. He was also known for saying he performed miracles just like the god Krishna did, but there was a lot of speculation that he didn’t. Also he was well known for his philanthropy on providing clean water in rural areas of India and has other projects that are currently going on. The other one is the original Sai Baba, his name is Sai Baba of Shirdi and he also was a spiritual

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