Sikh Temple Experience Paper

If I were to describe this course to a friend I would say this class is more than what anyone expects and is extremely eye-opening. It is not like a normal studies class, where it has boring content. It has content that is insightful and allows you to really think about the issues at hand. I would encourage a friend to take it because it is not only a fun class but very informative. I would prepare them for the reality of this class. This class does not just touch the surface of issues we have in society, but it goes much deeper.

I liked everything about this course. The seminars, study plans, and the weekly discussions help

Sikhism is the fifth largest religion in the world. The religion has a population of upwards of over thirty million worldwide. The United Sates alone has over two hundred fifty thousand Sikh. Sikhism is a monotheistic religion like many other major religions. Sikhism was founded around the year of 1469 and was an Indian religion. Sikh are an important part of the United states. They survive in our arm forces, as officers of the law and as legal professionals. This essay will inform about the most important part of Sikhism, The Five K's.

The first major experience I have had with the course is I have learned to stop pretending to be someone I am not. God made me exactly as He saw fit to create me, so why would I want to change His vision He has for me? I am not an overly outgoing person, and trying to act like an extrovert has only made me more frustrated and seemingly less effective when it came to spreading my faith. Instead of trying to keep up with the world’s view of what an Evangelical Christian should look like,

Hinduism goes back as far as fifteen hundred B.C., there are currently over nine hundred million practicing Hinduists in the world today. I had never been to a Hindu temple before and it was a new and exciting experience. I did not know about the Hindu religion going to this project. During my time here in Dayton I have been to Lebanese festival and interacted with many people of Arabic descent. Hinduism as religion is very broad. Choosing to interview someone of the Hindu faith was an easy choice to make because I had always been interested in Hinduism. Some of my favorite movies had implied Hindu concepts in them such as karma. I decided to attend the Hindu Temple of Dayton for the interview. The temple was established in nineteen eighty-six by two priests and currently has over six hundred patron families that visit weekly. As I entered the temple there was a sign to take off your shoes. People were supposed to take off their shoes as they entered the temple, it is a form of respect to the deities. As I was observing the service, a priest stood in front of a particular shrine and chanted while ringing a bell. After he was finished chanting he handed everyone banana. I found out later on the deity he chanted about was named Vishnu and the banana he offered everyone afterwards a symbol of self-sacrifice or a pledge of righteous to the deity (Pradeepa, "Offering the Fruits to Hindu Gods"). The man I spoke with is a priest named Ramesh Rajamani. He had worked at the Hindu

Sikhism started in India in Punjab. Now this religion is mostly located in India but it is also in a lot of Canada.

I remember thinking how much I was looking forward to taking this humanities course at the beginning of the term because I was eager to learn more about Far East cultures, as I have always been intrigued by their ideologies. Throughout the term, I have learned a great deal about the fundamental beliefs and concepts that encompass Hinduism, Buddhism, and other Far Eastern religions, as well as the underlying connections and common beliefs that they share. All these religions value the ideas of following a certain path or lifestyle that has been passed down as the ‘right way’ to achieve eternal happiness whether it be enlightenment in Hinduism and Buddhism, or harmony in Confucianism and Daoism. However,

Sikhism, as a religion, has deep roots in the successes of the community. As a child, I used to love going to the Gurdwara (my place of worship) with my uncle, and after the prayer, following him to the langar (community kitchen). Langar is the daily service of food without any cost to the visitors. It is true that food is the key to one's heart, and to ensure people are well-fed is to ensure their hearts are full as well. As a teen boy, I loved to see joy on the faces of the visitors, young and old, as I served hot meals (chapatis and lentils) to the people in the Sangat (consecration). I miss the feeling of togetherness we would experience around langar when I moved to US; currently, the closest Gurdwara to my home is over 40 minutes away.

The Bahais Temple in Wilmette Illinois is sort of a non-denominational house of worship. The basic tennet of the Bahais faith is that all relgions, deep down, have a common ground and can help forge a common understanding about the divine cosmos in which we live. All religions provide a road to the deeper and finer realizations of existence which reveal (in any number of terms depending on the religion) the divine truth behind all being. Thus the Bahai Temple is designed on the premise that people, regardless of differences of of faith or doctrine, can still come together to achieve that common uninion with the greater cosmic forces of creation within this universe. And furthermore, the act of worship, in this case, is not something one must belong to a particular religion to do successfully. One can worship and belong to any religion, in this context. But the practice of worship, itself, i.e. the practice of aligning with those higher forces (e.g. through prayer, meditation, etc.), the establishment of ritual means of commuting with the ‘higher’ creative forces of the universe remains important. So even though, from the view of some orthodox religious sect, the

This article tells about Sikhs holding a turban tying event in New York to educate more Americans about their faith. Sikh means “disciple” or student and followers are called this because the religion was founded by a line of gurus or “teachers. A survey given by the National Sikh Campaign showed that 60% of Americans are unaware of the Sikhism religion. A 24-yr. old founder of Sikhs of New York held this turban tying event in hopes to educate and answer questions of their faith. Turban day has been going on now for 5 years attracting 8,00 people to learn more about this religion and the numbers seem to grow each year. The event is held on the Vaisakhi which is a monumental celebration among those who practice the Sikh faith. Vaisakhi usually falls on the 13th or the 14th of April and is marked by colorful celebrations to help remember the past.

Sikhism, a religion that is one of the youngest out of all the indigenous religions there is right now in South Asia. Has a “fundamental message that relates to the ideal of achieving spiritual liberation within a person’s lifetime through mediation on the divine name” (Pechilis 223). The actions of dignity, family and responsibility are the main importance among the religion of Sikhism. Due to that these actions join you to all the members of the religion and help you in living a better life in this material world. In where according to the Sikh followers one day you will achieve spiritual liberation if all these actions are met. In order to understand and have a more clear view of this religion you have to, as the reader look at the dharmic

The religious tradition that will be talked about throughout this paper is Sikhism. A basic overview will be given about what this tradition is all about and how it came to be. This paper will give a fair representation of Sikhism. Sikhism will also be compared and contrast to another religious tradition. The other religious tradition is Christianity. Christianity is a religious tradition that I practice. These two traditions will be evaluated carefully and will have a fair comparison to one another as well.

Founded in the fifteenth century by Guru Nanak Dev Jl., Sikhism is a faith based on the belief of one God or monotheism (Real Sikhism, n. d.). Guru Nanak Dev Jl and nine of his colleagues were chosen to deliver God’s message (Real Sikhism, n.d.). The Holy Scripture or Guru Granth Sahib Jl, was collected by the tenth Guru, is also referred to as Sikhism’s eleventh Guru (Real Sikhism, n.d.).

Equality, All humans are equal, before God. No discrimination is allowed on a race, gender, origin, education, status, wealth, etc. The principles are equality and brotherhood those are important pillars of Sikhism.

One of the reason I took this class is to learn more about religions and their origins but I was specifically interested in Buddhism so I was excited that it was a religion that the class was going to cover. I had little prior knowledge of Buddhism but I didn’t know the origin, important figures and important teachings but I learned that what I thought was inaccurate. This class deepened my interest of Buddhism more because I learned what it really is about and their teaching while also correcting the ideas I had of Buddhism that were wrong.