In this article, we will explore how Hinduism gave birth to several major religions, including Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, while examining the ways in which they evolved and how their ...

Buddhism and Jainism grew out of this. Vardhamana Mahavira (540-468 BC) and Siddhartha Gautama (560-480 BC) were Kshatriyas and believed in Hindu tenets of karma and rebirth.

The Kumbh Mela, which began January 13 in Prayagraj, northern India, is a 45-day Hindu pilgrimage during which millions of Hindus immerse themselves in the sacred Ganges River to cleanse their sins.

He took the religious principle of 'doing no harm' common to Buddhism, Hinduism and Jainism and turned it into a passive tool for mass action. He used it to fight not only colonial rule but social ...

AN estimated 400 million pilgrims are expected to gather in the northern city of Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh for the Maha Kumbh ...

Research areas: Religious & social history of medieval Tamil Nadu; women in pre-colonial India; temple architecture & epigraphy; interactions among and sectarianism in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism ...

Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism and Jainism. Whether it involves completely abstaining from food and drink or a lighter, lower-calorie form of eating, fasting is practised in various religions and ...

With fifty-four superlative Asian artworks spanning the tenth to twenty-first centuries, this international loan exhibition explores portrayals of hell and conceptions of the afterlife across Buddhism ...