Brahminism
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The ancient Egyptians, also the Greeks, claimed that Brahminism was a type, or ante-type, of their religious systems.
From The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ by Graves, Kersey
This comes not from Buddhism, because Buddhist theory denies the existence of soul at all, nor from Brahminism.
From The Hearts of Men by Fielding, H. (Harold)
We have just the same literary fall as happened in India from Brahminism to Buddhism; a twaddling flow of words after a noble inspiration.
From La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages by Michelet, Jules
Besides which, it by no means follows, that because Brahminism is, comparatively speaking, recent, Buddhism must be ancient.
From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
The Brahminism of the "Institutes of Menu," the oldest Indian code of laws, is simpler than that of the epics.
From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
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