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Brahminism

American  
[brah-muh-niz-uhm] / ˈbrɑ məˌnɪz əm /

noun

  1. Brahmanism.


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This connects Buddhism with the doctrine of metempsychosis; a doctrine which the incarnations of Brahminism also suggest.

From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

Brahminism and Buddhism countenance it still more decidedly, and even go to the length of absolutely prohibiting the slaughter of animals.

From Bible Romances First Series by Foote, G. W. (George William)

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)

Brahminism or Budhism in some of its forms is said to constitute the religion of considerably more than half the human race.

From The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ by Graves, Kersey

Brahminism and Buddhism, Judaism and Christianity, Mahommedanism and Parseeism, the cult of the Taoists and Confucians, every belief that has been a great belief, that has led man captive, has come from the East.

From The Hearts of Men by Fielding, H. (Harold)

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