Brahminism
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Returning from Allahabad I visited Benares, the holy city of India and the centre of Hindooism or Brahminism, its religion, art and literature.
From Reminiscences The Story of an Emigrant by Mattson, Hans
It is, possibly, the actual and original Buddhism of the continent of India—supposed to have been driven out bodily by Brahminism, but really with the true vitality of persecuted creeds, still surviving in disguise.
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)
If we call the worship of dead men deified, Euhemerism, it is the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, to which the Euhemerist elements of the present Brahminism are to be attributed.
From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
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)
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