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• a variation of Brahmanism.

Brahminism

American  

[brah-muh-niz-uhm] / ˈbrɑ məˌnɪz əm /

noun

1. Brahmanism.

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• Brahminist
  noun

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Brahminism

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 Kersey Graves

As most of those confined are Hindoos and profess Brahminism, they bathe several times a day, in a large tank filled with excellent water.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Karl Ritter von Scherzer

The germs of the Brahminism of the Puranas are the two great epics, the Ramayana, or the conquest of Hindostan by Rama, and the Mahabharata, or great war between the Sun and Moon dynasties.

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

Buddhism, then, may claim a higher antiquity than Brahminism under the two following conditions.

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

This comes not from Buddhism, because Buddhist theory denies the existence of soul at all, nor from Brahminism.

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

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