Hindooism
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a variation of
Hinduism.
Hinduismnounthe common religion of India, based upon the religion of the original Aryan settlers as expounded and evolved in the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Bhagavad-Gita, etc., having an extremely diversified character with many schools of philosophy and theology, many popular cults, and a large pantheon symbolizing the many attributes of a single god. Buddhism and Jainism are outside the Hindu tradition but are regarded as related religions.
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a word derived from
Hindoo.
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Hindooism however has the higher conception of Brahma, the pure unity of thought in itself, where the empirical everything of the world, as also those proximate substantialities, called Gods, vanish.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Buddhism disappeared gradually from India, and Hindooism took its place.
From The Critic in the Orient by George Hamlin Fitch
We have already seen how Carey at the end of the eighteenth century found Hindooism at its worst.
From Life of William Carey by George Smith
He no more questioned the accepted truths of Hindooism, than Jesus doubted about the absolute truth of the Hebrew scriptures.
From Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities by Thomas Inman
In Asia Islam disputes the sway of Hindooism in India, where the Queen has more Moslem subjects than the Sultan himself, and of Buddhism in the islands of the Malayan Archipelago.
From From Egypt to Japan by Henry M. (Henry Martyn) Field