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Warm-up for 03.23.12 DO NOT COPY!!!. Please take out your Environmental Issues organizer from yesterday and continue to fill in causes, effects, and solutions for the next 5 minutes. Then, we will play a “dumb” board review game to review our chart – Study up!
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Warm-up for 03.23.12DO NOT COPY!!! • Please take out your Environmental Issues organizer from yesterday and continue to fill in causes, effects, and solutions for the next 5 minutes. • Then, we will play a “dumb” board review game to review our chart – Study up! • TONIGHT’S HW: Study your landforms and countries study guide map for quiz on Monday!!!
New Standard Time!!! In other words, its religion time!!! SS7G12 The student will analyze the diverse cultures of the people who live in Southern and Eastern Asia. b. Compare and contrast the prominent religions in Southern and Eastern Asia: Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Shintoism and the philosophy of Confucianism.
HINDUISM Om / Aum "Truth is one, paths are many"
When founded • 4000-5000 years ago, (around 3000-2000 BC) 3000 BC 2010 AD 2000 BC 1000 BC 1000 AD 1 AD
Where founded? • India
Holy People • No known founder
Sacred Texts • Shruti (“heard”) – oldest, most authoritative: • Four Vedas (“truth”) – myths, rituals, chants • Upanishads - metaphysical speculation • Smriti (“remembered”) – the Great Indian Epics: • Ramayana • Mahabharata (includes Bhagavad-Gita)
MONO or POLY-THEISTIC • Here is the confusing part! • Monotheistic (one god) • All parts of life (living & nonliving) are thought to be part of Brahman
Who do Hindus worship? – the major gods Brahman, the creator god
All these gods are but different forms of the Brahman
LINSANITY!!! Jeremy Lin
SPIDERMAN! Peter Parker
Who do Hindus worship? – the major gods of the Hindu Pantheon Vishnu, the preserver god Incarnates as ten avatars (descents) including: Rama (featured in the Ramayana) Krishna (featured in the Mahabharata) (Each shown with his consort, Sita and Radha, respectively)
Who do Hindus worship? – the major gods of the Hindu Pantheon god of destruction(the transformer) Shiva Nataraj lord of the dance of creation… and with his wife, Parvati, and son Ganesha(the elephant headed remover of obstacles)
What about the goddesses?Devi – the feminine divine Saraswati goddess of wisdom, consort of Brahman
What about the goddesses?Devi – the feminine divine Lakshmi, goddess of good fortune, consortof Vishnu
What about the goddesses?Devi – the feminine divine Parvati divine mother, wife of Shiva
What about the goddesses?Devi – the feminine divine Durga, protectress Kali, destroyer of demons Plus about 330 million other deities
What do Hindus believe? • Samsara- process of death, life, and rebirth • Reincarnation – soul is reborn into another body after death (until the soul lives a life good enough to be united with Brahman) • Karma – good and bad actions done during one’s life (affect you life after death)
samsara • Moksha
Samsara Wheel of life
What do Hindus believe? • CASTE SYSTEM - inherited social classes
HOLY PLACES: • All rivers especially theGANGES river Falling from its source of Vishnu’s feet onto Shiva’s head and out from his hair, the water of the Ganges is sacred enough to purify all sins.
Countries where Hinduism is practiced… India Nepal Sri Lanka Bangladesh
Religion Members by Percentage Worldwide Christianity 2.1 billion 33.0% Islam 1.5 billion 22% Hinduism 900 million 14% Buddhism 376 million 6% Sikhism 23 million 0.36% Judaism 14 million 0.22% Bahaism 7 million 0.1% Confucianism 6.3 million 0.1% Jainism 4.2 million 0.1% Shintoism 4 million 0.1% NOTES: As of 2005
And we too are forms of God! “We are not human beingshaving spiritual experiences;We are spiritual beingshaving a human experience!” “That art Thou” Hinduism is about recognizing the all occurrence of the holy