| Playing Time |
025922 |
| Series |
Religion, scriptures & spirituality
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Audio classics series
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| System Details |
Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 42972 KB; MP3 file size: 84189 KB). |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Note |
Downloadable audio file. |
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Title from: Title details screen. |
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Unabridged. |
| Performer |
Read by Ben Kingsley. |
| Note |
Duration: 2:59:22. |
| Summary |
Hinduism is a very broad term for the religious practices and doctrines of the Indian people. This tradition is believed to have begun in about 1800 BCE with religious poems known as the Vedas. The large Vedic library includes the Samhitas and the Brahmanas; the Upanishads, the last books of the Vedas, began to reject many of ancient India's religious ideas in the early centuries CE. The Upanishads established such basic practices and beliefs as cremation and reincarnation. Buddhism and Jainism had risen in the sixth-century BCE, also in resistance to Vedic religion; each became a separate religion in its own right. While Buddhism would die out within India by the ninth century CE, Jainism continued as a distinct religion, even though over time many of its practices became virtually indistinguishable from Hindu rituals. |
| Subject |
Hinduism.
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| Genre |
Audiobooks.
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| Added Author |
Kingsley, Ben, 1943-
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OverDrive, Inc.
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| Related To |
Original 9780786164813 (OCoLC)71756044 |
| ISBN |
0786164816 ODA (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) |
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9780786164813 ODA (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) |
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