This class will likely be our introduction to the subject of Hinduism, which we will likely be overlaying for the following a number of courses.
We’ll first introduce the topic normally, after which cowl the matters of the Indus Valley Civilization (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus_Valley_Civilisation), and the Aryan Civilization (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Aryan_migration) as revealed within the non secular texts of the Veda’s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedic_period).
In later courses we are going to cowl the later developments of the philosophical Hinduism of the Upanishads, the emergence of Buddhism from Hinduism. Devotional Bhakti Hinduism, the Mahabharata and the Bhagavad Gita, Tantric Hinduism, after which conclude with a dialogue of recent Hinduism, Forged, Mahatma Gandhi, and the later Hindutva motion (India’s personal variant of the Non secular Proper).
Hinduism Lecture Sequence:
Half 1 Introduction and Vedic Hinduism:
Half 2 Jnana Yoga and the Upanishads:
Half three Bhakti Yoga and The Bhagavad Gita:
Half four Intercourse, Sexuality, and the Divine Female:
Half 5, Trendy Hinduism Right now:
5-1 Caste and Gender: https://youtu.be/eHW-PzdltSo
5-2 Reactions to Pressures from Outdoors: https://youtu.be/S94ywHVcpmM
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