33 résultats pour "hindu"
- Hindu Kush.
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Hinduism.
they do not share any basic terms. B Sanātana Dharma Evidence from inscriptions indicates that Hindus had begun to use the word dharma for their religion by the 7th century. After other religions of Indian origin also began to use this term, Hindus then adopted the expression san ātana dharma to distinguish their dharma from others. The word san ātana, meaning immemorial as well as eternal, emphasized the unbroken continuity of the Hindu tradition in contrast to the other dharmas . The Bu...
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Indian Literature
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Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things
Indian author Arundhati Roy poses with a copy of her acclaimed first novel, The God of Small Things (1997).
Mathura BuddhaMany of the earliest texts of Indian literature were religious writings of Buddhism. This Buddha figure carved out ofsandstone is from Mathura, a city in northern India that was at the center of Buddhist sculptural activity from the 2ndcentury bc to the 6th century ad.Angelo Hornak/Corbis The sacred Vedas were composed in Old Sanskrit by Aryan poet-seers between about 1500 BC and about 1000 BC. The Vedas are compilations of two major literary forms: hymns of praise to nature deit...
- Afghanistan. L'Hindu Kuch et la mosquée d'Ali.
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Trinidad and Tobago - country.
III PEOPLE The history of Trinidad and Tobago is reflected in the makeup of its population, among the most ethnically diverse in the Caribbean. Blacks of African ancestry andAsians of Indian ancestry each make up about 40 percent of the population. The remainder is mainly of mixed ancestry, although there are also small groups of peopleof Chinese, European, South American, and Middle Eastern descent. The ethnic diversity of Trinidad and Tobago owes its origins to slavery and its abolition. Afr...
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Asia - Geography.
Borneo, the world’s third largest island after Greenland and New Guinea. To the southeast is the Timor Sea separating the Asian island of Timor from the Australiancontinent. The Indian subcontinent is flanked by the Bay of Bengal on the east and the Arabian Sea on the west. The island of Sri Lanka and the much smaller Maldives andNicobar Islands trail away to the south. The Arabian Sea’s Gulf of Aden, the Red Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Black Sea form an arc along the western rim of Asia...
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Asia - History.
Borneo, the world’s third largest island after Greenland and New Guinea. To the southeast is the Timor Sea separating the Asian island of Timor from the Australiancontinent. The Indian subcontinent is flanked by the Bay of Bengal on the east and the Arabian Sea on the west. The island of Sri Lanka and the much smaller Maldives andNicobar Islands trail away to the south. The Arabian Sea’s Gulf of Aden, the Red Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Black Sea form an arc along the western rim of Asia...
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Jakarta - geography.
voluntary movement of families to Indonesia's less populated islands). Jakarta is a magnet for migrants from other areas of Indonesia; during the late 1980s an estimated 250 migrants arrived daily. Most were between the ages of 15 and39 years, many with six years of education or less. There is also a significant number of commuters and seasonal migrants who work in government, manufacturing,and services. In addition, many of these temporary residents are engaged in informal employment as drivers...
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- Lacis et méandres Kon?r et Kabul Les rivières Kon?r et Kabul, en Afghanistan, connaissent une dénivellation de plusieurs milliers de mètres entre leur source, dans la chaîne de l'Hindu Kush, et le point où elles confluent pour entrer au Pakistan.
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Aghanistan.
Complétez votre recherche en consultant : Les corrélats Amou-Daria Herat Hindu-Kuch Kaboul Kandahar Mazar-i-Sharif Les livres Afghanistan - l'Hindu-Kuch, page 57, volume 1 Les aspects humains. Au cours de sa longue histoire, l'Afghānist ān a connu de nombreuses invasions : il contrôle en effet les voies de passage conduisant vers le subcontinent indien. De plus, le pays est situé aux confins des mondes persan et arabe à l'ouest, turc au nord, chinois au nord-est et indien à l'est....
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Afghanistan - country.
D Climate Most of Afghanistan has a subarctic mountain climate with dry and cold winters, except for the lowlands, which have arid and semiarid climates. In the mountains and afew of the valleys bordering Pakistan, a fringe effect of the Indian monsoon, coming usually from the southeast, brings moist maritime tropical air in summer.Afghanistan has clearly defined seasons: Summers are hot and winters can be bitterly cold. Summer temperatures as high as 49°C (120°F) have been recorded in thenorth...
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Afganistán - geografía.
vertido de residuos al mar y prohibición de realizar ensayos nucleares. 3 POBLACIÓN La población, predominantemente rural y estructurada en tribus y clanes que dominan todos los ámbitos de la vida, se divide en cuatro grandes grupos étnicos. Los pashto(o pashtunes) forman un 42% de la población total y se dividen en dos subgrupos: los duranios y los ghilzais. Los tayikos, de etnia iraní, componen el 27% de la población,y el resto en su mayoría se compone de uzbekos (9%) y hazaras (9%), además d...
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Hinduismus - Religion.
Leben geboren und wiedergeboren wird. Das Individuum ist als Welle im Meer des Samsara gedacht. Die menschliche Seele (Atman) kehrt so lange in die Welt zurück, bissie ihre Einheit mit dem Brahman erkannt hat. In welcher Form die neuerliche Verkörperung erfolgt, ist abhängig vom Karma, das jede Handlung nach sich zieht. Es wirktnach eigenen Gesetzen: Selbst die Götter unterliegen seiner zwingenden Kraft. Die Welt, die aus einem göttlichen Urgrund hervorgegangen ist und nach dem Ablauf einesWelte...
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Bangladesh - country.
F Environmental Issues Waterborne diseases such as cholera are a serious threat to public health in Bangladesh. Until the 1970s, many of Bangladesh’s people became sick from drinkingpolluted water drawn from surface rivers. Aid agencies such as the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) built shallow wells throughout the country to help provide asafe source of drinking water to Bangladesh’s poor. In the 1990s, however, it was discovered that many of these wells were contaminated by arsenic, a...
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Montagnes du Pamir ?
PAMiR Au cœur du système himalayen Au centre de l'Asie, les hauteurs du Pamir prolongent celles de tHimalaya. C omposé de hauts plateaux et de chaînes rectilignes , le Pamir est situé entre la chaîne de l 'Hindu Kuch et du Karakorum au sud, et celle du Tian Shan au nord. C'est un vieux plateau qui a été puissamment soulevé lors de l'orogenèse hima l ayenne. Ce bloc a été sectionné par des failles , de direction est ouest...
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Arte indio.
Gran stupa de SanchiLa gran stupa de Sanchi, en el estado de Madhya Pradesh, India central, fue construida entre el siglo III a.C. y principios del siglo Id.C. El sólido templo está rodeado por un muro de piedra con toranas (puertas) en los cuatro lados. Los devotos rodean la cúpula querepresenta a la montaña del mundo. El recinto de cuatro lados o harika en la cima de la cúpula representa a los cielos, y rodea alyasti, o espiral con tres chatras (discos) que aluden a los ejes del Universo.Scala...
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Londres - geografía.
Templo hindú en LondresEl Shri Swaminarayan Mandir es el templo hindú más grande construido fuera de India.Jon Arnold/age fotostock La llegada de inmigrantes ha contribuido considerablemente a cambiar la composición étnica de la población de la ciudad. El 46% de la población perteneciente a minoríasraciales de Inglaterra vive en Londres, y se calcula que en uno de cada cinco hogares, el inglés no es la lengua materna. Aunque esta mezcla racial ha producido enocasiones enfrentamientos y tensiones...
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Mohandas Gandhi
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Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948), Indian nationalist leader, who established his country's freedom through a nonviolent revolution.
released two years later because of failing health. By 1944 the Indian struggle for independence was in its final stages, the British government having agreed to independence on condition that the two contendingnationalist groups, the Muslim League and the Congress Party, should resolve their differences. Gandhi stood steadfastly against the partition of India but ultimately hadto agree, in the hope that internal peace would be achieved after the Muslim demand for separation had been satisfied....
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Mohandas Gandhi.
released two years later because of failing health. By 1944 the Indian struggle for independence was in its final stages, the British government having agreed to independence on condition that the two contendingnationalist groups, the Muslim League and the Congress Party, should resolve their differences. Gandhi stood steadfastly against the partition of India but ultimately hadto agree, in the hope that internal peace would be achieved after the Muslim demand for separation had been satisfied....
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Mohandas Gandhi - History.
released two years later because of failing health. By 1944 the Indian struggle for independence was in its final stages, the British government having agreed to independence on condition that the two contendingnationalist groups, the Muslim League and the Congress Party, should resolve their differences. Gandhi stood steadfastly against the partition of India but ultimately hadto agree, in the hope that internal peace would be achieved after the Muslim demand for separation had been satisfied....
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Pakistán - geografía.
3 POBLACIÓN El sustrato étnico de la población de Pakistán es muy variado, debido en gran medida a que el país se encuentra en una región que ha sido repetidamente invadida desdetiempos inmemoriales. La población proviene de grupos étnicos como drávidas, arios, griegos, escitas, hunos, árabes, mongoles, persas, turcos y afganos. En la actualidad,los punjabíes constituyen la mayoría de la población. 3.1 Características de la población La población de Pakistán (según estimaciones para 2008) era...
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Temple (building)
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Wat Phra Kaeo
Thailand has nearly 18,000 Buddhist temples, called wats, throughout the country.
colonnaded terraces connected by ramps. The surrounding area was planted with trees and flowers during Hatshepsut’sreign and for many years after.Gian Berto Vanni/Art Resource, NY In ancient Egypt, temples were grandiose, built of huge blocks and columns of stone. Often they were enlarged by successive rulers to form strung-out series of templeparts, as in the gigantic Temple of Amon (circa 1550-1070 BC) at Al Karnak. The Nile cliffs were used as settings for temples, such as the massive mortuar...
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Kolkata - geography.
area, and trains have north-south lines with a few east-west connections. There are two major train terminals: Sealdah in the east central part of Kolkata and Hāoraacross the river from the Central Business District. Electric trams operate in Kolkata proper. The aging buses, trains, and tram cars suffer from overloading, creatinguncomfortable rides. Subway construction started in 1972 and became operational with 7 km (4.3 mi) of line in 1984. By 1995 all of the subway’s 16.4-km (10.2-mi)route fr...
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Asia - geography.
the Himalayas, the world’s highest mountain system. The Pacific Ocean plate drifted westward, scraping along the Eurasian plate and slipping under its coastal edge. This created the islands of Japan, Taiwan, the Kurils, theRyūky ūs, and the Philippines. Southeast Asia lies at the intersection of the Eurasian, Pacific Ocean, and Indian Ocean plates. Over time the contact between these platescreated the mountain ranges of mainland Southeast Asia. The continued slow movement of the plates causes fr...
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Asia - history.
the Himalayas, the world’s highest mountain system. The Pacific Ocean plate drifted westward, scraping along the Eurasian plate and slipping under its coastal edge. This created the islands of Japan, Taiwan, the Kurils, theRyūky ūs, and the Philippines. Southeast Asia lies at the intersection of the Eurasian, Pacific Ocean, and Indian Ocean plates. Over time the contact between these platescreated the mountain ranges of mainland Southeast Asia. The continued slow movement of the plates causes fr...
- Angkor Wat - geography.
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Indian Art and Architecture
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Art on the Indian Subcontinent
This map highlights places in India and Pakistan where prominent examples of Indian art and architecture have been
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Sun Temple of KonarakThis 13th-century relief depicting a wheel of the chariot of Indian sun god Surya is situated in the Konarak temple. Thetemple, dedicated to Surya, is situated at Puri in the Gulf of Bengal.Keren Su/Corbis The arts of India expressed in architecture, sculpture, painting, jewelry, pottery, metalwork, and textiles, were spread throughout the Far East with the diffusion ofBuddhism and Hinduism and exercised a strong influence on the arts of China, Japan, Myanmar (formerly known...
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Mohandas Gandhi - Geschichte.
5 UNABHÄNGIGKEIT Bei Ausbruch des 2. Weltkrieges forderten die Kongresspartei und Gandhi eine klare Formulierung der Kriegsziele und der damit verbundenen Konsequenzen für Indien. AlsReaktion auf die unbefriedigende Antwort der Briten beschloss die Partei, Großbritannien im Krieg nicht zu unterstützen, wenn Indien nicht sofort die völlige Unabhängigkeiterhielte. Die Briten wiesen diese Forderungen zurück und boten Kompromisslösungen an, die wiederum von den Indern abgelehnt wurden. 1942 wurde G...
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Asian Theater
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Asian Theater, live performance, featuring actors or puppets, native to Asia, a continent with more than 2 billion people of many nations and cultures.
III THEATER IN EAST ASIA Theater in East Asia includes the traditions of China, Japan, and Korea. Most Chinese theater is urban, secular (nonreligious) entertainment, influenced by the ethics of Confucianism. However, a belief in spirits influences rituals performed by ethnic minorities in China, and Buddhism dominates traditional Tibetan performance. Japanesedramatic forms combine native shamanistic performance, secular entertainment, and cultural or religious influences from China and Kore...
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India - country.
delta in the north, are intensely farmed. B Rivers and Lakes The rivers of India can be divided into three groups: the great Himalayan rivers of the north, the westward-flowing rivers of central India, and the eastward-flowingrivers of the Deccan Plateau and the rest of peninsular India. Only small portions of India’s rivers are navigable because of silting and the wide seasonal variation inwater flow (due to the monsoon climate). Water transport is thus of little importance in India. Barrages,...
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Puppets
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Punch and Judy
Punch and Judy are characters in an English hand puppet show that first appeared in 1662.
Rod puppets are controlled by rods attached to their limbs, heads, and bodies. Although the traditional rod puppets of Belgium and Sicily are worked from above, likemarionettes, most contemporary rod figures are operated from below. In theaters, rod puppeteers are frequently concealed from view by drapery or stage flats (fabric stretched across frames). On television and in films, rod and hand puppeteers usually hold their figures either above their heads or in front of their faces. In the lat...
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Zeitvorstellungen in den Religionen - Anthologie.
Religiöses Handeln findet zu bestimmten, „heiligen” Zeiten statt. Der religiöse Mensch unterscheidet sie qualitativ von profaner („normaler”) Zeit, da sie mit derWelt des Transzendenten in besonders enger Verbindung stehen. Heilige Zeit hat eine besondere Struktur, ist aus dem Profanen „herausgeschnittene” Zeit. „In illo tempore”, in jener Zeit, der „großen Zeit”, damals, im Anfang – spielen Schöpfungsmythen. Es ist die Zeit vor aller Zeit, als es noch keine Zeit gab. Im Hinduismus ist von...
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Marriage.
In many traditional societies, marriage typically involved transfers of property from the parents to their marrying children or from one set of parents to the other. Thesecustoms persist in some places today and are part of the tradition of arranged marriages. For example, in some cultures the bride’s parents may give property (knownas a dowry) to the new couple. The practice of giving dowries has been common in countries such as Greece, Egypt, India, and China from ancient times until thepresen...