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Sometime during the second millennium BCE, a group of nomadic peoples descended from Central Asia, made their way through the treacherous passes of the Hindu Kush Mountains, and settled in India. These people, calling themselves Aryans, brought with them the philosophies and ideas that would, over the next two thousand years, develop into the Hindu religion, the dominant religion of the Indian subcontinent.
Employing a strict social structure and caste system, the Hindu religion is highly complex and is practiced by an estimated eight hundred million people worldwide. ... ” They appear in the form of dialogues between men and women, and teachers and students, and are considered to be the most sacred of texts in the Hindu religion.
The Hindu religion has three major deities. ... It is to these gods that the Indian people have, over the last two thousand years, designed, constructed and dedicated some of the most complex, awe inspiring religious architecture that has ever been conceived. Three of the most significant pieces of Hindu architecture in India are the Arunachaleswarar temple complex at Tiruvannamalai, the Konark Sun Temple at Orissa, and the Viswanatha Temple in Benares. ...
Benares is home to the Visweswara temple, also known as the Golden Temple, the most sacred site of the Hindu religion. ... Only those of the Hindu faith are allowed to enter the temple. ...
Over it’s thousands of years of existence the Hindu religion has distinguished itself in many ways. Through it’s literature, it’s ritual, it’s social and political structure, and of course, through it’s architecture.
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