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Hinduism
Copyright © Clara Kim 2007. All rights reserved.
Aim: How did the central ideas of
Hinduism affect the people of India?
• Do Now: Copy the Vocabulary
• Polytheism: the belief in many gods
• Reincarnation: the belief that all souls are reborn
after death (return as something else)
• Dharma: the religious obligations of a Hindu,
includes fasting, self-denial, and non violence
• Karma: the judgment of one’s soul after death.
Those who have good karma come back as a
higher life form
• Moksha: State of perfect understanding of all
things and release from life in this world
Reading Activity
• Students will be chosen to read passages
from the documents
• While your classmates are reading, please
underline all words you do not understand
(we will discuss these words as a class)
• After reading the documents, you will
answer the questions that follow
Student Debrief
Students will take notes using the
Hinduism handout
Lets Take a Hindu Start
• Rise early and
bathe in the
Ganges River
–Cleansing
body and soul
Lets Take a Hindu Start
• Burn incense and offer prayer
Lets Take a Hindu Start
• Yoga – breathing exercises
Background
• No real founder
• No formal
church
• Almost
considered a
way of life
Aryan Invaders
• Aryans and nonAryans followed
their own forms
of religion
• This resulted in
the blending of
different forms of
the religion
Polytheistic? Monotheistic?
• One god or
world soul =
Brahman
–He has three
personalities
1.Brahma –
the creator
•Vishnu –
The
Preserver
• Shiva –
The
Destroyer
Vedas
• Collection of
sacred writings
–Hindu teachers
try to interpret
and explain the
meaning of the
Vedic hymns
The Upanishads
• Teachers’ asked
questions as
they meditated
–Later the
teachers’
comments were
written down in
the Upanishads
Moksha
• State of
perfect
understanding
of all things
and release
from life in
this world
Reincarnation
• Means ‘Rebirth’
• An individual
spirit (ATMAN)
is born again
and again until
Moksha is
achieved
Karma
• Means good
or bad deeds
• Your Karma
determines
your state of
reincarnation
Summary Activity
• Students will take out the handout “What
are the central beliefs of Hinduism?”
• Students will read the documents and
answer the questions based on the
information we have learned today
Aim: How did the caste system
organize Hindu society?
• Do Now: Copy the vocabulary into your
notebook
• Caste System: system where people are
ranked into groups based on heredity
• Brahmin: priest class
• Vaisyas: herders, farmers, merchants
• Sudras: servants, laborers
• Untouchables: performed the lowest tasks
in society
Caste System
Brahmins - Priests
Kshatriyas - Warriors
Vaisyas - Merchants
Sudras - Untouchables
Recall Activity
Homework Check
Discuss homework
Document Activity
1) Students will read or analyze the first (2)
documents
2) After, students will answer the questions
that follow
3) We will then discuss your findings
Reading Activity
• As a class we will read the documents
relating to the treatment of the
“untouchables”
• At the end of each document, students will
report on how the untouchable is treated
Caste System
• Began in the Hindu religion and is based
on writings in the Vedas (holy book)
• Rules:
• 1) a person was born into their caste and
could not change it during their life, only in
their next reincarnated life. Only after
following caste rules would bring good
karma
• 2) different caste members were not
allowed to intermarry or work together
• 3) untouchables were considered so
“unclean” that they were outside the caste
system (outcasts)
Pictures Cited
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Slide 1 – http://www.unitedindia.com/INDEX_files/Hindu_Om_Aum.jpg
Slide 2 – http://www.cardsunlimited.com/largeimage/SaddhuatGanges.jpg
Slide 3 – http://www.shantishop.com
Slide 4 – http://www.harunyahya.com/images_books/images_buddhism/budizm36.jpg,
http://blog.insideoutmag.com/outabout/Incense%20at%20Hindu%20temple.png
Slide 5 – http://www.webwombat.com.au/lifestyle/health/images/yoga-1.jpg,
http://gymnasticscoaching.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/yoga.jpg
Slide 6 – www.theholidayspot.com
Slide 7 – http://www.chemistryland.com/CHM107Lab/Syllabus/blender.jpg
Slide 8 – http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/4/4d/250px-Trimurti.jpg
Slide 9 – http://www.hknet.org.nz/brahma.jpg
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Slide 10 – www.umysl.pl/astrolog/iko_bogowie/vishnu.jpg
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Slide 11 – http://www.monochrom.at/polytheism/pictures/TanzenderShiva.jpg
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Slide 12 – http://blog.shunya.net/photos/uncategorized/2007/10/23/vedas_2.jpg
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Slide 13 – http://lunaydragon.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/vedas2.jpg
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Slide 14 – http://www.siliconindia.com/books/newbooks/Pics/Upanishads_BIG.jpe
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Slide 15 – http://cci.wl.dvgu.ru/news/images/bigfoto/moksha.jpg
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Slide 16 – www.hknet.org.nz/changing-bodies2.jpg
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Slide 17 – http://www.spiritandsky.com/images/reincarnation2.jpg
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Slide 18 – www.smart-kit.com
Slide 19– made
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