Talk:Dharmic religions

message: You never mentioned Hinduism's influence on the Philippines. The Philippines during pre-Spanish times was very influenced by Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam. By leaving the Philippines out you are denying and degrading who we Filipinos are, including our culture, our pasts. And you are also ditching and insulting our ancestors who have created and passed on the traditions that we have (eg. our dances, vocabulary, etc.). This is well documented. Please take a look at http://www.waltokon.com/Jolo25.html. There are more sources to follow.
:Hinduism in Philippines --Dangerous-Boy 08:21, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hinduism and the Philippines 

message: -I read somewhere that Zoroastrians follow a concept called "Daena" which has similar connotations to "Dharma" and acknowledged as a possible cognate for Dharma. Would it be possible to call this a distant Dharmic faith, because of the common concept, even thought it arrives to it through an ultimately different approach and did not originate under the South Asian brand of Indo-Iranian culture?
:We would have to find a reliable source that suggests this. You are probably correct, on the basis that there are many similarities between the Ancient Iranian and Indian relgions. However, there would be too many people who won't believe such a thing unless you verify.  DaGizzaChat © 05:07, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Zoroastrianism a Dharmic faith

message: Well, I'm gonna speak of what i feel is the answers for your questions:
About hinduism and philipines, just edit the article and add the lines. I dont think it's against the permissions allowed by wiki, cuz the edits aren't detrimental...
About Ayyavazhi and Zoroastrianism...
First off, Dharmic and Abrahamic aren't the only two types of religions in this world. Take for example, Asatru, Hellenic, Shinto, Satanism and many others...
Anyways, even though zoroastrianism is too closely related with dharmic faiths, such as
daena = dharma (as u said)
daeva/deva = evil demons
ahura/asura = holy angels (the 's' sound became misinterpreted or something as 'h', same goes for sindus being called hindus)
The language Avestan is also closely bonded with sanskrit as well, and many hindus, as you said, believe they are some lost texts of hinduism. However, its roots, antithesis (though they accept that thesis and antithesis are the same Supersoul, just as with shiva), mono-birth(im not sure of this though), and such concepts may not let us classify it as a complete dharmic faith. Its the absence of concept of rebirth that i believe may not let us classify it as such.
I feel this would need discussions with some authorised zoroastrian authorities to actually come to a proper conclusion..
As for Ayyavazhi, i believe we may need to keep it as seperate religion, because if we include it, in the same sense we should include christianity and islam into judaism. The difference is in the scriptures that the adherents of religion refer to. There lies the difference in the presence of antithesis, and the concept of yuga, and many such stuff as well...
On a sidenote, i believe there are more jains than ayyavazians, as jainism has about 4.5 million adherents.
::Ayyavazhi is not a recognised religion in India and even some of the followers consider themselves Hindus. It is not notable enough to warrent a separate mention. See  - Parthi 02:01, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Why not? Ayyavazhi theology revolves around the centrality of Dharma. See the Dharma section in Ayyavazhi article. But not based on Vedas or Hinduism. (i.e) Ayyavazhi give a different definition to Dharma. - Paul 17:43, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some doubts I may clarify with incomplete knowledge 

message: In Indonesian language, "Agama Hindu Dharma" means "Dharmic Hindu religion". It is what majority of Balinese call their religion. They like to use it to emphasize the similarities with "Indian Hinduism", rather than "Balinese Hinduism"; which is likely to pronounce the differences. Matur suksema ("Thanks", in Balinese) XoXo 13:10, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Balinese Hinduism 

message: I believe the portals of the four major Dharmic religons belong on this article. I request that Pirus, who has not discussed this, stop edit warring and engage in discussion. It's not his decision, but the decision of all the editors of this article. A Ramachandran 13:21, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Portals 

message: Hi, :Category:Dharmic Religion stubs has been nominated for deletion. I believe that this category is a necessary aid to prevent unnecessary duplication of articles.  There are a number of religious traditions that are referred to as Dharmic religions.  There are concepts which are shared by all of these religious traditions.  When a stub is created and placed in say stubs related to Hinduism, it may remain unnoticed by Buddhists.  As a result, a similar article may be created under a different name.  The cost of duplicate articles in terms of effort is much greater than the cost of maintaining a category of stub types in my opinon.  Although the category only has four articles in it at the moment, I don't see that as a convincing argument for deletion.  I have responded to this nomination here.  Your input is encouraged.  --BostonMA talk 20:39, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[:Category:Dharmic Religion stubs]] nominated for deletion