The
Mission Studios Hindu
Collection
Hinduism, perhaps better
known to its people as
Sanatana Dharma,
was originally a Western term
for the religious beliefs and
practices of the vast majority
of the people of India.
”The Hindu pantheon is
huge: the figure of 33 million
gods is often mentioned.
Documented over a period of
five thousand years, roughly
one billion people worship
these entities in one set of
forms or another, and many
of them appear not just in
Hinduism, but in Tibetan and
Mahayana Buddhism.
A quick approach to
understanding the Hindu gods
is to compare them with the
Greek or Roman pagan
pantheons. Like the
Greek/Roman gods, the Hindu
gods are ‘people’ — gendered
beings with life stories. Unlike
the Greek/Romoan gods, the
Hindu gods are ‘enlightened’ —
that is, they are said to have
transcended their
personalities to become
expressions of the divine
nature of the universe.” Click
on the individual images to
read their stories.
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Each image comes in two
sizes: 2-3", priced at $14
each, and 3-5.5", priced at
$36 each. |
Bells and Bowls
Rin Gongs
Friday 10 September, 2010