Parsi, Janina, and Sikh, or Some Minor Religious Sects in India

Excerpt from Parsi, Janina, and Sikh, or Some Minor Religious Sects in India: The Maitland Prize Essay for 1897The distinctive tenets of the J aina take us, for their origin, back to the Buddhist era in India - that greatest era of religious specula tion that the world has ever known. And hence the, study of J aina philosophy throws many side-lights on the origin of Buddhism and the period which gave it birth. It is time that this were recognized more widely by anglo-indians.The Sikh remind us of the entrance of Islam into India, and the era of its struggle with reforming Hinduism. Their faith em bodies both the pantheism of the Brahman and the monotheism of the Muslim, being itself the product of the reflections of successive teachers under both these influences.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.