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Traditions — South Asian traditions
The traditions filed under South Asian traditions.
Paths that branch,
meet and part.
Traditions and their schools
Traditions in South Asian traditions
Indian subcontinent and its diaspora, roughly 1500 BCE to the present.
62 traditions
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Ordered by how many Wikipedias have an article on each — a measure of how widely a subject is written about, not of its importance to any tradition.
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Hinduism Religion widely practiced in the Indian subcontinent -
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Sikhism Monotheistic Indian religion -
Jainism Indian religion -
Shaivism Major tradition of Hinduism that reveres Shiva as the Supreme Being -
Vaishnavism Major Hindu tradition that reveres Vishnu as the Supreme Being - Shaktism Goddess-centric sect of Hinduism
- Historical Vedic religion 1500–500 BC Indo-Aryan religion of northwest India
- Nyaya One of six schools of Hindu philosophy
- Rāja yoga One of the four major yogic paths of Hinduism
- Smartha Tradition Tradition in Hinduism linked to Advaita Vedanta
- Śruti Authoritative scripture of Hinduism, created by Rishis (sages), after inspired creativity
- Brahmanism South Asian religion
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Ramakrishna Math Religious organizational movement related to Indian saint Ramakrishna Paramahamsa - Gaudiya Vaishnavism Hindu religious movement inspired by Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
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Balinese Hinduism Form of Hinduism practiced in Bali -
Nath Yogi-based Shaivism tradition (Hinduism) -
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Christianity Conversion of Paul the Apostle Event that led Paul to cease persecuting early Christians and to become an apostle of Jesus -
Bishnoi Environmental Friendly Hindu Community in India - Sallekhana Jain ritual for religious death
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Devaloka World of gods in Jain and Hindu mythology -
Shaiva Siddhanta Oldest form of Shaivism - Ganapatya Denomination of Hinduism that worships Ganesha
- Sant Mat Hindu spiritual movement in the Indian subcontinent in the 13th century
- Sri Vaishnavism Denomination within the Vaishnavism tradition of Hinduism
- Warkari Krishnaite Vaishnava tradition
- gramadevata Presiding or guardian deity of a Hindu village, towns or city
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Karuppannaswamy Tamil Hindu male deity - Namdhari Sect of Sikhism
- shabda Sanskrit term refering to utterance in the sense of linguistic performance
- Sri Vidya Hindu tantric religious system
- Swaminarayan Hinduism Hindu sampradaya founded in 1801 by Sahajanand Swami
- Ekasarana Dharma A panentheistic religion propagated by Srimanta Sankardeva in the 15th-16th century in the Indian state of Assam
- Hindu reform movements Several contemporary Hindu groups
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Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha Hindu denomination within the Swaminarayan Sampradaya - Kaumaram Hindu sect worshiping Kartikeya
- Pushtimarg Vaishnav sect of the Hinduism, founded by Vallabhacharya
- Akali movement Movement within Sikhism religion
- Haridasa Hindu tradition
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Mogalrajapuram caves 7th century cave temples in Vijayawada - Upamāṇa Hindu philosophical concept
- Brahma Sampradaya Disciplic succession of gurus starting with Brahma
- Saura Denomination of Hinduism, originating as a Vedic tradition, considering Surya as primary deity
- Mahanubhava Krishnaite Vaishnava denomination
- Nijanand Sampraday Monotheistic Hindu sect
- Nimbarka Sampradaya One of the Four Vaiṣṇava Bairagi Sampradāyas
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Poothan and Thira Cultural ritual in North Malabar, Kerala - Radha Vallabh Sampradaya Hindu tradition that consider Radha as the Supreme being
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Nirmala Sikh religious sect of ascetics from India - Pratyaksha Hindu philosophical concept
- Sadh Religious community
- Madhva tradition Major Vaishnava Sampradaya
- Shanmata One of many sects of Hinduism
- Vaishnava-Sahajiya Hindu Tantric tradition
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Bommalagutta A Jain heritage site near Kurikial village, Telangana - Hindu views on monotheism Different traditions of Hinduism have different theistic views
- Mahanam Sampraday Famous Religious tradition of Bengal
- Īśvarism
- Shirdi Sai Baba movement Religious movement of devotees of Indian saint Sai Baba of Shirdi
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Sree Sree Nagendra Math and Nagendra Mission Religious organizational movement related to Indian spiritual teacher and hatha yogi Nagendranath Bhaduri - Tantra Sangha Russian new Hindu denomination founded in the late 1980s
- Thenkalai Denomination within the Sri Vaishnavism tradition of Hinduism
- Vadakalai Denomination within the Sri Vaishnavism tradition of Hinduism
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South Asian traditions
Hinduism and its schools, Jainism, Sikhism, and the Vedic material behind them.