Hindu traditions
Subcontinental spiritual heritage
Hindu traditions encompass the diverse religious and cultural practices originating in the Indian subcontinent, including rituals, festivals, yoga, meditation, and worship of various deities.
The phrase emphasizes plurality—Hinduism has no single founder or unified doctrine, but rather a collection of interrelated practices, texts, and philosophies developed over millennia.
Hindu traditions vary widely across regions and communities.
- AgamasHindu ritual scriptures
- DharmaBuddha's collected teachings
- karma yogaLiberation through detached service
- VedantaHindu philosophy of ultimate reality
- prayerAddress to deity
Smritis · Upanishads · temple bells · Ramayana · flame · Bhagavad Gita · Mahabharata · offerings · Diwali · festival of lights · holy cow · Ganges · sacred · caste system · Vishnu · ashram · shrine · meditation
- South Asian culturecaste system, joint family, varna, dowry, arranged marriage
- Tamil cultureThirukkural, veena
- Indo-CaribbeanIndo-Caribbean, indentured labor, indenture, coolie, mandirs
- MascarenesMauritius, Rodrigues, dodo, volcanic islands, Saint-Denis
Hindu traditionsAbrahamic faiths
Religions sharing a patriarch
Christianity · Islam · Judaism · Catholicism · Judeo-Christian tradition
Hindu traditionsatheism
Rejection of deities
secular humanism · physicalism · agnosticism · materialism · naturalism