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The Liberal Democracy period in Indonesia (Indonesian: Demokrasi Liberal), also known as the Era of Parliamentary Democracy, was a period in Indonesian political history, when the country was under a liberal democratic system. During this period, Indonesia held its first and only free and fair legislative election until 1999, but also saw ...
He later took Sannyasa (life of renunciation) in the Chandannath Temple, Jumla District, where his guru named him Yogi Naraharinath. [ 3 ] At the age of nine, he was enrolled into the Vatukbhairavanath Siddha Chandannath Bhasha Pathshala in Jumla, and later he migrated to India aged eight and learned Sanskrit language .
Abdul Muhaimin Iskandar (born 24 September 1966), also colloquially known as Cak Imin or Gus Imin, is an Indonesian politician, serving as a legislator, the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives since 2019, and the chairman of the National Awakening Party (PKB) since 2005.
The Guru Granth Sahib, the scripture of the Sikhs, contains the hymns of the Sikh gurus, 13 Sikh gurus or Hindu bhagats and two Muslim bhagats. [125] Some of the bhagats whose hymns were included in the Guru Granth Sahib, were Bhakti poets who taught their ideas before the birth of Guru Nanak, the first Sikh guru.
Another major cultural development of the era was the permanent establishment of Buddhism. Buddhism was introduced by Baekje in the sixth century but had a mixed reception until the Nara period, when it was heartily embraced by Emperor Shōmu. Shōmu and his Fujiwara consort were fervent Buddhists and actively promoted the spread of Buddhism ...
Whilst Guru Gobind Singh passed on the mantle of guruship to both the Guru Granth and Guru Panth, the practice of Guru Panth was prevalent in the 18th century during the era of the Sikh Confederacy but fell into obscurity during the rise of Ranjit Singh. [35] Today, the Guru Panth is rarely evoked, being overshadowed by the more popular Guru ...
Matsyendranātha, also known as Matsyendra, Macchindranāth, Mīnanātha and Minapa (early 10th century) was a saint and yogi in a number of Buddhist and Hindu traditions.He is considered the revivalist of hatha yoga as well as the author of some of its earliest texts.
Satsvarupa das Goswami (IAST: Sat-svarūpa dāsa Gosvāmī, Sanskrit: [sɐtˈsʋɐɽuːpɐ daːsɐ ɡoːˈsʋaːmiː], Devanagari: सत्स्वरूप दास गोस्वामी) [1] (born Stephen Guarino on December 6, 1939) is a senior disciple of Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, who founded the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), better known in the West ...