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The prologue for W.E. Retana’s book on Rizal was written by Javier Gómez de la Serna, while the epilogue was written by Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936). Vida y Escritos del Dr. José Rizal is the first biographical account of the life of Rizal written by a non-Filipino author (the second is Rizal: Philippine Nationalist and Martyr by British ...
In 1901, the American Governor General William Howard Taft suggested that the U.S.-sponsored Philippine Commission name Rizal a national hero for Filipinos. Jose Rizal was an ideal candidate, favourable to the American occupiers since he was dead, and non-violent, a favourable quality which, if emulated by Filipinos, would not threaten the ...
Name Religious tradition founded Life of founder Mazdak: Mazdakism: died c. 526 Bodhidharma: Zen, more specifically Ch'an: 5th or 6th century Muhammad: Islam: c. 570–632 Gaudapada: Advaita Vedanta: c. 6th century CE Songtsen Gampo: Tibetan Buddhism: 7th century En no Gyōja: Shugendō: late 7th century Huineng: East Asian Zen Buddhism: 638 ...
The historical Vedic religion, also known as Vedicism and Vedism, sometimes referred to as an early phase of Hinduism called Vedic Hinduism and Ancient Hinduism, [d] was the sacrificial religion of the early Indo-Aryans, speakers of early Old Indic dialects, ultimately deriving from the Proto-Indo-Iranian peoples of the Bronze Age who lived on ...
The word Hindū is an exonym, [30] derived from Sanskrit Sindhu, [31] the name of the Indus River as well as the country of the lower Indus basin . [32] [33] [note 10] The Proto-Iranian sound change *s > h occurred between 850 and 600 BCE. [35] "Hindu" occurs in Avesta as heptahindu, equivalent to Rigvedic sapta sindhu. [36]
The Bhagavad Gita (/ ˈ b ʌ ɡ ə v ə d ˈ ɡ iː t ɑː /; [1] Sanskrit: भगवद्गीता, IPA: [ˌbʱɐɡɐʋɐd ˈɡiːtɑː], romanized: bhagavad-gītā, lit. 'God's song'), [a] often referred to as the Gita (IAST: gītā), is a Hindu scripture, dated to the second or first century BCE, [7] which forms part of the epic poem Mahabharata.
Dr. Rizal says to Fr. Pastells, "I believe in revelation, yes, but in that living revelation of nature which surrounds us everywhere, in that potent voice, eternal, incessant, incorruptible, clear, distinct, universal like the Being from which it originates, in that revelation which speaks to us and penetrates us from the moment we are born ...