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Chinese gods and immortals are beings in various Chinese religions seen in a variety of ways and mythological contexts. Many are worshiped as deities because traditional Chinese religion is polytheistic , stemming from a pantheistic view that divinity is inherent in the world.
Although Hinduism is a little-practiced religion in China, it had a significant, but indirect role in influencing Chinese culture through Buddhist beliefs, practices and traditions (which share a common Dharmic root with Hinduism) which diffused and spread to China from India from the 1st or 2nd century CE onwards.
In Hinduism, Krishna is recognized as the complete and eighth incarnation of Vishnu, or as the Supreme God (Svayam Bhagavan) in his own right. [1] As one of the most popular of all Hindu deities, Krishna has acquired a number of epithets, and absorbed many regionally significant deities, such as Jagannatha in Odisha and Vithoba in Maharashtra.
Germanic deities. Anglo-Saxon deities; List of Norse gods and goddesses; Greek deities (see also Ancient Greek religion, Twelve Olympians, Greek hero cult, Family tree of the Greek gods, Mycenaean gods, Hellenismos) Neoplatonic triad; Hungarian deities; Lusitani deities; Paleo-Balkan deities (Dacian/Illyrian/Thracian) List of Roman deities ...
DALAL-CLAYTON, Diksha: The Adventures of Young Krishna the Blue God of India. With illustrations by Marilyn Heeger. New York 1991. Introduction. – List of Gods and Goddesses. – Krishna Is Born. – Butter Thief. – Krishna The Cowherd. – Radha, Krishna And The Gopis. – Krishna In Danger. – Krishna And The Lifting Of Mt. Govardhan.
Krishnaism has a limited following outside of India, especially associated with 1960s counter-culture, including a number of celebrity followers, such as George Harrison, due to its promulgation throughout the world by the founder-acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.
This is a list of mythologies native to Asia: Buddhist mythology; Chinese mythology; Christian mythology (in Western Asia) Georgian mythology; Greek mythology (see Greco-Buddhism) Hindu mythology. Ayyavazhi mythology; Tamil mythology; Vedic mythology; Hittite mythology and religion; Indo-Iranian mythology. Ossetian mythology; Persian mythology ...
International Society for Krishna Consciousness (7 C, 25 P) K. Krishna in art (6 P) Krishna in popular culture (4 C, 37 P) Krishnaite Vaishnava denominations (5 C, 16 ...