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<blockquote data-quote="Nathal" data-source="post: 715732" data-attributes="member: 1809">Philosophical Hinduism is pantheistic but there is also a strong polytheistic 'folk' tradition. Also there are many different spiritual paths within Hinduism. For example, the path of devotion (Bhakti I think) is henotheistic, meaning the preference for one god out of an acknowledged many.&nbsp; That idea of henotheism bears some similarity with the Clerics of D&amp;D in a polytheistic world.&nbsp; Buddhism is certainly a religion, admittedly not theistic in the Theravada tradition, although highly mystical dealing as it does with &quot;direct experience of reality&quot; in Nirvana, which means (literally translated) &quot;extinguishment&quot; of the earth-clinging ego but NOT extinguishment in the sense of death.&nbsp; Pure Land Buddhism, however, does involve the worship of Amitabha (&quot;Boundless Light,&quot; also known as Amitayus, or &quot;Boundless Life&quot;) who presides over a Buddha-realm known as Sukhavati, a realm of rebirth in which all impediments to the attainment of final Enlightenment are nonexistent. &nbsp;[/B]</blockquote>[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE="Nathal, post: 715732, member: 1809"] [B][/b] Philosophical Hinduism is pantheistic but there is also a strong polytheistic 'folk' tradition. Also there are many different spiritual paths within Hinduism. For example, the path of devotion (Bhakti I think) is henotheistic, meaning the preference for one god out of an acknowledged many. That idea of henotheism bears some similarity with the Clerics of D&D in a polytheistic world. Buddhism is certainly a religion, admittedly not theistic in the Theravada tradition, although highly mystical dealing as it does with "direct experience of reality" in Nirvana, which means (literally translated) "extinguishment" of the earth-clinging ego but NOT extinguishment in the sense of death. Pure Land Buddhism, however, does involve the worship of Amitabha ("Boundless Light," also known as Amitayus, or "Boundless Life") who presides over a Buddha-realm known as Sukhavati, a realm of rebirth in which all impediments to the attainment of final Enlightenment are nonexistent. [/B][/QUOTE] [/QUOTE]

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