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  2. Bindi - Wikipedia

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    In Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism the bindi is associated with the ajna chakra, and Bindu [5] is known as the third eye chakra. Bindu is the point or dot around which the mandala is created, representing the universe. [6] [7] The bindi has a religious, historical and cultural presence in the region of India and with the Hindu, Indian diaspora ...

  3. Culture of India - Wikipedia

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    Indian-origin religions Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, and Sikhism, [4] are all based on the concepts of dharma and karma. Ahimsa, the philosophy of nonviolence, is an important aspect of native Indian faiths whose most well-known proponent was Shri Mahatma Gandhi, who used civil disobedience to unite India during the Indian independence movement – this philosophy further inspired Martin ...

  4. Folklore of India - Wikipedia

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    Folklorists of India can be broadly divided into three phases. Phase I was the British Administrators who collected the local knowledge and folklore to understand the subjects they want to rule. next were the missionaries who wanted to acquire the language of the people to recreate their religious literature for evangelical purpose.

  5. Bindu (symbol) - Wikipedia

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    Purple Bindu chakra (may also be red) In Tantra, Bindu (or Bindu visarga—"falling of the drop") is a point at the back of the head where Brahmins grow their tuft of hair.

  6. Hindu iconography - Wikipedia

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    In southern India, the mark is called pottu (or bottu). The exact shape, size and location of the bindi or pottu shows regional variation; for instance, in some parts of India the bindi is often worn just below the hairline, while in southern India it is more common to wear it between the eyebrows.

  7. Talk:Bindi - Wikipedia

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    In South Asia, Bindi is used by Muslim, Buddhist and Christian women in the same way as Hindu women, and the wearing of Bindi has nothing to do with the religious significance, rather it is more of a cultural phenomenon. The merger of these articles would only propagate the fundamentalist notion and fatwas that wearing of Bindi is a Hindu ...

  8. Sculpture in the Indian subcontinent - Wikipedia

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    Greco-Buddhist art is the artistic manifestation of Greco-Buddhism, a cultural syncretism between the Classical Greek culture and Buddhism, which developed over a period of close to 1000 years in Central Asia, between the conquests of Alexander the Great in the 4th century BCE, and the Islamic conquests of the 7th century CE. Greco-Buddhist art ...

  9. Bindi (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    A Bindi is a forehead decoration worn on the Indian subcontinent. Bindi may also refer to: Bindi (name) See also. Bindii (disambiguation), a common name for ...