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[edit] Why is this page part of Hinduism

Hello, I just clicked Dharma in Buddhism and was directed here. Then I typed Buddahdharma and was again directed here. This page should be representation of all darma related religions. I will off "WikiProject Hinduism". FWBOarticle

[edit] Hinduism portal shifted

There must be dozen of different indian origin religion which use dharma. There is no point and no space to put all of it in intro. Each portal should be placed where each secton of respective religion are. Plus, previous placement was bit biased toward Hinduism. FWBOarticle

[edit] Sorry, still bais towards hindus

This page is still bais towards hindu concepts of Dharma


[edit] Righteous duty

The Garcia source has that meaning: [1], clearly connecting it to the social hierarchy. Mitsube (talk) 19:20, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Popular culture section is not needed

I think it's not suitable to discuss references to dharma in Popular culture here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharma#References_in_pop_culture For example, Jesus has more references in popular culture, but we don't have a section in Jesus page on references to him in popular culture. Kavas (talk) 21:32, 18 August 2010 (UTC) Yes, it is removed due to WP:Trivia now. Kavas (talk) 02:56, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

[edit] What is Dharma

What is DHARM?

The term Dharma is an Indian spiritual and religious term that means one's righteous duty, or any virtuous path. A Hindu's dharma is affected by a person's age, class, occupation, and gender. In Indian languages it can be equivalent simply to religion, depending on context. The word dharma translates as that which upholds or supports, and is generally translated into English as law.

According to the various Indian religions, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, beings that live in accordance with Dharma proceed more quickly toward dharma yukam, moksha or nirvana (personal liberation). The antonym of dharma is adharma meaning unnatural or immoral. In traditional Hindu society, dharma has historically denoted a variety of ideas, such as Vedic ritual, ethical conduct, caste rules, and civil and criminal law. Its most common meaning however pertains to two principal ideals: that social life should be structured through well-defined and well-regulated classes (varna), and that an individual's life within a class should be organized into defined stages (ashrama, see dharmasastra).[4]

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Subodh1934 (talkcontribs) 16:32, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

Please read the reliable sourcing guidelines, neutral point of view guidelines, the no original research guidelines, and understand that Wikipedia is not a means of promoting any belief. You you state simply what you would like to accomplish here? Ian.thomson (talk) 16:38, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
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