Translation of the Second and Third Chapter of the “Hinduism, a Short Introduction” Klaus K. Klostermaier With An Analytic Introduction

Hinduism is a reliouges process in the bed of five thousands of years of India history that in addition to Vedas are the essencial source of this religion, has been affected from traditions of original and nonarian inhabitants of India that had been the heir of primary religions and animism concepts. Hinduism is a tradition that includings The beliefs, scriptures and a firm philosophy and in the bed of time in the medium centuries has continued its historical and philosophical gradual and has reared vedantic schools in its lap and eventually in effect of 150 years of westerns sovereignty, new movements has arised in it.when Hinduism faced other religions and modern western ideas, welcomes them and arised a incorrigible wave in it, and then new faces of Hinduism and new Gnosticisms arised in it. But eventually Hinduism resisted to west cultural invasion. This religion in intellectual dimension of today world is so alive and the religion that has attractiveness for prominen western scholar.the mystery of permanent of this religion is, attractiveness, surprising and infinitely fascinating of it.