Hinduism

Family of Indian religious traditions — the world's oldest living religious complex — encompassing diverse practices, philosophies, and mythologies united by the Vedic scriptural canon, the concepts of dharma, karma, moksha, and samsara, and the authority of the Brahmin tradition — the third-largest world religion with over one billion adherents.

Creates the most cosmologically ambitious and philosophically diverse religious tradition in history — Hinduism encompasses both the most radically non-dualist metaphysics (Advaita Vedanta — all is Brahman) and the most elaborate theistic devotionalism (bhakti — Krishna, Shiva, Devi); its philosophical schools (Advaita, Dvaita, Vishishtadvaita) represent the most comprehensive debate about the relationship between individual consciousness and ultimate reality in any tradition.