Assessment Of Indigenous Religious Thought and Philosophies: Special Reference to North East India.

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Mukesh Doley

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The dead of relatives or legends of indigenous people or of their community is possibly the most accurate indicator and the sign of their religious thought and ideas. After the death of a person, and burial rites in early age, they pondered some question regarding afterlife as still do today. Where did the person gone? Will they live after death? Can they communicate again? Such though in their mind in one way give rise to the idea of Spirit. They assumed that there was something in the departed person that survived somehow in another existence. However, an early tribe could not found the answer to such a great question, and so to temper their question and their fear of death, it is believed that they started different rites and ritual or religious ideas to comfort themselves. Some scholars urge that Indigenous thoughts system is hard to consider as philosophy thinking at all. But such impression on indigenous philosophy and their ideas are regard misplaced confidence.

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