Sentence examples for religious merit from inspiring English sources

The religious merit that accrues from hearing and reading Jain texts encouraged the careful and loving preservation of manuscripts.

Many images are gilded with gold leaf; the gilding of Buddhist images and temples is believed to bring religious merit.

The shastras are a part of the Smriti ("Remembered"; traditional) literature which, like the sutra literature that preceded it, stresses the religious merit of gifts to Brahmans.

But some concede that impressionable youths might be swayed by an impassioned cleric suggesting that an anti-Western jihad had religious merit.

While philosophical works such as the Upanishads emphasized renunciation, the dharma texts argued that the householder who maintains his sacred fire, begets children, and performs his ritual duties well also earns religious merit.

Images of vast size, rising up through two or three stories, are quite often seen in Tibetan temples, and their construction and dedication is considered a work of vast religious merit.

For instance, the fashion vs religious merits of my swimwear choices on a visit to a hammam in Budapest with my best gay friends.

The Veda is also regarded as the basis of all the later shastra texts, which stress the religious merits of the Brahmans including, for example, the medical corpus known as the Ayurveda.

In a new interview with Esquire ahead of his Sunday turn as Golden Globes host, Gervais says his barbed words toward his fellow celebrities have both populist and religious merits.

Do allow that you understand their Christian (or whatever religious) beliefs are to be respected, however remind them that you don't wish to argue the religious merits of the Constitution, only the legal ones.

Apart from being an obligatory religious duty, Hajj is seen to have a spiritual merit that provides the Muslims with an opportunity of self-renewal.