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, one of the great religions of the world, is the major religion of India, where nearly 85 percent of the population is classified as Hindu. has developed over about 4000 years and has no single founder of creed; rather, it consists of a vast variety hierarchy ....

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.... group. Devotees of the Hindu god Krishna, the members are divided into two classes: brahmacatin ("students"), who live in temples and vow to abstain from sex, meat, intoxicants, and gabling, and grihasta, or lay members who marry and have families. They are proselytizers who actively seek converts. In the mid-1980s the Hare Krishna movement had more than 200 centers in the United States, Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa. In the United States it was troubled by internal disputes that reportedly led to several killings, and was accused by critics of other illegal activities as well. Varanasi Varanasi (or Benares) is a sacred city for H ....