All 36 Uses of

Hinduism
in
Life of Pi

In between the goddesses is a stone Shivayoni linga, which looks like half an avocado with a phallic stump rising from its centre, a Hindu symbol representing the male and female energies of the universe.†
Chpt 13-16

Hindu = someone who believes in Hinduism (the third most common religion--which has many gods and is associated with India)

Off we went on this Hindu rite of passage, Mother carrying me, Auntie propelling her.†
Chpt 13-16

I am a Hindu because of sculptured cones of red kumkum powder and baskets of yellow turmeric nuggets, because of garlands of flowers and pieces of broken coconut, because of the clanging of bells to announce one's arrival to God, because of the whine of the reedy nadaswaram and the beating of drums, because of the patter of bare feet against stone floors down dark corridors pierced by shafts of sunlight, because of the fragrance of incense, because of flames of arati lamps circling in the darkness, because of bhajans being sweetly sung, because of elephants standing around to bless, because of colourful murals telling colourful stories, because of foreheads carrying, variously signified, the†
Chpt 13-16

...the Bank of Karma, where the liberation account of each of us is credited or debited depending on our actions. This, in a holy nutshell, is Hinduism,
Chpt 13-16 *

Hinduism = the third most common religion; polytheistic (many gods) with most adherents in India

This, in a holy nutshell, is Hinduism, and I have been a Hindu all my life.†
Chpt 13-16

Hindu = someone who believes in Hinduism (the third most common religion--which has many gods and is associated with India)

When I corrected her, I told her that in fact she was not so wrong; that Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims, in the way they see God in everything, are bearded Hindus, and Christians, in their devotion to God, are hat-wearing Muslims.†
Chpt 13-16

Hindus = those who believe in Hinduism (the third most common religion--which has many gods and is associated with India)

When I corrected her, I told her that in fact she was not so wrong; that Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims, in the way they see God in everything, are bearded Hindus, and Christians, in their devotion to God, are hat-wearing Muslims.†
Chpt 13-16

I owe to Hinduism the original landscape of my religious imagination, those towns and rivers, battlefields and forests, holy mountains and deep seas where gods, saints, villains and ordinary people rub shoulders, and, in doing so, define who and why we are.†
Chpt 17-20

Hinduism = the third most common religion; polytheistic (many gods) with most adherents in India

I first heard of the tremendous, cosmic might of loving kindness in this Hindu land.†
Chpt 17-20

Hindu = someone who believes in Hinduism (the third most common religion--which has many gods and is associated with India)

I was fourteen years old—and a well-content Hindu on a holiday—when I met Jesus Christ.†
Chpt 17-20

The hill on the right, across the river from the hotel, had a Hindu temple high on its side; the hill in the middle, further away, held up a mosque; while the hill on the left was crowned with a Christian church.†
Chpt 17-20

The gods of Hinduism face their fair share of thieves, bullies, kidnappers and usurpers.†
Chpt 17-20

Hinduism = the third most common religion; polytheistic (many gods) with most adherents in India

I'd never heard of a Hindu god dying.†
Chpt 17-20

Hindu = someone who believes in Hinduism (the third most common religion--which has many gods and is associated with India)

If Hinduism flows placidly like the Ganges, then Christianity bustles like Toronto at rush hour.†
Chpt 17-20

Hinduism = the third most common religion; polytheistic (many gods) with most adherents in India

They didn't know that I was a practising Hindu, Christian and Muslim.†
Chpt 21-24

Hindu = someone who believes in Hinduism (the third most common religion--which has many gods and is associated with India)

A Hindu upbringing and a Baptist education had precisely cancelled each other out as far as religion was concerned and had left her serenely impious.†
Chpt 21-24

Hindus and Christians are idolaters.†
Chpt 21-24

Hindus = those who believe in Hinduism (the third most common religion--which has many gods and is associated with India)

But he can't be a Hindu, a Christian and a Muslim.†
Chpt 21-24

Hindu = someone who believes in Hinduism (the third most common religion--which has many gods and is associated with India)

Listen, my darling, if you're going to be religious, you must be either a Hindu, a Christian or a Muslim.†
Chpt 25-28

It seems orange—such a nice Hindu colour—is the colour of survival because the whole inside of the boat and the tarpaulin and the life jackets and the lifebuoy and the oars and most every other significant object aboard was orange.†
Chpt 49-52

I wore these spots of shine and silver like tilaks, the marks of colour that we Hindus wear on our foreheads as symbols of the divine.†
Chpt 65-68

Hindus = those who believe in Hinduism (the third most common religion--which has many gods and is associated with India)

Putting aside the fact that I am a Hindu and we Hindus consider cows sacred, eating a leather boot conjures to my mind eating all the filth that a foot might exude in addition to all the filth it might step in while shod.†
Chpt 89-92

Hindu = someone who believes in Hinduism (the third most common religion--which has many gods and is associated with India)

Putting aside the fact that I am a Hindu and we Hindus consider cows sacred, eating a leather boot conjures to my mind eating all the filth that a foot might exude in addition to all the filth it might step in while shod.†
Chpt 89-92

Hindus = those who believe in Hinduism (the third most common religion--which has many gods and is associated with India)

Definition:

the third most common religion; polytheistic (many gods) with most adherents in India

Only Christianity and Islam have more followers than Hinduism.