The Cylinder of Gudea Temple Building in Sumerian Period B.R. Publishing Corporation A Comparative Study of Religions

A Comparative Study of Religions

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from about 300 BCE to contemporary India

and they continue to rebuild and change

The Cylinder of Gudea Temple Building in Sumerian Period B.R. Publishing Corporation A Comparative Study of ReligionsIn the tradition of Agamas the temple is the central point in worship. The tradition of Agamas we cansee in several of the Sumerian and Akkadian texts handed down to us. We read in poems like the exaltation of In Anna written by the priestess Anna around 2300 b. C. various metaphysicalthoughts, which we find in the later Agama and Tantric texts of ancient India. From these texts, weunderstand and see clearly, the tradition of Agamas is Non Vedic in