Religion in India Lama, Tenzing Gyatso to India fleeing Chinese occupation of Tibet in 1959 and the setting up of the Tibetan Government in Exile at Dharamshala in Mcleodganj in Himachal Pradesh has also accelerated the resurgence of Buddhism in India. The effective religion in Sikkim, which joined the Indian Union in 1975 (making it India's 22nd state) remains Vajrayana Buddhism, and Padmasambhava or Guru Ugyen is a revered presence there. Jainism is a non-theistic Indian religion and philosophical system originating in Iron Age India. Jains compose 0.4% (around 4.45 million) of India's population, and are concentrated in the states of Gujarat, Karnataka,
Peterburgian Vedism ideas in a series of eleven books, namely "Rigveda", "History of Religion", "History of Philosophy", "Philosophy", "Physics", "Astrology", "Anthropology", "Sociology", "Ethics", "Aesthetics" and "Philosophy of Religion". According to its theorists, Vedism is the fundamental philosophical core common to all Indo-Europeans (i.e. Aryans). The Slavic Native Faith (Rodnovery) is one of its expressions, among others, so that in their view Vedism increasingly resembles an overarching category encompassing many local religions, just like Orthodox Christianity encompasses a number of autocephalous churches. Viktor Bezverkhy graduated in philosophy at the N. G. Kuznetsov Naval Academy of Saint Petersburg (then Leningrad) and later taught at