Keshab Chandra Sen

Japanese: ケーシャブ・チャンドラ・セーン(英語表記)Keshab Chandra Sen
Keshab Chandra Sen
1838‐84
A modern Indian religious reformer. He joined the Brahma Samaj (1857), which was founded by Ram Mohan Roy in 1828, and promoted a number of drastic reforms. He called for the total abolition of caste discrimination, and attempted to establish a major religious church worldwide that would incorporate Hinduism and Islam while also incorporating Christian ideas. He compiled a prayer book with quotations from religious scriptures around the world, abolished sati and permitted widow remarriage, opposed child marriage and polygamy, and founded various schools.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:
1838‐84
近代インドの宗教改革家。ラーム・モーハン・ローイが1828年に創設したブラフマ・サマージに入り(1857),数々の思い切った改革を推進した。カースト差別の全廃を訴え,キリスト教的な考え方を導入しながら,ヒンドゥー教とイスラムをも包みこんだ世界的な一大宗教教会を設立しようとした。世界各地の宗教聖典からの引用で祈禱の書を編み,サティーを廃して寡婦再婚を認め,幼児婚,一夫多妻制などに反対し,さまざまな学校を設立した。

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