Ich muss bald ein Referat halten und möchte natürlich möglichst richtiges Englisch reden... Würde mich wirklich freuen, wenn jemand sich das einmal durchlesen könnte und korrigieren könnte bzw. Vorschläge machen könnte
• In the last weeks Mary and I dealed with a lot of information about the religion of Sikhs
• And today in the next 20-25 minutes we want to tell you a little more about Sikhism
• Well, I think we can start, please don´t wonder if our presentation won´t be that normal as you expect
• Ok, first of all you can see our index of contents
• So today we want to make a little journey with you
• First we will hit the road to India, where we will see Punjab, Sikhs and their lifestyle as well as a Gurdwara
• Thereby we will learn something more about their religion
1. origins of Sikhism / distribution:
• well, now we can start our journey
• and our journey begins in Germany and we travel to Punjab, a city in the North of India
• Punjab is the region of the origin of Sikhism and today still 80 per cent of Sikhs live in Punjab and New Delhi
• Worldwide there are about 20 million Sikhs
• To get a better impression of the region we will continue our journey and show you a little bit of the city and lifestyle
• We begin in the past in 15th century
• In the 15th century the Sikh religion developed
• Founder was Guru Nanak, who was born in 1469
• When we visited him, he was lying on his bed and he was talking to his students, who should press ahead his worldview and religious conviction after his death
• We appreciate Guru Nanak as a very thoughtful person, who have already busied himself with questions of life when he was a child
• In school he had great marks and he distanced himself from other students and people
• He put the society´s hierarchy, especially the caste system and other religious practices into question
• Now we will come to some facts about Sikh´s religion and believes
• The Sikh religion is a very friendly and caring religion
• Sikhs dislike the caste system which one knows from Indian society
• Furthermore they dislike every hierarchy made of religion, family background or gender
• They also abandon themselves from superstition
• Additionally, I think a very good point is, that they support women´s equality in society and religious equality
• The main point Sikhs make is that the form of religion is less important
• More important is that everyone believe in God
• In the end he has created a new religion, about which we will talk later
• Well, now we will leave Punjab in the 15th century and we will travel to Punjab today
• On the way to 21st century we met the nine other Gurus, which succeeded Guru Nanak or rather one Guru succeeded the other after his death
• Show video Punjab Reise
• Travelling through Punjab we can get many different impressions about the region
• So often we can see people working hard on their farms, many transports of materials, huge crowds, many mokes, bicycles
• And especially you can see many Sikhs, maybe we can stop the journey for a moment to show you a religious practise
• Here we can see a typical Sikh, typical for Sikhs is the wearing of a turban
• The turban is one of the five K´s which are five items of faith that baptised Khalsa Sikhs wear at all times command of the tenth Sikh Guru, who has ordered it
• Here we can see the five K´s
• (Sikhs who don all the Five K´s are known as Amritdhari – the others who haven´t donned all the five K´s are known as Shajdhari)
Das wäre der Text... ist irgendwie doch ganz schön lang geworden... ich wäre bereits über ein paar Korrekturen glücklich
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