Engaging South Asian Religions: Boundaries, Appropriations, and Resistances (SUNY series in Hindu Studies)

Appears to be like at Western understandings of South Asian religions and indigenous responses from pre-colonial to modern occasions. targeting obstacles, appropriations, and resistances interested in Western engagements with South Asian religions, this edited quantity considers either the pre- and postcolonial interval in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.

The Hidden Lives of Brahman: Sankara's Vedanta through His Upanisad Commentaries, in Light of Contemporary Practice (SUNY Series in Religious Studies)

Makes use of either textual and ethnographic assets to illustrate that during Śaṅkara’s vedānta, brahman is an lively strength in addition to a transcendent final. Śaṅkara’s idea, advaita vedānta or non-dual vedānta, is a practice inquisitive about brahman, the final word truth transcending all specific manifestations, phrases, and ideas.

The Rigveda: 3-Volume Set (South Asia Research)

The Rigveda is the oldest Sanskrit textual content, along with over 1000 hymns devoted to quite a few divinities of the Vedic culture. Orally composed and orally transmitted for a number of millennia, the hymns demonstrate amazing poetic complexity and non secular sophistication. because the end result of the lengthy culture of Indo-Iranian oral-formulaic compliment poetry and the 1st monument of in particular Indian religiosity and literature, the Rigveda is important to the knowledge either one of Indo-European and Indo-Iranian cultural prehistory and of later Indian non secular historical past and excessive literature.

One Self

One Self is a compilation of satsangs with Nomefrom could four, 2003 to January 29, 2012. all of the satsangs start with silence, which finds the real nature of the only Self—our actual nature. such a lot satsangs then have a discourse at the nature of the only Self and guide on the right way to perform Sri Ramana’s Self-Inquiry.