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

Seems at Western understandings of South Asian religions and indigenous responses from pre-colonial to modern occasions. targeting barriers, appropriations, and resistances excited by 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 resources to illustrate that during Śaṅkara’s vedānta, brahman is an lively strength in addition to a transcendent final. Śaṅkara’s suggestion, advaita vedānta or non-dual vedānta, is a practice all for brahman, the last word truth transcending all specific manifestations, phrases, and concepts.

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

The Rigveda is the oldest Sanskrit textual content, inclusive of over 1000 hymns devoted to a number of divinities of the Vedic culture. Orally composed and orally transmitted for a number of millennia, the hymns exhibit extraordinary poetic complexity and spiritual sophistication. because the fruits 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 spiritual background and excessive literature.

One Self

One Self is a compilation of satsangs with Nomefrom may perhaps four, 2003 to January 29, 2012. all of the satsangs start with silence, which unearths the genuine nature of the only Self—our actual nature. such a lot satsangs then have a discourse at the nature of the single Self and guideline on tips to perform Sri Ramana’s Self-Inquiry.