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

Seems to be at Western understandings of South Asian religions and indigenous responses from pre-colonial to modern occasions. concentrating on barriers, appropriations, and resistances desirous about 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 energetic strength in addition to a transcendent final. Śaṅkara’s proposal, advaita vedānta or non-dual vedānta, is a convention fascinated with 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, together with over a thousand hymns devoted to quite a few divinities of the Vedic culture. Orally composed and orally transmitted for a number of millennia, the hymns reveal notable poetic complexity and non secular 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 historical past and excessive literature.

One Self

One Self is a compilation of satsangs with Nomefrom might four, 2003 to January 29, 2012. the entire satsangs commence with silence, which finds the genuine nature of the only Self—our precise nature. such a lot satsangs then have a discourse at the nature of the only Self and guideline on tips on how to perform Sri Ramana’s Self-Inquiry.