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 instances. targeting limitations, appropriations, and resistances enthusiastic 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 assets to illustrate that during Śaṅkara’s vedānta, brahman is an energetic strength in addition to a transcendent final. Śaṅkara’s concept, advaita vedānta or non-dual vedānta, is a practice excited by 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, along with over a thousand hymns devoted to numerous divinities of the Vedic culture. Orally composed and orally transmitted for numerous millennia, the hymns demonstrate awesome poetic complexity and spiritual sophistication. because the end result of the lengthy culture of Indo-Iranian oral-formulaic compliment poetry and the 1st monument of particularly Indian religiosity and literature, the Rigveda is essential 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 may well four, 2003 to January 29, 2012. all of the satsangs start with silence, which unearths the real nature of the single Self—our actual nature. so much satsangs then have a discourse at the nature of the single Self and guideline on how one can perform Sri Ramana’s Self-Inquiry.