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 instances. targeting limitations, appropriations, and resistances concerned with 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 concept, advaita vedānta or non-dual vedānta, is a practice 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, inclusive of over a thousand hymns devoted to quite a few divinities of the Vedic culture. Orally composed and orally transmitted for numerous millennia, the hymns demonstrate striking 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 in particular Indian religiosity and literature, the Rigveda is essential to the certainty 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. all of the satsangs start with silence, which unearths the genuine 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 you can perform Sri Ramana’s Self-Inquiry.