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

Appears at Western understandings of South Asian religions and indigenous responses from pre-colonial to modern instances. targeting obstacles, appropriations, and resistances keen on 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 inspiration, advaita vedānta or non-dual vedānta, is a convention eager about brahman, the final 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, including over a thousand hymns devoted to numerous divinities of the Vedic culture. Orally composed and orally transmitted for numerous 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 particularly Indian religiosity and literature, the Rigveda is important to the certainty 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 may perhaps four, 2003 to January 29, 2012. the entire satsangs start with silence, which unearths the real nature of the single Self—our precise nature. such a lot satsangs then have a discourse at the nature of the only Self and guideline on find out how to perform Sri Ramana’s Self-Inquiry.