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 obstacles, appropriations, and resistances fascinated 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 notion, advaita vedānta or non-dual vedānta, is a convention involved in brahman, the last word fact transcending all specific manifestations, phrases, and ideas.

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 numerous millennia, the hymns demonstrate striking 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 essential to the certainty either one of Indo-European and Indo-Iranian cultural prehistory and of later Indian non secular background and excessive literature.

One Self

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