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 occasions. concentrating on obstacles, appropriations, and resistances eager 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 concept, advaita vedānta or non-dual vedānta, is a practice involved in brahman, the last word truth transcending all specific manifestations, phrases, and ideas.

The Rigveda: 3-Volume Set (South Asia Research)

The Rigveda is the oldest Sanskrit textual content, such as over a thousand hymns devoted to numerous divinities of the Vedic culture. Orally composed and orally transmitted for a number of millennia, the hymns demonstrate extraordinary 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 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 spiritual background and excessive literature.

One Self

One Self is a compilation of satsangs with Nomefrom may well four, 2003 to January 29, 2012. the entire satsangs commence with silence, which unearths the genuine nature of the single Self—our real nature. such a lot satsangs then have a discourse at the nature of the only Self and guide on the way to perform Sri Ramana’s Self-Inquiry.