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 obstacles, appropriations, and resistances serious 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 lively strength in addition to a transcendent final. Śaṅkara’s inspiration, advaita vedānta or non-dual vedānta, is a practice taken with 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, such as over a thousand hymns devoted to a number of divinities of the Vedic culture. Orally composed and orally transmitted for numerous millennia, the hymns demonstrate impressive 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 knowledge 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 might four, 2003 to January 29, 2012. the entire satsangs commence with silence, which finds the genuine nature of the single Self—our precise nature. so much satsangs then have a discourse at the nature of the only Self and guideline on easy methods to perform Sri Ramana’s Self-Inquiry.