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

Appears to be like at Western understandings of South Asian religions and indigenous responses from pre-colonial to modern occasions. concentrating on 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 energetic strength in addition to a transcendent final. Śaṅkara’s inspiration, advaita vedānta or non-dual vedānta, is a convention fascinated by brahman, the final 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, which includes over a thousand hymns devoted to quite a few divinities of the Vedic culture. Orally composed and orally transmitted for a number of millennia, the hymns exhibit notable 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 historical past and excessive literature.

One Self

One Self is a compilation of satsangs with Nomefrom might four, 2003 to January 29, 2012. the entire satsangs start with silence, which finds the genuine nature of the single Self—our real nature. so much satsangs then have a discourse at the nature of the only Self and guideline on how you can perform Sri Ramana’s Self-Inquiry.