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 barriers, appropriations, and resistances enthusiastic 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 assets to illustrate that during Śaṅkara’s vedānta, brahman is an lively strength in addition to a transcendent final. Śaṅkara’s idea, advaita vedānta or non-dual vedānta, is a practice interested by 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, which include over 1000 hymns devoted to a variety of divinities of the Vedic culture. Orally composed and orally transmitted for numerous millennia, the hymns demonstrate amazing poetic complexity and spiritual 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 could four, 2003 to January 29, 2012. all of the satsangs commence with silence, which finds the real nature of the only Self—our real nature. such a lot satsangs then have a discourse at the nature of the single Self and guideline on tips to perform Sri Ramana’s Self-Inquiry.