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. targeting limitations, appropriations, and resistances all for 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 suggestion, advaita vedānta or non-dual vedānta, is a practice excited about brahman, the final 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, inclusive of over 1000 hymns devoted to quite a few divinities of the Vedic culture. Orally composed and orally transmitted for numerous millennia, the hymns show 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 knowledge either one of Indo-European and Indo-Iranian cultural prehistory and of later Indian spiritual heritage 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 precise nature. such a lot satsangs then have a discourse at the nature of the single Self and guideline on the right way to perform Sri Ramana’s Self-Inquiry.