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Pārvatī
Ellen Goldberg
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
Pārvatī Introduction Pārvatī (“daughter of the mountain,” also known as Umā) is considered one of the most beloved goddesses in the Hindu panth...
Peace, War, and Violence in Hinduism
Christopher Key Chapple
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2011-01-27
Peace, War, and Violence in Hinduism Introduction To understand issues of peace and violence in Hinduism, one must take into account a ...
Pilgrimage
James Lochtefeld
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2011-01-27
Pilgrimage Introduction Hindu pilgrimage not only has a long and venerable history in India but is also a vibrant religious practice in mod...
Political Hinduism
Christophe Jaffrelot
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2011-01-27
Political Hinduism Introduction Hindu nationalism is one of the oldest ideological streams in India. It took shape in the 1920s soon after the fi...
Popular and Folk Hinduism
Frank Korom
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2011-01-27
Popular and Folk Hinduism Introduction As a number of scholars have noted, Hinduism is difficult to define because people tend to see it as...
Possession
Frederick M. Smith
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2011-03-02
Possession Introduction Possession is a phenomenon that occurs in a majority of the world’s cultures. It most often denotes that one or more pers...
Purāṇas
Greg Bailey
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2011-01-27
Purāṇas Introduction The Purāṇas constitute a body of literature, divided into several subcategories, dating from the 2nd century ce and cont...
Puruṣārthas
Greg Bailey
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2011-01-27
Puruṣārthas Introduction Puruṣārtha (meaning “goal of a man” or “aim of a person”) is a term normally used in the plural to define three sphere...
Rādhā
Heidi Pauwels
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Rādhā Introduction Rādhā is the foremost of the gopīs, or milkmaids, of Braj (Vraja), where Krishna (Kṛṣṇa) is believed to have grown up incog...
Rāma Jāmadagnya/Paraśurāma
Brian Collins
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2012-05-23
Rāma Jāmadagnya/Paraśurāma Introduction Paraśurāma, also known as Rāma Jāmadagnya or Bhārgava Rāma, is the sixth incarnation or avatāra of Vis...
Rāmakŗşŋa
Narasingha P. Sil
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2012-05-23
Ramakrishna Introduction Rāmakṛṣṇa (Ramakrishna) Paramahaṁsa’s (birth name Gadādhar Caṭṭopādhyāy, b. 1836–d. 1886) widely publicized samādhis ...
Rāmāyaṇa
Simon Brodbeck
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2011-01-27
Rāmāyaṇa Introduction Rāmāyaṇa means “The Career of Rāma,” or perhaps “The Going [to the Forest] of Rāma.” The title can be applied to any nu...
Rasāyana (Alchemy)
David Gordon White
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2011-01-27
Rasāyana (Alchemy) Introduction Rasāyana (the way of the rasas) is the overarching Sanskrit term employed in South Asian texts for “alchemy.”...
Rudra-Shiva
Peter Bisschop
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2011-01-27
Rudra-Shiva Introduction Shiva is one of the great gods of Hinduism and perhaps more than any other attests to the complexity of the religiou...
Sāṃkhya and Philosophical Yoga
Mikel Burley
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Sāṃkhya and Philosophical Yoga Introduction Sāṃkhya and Yoga are traditionally regarded as major schools of Indian philosophy. When the model ...
Śaṅkara
Reid B. Locklin
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
Śaṅkara Introduction Śaṅkara (or Śaṃkara, c. 8th century ce) is widely recognized as the most influential teacher in the early development of t...
Sati
Paul B. Courtright
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Sati Introduction The word sati (Skt. satī) may refer to one of three categories. First, sati is one of the terms for a good woman, one who ex...
Secrecy
Gavin Flood
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Secrecy Introduction If we take secrecy to mean the restriction of information to particular groups of people or individuals that excludes oth...
Shaiva Siddhanta
Ginni Ishimatsu
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2012-05-23
Shaiva Siddhānta Introduction Shaiva Siddhānta (Śaiva Siddhānta, Śaivasiddhānta, Saiva Siddhanta, Caiva cittāntam), “the established conclusi...
Shaivism
Peter Bisschop
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2011-01-27
Shaivism Introduction The study of Shaivism has seen a great surge the last few decades. While it has always been recognized that Shaivism, t...
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