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Iconography
Chandreyi Basu
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2011-01-27
Iconography Introduction At a basic level, iconography involves description, identification, and classification of artworks as a means of stu...
Indian Medicine
Dominik Wujastyk
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2011-01-27
Indian Medicine Introduction Contemporary India has what anthropologists such as Charles Leslie have termed a “pluralistic medical system” (s...
Indo-European Religions
Alexis Pinchard
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2016-04-28
Indo-European ReligionsIntroductionIndo-European religions does not mean the religion of the Indo-Europeans. The notion of Indo-European is essentiall...
Indus Civilization
Asko Parpola
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2022-02-21
Indus CivilizationIntroductionThe Harappan or Indus civilization was the world’s most extensive urban culture when it flourished in Pakistan and weste...
Inscriptions, Early Historic
Meera Visvanathan
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Early Historic Inscriptions Introduction The early history of Hinduism has often been understood through the prism of textual sources, beginni...
ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness)
Kenneth Valpey
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2013-08-26
Iskcon International Society for Krishna Consciousness Introduction The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) was founded i...
Islam, Hinduism and
Peter Gottschalk
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2012-08-29
Hinduism and Islam Introduction For some observers, two religions could not be more distinct than Hinduism and Islam. As Westerners have repor...
Jainism, Hinduism and
Jonathan Geen
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Hinduism and JainismIntroductionFor approximately 2,500 years, Hinduism and Jainism have coexisted in South Asia, leading to a long history of interac...
Jayadeva and the Gītagovinda
Jesse Knutson
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2018-05-24
Jayadeva and the GītagovindaIntroductionThe Gītagovinda (Govinda in Song) is a highly celebrated Sanskrit song-poem by Jayadeva, a poet at the court o...
Jīva Gosvāmin
David Buchta
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2018-04-26
Jīva GosvāminIntroductionJīva Gosvāmin (b. c. 1516–d. c. 1608 ce) was the most prolific theologian from the formative period of the Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava t...
Jyotirliṅga Tradition: Pilgrimage, Myth, and Art
Benjamin J. Fleming
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2019-02-27
Jyotirliṅga Tradition: Pilgrimage, Myth, and ArtIntroductionA jyotirliṅga (“liṅga of light”) is one of the foremost ways that the deity Śiva has been ...
Kālī
Noor van Brussel, Marianne Pasty-Abdul Wahid
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2019-03-27
KālīIntroductionThe goddess Kālī is as much at home in the pan-Indian Brahmanical pantheon as she is in local, regional, and popular forms of worship....
Kāma and Kāmaśāstra
Lee Siegel
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2011-01-27
Kāma and Kāmaśāstra Introduction The term kāma comes from the verbal root kam, meaning “to love, be in love with, or have sexual intercourse ...
Kāmākhyā
Paolo E. Rosati
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2022-08-23
KāmākhyāIntroductionKāmākhyā is the presiding goddess of the temple complex that is on top of Nīlācala (blue mountain) in the Brahmaputra Valley in As...
Kāraikkāl Ammaiyār
Elaine Craddock
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2012-04-24
Kāraikkāl AmmaiyārIntroductionKāraikkāl Ammaiyār, the “Mother/Woman from Kāraikkāl” in the southeastern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, was probably the f...
Karma
Herman Tull
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2011-01-27
Karma Introduction Karma is a central element of South Asian thought, and, as such, it has deeply influenced South Asian religious and so...
Kashmir
John Nemec
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2015-10-26
Kashmir Introduction The Kashmir Valley of around the 9th to 12th centuries was, in many regards, the preeminent South Asian center for Sanskr...
Kāvya
Timothy Cahill
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2011-01-27
Kāvya Introduction “Kāvya” is a Sanskrit term used to designate poetry variously characterized as classical, ornate, courtly, or stylized. To...
Kerala Hinduism
George Pati
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2012-07-24
Kerala HinduismIntroductionKerala, the southwestern most state in peninsular India, is situated between the mountain ranges of the Western Ghats and t...
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