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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...
Kolkata/Calcutta
Deonnie Moodie
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2020-03-25
Kolkata/CalcuttaIntroductionSome may ponder the relevance of an entry on “Kolkata” in a bibliography on Hinduism. By official accounts, this is not a ...
Krishna
Tracy Coleman
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2011-01-27
Krishna Introduction Arguably the most popular god in the Hindu pantheon, both in India and beyond, Krishna makes a dramatic appearance in th...
Law, Hinduism and
Donald R. Davis
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2018-01-11
Hindu Law and Legal TheoryIntroductionThe parameters of what we mean by Hindu law and legal theory are notoriously hard to fix with any precision, bec...
LGBTQ and Hinduism
Ruth Vanita, Kashish Dua
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2022-05-26
LGBTQ and HinduismIntroductionThis entry deals with the period from the late 20th century to the present, during which LGBTQ movements developed. For ...
Līlā
Graham M. Schweig
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2017-04-27
LīlāIntroductionThe Sanskrit term līlā is generally translated as “play” (sometimes “pastime” or “drama”), and is used primarily to describe the “divi...
Liṅga and Yoni
Benjamin J. Fleming
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Liṅga and Yoni Introduction The liṅga (meaning mark, sign, phallus) is best known as the emblem of the Hindu god Śiva, most often rendered tod...
Logic
Sundar Sarukkai
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2016-02-25
LogicIntroductionIndian logic is primarily a study of the nature of human inference, and its beginnings can be traced back to ancient times. It is ind...
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