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Rabindranath Tagore
Victor van Bijlert, Imre Bangha
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2019-02-27
Rabindranath TagoreIntroductionRabindranath Tagore (in Bengali: Rabīndranāth Ṭhākur; b. 1861–d. 1941) was born in Calcutta, the capital of British Ind...
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...
Radhasoami Tradition
Mark Juergensmeyer, David Christopher Lane
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2018-05-24
Radhasoami TraditionIntroductionThe Radhasoami tradition can be traced back to the spiritual master Shiv Dayal Singh (honorifically titled Soamiji Mah...
Rādhāvallabha
Guy Beck
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2016-07-27
RādhāvallabhaIntroductionThe name “Rādhāvallabha” (Rādhā-vallabha) in Sanskrit refers to the Hindu god Krishna, who is known as the lover of Rādhā, hi...
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 ...
Rāmānandī Sampradāya
Daniela Bevilacqua
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2018-02-22
Rāmānandī SampradāyaIntroductionThe Rāmānandī sampradāya is a Vaiṣṇava ascetic order composed of sādhus that follow various sādhanās (religious discip...
Ramanuja
Martin Ganeri
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2013-06-25
Rāmānuja Introduction The Tamil Brahmin, Rāmānuja (traditional dates b. 1011–d. 1137 ce), is a major figure both in the development of Hindu t...
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...
Rāmāyaṇa in the Hindu Tradition
Mandakranta Bose
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2016-03-31
Rāmāyaṇa in the Hindu TraditionIntroductionThe epic story of Rāma and Sītā is the most widespread and enduring of all stories in South and Southeast A...
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....
Ravidās
Peter Friedlander
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2019-09-25
RavidāsIntroductionRavidās (also known as Raidās or Rohidās) was a North Indian poet-saint from an untouchable leather-working community who lived dur...
Reform Hinduism
Amiya P. Sen
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2013-08-26
Reform Hinduism Introduction The expression “Reform Hinduism” may justly be used to describe the new religious, moral, and social order that t...
Rig Veda
Jarrod L. Whitaker
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2016-08-30
Rig VedaIntroductionThe full title of the text is the R̥gveda Saṃhitā, which means “The Collection (saṃhitā) of Knowledge (veda) of Stanzas or Verses ...
Ritual in Hinduism
Axel Michaels
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2017-11-29
Ritual in HinduismIntroductionDue to ritual traditions preserved in normative texts from Vedic times until the present, but also due to its great vari...
Roy, Rammohun
Polly Hazarika
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2015-04-29
Rammohun Roy Introduction Born in 1774 to a family of Brahmins from Radhanagar, Bengal, Rammohun Roy was one of the earliest supporters of the...
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...
Rūpa Gosvāmin
Rembert Lutjeharms
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2018-02-22
Rūpa GosvāminIntroductionRūpa Gosvāmin was a 16th-century Vaiṣṇava theologian and poet, and one of the most influential disciples of Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitany...
Śabarimala Pilgrimage
Liz Wilson
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2022-02-21
Śabarimala PilgrimageIntroductionŚabarimala is the seat of worship for Ayyappa, a celibate god born from the erotic union of two male gods. The mounta...
Sacred Trees, Groves, and Forests
Albertina Nugteren
Subject: Hinduism »
Date Added: 2018-01-11
Sacred Trees, Groves, and ForestsIntroductionThe topic of sacred trees, forests, and groves may be seen as a subset of various entwinements between th...
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