Encyclopedia of Hinduism

taxes. Once again the agitations in 1918 ended with violent reprisals by the British, and Gandhi called off the agitation before ...

path of nonviolence; this was due to the enor- mous power and prestige of the humble, home- spun cloth–clad Mahatma Gandhi. He i ...

and wins the race. Ganesha is also said to have written down the MAHABHARATA epic as quickly as its reciter VYA S A was able to ...

glaciers on the southern slopes of the HIMALAYAS, some 10,300 feet above sea level, but its tradi- tional source is the glacial ...

Indian text. Its prominent mention and sacred status are fully established only in the PURANAS, Indian texts of mythology. There ...

Gaudiya Math (est. 1930s) The Gaudiya Math (monastery) is an organiza- tion founded in the 1930s to promote Chaitanya VAISHNAVIS ...

Prabhupada BHAKTIVEDANTA, the founder of the INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR KRISHNA CONSCIOUS- NESS (ISKCON). Within ISKCON, one grou ...

Gautama See NYAYA-VAISHESHIKA. Gayatri Mantra Gayatri is a VEDIC MANTRA to the Sun; it is chanted each morning by twice-born Ind ...

the INDUS VALLEY CIVILIZATION (c. 3600–1900 B.C.E.) that appear to be goddess figurines and indicate a focus on the divine femin ...

Kali or Durga became the main object of wor- ship for goddess-oriented Hindus, but it must be understood that there are many, ma ...

Gorakhnath is variously considered the third to fifth in a series of 12 authoritative gurus. Originally centered in western Indi ...

study with his Holiness Dilgo Khyentse, a Tibetan master. He also synthesized aspects of Zen and Taoism. Rudrananda had predicte ...

king ordered sweets. His wife laughed, saying, “I never knew I had such an ignorant husband! How can we eat sweets when we are s ...

dweller with long matted hair, sitting in the midst of the circle of weeping animals. Gunadhya then told the king the curse and ...

Indian traditions he is seen to be God himself and is treated as such; thus, his disciples may often refer to their devotion to ...

and circumstances of living in a multicultural society, the fundamental differences among sects found in India were reestablishe ...

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177 J:AF Haidakhan Samaj (est. 1980) See BABAJI. Hanuman The monkey god Hanuman is one of the most universally worshipped divini ...

Sanjivini mountain, the mountain of herbs that saved Laksmana’s life. Further reading: K. C. Aryan and Subhashini Aryan, Hanuman ...

Books, 1964); Baba Ram Dass, Be Here Now (New York: Crown, 1973); ———, Grist for the Mill (Santa Cruz, Calif.: Unity Press, 1977 ...