Encyclopedia of Hinduism

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461 J:AF udgatri See VEDAS. Uma See PARVATI. Umaswami (Umasvati) See TATTVARTHA SUTRA. United Kingdom The National Census of Apr ...

have occurred in worship, as increasing emphasis is placed on congregational activity, scheduled to accommodate Western working ...

VEDANTA CENTRE, founded by Swami Ghanananda in 1948. The MAHARISHI MAHESH YOGI lectured on TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION in London i ...

Before the transcendentalists, Americans showed little understanding of or sympathy for India and Hinduism. Cotton Mather, spoke ...

Attuned to this new thought, Benjamin Franklin maintained a friendship with Sir William Jones, the English Orientalist, who intr ...

Association, issued more than 500 separate works explaining and describing the East. Beginning in 1875, the THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY ...

in 1893 to attend, along with many representa- tives of the religions of Asia, the WORLD PARLIA- MENT OF RELIGIONS in Chicago. T ...

charlatans. After Sara Bull left the greater part of her half-million-dollar estate to the Vedanta Soci- ety, her daughter calle ...

the East. Krishnamurti, a poor BRAHMIN boy from South India, had been selected by the Theoso- phists to be groomed for acceptanc ...

century. Simultaneous with stringent efforts to preserve traditional Hindu teachings intact and in toto is the more dominant Ame ...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.: Fithian Press, 1996); Wendell Thomas, Hinduism Invades America (New York: Bea- con Press, 1930); W. S. U ...

the chants themselves, and a BRAHMANA, or com- mentary. Both portions are considered SHRUTI, or revelation.) Within the Brahmana ...

473 J:AF Vach (Vak) Vach or Vak is Hindu goddess of speech, and the most prominent and important goddess in the VEDAS. In later ...

History of Samnyasa,” Journal of the American Oriental Society 101 (1981): 265–274; ———, Renunciation in Hinduism: A Mediaeval D ...

Vaishnavite (Vaishnava) See VAISHNAVISM. Vaishya Vaishya is the term used in the ancient fourfold class (VARNA) system of India ...

Vallabha’s marriage produced two sons, one of whom was central in building his sect. While in the town of Gokula, near Mathura, ...

This devotion is best developed through total ser- vice to the divinity and his servants. Further reading: Richard Barz, The Bha ...

also called the stage of SADHU. The man must wear animal skins, bark, or rags; leave his hair and nails uncut; and eat pure food ...

grated society, which could not function without any of its constituents, became the religious justi- fication for the later con ...