Encyclopedia of Hinduism
Born Surendranath Mukerji in India, Bharati led a life prior to his arrival in the United States in 1902 that is little known. H ...
eton University Press, 1999); Martin E. Mary and R. Scott Appleby, eds., Religion, Ethnicity, and Self Identity: Nations in Turm ...
Vinayak Narahari Bhave was born on Septem- ber 11, 1885, to a Brahmin family in the village of Gagode in Maharashtra. Vinoba (an ...
In 1976, he undertook a fast to stop the slaughter of cows. His spiritual pursuits intensified as he withdrew from his practical ...
fierce fighter in the war with the KAURAVAS. In the final battle Bhima struck Duryodhana below the waist; he was forever labeled ...
750 and 1250 C.E.; the most famous is Lingaraja, a temple to Shiva, or Tribhuvaneshvara (Ruler of the Three Worlds), built aroun ...
The highest tower of the temple is 160 feet. It is eastward facing with a long stairway upward that leads to the platform in whi ...
As a teenager, she did automatic writing. Her mother died when Blavatsky was 12 years old and she went to live with her grandfat ...
Blue Mountain Center for Meditation See EASWARAN, EKNATH. Bonder, Saniel (1950– ) contemporary American teacher Saniel Bonder, f ...
Brahma has never had a wide following of exclu- sive devotees. There are only two temples in all of India devoted solely to Brah ...
tradition but was not particularly devout at an early age. He entered the jewelry business and earned a considerable fortune as ...
skills. As part of its 60th anniversary, the Brahma Kumaris inaugurated the Academy for a Better World as a place where men, wom ...
Brahmananda Saraswati, Swami See ANANDA ASHRAM, MONROE, NEW YORK; MISHRA, RAMAMURTI. Brahma Sutra See VEDANTA SUTRA. Brahmin (Br ...
India, in 1828 by Raja Rammohun ROY (1772– 1833), a Bengali Brahmin. Roy was a central fig- ure in the “Indian Renaissance” and ...
also presents for the first time the image of the divine reality as a spider and the worldly reality its spun web or threads (Br ...
The stories tell of merchants and kings, romance and adventure, quite unlike the tra- ditional Sanskrit PURANAS. The central her ...
were in the form of organized notes and apho- risms on a host of subjects, comprising more than 7,000 pages withheld for posthum ...
Richard H. Robinson, The Buddhist Religion (Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth, 1986). buddhi Buddhi is a technical term in the SAMKHYA ...
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99 J:AF Caribbean region Hindus first entered the Americas from India as settlers in the Caribbean region in the 1840s, in what ...
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