Encyclopedia of Hinduism

Further reading: Crispin Bates, ed., Community, Empire, and Migration: South Asians in Diaspora (New York: Palgrave, 2001); Anil ...

Cauvery River The Cauvery or Kaveri River begins at Talakaveri in Kodagu in the Indian state of Karnataka and flows about 600 mi ...

Mass.: Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Harvard University, 1999); K. P. Sinha, Sri Caitanya’s Vaisnavism and Its Sour ...

The Sword and the Flute: Kali and Krsna, Dark Visions of the Terrible and Sublime in Hindu Mythology (Berkeley: University of Ca ...

god with special characteristics, later was used for the Moon as well. Chandra, too, is a god, one of the nine planets, and the ...

Charvaka Charvaka or Lokayata philosophy is an ancient materialist tradition that is known to us only through the texts of its m ...

Three months after he arrived in the United States Dr. Chaudhuri founded the Cultural Inte- gration Fellowship in San Francisco, ...

From 1980 to 1986, he studied Kashmiri Shaivism with Swami Laksmanjoo in Srinagar. In 1983, he embraced the ancient KASHMIRI SHA ...

The Traditions of the Hindu Temple in Citamparam (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995). Chidvilasananda, Swami (Gurumayi) (1 ...

as a Siddha Yoga guru, the direct descendant in his lineage. In the months that followed, in a final act of tutelage, he sent Sw ...

Madras University; he received a master’s degree in literature from Lucknow University. At Lucknow University he became active i ...

of Sri AUROBINDO, in many countries around the world. His teaching makes use of his own music and art, and of sports, as well as ...

Chitrabhanu, Gurudev Sri (1922– ) Jain monk and teacher of ahimsa Gurudev Sri Chitrabhanu is a very popular Jain preacher and ad ...

the monumental MEENAKSHI temple, with its four 100-foot towers, at the center of the city. Here, the festival lasts 12 full days ...

A new era began in 1706 with the arrival of the first Protestant missionaries, Lutherans who began their missionary efforts from ...

by including the life of Christ in his teaching. Roman Catholic thinkers such as Brahmabandhav Upadhyaya (1861–1907) and current ...

Half of My Soul: Bede Griffiths and the Hindu-Christian Dialogue. Compiled by Beatrice Bruteau (Wheaton, Ill.: Theosophical Publ ...

117 J:AF Da Avabhasa See ADI DA SAMRAJ. Daksha Daksha is a RISHI, best known as the father-in-law of SHIVA. He is the son of the ...

born) classes. In Vedic times a dana or gift was given to BRAHMINS for remission of sins. Further reading: Kala Acharya, Puranic ...

West. In 1981 he received the UNESCO/CIM prize for music and in 1987 the Kathmandu medal. In 1992 he was appointed member of the ...