Religion in India: A Historical Introduction

responses to the exigencies of history and the modern world – we should not be able to remain the same as we were before we star ...

Kamath, M. V. The United States and India. Washington: The Embassy of India, 1976. Rawlinson, H. G. Intercourse Between India an ...

Jackson, R. and Nesbitt, E. Hindu Children in Britain. Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham Books, 1993. James, A. Sikh Children in Britain. ...

Glossary All terms are Sanskrit in origin unless otherwise noted by (U) Urdu ̄, (T) Tamil, (AV) Avestan, or (A) Arabic. abhinaya ...

a ̄n.ava (T) ego. an.d.a egg. anitya impermanence; used especially in Four Noble Truths of Buddhism to describe the nature of re ...

bodhisattva enlightened person in Maha ̄ya ̄na Buddhism who vows not to attain final enlightenment until all sentient beings hav ...

devapu ̄ja ̄ act of giving honor to a deity (deva); often performed to an icon through the giving of flowers, incense, fruit, et ...

hotr. (hotri)Vedic priest who pours libations into the sacrificial fire and chants hymns from the R.g Veda; literally, “one who ...

laks.a ̄ rcana praising by 1,000 names; a type of ritual performed to temple icons. langar communal kitchen in Sikhism. laya yog ...

by Alla ̄h for mankind to make contact with him. It is a worship of the whole person; heart, mind, tongue, and body. It is the s ...

pratı ̄tya-samutpa ̄da chain of dependent causation or co-arising in early Buddhism. pratya ̄ha ̄ra control of the senses; sense ...

sam.ska ̄ra “rite of passage” marked by ritual activity. sam.skr.ta (sanskrit)sacred language used by learned classes; language ...

stu ̄pa dome-like mound which is an aniconic representation of the Buddha. s ́u ̄ dra member of the fourth or servile class. sun ...

t.r.s.n.a ̄ (trishna) “thirst” (for things which are actually impermanent, according to early Buddhism); fundamental human probl ...

yoga discipline; also, specific “schools of yoga” (e.g., ra ̄ja ̄,laya,hat.ha,karma, sa ̄m.khya, and classical). yogin one who p ...

Notes 1 On Wearing Good Lenses 1 William Ward, View of History, Literature, and Mythology of the Hindoos(5th edn rev. 3, Madras: ...

18 Max Weber, Religion in India(Glencoe, IL: Free Press, 1958). 19 Peter Berger, The Sacred Canopy(Garden City, NJ: Anchor Books ...

17 Ibid.: 15. 18 Ibid.: 26ff. 19 These rituals are described at length in the scholarly literature. See, especially, J. C. Heest ...

9 Ibid.: 155, Olivelle translating Cha ̄ndogya Upanis.ad, VI.14. 14. Reprinted by permission of Oxford University Press. 10 Rich ...

12 For fuller discussion of these rites of passage, see R. Pandey, Hindu Sam.ska ̄ ras (Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1969). 13 Se ...