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The Modern Bhagavad Gītā: Caste in Twentieth-Century Commentaries
By the twentieth century the Bhagavad Gītā had become the single most important Hindu book. A clear indication of its popularity is that many of the...
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Mata Tirtha: a Sacred Geography
Tucked away in the foothill of a mountain in the Kathmandu Valley, Mātā Tirtha defies the description of a sacred tirtha . It is neither situated...
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Vernacularizing Jñāndev: Hagiography and the Process of Vernacularization
The process of vernacularization involves more than literary language, but also invokes social ethics and an investment in the idioms of everyday...
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Jaina Studies: A Historical Overview
This chapter is in two sections. Section i gives an overview of the scholarly perspectives on Jaina ‘entry’ into the Tamil country in the early...
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Religious Diversity and Theology
This chapter examines John Hick’s proposal for a ‘Copernican revolution’ in theological method that starts with the science of religions in place of...
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The Offering of Mount Meru: Contexts of Buddhist Cosmology in the History of Science in Tibet
Convergences and conflicts in the dialogue between Buddhism and modern science occasionally find precedent in historical sources and encounters, some...
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Seeing in the Dark: of Epistemic Culture and Abhidharma in the Long Fifth Century C.E.
Abhidharma, the genre of knowledge concerned with putting into systematic shape what the Buddha taught, can seem a forbidding subject. In this essay,...
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Jainism and Darwin: Evolution Beyond Orthodoxy
Many contemporary Jains assert that the ancient tradition of Jainism is compatible with modern science. Some authors specifically attempt to...
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What Is Buddhism, and What Is Buddhism in the Insight Meditation Community (IMC)?
Buddhism is one of the largest religions in the world, but many people, including Buddhist practitioners, do not understand the psychological impact...
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Sincere Praise of Honest Sweat: Tirumalamba’s Varadambika Parinaya Campu and **ali Surana’s Kalapurnodayam
I have gathered and studied these Sanskrit and Telugu writings by South Indian poets, and I’ve thought about them, and researched them for a few...
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Absolute Prerequisite: Systematics and the Natural Evolving Unit
If we want to describe this development of religions as an evolutionary process, solving the issue of the natural evolving unit is a requirement for...
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Introduction
The concept of “personhood” is a philosophical one—who are we? What does it mean to be human? But it is also a religious concept, especially when...
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Introduction
This chapter situates the gender paradox that signals to the persistence of patriarchy in India by taking India’s ranking in the Global Gender Gap...
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Practical Spirituality: Dabbawala Case
The state of the planet today is the result of human intellect. The way we pursue happiness and progress—by exploiting natural resources, ignoring...
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Remaking South Indian Śaivism: Greater Śaiva Advaita and the Legacy of the Śaktiviśiṣṭādvaita Vīraśaiva Tradition
Śaiva Advaita, or Śivādvaita, is typically regarded as an invention of the late sixteenth-century polymath Appayya Dīkṣita, who is said to have...
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The Truth of Dharma and the Dharma of Truth: Reflections on Hinduism as a Dharmic Faith
This article discusses what it might mean to characterize traditional Hinduism as a dharmic faith in relation to the concepts of truth ( satyam ) and...