Hinduism category: 1323 books
Revelry, Rivalry, and Longing for the Goddesses of Bengal
The Fortunes of Hindu Festivals
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Annually during the months of autumn, Bengal hosts three interlinked festivals to honor its most important goddesses: Durga, Kali, and Jagaddhatri. While each of these deities possesses a distinct iconography, myth, and character, they are all martial. Durga, Kali, and Jagaddhatri often demand blood...
by Narendra Kohli
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
The absence of earthly logic in the popular versions of Rama-Katha and especially the absence of human rationality in the plot construction of Ramcharitamanas provoked me to a great extent. All the background events which caused the birth of Rama, were of little interest to me, as they were not the...
Eva and Shiva
Scientific exploration of basic concepts in Indian culture and spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Indian culture is one of the most ancient cultures in the world. Even though it is ancient, it is full of modern scientific ideas. This covers many ideas right from cosmology to personality and brain. It is also interesting to know how ancient Indians developed life sciences that are so accurate and...
Lakshmi Chalisa In English Rhyme
Chants of Hindu Gods & Goddesses
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Lakshmi Chalisa In English Rhyme along with the original text
Santoshi Chalisa In English Rhyme
Chants of Hindu Gods & Goddesses
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Santoshi Chalisa In English Rhyme along with original text
Re-figuring the Ramayana as Theology
A History of Reception in Premodern India
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
The Rāmāyana of Vālmīki is considered by many contemporary Hindus to be a foundational religious text. But this understanding is in part the result of a transformation of the epic’s receptive history, a hermeneutic project which challenged one characterization of the genre of the text, as a...
Shiv Chalisa In English Rhyme
Chants of Hindu Gods & Goddesses
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Shiv Chalisa In English Rhyme along with original text
by Swami B. P. Puri
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
This beautiful book includes poems, essays, and offerings that will capture the hearts of all aspiring spiritual practitioners.
This book includes, poems, essays, and teachings that capture the hearts of all aspiring spiritual practitioners. These meditations by Swami B. P. Puri, on his spiritual...
by Sophie Golding
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
True spirituality is a mental attitude you can practise at any time.'
Dalai Lama
Your spiritual journey can take many forms, and it’s important to choose the path that’s right for you. This handbook will introduce you to traditions and practices with the power to open your heart...
A Woman's Ramayana
Candrāvatī's Bengali Epic
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
The Rāmāyana, an ancient epic of India, with audiences across vast stretches of time and geography, continues to influence numberless readers socially and morally through its many re-tellings. Made available in English for the first time, the 16th century version presented here is by Candrāvatī,...
THE RELIGIOUS QUEST OF INDIA : HINDU ETHICS
A HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL ESSAY
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
The writers of this series of volumes on the variant forms of religious life in India are governed in their work by two impelling motives.
They endeavour to work in the sincere and sympathetic spirit of science. They desire to understand the perplexingly involved developments of thought and...
Seven Days of Nectar
Contemporary Oral Performance of the Bhagavatapurana
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
The thousand-year-old Sanskrit classic the Bhagavatapurana, or "Stories of the Lord," is the foundational source of narratives concerning the beloved Hindu deity Krishna. For centuries pious individuals, families, and community groups have engaged specialist scholar-orators to give week-long oral...
Thus Have I Seen
Visualizing Faith in Early Indian Buddhism
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2008
Although Buddhism is often depicted as a religion of meditators and philosophers, some of the earliest writings extant in India offer a very different portrait of the Buddhist practitioner. In Indian Buddhist narratives from the early centuries of the Common Era, most lay religious practice consists...
by Gauri kelkar
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Goddess Durga was created out of the combined power of all gods to destroy the evil demon Mahishasura who had overthrown the gods from their heavenly abode. This book details the several demons who posed a threat to the very existence of the race of the gods and man and how each one met a dastardly end at the hands of this supreme divine mother!