A Cognitive Approach to Tantric Language – 1
Abstract By applying the contemporary theories of schema, metonymy, metaphor, and conceptual blending, I argue in this paper that salient cognitive categories facilitate a deeper analysis of Tantric language. Tantras use a wide range of symbolic language expressed in terms of mantric speech and visual maṇḍalas, and Tantric texts relate the process More...
Book Review: Dharma and Ecology of Hindu Communities by Pankaj Jain
Dharma and Ecology of Hindu Communities: Sustenance and Sustainability by Dr. Pankaj Jain can be purchased in India here. Human-Nature dualism has always been a debatable question in the East and West. Professor More...
Samanya Dharma and Spirituality
Hindu dharma speaks about four fold goals of human life termed as “chaturvidha purushArtha”. “Purusha” means human and “artha” means object or goal. This framework of life wherein each human being has More...
Dasha Mahavidyas – IV: Sodasi, the Mother of Desire
[contextly_sidebar id=”afBMpAnHQghuso8unMFbA3sg5Aj08xE1″] Among the most important goddesses of the Mahāvidyā pantheon, Mahatripura Sundari certainly ranks high. Known also as Ṣoḍaśī, Lalita, More...
Indian way of daana versus toxic Western charity
Hiuen Tsang, the Chinese pilgrim, who travelled across India for 14 years from 630-644 CE, has left a riveting account of life under Emperor Harshavardhana of Kanauj. His most spectacular description is of Harsha’s More...
A Daoist Interpretation of Gandhian Thought and Dharma
Mohandas Gandhi is a living spirit in the forest of Indian politics, rustling with every leaf and bustling with every beast, though nobody sees that spirit with their own eyes. Great men shape history in their own More...
Book Review: Yuganta by Iravati Karve
Yuganta by Iravati Karve can be purchased from Amazon One must set aside any kind of judgmental attitude. As the Mahabharata says, there are neither perfectly good, nor perfectly bad people. Viewing it as we do More...
Holi as Kaamotsava: The age old Hindu festival of Love
Legend of the origin of this festival of Kaamotsava or its name does not take it back to some obscure saint or saints who are found not to have any connection with romance or love. Its connection with romance is More...
Asymmetrical Application of Dharma: Unlearnt Lessons
Fiction or otherwise the movie “Padmavat” quintessentially repeats what can be called as the asymmetric application of “Dharma” by Indian rulers. In one of scenes, the Mewar king Ratan Singh following his More...
Sree Adikesava Perumal Temple: 2500 Years of Glorious Heritage
Sree Adikesava Perumal Temple, situated in Thiruvattar in Tamil Nadu (formerly a part of southern Kerala), has been in existence for circa two and half thousand years. It is one of the 108 Vaishnava temples, Divya More...