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- represent sections of the Constitution of India that prescribe the fundamental ... 1947 and 1949 by the Constituent Assembly of India. Credit for the ...44 KB (6,390 words) - 07:20, 15 April 2024
- philosopher, who founded the Pushti sect in India and the philosophy of ... Vallabha Acharya occupies a unique place in Indian culture as a scholar ...15 KB (2,305 words) - 14:14, 3 May 2023
- ancient order of mystical ascetics who lived in many parts of the ancient world ... According to Philo, communities of Therapeutae were widely established ...12 KB (1,764 words) - 18:27, 30 April 2023
- a wave of creative experimentation in modern dance. dance school and company, Denishawn, in 1915. One of her most famous ...12 KB (1,963 words) - 23:52, 21 August 2022
- Roman trade with India started around the beginning of the Common ... coastal voyage, helped enhance trade between India and Rome. ...21 KB (3,121 words) - 04:51, 16 December 2022
- According to the Hindu religion, Shakti (Sanskrit: meaning force, ... In some systems of Hindu thought, Shakti may also be worshiped as ...21 KB (3,235 words) - 10:17, 26 January 2023
- ) is a form of sacred theater traditionally performed in Hindu temples ... and women of the Ambalavasi Nambiar caste in sacred theaters, called Koothambalam ...19 KB (2,773 words) - 04:09, 4 March 2023
- belief, established the first monastery in the region. Also known as Guru Rinpoche ... of his biographical information is found in a mystically "recovered ...11 KB (1,775 words) - 06:13, 18 November 2022
- ) is a term used in Tantric Buddhism that means "wheel of time ... Kalachakra"—the physical world—and in particular the calculation ...25 KB (3,799 words) - 17:00, 14 May 2024
- Jesus. He is mentioned as the sixth apostle in the three Synoptic Gospels ... as a disciple other than what is related in the Gospel of John concerning ...11 KB (1,622 words) - 19:13, 22 December 2022
- of Mahayana Buddhist thought, but also in triggering Hindu responses ... (344–413 c.e.), Nagarjuna was born in South India near the town of ...14 KB (2,110 words) - 23:10, 10 November 2022
- Razzak, the Persian who visited Vijayanagara in 1440, mention six fortifications ... behold. One of the great cities of its time in the world, the city's ...15 KB (2,224 words) - 19:11, 26 July 2023
- In Tibetan Buddhism, Shambhala (Tibetan: bde byung, pron. 'De ... The concept of Shambhala plays an important role in Tibetan religious ...10 KB (1,530 words) - 09:52, 6 October 2022
- Sadhu Sundar Singh (1889 - 1929), born in Patiala State, India, became ... Asian people have profound faith than those in the West. ...21 KB (3,248 words) - 18:35, 22 December 2022
- Buddhist scriptures, and the ideas contained in and based on them, that attempts ... and used by schools of Mahayana Buddhism in India, Tibet, China, Korea ...14 KB (1,967 words) - 04:47, 14 June 2023
- ; "orthodox") are technical terms used in Indian philosophy ... the criterion of both orthodoxy and heresy in Hinduism is not based on the ...8 KB (1,157 words) - 01:27, 11 November 2022
- In Hinduism, Brahmā (Sanskrit: meaning "swelling" or "expansion ... No longer widely worshiped in modern Hinduism, Brahmā is still important ...12 KB (1,970 words) - 22:34, 20 November 2023
- c. 1500 – c. 500 B.C.E.) is the period in the history of India during ... organization, its profound interest in human origins, in the question ...25 KB (3,858 words) - 14:44, 3 May 2023
- Religion plays a major role in life in Indonesia, which has the largest ... be free to choose and to practice the religion of his/her choice" ...26 KB (3,688 words) - 19:40, 16 April 2023
- tradition of political statecraft that arose in India, which is epitomized ... While the Arthaśāstra tradition played a key role in the establishment ...17 KB (2,661 words) - 11:01, 16 August 2023
- most fundamental virtues universally found in diverse cultures throughout ... In Confucian thought, filial piety ( c=孝|p=Xiào ) is one of the ...10 KB (1,518 words) - 22:58, 1 May 2021
- was a Bengali Indian physicist, specializing in mathematical physics. He is ... In his book, The Scientific Edge, noted physicist Jayant Narlikar observed: ...13 KB (1,968 words) - 17:03, 23 December 2022
- considered to be the standard work on love in Sanskrit literature. A portion ... stereotypes about the text have developed in the western popular culture ...11 KB (1,702 words) - 02:33, 5 October 2022
- Zanskar is a subdistrict or tahsil of the Kargil district, which lies ... The people of Zanskar have subsisted, until recently, in nearly total ...14 KB (2,083 words) - 21:53, 2 December 2022
- for various tantric assemblies or feasts, in which practitioners meet to ... The feast is an esoteric ritual that unfolds in many stages. The sacred ...14 KB (2,144 words) - 04:22, 18 April 2024
- a seventeenth century Marathi poet Sant of India, related to the Bhakti movement ... ways, and was often cheated and humiliated in dealings with the public. His ...13 KB (2,044 words) - 18:41, 2 May 2023
- concern for monetary profit. NPOs are active in a wide range of areas, including ... Since those involved in running a non-profit organization must pursue ...18 KB (2,646 words) - 09:59, 11 March 2023
- Authority (Latin auctoritas, used in Roman law as opposed to potestas ... authority has been a subject of research in a variety of empirical settings; ...10 KB (1,553 words) - 19:17, 22 August 2023
- Vipassanā (Pāli) or vipaśyanā (विपश्यना) in (Sanskrit ... "clear-seeing," though, the "in-" prefix may be misleading; ...12 KB (1,796 words) - 20:31, 3 May 2023
- and powerful political and military empire in ancient India. Originating ... Emperor Bindusara expanded the Empire into India's central and southern ...32 KB (4,663 words) - 00:50, 9 November 2022
- of the ancient Aryan peoples described in the Rig Veda. Secondly, the ... The meaning of the word dāsa, which has been long preserved in the ...15 KB (2,317 words) - 20:43, 19 May 2020
- and Pakistan, as well as large parts of India, Mesopotamia, and Caucasus ... In the sixteenth century, Timurid prince Babur, the ruler of Ferghana ...22 KB (3,337 words) - 23:37, 30 April 2023
- The cuisine of India is one of the world's most diverse cuisines ... India’s unique blend of cuisines evolved through large-scale cultural ...28 KB (4,219 words) - 22:01, 4 February 2023
- Avantikapuri), an ancient city of Malwa in central India on the eastern ... Ujjain has served as a center of science and culture in northern India ...17 KB (2,475 words) - 01:27, 3 May 2023
- . Many believe him one of the earliest Marxists in India. ... Born to a family which had earlier been involved in revolutionary ...28 KB (4,246 words) - 03:31, 1 October 2023
- , built on the banks of the Yagachi River in Belur, served as an early capital ... The Hoysala Empire of southern India prevailed during the tenth to ...18 KB (2,563 words) - 14:52, 5 December 2023
- William Wilberforce (August 1759 - July 1833) was born in the great ... to overcome the many setbacks and defeats. In 1807, Parliament finally passed ...18 KB (2,796 words) - 15:18, 14 May 2023
- and included all his baptized disciples in the Amrit Sanchar ceremony ... Guru Gobind Singh created the Khalsa to inspire the Sikh community ...20 KB (3,030 words) - 03:34, 6 October 2022
- a system of traditional medicine native to India, and practiced in other parts ... , meaning 'science.'A.S. Chopra, in "Ayurveda," ...26 KB (3,585 words) - 06:06, 10 January 2023
- lines, on mountain ridges and peaks high in the Himalayas, on temples or ... Daoism, and Buddhism have evolved together in a kindred relationship throughout ...13 KB (1,933 words) - 20:32, 8 September 2023
- Mother Teresa, in full Saint Teresa of Calcutta, (born Agnesa Gonxha ... was a woman who experienced God's call in such an intense and personal ...24 KB (3,633 words) - 20:00, 15 March 2023
- a tiered tower with multiple eaves, common in China, Japan, Korea, Nepal ... were incorporated into the overall design. In China, these structures incorporated ...11 KB (1,700 words) - 23:42, 28 April 2024
- and is consulted for religious guidance in all aspects of life. ... The Holy Book is organized in the form of hymns written in praise ...19 KB (2,945 words) - 06:37, 10 January 2024
- Hindu god Vishnu, as well as a complete God in his own right, Krishna is depicted ... impact on both Hinduism and Indian culture in general, especially among the ...13 KB (2,067 words) - 23:27, 12 June 2023
- In sociology and biology, infanticide is the practice of intentionally ... In sociology and biology, infanticide is the practice of intentionally ...20 KB (2,994 words) - 22:37, 5 February 2023
- created the discipline of comparative religion. He was also one of the ... Müller's use of comparative linguistics in his research methodology ...30 KB (4,499 words) - 00:55, 9 November 2022
- major works deal with the sociology of religion and government, but he also ... While the twentieth century in many ways proved him correct, stronger ...28 KB (4,212 words) - 01:03, 9 November 2022
- refers to those deliberately castrated in order to perform specific social ... Servants or slaves were usually castrated in order to make them safer servants ...18 KB (2,792 words) - 18:55, 11 September 2023
- In the religions of India, Maya (Sanskrit māyā, from mā "not ... ==Maya in Hinduism== ===Vedas=== Maya is introduced in the Rg Veda ...13 KB (2,085 words) - 02:19, 9 November 2022
- on Mount Lu. Daoxin was ordained as a monk in 607 and eventually settled ... The earliest historical mention of Daoxin is in the Hsü kao-seng ...14 KB (2,072 words) - 19:44, 22 May 2020
- who was the chief architect of the Constitution of India. untouchables to obtain a college education in India. Ambedkar became a renown ...34 KB (5,057 words) - 05:20, 26 August 2023
- (October 19, 1910, Lahore, British India, now in Pakistan, – August ... was an eminent astrophysicist. Of Tamil Indian heritage, he was born ...20 KB (2,980 words) - 13:44, 28 April 2023
- Lingayatism, also known as Veerashaivism, began as a reform movement ... The term derives from Lingavantha in Kannada. Legend relates that ...20 KB (2,822 words) - 04:17, 29 October 2022
- is a controversial Hindu goddess, depicted in religious iconography as a ... Durga. The text of the Devi-Mahatmyam (found in the Markandeya Purana, c. 300 ...16 KB (2,597 words) - 17:12, 14 May 2024
- this school as well as of bhakti and Islam. In his life and teachings, he ... In contemporary India, the famous Hindu guru Sathya Sai Baba is often ...29 KB (4,491 words) - 20:40, 17 April 2023
- as the twelfth Prime Minister of the Republic of India. ... He led one of the most important administrations in India's modern ...30 KB (4,303 words) - 10:56, 11 March 2023
- Ajanta Caves in Maharashtra, India are a Buddhist monastery complex ... in Aurangabad District in the Indian state of Maharashtra (N. lat ...19 KB (2,978 words) - 07:12, 16 June 2023
- a tribal group of approximately 60,000 in Ziro in the Apatani plateau ... striving to protect their traditional ways in the face of modernization. ...11 KB (1,672 words) - 05:57, 11 August 2023
- of womanly elegance and wifely virtue in Hinduism. She is also considered ... the goddess known as Sita appearing in early Vedic literature is closely ...19 KB (3,150 words) - 22:35, 29 January 2023
- who traveled on foot from China to India in the early Tang period ... Xuanzang’s detailed account of his travels, Journey to the West ...21 KB (3,157 words) - 14:33, 20 May 2023
- family of Buddhist lineages found primarily in Tibet and Japan, which combine ... While Vajrayana Buddhism is a part of Tibetan Buddhism, in that it ...27 KB (4,057 words) - 22:19, 21 January 2024
- attested areas of settlement (North India). The Indo-Aryans derive ... In the case of the Indo-Aryan race, they indeed appear to have origin ...26 KB (3,877 words) - 22:31, 5 February 2023
- Gandhāra is the name of an ancient, extinct kingdom once located ... After it was conquered by Mahmud of Ghazni in 1021 C.E., the name Gandhara ...23 KB (3,513 words) - 18:46, 4 December 2023
- related to fertility and generally conducted in the spring. It can also refer ... the first deity and his or her consort(s). In terms of the ritual expression ...13 KB (2,025 words) - 23:49, 12 February 2022
- C.E.), also known as Yamin ad-Dawlah Mahmud (in full: Yamin ad-Dawlah Abd al ... In any case, in the long run, no believer will be proud of historical ...21 KB (3,127 words) - 10:54, 9 March 2023
- Ismā'īlī Shīˤa Islām that formed in 765 C.E. when the followers ... educational and medical organizations in the service of humanity and ...18 KB (2,724 words) - 06:09, 16 June 2023
- In the Hindu religion, Sarasvati (Sanskrit sa|सरस्वती ... to her flowing thoughts, words, and music. In ancient India, Sarasvati was ...16 KB (2,489 words) - 03:27, 23 December 2022
- 1936 he was a Church of Scotland missionary in India, where he was consecrated ... Despite roots in a non-Episcopal tradition, he became convinced that ...30 KB (4,685 words) - 22:01, 25 October 2022
- it to Vajrayana Buddhism and the Bön religion. Though Chöd is not ancestor ... In Tibet, Dampa Sangye is known as the Father of Chod and Machig Labdron ...15 KB (2,296 words) - 22:01, 10 December 2023
- A quarterly journal, Athenäum, founded in 1798 by Freidrich von Schlegel ... der Indier (On the Language and Wisdom of India, 1808) was a pioneering work ...14 KB (2,106 words) - 07:21, 5 October 2022
- a "god" or "deity" found in both Vedic Hinduism and Buddhism ... god of the Indo-European pantheon, continued in Sanskrit as Dyaus. Today, Hindus ...16 KB (2,600 words) - 10:11, 29 January 2024
- orders of Sufism, his primary initiation was in the Nizamiyya subbranch of ... Khan returned to India at the end of 1926. While there, he chose the ...13 KB (2,071 words) - 19:28, 6 September 2022
- The word Ananda means "bliss" in Pali, Sanskrit, Sinhala ... Ananda was born in Kapilavatthu and was the Buddha's cousin, ...12 KB (1,953 words) - 18:58, 26 July 2023
- kingdom on the earth, a utopian society in which wealth would be spread ... Richard Henry Tawney was born on November 30, 1880, in Calcutta, India ...14 KB (1,999 words) - 01:48, 14 December 2022
- a symbol of divine purity and illumination. In Zoroastrianism, fire, together ... divinity. The veneration and awe for light in some form or another is to ...25 KB (4,046 words) - 19:51, 26 March 2024
- Sir William Muir, KCSI (April 27, 1819 – July 11, 1905) was born ... His writing on Islam pioneered, in the English-speaking world, use ...26 KB (3,916 words) - 10:37, 11 May 2023
- ) is a major river in the Indian subcontinent flowing east through ... In his book Discovery of India, Jawaharlal Nehru says: "… The ...23 KB (3,460 words) - 04:25, 18 April 2024
- groups that constitute traditional societies in certain regions of the world ... similar structures. While most are no longer in force, one common attribute ...31 KB (4,665 words) - 14:24, 29 November 2023
- important sacred tool and ritual implement in Vajrayana Buddhism, Hinduism ... The Tibetan word for vajra is dorje, which is also a common male name ...7 KB (1,107 words) - 14:11, 3 May 2023
- The Minaret of Jam is located in the Shahrak District, Ghor Province ... Remains of Jam a World Heritage Site in 2002. UNESCO designated the ...10 KB (1,495 words) - 18:44, 9 November 2022
- philosopher, and politician, whose poetry in Persian and Urdu is regarded ... After studying in England and Germany, Iqbal established a law practice ...34 KB (5,166 words) - 17:56, 10 November 2022
- and that the word Maoism has never been used in its English-language publications ... In the People's Republic of China (PRC), Mao Zedong Thought is ...19 KB (2,912 words) - 03:00, 6 November 2022
- sixth century C.E. and played a seminal role in the transmission of Zen Buddhism ... Tanlin's biography of Bodhidharma found in the Long Scroll of the Treatise ...16 KB (2,456 words) - 05:18, 17 November 2023
- of Karnataka that ruled from Banavasi in present day Uttara Kannada ... Mayurasharma founded the dynasty in 345 C.E., showing at times the ...21 KB (3,156 words) - 21:31, 7 September 2023
- or Axum), was an important trading nation in northeastern Africa, growing ... Ethiopian culture today has its roots in this civilization. The decline ...22 KB (3,389 words) - 07:18, 16 June 2023
- Born at Tyana in Asia Minor, Apollonius was educated at Tarsus and ... to be forgeries, but play an important role in how he was perceived throughout ...13 KB (2,013 words) - 15:49, 11 August 2023
- Hindu spiritual practices that originated in India, where it remains a vibrant ... practice of Yoga became increasingly popular in the West. The Yoga taught in ...28 KB (4,293 words) - 11:10, 25 May 2023
- modern education for the Muslim community in India by founding the Muhammedan ... working as a jurist for the British East India Company. Personally affected ...32 KB (4,963 words) - 00:57, 21 April 2023
- and prerogatives to be performed properly, in order to maintain the harmony ... important contributions to Hindu thought in the fields of logic and epistemology ...18 KB (2,750 words) - 18:03, 9 November 2022
- Indian philosophy. He is said to have lived in the Indian subcontinent, around ... numerous myths and legends, but does appear in Hindu literature in connection ...11 KB (1,609 words) - 02:49, 5 October 2022
- Bidar, and Berar of south-central India. The Deccan sultanates located ... Although generally rivals, they allied against the Vijayanagara empire ...20 KB (2,927 words) - 09:00, 28 January 2024
- ) refers to a race of large serpentine creatures that abound in the ... In Sanskrit, the term nāgaḥ ( sa|नागः ) refers specifically ...17 KB (2,745 words) - 23:09, 10 November 2022
- 1448)Vinay Dharwadker, "Kabir" in Religions of India in Practice ... )Charlotte Vaudeville, "Kabir" in The Encyclopedia of Religion ...23 KB (3,622 words) - 17:22, 5 April 2023
- was an Indian spiritual teacher. He lived in India and in other countries ... (चन्द्र मोहन जैन) in Kuchwada, a small village in ...28 KB (4,136 words) - 03:34, 1 October 2023
- on essential needs. He was often combative in defending his ideas, generating ... Marvin Harris was born in Brooklyn, New York, into a poor family of ...11 KB (1,566 words) - 08:40, 10 March 2023
- the diverse cultures and countries in which it has spread. Early Buddhist art emerged in India and Sri Lanka following the death ...37 KB (5,547 words) - 18:34, 22 November 2023
- Anglicanism has its roots in the Celtic Christianity of the earliest ... Anglicanism today operates flexibly and autonomously in many nations ...21 KB (3,167 words) - 05:52, 28 July 2023
- southward. Thus the rounding of the cape in 1488 was considered a significant ... In 1488, navigator Bartholomew Dias named the Peninsula "Cabo ...15 KB (2,280 words) - 00:36, 13 January 2023
- , or the 'Emperor's Mosque', in 1673 in Lahore, Pakistan. The ... The Badshahi Mosque in Lahore, completed in 1673, had been designed ...10 KB (1,530 words) - 05:38, 26 August 2023
- is an iconographic representation of God in Hinduism, which depicts divinity ... This Trimurti concept is a tenet most strongly held in Hindu denomination ...22 KB (3,588 words) - 17:21, 2 May 2023
