{"title":"Hinduism—Hindutva—Hindu Dharma","authors":"K. Klostermaier","doi":"10.1558/equinox.21445","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/equinox.21445","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explains the three terms, Hinduism, Hindutva and Hindu Dharma, which, while linguistically identical, evoke different reactions among academics and other people. They imply different definitions of being a Hindu.","PeriodicalId":114494,"journal":{"name":"Indian Religions: Renaissance and Renewal","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124161349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Faculties, Breaths and Offices: Some Vedic and Sâmkhya Notions of the Body and Personality","authors":"D. Killingley","doi":"10.1558/equinox.21449","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/equinox.21449","url":null,"abstract":"The Veda and Sâmkhya both include the analysis of personality among their concerns, and groups of five, or pentads, feature in both. The pentad of speech, breath, sight, hearing, mind is frequent in the Veda, together with many variants; sometimes these are referred to as breaths (prâša), a term which can also refer to the orifices of the body. This pentad includes two of Sâmkhya’s five sense faculties and one of its five action faculties, and some of the variants include further items from the Sâmkhya lists. This chapter gives examples of these variants, comparing them with each other and with Sâmkhya, and tracing their development.","PeriodicalId":114494,"journal":{"name":"Indian Religions: Renaissance and Renewal","volume":"604 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123240061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Acknowledgments","authors":"Anna S. King","doi":"10.1558/equinox.21444","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/equinox.21444","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":114494,"journal":{"name":"Indian Religions: Renaissance and Renewal","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121884724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is Hinduism an Offshoot of Buddhism?","authors":"K. Jacobsen, N. Smart","doi":"10.1558/equinox.21447","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/equinox.21447","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter highlights the fact that some Buddhist influence on the process of arising of the Hindu religious tradition is usually accepted. However, the magnitude of the Buddhist impact often goes unnoticed. The purpose of this chapter is to call attention to this magnitude.","PeriodicalId":114494,"journal":{"name":"Indian Religions: Renaissance and Renewal","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133641421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Totapuri to Maharaji (Prem Rawat)? Reflections on a Lineage (Parampara)","authors":"Ron Geaves","doi":"10.1558/equinox.21457","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/equinox.21457","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter shows that various scholars who identify Maharaji’s roots as Sant Mat are mistaken. Moreover, it shows that a more accurate exploration of Maharaji’s historical background provides an excellent opportunity to study the complexity of the various ways of organising such lineages and can demonstrate how major strands of Hinduism can interweave with each other to create new paradigms to assert an ancient teaching capable of transcending discrete religious borders. The investigation of lineage further highlights the relationship between charisma and institutionalisation in the Indian context and allows for a revisiting of Gold’s classification of Sant tradition in particular.","PeriodicalId":114494,"journal":{"name":"Indian Religions: Renaissance and Renewal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130315496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Height and Size in Indian Iconography","authors":"Christopher Aslet","doi":"10.1558/equinox.21462","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/equinox.21462","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter considers some of the principal ways in which size is manipulated in Indian Art and some of the main reasons for which it is done. Indian Art is largely unconcerned with providing an accurate visual account of the world of space and time and matter. Rather it seeks to evoke a sense of the transcendent Reality which lies behind it.","PeriodicalId":114494,"journal":{"name":"Indian Religions: Renaissance and Renewal","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114327531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Arthur Avalon Among the Orientalists: Sir John Woodroffe and the Re-imaging of the Tantras","authors":"Kathleen Taylor","doi":"10.1558/equinox.21452","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/equinox.21452","url":null,"abstract":"Sir John Woodroffe has been recognized as the pseudonymous orientalist Arthur Avalon, famous for his tantric studies at the beginning of the twentieth century. Best known for ‘The Serpent Power’, the book which introduced kundalinï yoga to the western world, Avalon turned the image of Tantra around from that of a despised magical and orgiastic cult into that of a refined philosophy which greatly enhanced the prestige of Hindu thought.","PeriodicalId":114494,"journal":{"name":"Indian Religions: Renaissance and Renewal","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130054537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Curious History of the Dasanâmï-Samnyâsïs","authors":"Matthew Clark","doi":"10.1558/equinox.21456","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/equinox.21456","url":null,"abstract":"The Dasanâmï-Samnyâsïs are one of the largest of the sects of renunciates in South Asia, founded, according to tradition, by the legendary ‘non-dual’ philosopher Sakarâcârya, who is also attributed with the installation of his four chief disciples at four 'mathas' founded in the west, north, east and south of India.This chapter outlines research conducted into the formation of the Dasanâmï-Samnyâsïs.","PeriodicalId":114494,"journal":{"name":"Indian Religions: Renaissance and Renewal","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124972961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Brahminisation of Dravidian Religions: The Case of the Muttappan Cult of North Malabar","authors":"T. Gabriel","doi":"10.1558/equinox.21455","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/equinox.21455","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter describes the Muttappan cult of North Malabar, a significant religious phenomenon of Northern Kerala, which is rapidly increasing in popularity and spreading to other regions not only of Kerala but also to other Indian states. More interestingly it displays features of Sanskritisation or Brahminisation of what is essentially a tribal or low caste religion whose origins are from the worship of a folk hero or forest deity.","PeriodicalId":114494,"journal":{"name":"Indian Religions: Renaissance and Renewal","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115049466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Medieval Saivite World Portrayed on the Prâkâra Wall of the Mallikârjuna Temple at Srisailam","authors":"R. Shaw","doi":"10.1558/equinox.21461","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/equinox.21461","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter describes the location of Srisailam and its long history, together with the pilgrim routes which approached the holy mountain from the four directions. Moreover, the prâkâra is discussed in a general way followed by a section on dating this great wall. This is followed by an examination of a selection of the panels.","PeriodicalId":114494,"journal":{"name":"Indian Religions: Renaissance and Renewal","volume":"126 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124210113","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}