Vivekananda was born Narendranath Datta (shortened to Narendra or Naren) at his ancestral home at 3 Gourmohan Mukherjee Street in Calcutta, the capital of British India, on 12 January 1863 during the ...
1. The Supreme God is called by various names such as Shiva, Rudra, etc. From this feature one might assume it was a Shaiva Upanishad, but such an assumption would be incorrect because, at the time of ...
Of the available commentaries, the oldest was written by Adi Shankara. Adi Shankara stated that his commentary is a brief book for those who want a summary of this Upanishad. Ananda Giri mentioned in ...
Samadhi (????? samādhi, Hindi pronunciation: ) is the state of consciousness induced by complete meditation. The term's etymology involves "sam" (together or integrated), "ā" (towards), and "dh ...
The earliest discussions of tapas, and compound words from the root tap (Sanskrit: ??) relate to the heat necessary for biological birth. Its conceptual origin is traced to the natural wait, motherl ...
In the Bhagavad-gita (9.13-9.14) Lord Krishna states that great souls worship and glorify him single-mindedly, but the practice of kirtan was popularized as a means to this end in the bhakti movement ...
The three main sub-schools in Vedanta school of Hinduism - Advaita Vedanta, Vishistadvaita and Dvaita - each have their own views about moksha.The Vedantic school of Hinduism suggests the first step t ...
Moksha is derived from the root mu(n)c (Sanskrit: ????), which means free, let go, release, liberate. In Vedas and early Upanishads, the word mucyate (Sanskrit: ???????) appears, which mean ...
When Ati?a, the originator of the lamrim came from India to Tibet, he was asked by king Jang Chub ? to give a complete and easily accessible summary of the doctrine in order to clarify wrong views, ...
The bhūmis are subcategories of the Five Paths (pa?camārga, Wylie Tibetan lam lnga):The path of accumulation (sa?bhāra-mārga, Wylie Tibetan: tshogs lam). Persons on this Path:Possess a strong de ...
In the Mahācattārīsaka Sutta which appears in the Chinese and Pali canons, the Buddha explains that cultivation of the noble eightfold path leads to the development of two further factors, which ar ...
According to discourses found in both the Theravada school's Pali canon, and some of the ?gamas in the Chinese Buddhist canon, the Noble Eightfold Path was rediscovered by Gautama Buddha during his q ...
Main article: Noble Eightfold PathThe Dharmachakra represents the Noble Eightfold Path.The Noble Eightfold Path is presented as the fourth of the Buddha's Four Noble Truths and it is considered to be ...
In Ancient Greek the word praxis (πρ?ξι?) referred to activity engaged in by free men. Aristotle held that there were three basic activities of man: theoria, poiesis and praxis. There correspond ...
Bhavana derives from the word Bhava meaning becoming or the subjective process of arousing mental states.To explain the cultural context of the historical Buddha's employment of the term, Glenn Wallis ...
