Intro - Hymns and Chants
... The Vedas are among the oldest sacred texts.[27] The Samhitas date to roughly 1700–1100 BCE,[28] and the “circum-Vedic” texts, as well as the redaction of the Samhitas, date to c. 1000-500 BCE, resulting in a Vedic period, spanning the mid 2nd to mid 1st millennium BCE, or the Late Bronze Age and th ...
... The Vedas are among the oldest sacred texts.[27] The Samhitas date to roughly 1700–1100 BCE,[28] and the “circum-Vedic” texts, as well as the redaction of the Samhitas, date to c. 1000-500 BCE, resulting in a Vedic period, spanning the mid 2nd to mid 1st millennium BCE, or the Late Bronze Age and th ...
Meaningful to Behold - Tharpa Publications
... If we are to develop bodhichitta we must destroy all obstacles hindering its growth as well as accumulate the necessary prerequisites for its cultivation. The main obstacle to developing bodhichitta is evil, defined as that which has the potential power to produce suffering. Because we have a large ...
... If we are to develop bodhichitta we must destroy all obstacles hindering its growth as well as accumulate the necessary prerequisites for its cultivation. The main obstacle to developing bodhichitta is evil, defined as that which has the potential power to produce suffering. Because we have a large ...
A religion of the book? On sacred texts in hinduism
... there was often conflict, and to be anthologised in the Ṛgvedasaṃhitā. This occurred in a later period (c.1200-1000 BCE) in the region of Kuru, southeast of the Greater Punjab, once Kuru kings had unified most of the 50 or so Ṛgvedic tribes to form what has been called the first “state” on Indian s ...
... there was often conflict, and to be anthologised in the Ṛgvedasaṃhitā. This occurred in a later period (c.1200-1000 BCE) in the region of Kuru, southeast of the Greater Punjab, once Kuru kings had unified most of the 50 or so Ṛgvedic tribes to form what has been called the first “state” on Indian s ...
study of ancient indians texts as means to control the process of
... brother, wife, teacher, king, subject and even an ideal enemy is found in the Ramayana. Coundess renderings of the epic in ali the Indian languages bear tesdmony to its popularity in Indian culture. Kabir, a Sufi saint poet of medieval índia, was an ardent follower of the syncredc ideology. He made ...
... brother, wife, teacher, king, subject and even an ideal enemy is found in the Ramayana. Coundess renderings of the epic in ali the Indian languages bear tesdmony to its popularity in Indian culture. Kabir, a Sufi saint poet of medieval índia, was an ardent follower of the syncredc ideology. He made ...
Smrti - www.BahaiStudies.net
... साधूनामात्मनस्तुष्टिरेव च ॥ Translation 1: The whole Veda is the (first) source of the sacred law, next the tradition and the virtuous conduct of those who know the (Veda further), also the customs of holy men, and (finally) self-satisfaction (Atmanastushti).[26] Translation 2: The root of the religio ...
... साधूनामात्मनस्तुष्टिरेव च ॥ Translation 1: The whole Veda is the (first) source of the sacred law, next the tradition and the virtuous conduct of those who know the (Veda further), also the customs of holy men, and (finally) self-satisfaction (Atmanastushti).[26] Translation 2: The root of the religio ...