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Adi Shankara

Adi Shankara (8th c. CE), also called Adi Shankaracharya (lit), was an Indian Vedic scholar and teacher (acharya) of Advaita Vedanta.

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Advaita Vedanta

Advaita Vedanta (अद्वैत वेदान्त) is a Hindu tradition of textual exegesis and philosophy and a Hindu sādhanā, a path of spiritual discipline and experience.

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Aranyaka

The Aranyakas (आरण्यक; IAST) are a part of the ancient Indian Vedas concerned with the meaning of ritual sacrifice.

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Atharvaveda

The Atharvaveda or Atharva Veda (अथर्ववेद,, from अथर्वन्, and वेद, "knowledge") or Atharvana Veda (अथर्वणवेद) is the "knowledge storehouse of atharvāṇas, the procedures for everyday life".

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Avatar

Avatar is a concept within Hinduism that in Sanskrit literally means.

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Ātman (Hinduism)

Ātman (आत्मन्) is a Sanskrit word for the true or eternal Self or the self-existent essence or impersonal witness-consciousness within each individual.

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Śruti

Śruti or shruti (श्रुति) in Sanskrit means "that which is heard" and refers to the body of most authoritative, ancient religious texts comprising the central canon of Hinduism.

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Bhagavad Gita

The Bhagavad Gita (translit-std), often referred to as the Gita, is a 700-verse Hindu scripture, which is part of the epic Mahabharata.

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Bhagavan

The word Bhagavan (Bhagavān; italics), also spelt as Bhagwan (sometimes translated in English as "Lord", "God"), an epithet within Indian religions used to denote figures of religious worship.

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Bhakti

Bhakti (भक्ति; Pali: bhatti) is a term common in Indian religions which means attachment, fondness for, devotion to, trust, homage, worship, piety, faith, or love.

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Brahma

Brahma (ब्रह्मा) is a Hindu god, referred to as "the Creator" within the Trimurti, the trinity of supreme divinity that includes Vishnu and Shiva.

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Brahmana

The Brahmanas (Sanskrit: ब्राह्मणम्, IAST: Brāhmaṇam) are Vedic śruti works attached to the Samhitas (hymns and mantras) of the Rig, Sama, Yajur, and Atharva Vedas.

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Brahmin

Brahmin (brāhmaṇa) is a varna (caste) within Hindu society.

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Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad (बृहदारण्यकोपनिषद्) is one of the Principal Upanishads and one of the first Upanishadic scriptures of Hinduism.

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Buddhism

Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.

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Charvaka

Charvaka (चार्वाक; IAST: Cārvāka), also known as Lokāyata, is an ancient school of Indian materialism.

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Deva (Hinduism)

Deva (Sanskrit: देव) means "shiny", "exalted", "heavenly being", "divine being", "anything of excellence", and is also one of the Sanskrit terms used to indicate a deity in Hinduism.

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Dualism (Indian philosophy)

Dualism in Indian philosophy is a belief, or large spectrum of beliefs, held by certain schools of Indian philosophy that reality is fundamentally composed of two parts or two types of existence.

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Dvaita Vedanta

Dvaita Vedanta; (originally known as Tattvavada; IAST: Tattvavāda), is a sub-school in the Vedanta tradition of Hindu philosophy.

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Gavin Flood

Gavin Dennis Flood (born 1954) is a British scholar of comparative religion specialising in Shaivism and phenomenology, but with research interests that span South Asian traditions.

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Hindu philosophy

Hindu philosophy or Vedic philosophy is the set of Indian philosophical systems that developed in tandem with the religion of Hinduism during the iron and classical ages of India.

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Hindu texts

Hindu texts or Hindu scriptures are manuscripts and voluminous historical literature which are related to any of the diverse traditions within Hinduism.

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Hinduism

Hinduism is an Indian religion or dharma, a religious and universal order by which its followers abide.

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Historical Vedic religion

The historical Vedic religion, also known as Vedicism and Vedism, sometimes called "Ancient Hinduism", constituted the religious ideas and practices prevalent amongst the Indo-Aryan peoples of the northwest Indian subcontinent (Punjab and the western Ganges plain) during the Vedic period (1500–500 BCE).

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Ishvara

Ishvara is a concept in Hinduism, with a wide range of meanings that depend on the era and the school of Hinduism.

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Jainism

Jainism, also known as Jain Dharma, is an Indian religion.

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Julius J. Lipner

Julius Lipner (born 11 August 1946), who is of Indo-Czech origin, was Professor of Hinduism and the Comparative Study of Religion at the University of Cambridge.

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Klaus Klostermaier

Klaus K. Klostermaier (born 1933) is a Catholic priest and scholar of Hinduism, Indian history and culture.

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Meditation

Meditation is a practice in which an individual uses a technique to train attention and awareness and detach from reflexive, "discursive thinking," achieving a mentally clear and emotionally calm and stable state, while not judging the meditation process itself.

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Moksha

Moksha (मोक्ष), also called vimoksha, vimukti, and mukti, is a term in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism for various forms of emancipation, liberation, nirvana, or release.

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Monism

Monism attributes oneness or singleness to a concept, such as to existence.

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Nondualism

Nondualism includes a number of philosophical and spiritual traditions that emphasize the absence of fundamental duality or separation in existence.

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Nyaya

Nyāya (Sanskrit:न्यायः, IAST:'nyāyaḥ'), literally meaning "justice", "rules", "method" or "judgment", is one of the six orthodox (Āstika) schools of Hindu philosophy.

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Om

Om (or Aum) (translit-std, ISO 15919: Ōṁ) is a symbol representing a sacred sound, syllable, mantra, and an invocation in Hinduism.

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Ontology

Ontology is the philosophical study of being.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Pantheism

Pantheism is the philosophical and religious belief that reality, the universe, and nature are identical to divinity or a supreme entity.

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Para Brahman

Para Brahman or Param Brahman (translit-std) in Hindu philosophy is the "Supreme Brahman" that which is beyond all descriptions and conceptualisations.

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Paramatman

Paramatman (Sanskrit: परमात्मन्, IAST: Paramātman) or Paramātmā is the Absolute Atman, or supreme Self, in various philosophies such as the Vedanta and Yoga schools in Hindu theology, as well as other Indian religions such as Sikhism.

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Purusha

Purusha is a complex concept whose meaning evolved in Vedic and Upanishadic times.

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Rigveda

The Rigveda or Rig Veda (ऋग्वेद,, from ऋच्, "praise" and वेद, "knowledge") is an ancient Indian collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns (sūktas).

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Saguna brahman

Saguna brahman ('The Absolute with qualities'; from Sanskrit 'with qualities', guna 'quality', and Brahman 'the Absolute') is a concept of ultimate reality in Hinduism, close to the concept of immanence, the manifested divine presence.

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Samhita

Samhita (IAST: Saṃhitā) literally means "put together, joined, union", a "collection", and "a methodically, rule-based combination of text or verses".

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Samkhya

Samkhya or Sankhya (sāṃkhya) is a dualistic orthodox school of Hindu philosophy.

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Sanskrit

Sanskrit (attributively संस्कृत-,; nominally संस्कृतम्) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (5 September 188817 April 1975; natively Radhakrishnayya) was an Indian politician, philosopher and statesman who served as the second president of India from 1962 to 1967.

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Shiva

Shiva (lit), also known as Mahadeva (Category:Trimurti Category:Wisdom gods Category:Time and fate gods Category:Indian yogis.

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Sikhism

Sikhism, also known as Sikhi (ਸਿੱਖੀ,, from translit), is a monotheistic religion and philosophy, that originated in the Punjab region of India around the end of the 15th century CE.

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Soteriology

Soteriology (σωτηρία "salvation" from σωτήρ "savior, preserver" and λόγος "study" or "word") is the study of religious doctrines of salvation.

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SUNY Press

The State University of New York Press (more commonly referred to as the SUNY Press) is a university press affiliated with the State University of New York system.

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Syncretism

Syncretism is the practice of combining different beliefs and various schools of thought.

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Theosophy

Theosophy is a religious and philosophical system established in the United States in the late 19th century.

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Trimurti

The Trimurti is the trinity of supreme divinity in Hinduism, in which the cosmic functions of creation, preservation, and destruction are personified as a triad of deities.

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Ultimate reality

Ultimate reality is "the supreme, final, and fundamental power in all reality".

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Upanishads

The Upanishads (उपनिषद्) are late Vedic and post-Vedic Sanskrit texts that "document the transition from the archaic ritualism of the Veda into new religious ideas and institutions" and the emergence of the central religious concepts of Hinduism.

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Vaisheshika

Vaisheshika (IAST: Vaiśeṣika;; वैशेषिक) is one of the six schools of Hindu philosophy from ancient India.

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Varna (Hinduism)

Varṇa (वर्ण), in the context of Hinduism, refers to a social class within a hierarchical traditional Hindu society.

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Vedanta

Vedanta (वेदान्त), also known as Uttara Mīmāṃsā, is one of the six orthodox (''āstika'') traditions of textual exegesis and Hindu philosophy.

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Vedas

The Vedas are ancient Sanskrit texts of Hinduism. Above: A page from the ''Atharvaveda''. The Vedas are a large body of religious texts originating in ancient India.

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Vishnu

Vishnu, also known as Narayana and Hari, is one of the principal deities of Hinduism.

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Yajna

Yajna (also pronounced as Yag) (lit) in Hinduism refers to any ritual done in front of a sacred fire, often with mantras.

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Yoga

Yoga (lit) is a group of physical, mental, and spiritual practices or disciplines which originated in ancient India and aim to control (yoke) and still the mind, recognizing a detached witness-consciousness untouched by the mind (Chitta) and mundane suffering (Duḥkha).

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Yoga (philosophy)

Yoga philosophy is one of the six major orthodox schools of Hindu philosophy,Maurice Phillips (Published as Max Muller collection), The Evolution of Hinduism,, PhD.

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