Celestial beings in Hindu, Jain and Buddhist mythology. They are depicted as having golden or blackish complexions and are often associated with music. They are also often depicted flying in Buddhist art and iconography.
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A form of the Hindu deity, Shiva, in which he is shown with a kankala-danda (a staff bearing the bones…
In Hindu epic and Puranic literature, a sage who is the son of the sage Gautama and Ahilya. In the…
Parshvanatha (b. c. 872 BCE; d. c. 772 BCE) was the twenty-third Tirthankara (propagator of dharma) of Jainism. He is…
An alternate name to describe the anandatandava, the cosmic dance of Nataraja, a form of the Hindu deity, Shiva.
In Hinduism, Kama is the god of love and desire. Some of his iconographical attributes are a bow made from…
In Vajrayana Buddhism, one of the forms of the bodhisattva Avalokitesvara. Lokanatha is portrayed sitting in lalitasana on a double…
A major sect of Hinduism wherein the metaphysical reality is considered to be a woman, and the primordial cosmic energy,…
Meaning “dance of bliss,” it is a cosmic dance performed by the Hindu deity, Shiva, in his Nataraja form.