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A Tibetan Buddhist monastic order, founded by Je Tsongkhapa in the early fifteenth century. Tsongkhapa along with his disciples founded…
Parshvanatha (b. c. 872 BCE; d. c. 772 BCE) was the twenty-third Tirthankara (propagator of dharma) of Jainism. He is…
The king of Kishkindha and the elder brother of Sugriva in the Hindu epic Ramayana. He had a boon that…
The personification of Vishnu's discus, the Sudarshan Chakra, as a male figure. It is an example of the Ayudhapurusha tradition…
A demon in Hindu mythology who is said to have originated from the earwax of Vishnu. He is believed to…
A benevolent form of the Hindu deity Shiva in which he appears with the bull Nandi, his mount or vahana.…
Minor female semi-divine, half-human half-serpent creatures in Buddhist, Jain and Hindu mythology, and the female counterpart to nagas. They are…
In Hindu mythology, Himavat is the lord of the mountains and the father of Ganga and Parvati, the consort of…