In Hinduism, Kama is the god of love and desire. Some of his iconographical attributes are a bow made from a sugarcane stem, arrows made of five flowers, and a standard with the image of a makara (mythical creature).
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In the Hindu religious tradition, one of the seven maharishis (great sages). In the Indian epic Ramayana, he is a…
A text of the Lokottaravada school of early Buddhism, it was written in Sanskrit, Pali and Prakrit between the second…
The mythical king of the Sagara Dynasty who performed several years of penance in the Himalayas. He is known to…
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A group of demi-gods and semi-divine beings in Hindu, Jain and Buddhist mythology, they possess magical powers, with some sources…
A metaphor for a mode or method of spiritual practice in Buddhism, which refers to the vehicles of teaching imparted…
In Vajrayana Buddhism, one of the forms of the bodhisattva Avalokitesvara. Simhanada is depicted as sitting in the maharajalila posture…
Major Hindu deity with non-Vedic origins, and the principal deity of the Shaivism sect. In mainstream Hinduism, Shiva appears in…