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 Vedic deity associated with the moral values of rita (justice) and satya (truth), he also represents the natural elements…
The first of the ten Sikh gurus, Guru Nanak (b. 1469, d. 1539) was the founder of Sikhism. Born in…
Polytheistic religion developed by Indo-Aryan-speaking settlers who migrated from Central to South Asia in the second millennium BCE. It originated…
A group of demi-gods and semi-divine beings in Hindu, Jain and Buddhist mythology, they possess magical powers, with some sources…
A body of texts written in Sanskrit and considered to be the latter part of the Vedas. They cover issues…
A representation of the Hindu god Vishnu, which shows him reclining atop a coiled form of the serpent Ananta, on…
The name Dalai Lama is a combination of the Mongolic dalai, meaning "ocean" or "big," and the Tibetan bla-ma, meaning…
Denoting any of the five celestial and meditative Buddhas — Vairochana, Akshobhya, Ratnasambhava, Amitabha and Amoghasiddhi — it was a…