A monastic order comprising bhikkhus (monks) and bhikkhunis (nuns), it is one of the Three Jewels of Buddhism. From the Sanskrit and Pali words sangha, meaning “association” or “assembly.”
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Sanskrit for ‘pillar’, historically appearing in various contexts, including Vedic liturgy, Brahmanical mythology, and Brahmanical treatises on architecture, theatre and…
The largest of the eighteen major Puranas, it comprises over eighty-one thousand verses written honour of Skanda, the son of…
A central concept in Buddhism that denotes the essential or true nature of reality, which is beyond the range of…
Also called vimoksha, vimukti, mukti and nirvana, it is an Indian philosophical concept that signifies liberation from the cycle of…
A collection of Hindu literary and scriptural texts that establishes systems of ritual and worship, among other things such as…
Earliest extant text from the Vedic corpus, dated roughly between 1700 and 1200 BCE. Like the other Vedas, the Rigveda…
A large collection of approximately 550 stories about the Buddha’s former lives in both human and animal form. The stories…
A sixteenth-century epic poem in Telugu, authored by the Vijayanagara king, Krishnadevaraya. It narrates the story of Andal, one of…