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Liber XIII · Hinduism

Liber XIII

Hinduism: Gods, Scriptures and Paths

The Vedas, the epics, the great gods and goddesses, and the paths to liberation.

Hinduism is a family of traditions that grew in the Indian subcontinent over more than three thousand years, from the hymns of the Vedas to the devotional movements and global Hinduism of today. This section covers its scriptures — the Vedas, Upanishads, Mahabharata, Ramayana, Bhagavad Gita and Puranas — its great deities and their traditions of Vaishnavism, Shaivism and Shaktism, the ideas of dharma, karma, samsara and moksha, temple worship and festivals, the schools of philosophy, Tantra, and the paths of knowledge, devotion and action.

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AgniFrits Staal AgniFrits Staal Asceticism and Eroticism in the Mythology of ŚivaWendy Doniger O'Flaherty Asceticism and Eroticism in the Mythology of ŚivaWendy Doniger O'Flaherty The Āśrama SystemPatrick Olivelle The Āśrama SystemPatrick Olivelle The Auspicious WisdomDouglas Renfrew Brooks The Auspicious WisdomDouglas Renfrew Brooks BanarasDiana L. Eck BanarasDiana L. Eck The Bhagavad GitaRichard H. Davis The Bhagavad GitaRichard H. Davis The Bhagavad-GitaBarbara Stoler Miller The Bhagavad-GitaBarbara Stoler Miller The Bījak of KabirKabir The Bījak of KabirKabir The Birth of KumāraKālidāsa The Birth of KumāraKālidāsa The Camphor FlameC. J. Fuller The Camphor FlameC. J. Fuller Classical Hindu MythologyCornelia Dimmitt Classical Hindu MythologyCornelia Dimmitt & J. A. B. van Buitenen Classical Indian PhilosophyPeter Adamson Classical Indian PhilosophyPeter Adamson & Jonardon Ganeri DarśanDiana L. Eck DarśanDiana L. Eck DharmaAlf Hiltebeitel DharmaAlf Hiltebeitel The Early UpaniṣadsPatrick Olivelle The Early UpaniṣadsPatrick Olivelle Elements of Hindu IconographyT. A. Gopinatha Rao Elements of Hindu IconographyT. A. Gopinatha Rao Encountering KālīRachel Fell McDermott Encountering KālīRachel Fell McDermott & Jeffrey J. Kripal Encountering the GoddessThomas B. Coburn Encountering the GoddessThomas B. Coburn GitagovindaJayadeva GitagovindaJayadeva Hare Krishna TransformedE. Burke Rochford Jr. Hare Krishna TransformedE. Burke Rochford Jr. Hindu GoddessesDavid Kinsley Hindu GoddessesDavid Kinsley Hindu Mythology, Vedic and PurāṇicW. J. Wilkins Hindu Mythology, Vedic and PurāṇicW. J. Wilkins Hindu MythsWendy Doniger O'Flaherty Hindu MythsWendy Doniger O'Flaherty Hindu SaṃskārasRaj Bali Pandey Hindu SaṃskārasRaj Bali Pandey