While Buddha had promoted monasticism and celibacy, Shiva’s story celebrated sexuality. Vishnu balanced the two extreme views ...

Structured as a two-year course with 80 credits, the Master of Arts in Northeast India and Area Studies aligns with the ...

The original resolution, as is claimed to have been passed unanimously by the cabinet “for restoration of statehood in its ...

During the Navaratri festivities, I witnessed the stunning Goshani Jatra in Puri. It is a unique ancient tradition that is little known in the rest of India.

Although she lived within a predominantly Shaivite Hindu culture, Lal Ded was also influenced by Sufism. Her poetry represents a unique blend of Kashmiri Shaivism and Sufi mysticism. If Rumi’s poetry ...

India has not been just a career for author William Dalrymple. He has engaged with it and particularly with Delhi from the peripheries, from its centre, and has followed its various masters and ...

Born into a learned Kashmiri brahmin family, she seems to have grown up in an ethos that offered her exposure to Vedanta, Kashmiri Shaivism and Sufism. She married at age seven, and after an ...

Bhubaneswar: The essence of Jagannath Culture lies in a beautiful collage of philosophies under Vaishnavism, Shaivism, Shakta Upasana, Buddhism, Tantricism, and Sikhism while its beautiful reflection ...

But gradually, Shiva worship grew to become South Asia’s dominant royal religion. In Shaivism, Durga was linked with the fierce aspects of Parvati, Shiva’s consort. She was associated with battle, the ...

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In this all-male temple monastery complex, the monks study and practice Shaivism, a major tradition within Hinduism, which holds Lord Shiva as the supreme being. One of the order's monks, who has ...