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[1] [2] Bindu is the point around which the mandala is created, representing the Universe. [3] Bindu is often merged with [seed] (or sperm) and ova. In the Yogachudamani Upanishad Bindu is a duality, with a white Bindu representing shukla (pure) and a red Bindu representing maharaj .
Therefore, by extension, it can also mean "system", "doctrine", or "work". [16] The connotation of the word tantra to mean an esoteric practice or religious ritualism is a colonial era European invention. [17] [18] [19] This term is based on the metaphor of weaving, states Ron Barrett, where the Sanskrit root tan means the warping of threads on ...
The Kālacakra deity and his consort reside in the center of the Kālacakra mandala in a palace consisting of four mandalas, one within the other: the mandalas of body, speech, and mind, and in the very center, wisdom and great bliss. [54] The deities of the mandala are classified into various sets of families or clans (kula) as follows: [55]
Bhavachakra, "wheel of life," [a] consists of the words bhava and chakra.. bhava (भव) means "being, worldly existence, becoming, birth, being, production, origin". [web 1]In Buddhism, bhava denotes the continuity of becoming (reincarnating) in one of the realms of existence, in the samsaric context of rebirth, life and the maturation arising therefrom. [2]
The mandala in Nichiren Buddhism is a moji-mandala (文字曼陀羅), which is a paper hanging scroll or wooden tablet whose inscription consists of Chinese characters and medieval-Sanskrit script representing elements of the Buddha's enlightenment, protective Buddhist deities, and certain Buddhist concepts.
The Vedic literature that survives is entirely of a religious form, whereas works in Classical Sanskrit exist in a wide variety of fields including epics, lyric, drama, romance, fairytale, fables, grammar, civil and religious law, the science of politics and practical life, the science of love and sex, philosophy, medicine, astronomy, astrology ...
Vasishtha is credited as the chief author of Mandala 7 of the Rigveda. [5] Vasishtha and his family are mentioned in Rigvedic verse 10.167.4, [note 1] other Rigvedic mandalas and in many Vedic texts. [8] [9] [10] His ideas have been influential and he was called the first sage of the Vedanta school of Hindu philosophy by Adi Shankara. [11]
While according to Mookerji, understanding the meaning (vedarthajnana [84] or artha-bodha [85] [note 12]) of the words of the Vedas was part of the Vedic learning, [85] Holdrege and other Indologists [86] have noted that in the transmission of the Samhitas, the emphasis is on the phonology of the sounds and not on the meaning of the mantras.