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Hindu cosmology is the description of the universe and its states of matter, cycles within time, physical structure, and effects on living entities according to Hindu texts. Hindu cosmology is also intertwined with the idea of a creator who allows the world to exist and take shape.
The concept of three worlds has a number of different interpretations in Hindu cosmology. Traditionally, the three worlds refer to either the earth ( Bhuloka ), heaven ( Svarga ), and hell ( Naraka ), [ 5 ] or the earth (Bhuloka), heaven (Svarga), and the netherworld ( Patala ).
Reviews have appeared in Philosophy East and West, [8] Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, [1] The Indian Express, [2] and Reading Religion, [3] and the Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies. [9] The book is the focus of a book review symposium published in the International Journal of Hindu Studies (2021, volume 25, pp. 55-164), that included ...
The Bakongo Cosmogram. In traditional Bakongo religion, the four elements are incorporated into the Kongo cosmogram.This sacred wheel depicts the physical world (Nseke), the spiritual world of the ancestors (Mpémba), the Kalûnga line that runs between the two worlds, the sacred river (mbûngi) that began as a circular void and forms a circle around the two worlds, and the path of the sun.
Indra's net (also called Indra's jewels or Indra's pearls, Sanskrit Indrajāla, Chinese: 因陀羅網) is a metaphor used to illustrate the concepts of Śūnyatā (emptiness), [1] pratītyasamutpāda (dependent origination), [2] and interpenetration [3] in Buddhist philosophy. The metaphor's earliest known reference is found in the Atharva Veda.
The Súrya-Siddhánta, an antient system of Hindu astronomy ed. FitzEdward Hall and Bápú Deva Śástrin (1859). Translation of the Sûrya-Siddhânta: A text-book of Hindu astronomy, with notes and an appendix by Ebenezer Burgess Originally published: Journal of the American Oriental Society 6 (1860) 141–498. Commentary by Burgess is much ...
The concept of multiple universes, or a multiverse, has been discussed throughout history. It has evolved and has been debated in various fields, including cosmology, physics, and philosophy. Some physicists argue that the multiverse is a philosophical notion rather than a scientific hypothesis, as it cannot be empirically falsified.
The concept of a loka or lokas develops in the Vedic literature. Influenced by the special connotations that a word for space might have for a nomadic people, loka in the Veda did not simply mean place or world, but had a positive valuation: it was a place or position of religious or psychological interest with a special value or function of ...