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Christian Ashram Movement The Christian Ashram Movement (not to be confused with the United Christian Ashram movement) is a movement within Christianity in India that embraces Vedanta and the teachings of the East, attempting to combine the Christian faith with the Hindu ashram model and Christian monasticism with the Hindu sannyasa tradition. Origin and spread The “father” of the Christian Ashram movement was 17th-century Italian Jesuit priest Roberto de Nobili, a Christian missionary to India who decided to overcome the cultural obstacles to his mission by adopting the various forms of a Hindu sannyāsi....

Chua K’a Chua K’a is a three-part bodywork) approach developed by Oscar Ichazo. It is based on the observation that tension in the body corresponds to specific fears; therefore, removing the tension via massage can remove the psychological trauma, a concept similar to other Mind–body_interventions. Chua K’a Technique The purpose of Chua K’a Bodywork® is to remove physical and psychic tension held in the body, through the focused application of physical pressure and ‘conscious awareness....

Daksha yajna !Daksha yagna Dakṣayajña is an important event in Hindu mythology that is narrated in various Hindu scriptures. It refers to a yajna (ritual-sacrifice) organised by Daksha, where his daughter, Sati), immolates herself. The wrath of the god Shiva, Sati’s husband, thereafter destroys the sacrificial ceremony. The tale is also called Daksha-Yajna-Nasha (“destruction of Daksha’s sacrifice). The legend forms the liturgical basis of the establishment of the Shakti Pithas, the temples of Mahadevi, the supreme deity of Shaktism....

Dakshinamurti Upanishad devanagari दक्षिणामूर्ति sanskrit_transliteration Dakṣiṇāmūrti meaning Giver of true knowledge veda Krishna Yajurveda type Shaiva philosophy Vedanta The Dakshinamurti Upanishad (दक्षिणामूर्ति उपनिषत्, IAST: Dakṣiṇāmūrti Upaniṣad) is an ancient Sanskrit text and is one of the minor Upanishads of Hinduism. It is attached to the Krishna Yajurveda, and classified as one of the 14 Shaiva Upanishads. The text is notable for asserting that Dakshinamurti is an aspect of Shiva, an aid to the liberating knowledge that Shiva is within oneself as Atman (self, soul), and everything one does in daily life is an offering to this Shiva....

Dakshineswar Kali Temple name Dakshineswar Kali Temple map_type India Kolkata map_caption Location in Kolkata coordinates 22.655°N, 88.35778°W country India state West Bengal district North 24 Parganas location Greater Kolkata deity Kali festivals Kali Puja, Navaratri, Snana Yatra, Kalpataru Day architecture Bengal architecture temple_quantity 12 Shiva temples, 1 temple of Radhakrishna and 1 Main Temple of Goddess Kali founded_by Rani Rashmoni website Official website native_name দক্ষিণেশ্বর কালীমন্দির native_name_lang Bengali architecture_style Navaratna Dakshineswar Kali Temple is a Hindu navaratna) temple in Dakshineswar, Kolkata, West Bengal, India....

Dakṣiṇā or Dakshina (दक्षिणा) is a Sanskrit word found in Buddhist, Hindu, Sikh and Jain literature where it may mean any donation, fees or honorarium given to a cause, monastery, temple, spiritual guide or after a ritual. It may be expected, or a tradition or voluntary form of dāna. The term is found in this context in the Vedic literature. It may mean honorarium to a guru for education, training or guidance....

Darshana Upanishad name Darshana devanagari दर्शन sanskrit_transliteration Darśana meaning View, Meet type Yoga veda Samaveda chapters 10 philosophy Yoga, Vedanta The Darshana Upanishad (Sanskrit: दर्शन उपनिषत्, IAST: Darśana Upaniṣad) is one of the minor Upanishads of Hinduism written in Sanskrit. It is one of twenty Yoga Upanishads in the four Vedas, and it is attached to the Samaveda. The text presents classical Yoga similar to the Patanjali’s Yogasutras-style format in a sequential ascending eight yogic stages, but unlike Yogasutras, the Darshana Upanishad includes kundalini concepts....

Dasbodh !Samarth Ramdas swami Dāsbodh, loosely meaning “advice to the disciple” in Marathi, is a 17th-century bhakti (devotion) and jnana (insight) spiritual text. It was orally narrated by the saint Samarth Ramdas to his disciple, Kalyan Swami. The Dāsbodh provides readers with spiritual guidance on matters such as devotion and acquiring knowledge. Besides this, it also helps in answering queries related to day-to-day life and how to find solutions to it....

Dattatreya Upanishad devanagari दत्तात्रेय sanskrit_transliteration Dattātreya meaning The god Dattatreya authors Vishnu type Vaishnava veda Atharvaveda chapters 3 The Dattatreya Upanishad (दत्तात्रेय उपनिषत्), also called the Dattatreyopanishad, is a Sanskrit text and one of the minor Upanishads of Hinduism. It is attached to the Atharvaveda, and classified as a text of the Vaishnava sect, which worships the god Vishnu. The Dattatreya Upanishad appears in the Telugu language anthology of 108 Upanishads called the Muktika canon, narrated by Rama to Hanuman, where it is listed at number 101....

Dear One name Dear One artist George Harrison album Thirty Three & 1/3 released 19 November 1976 genre Rock, pop length 5:08 label Dark Horse writer George Harrison producer George Harrison with Tom Scott) “Dear One” is a song by English musician George Harrison, released in 1976 on his album Thirty Three & 1/3. The song was inspired by, and dedicated to, Paramahansa Yogananda, whose 1946 book Autobiography of a Yogi was a great influence on Harrison....

Debashish Banerji name Debashish Banerji birth_place Kolkata, West Bengal, India citizenship United States alma_mater University of California, Los Angeles (PhD), , University of Louisville, Kentucky (MS) known_for Writings in Integral Yoga, Art History website debashishbanerji.com/ Debashish Banerji is a Bengali scholar. He writes in English and specializes in Integral Yoga, Indian Philosophy and Psychology, Art History and Cultural Theory. He is the Haridas Chaudhuri Professor of Indian Philosophies and Cultures and the Doshi Professor of Asian Art at the California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, where he also chairs the department of East-West Psychology....

Debates in ancient India There was, for a considerable period of time, a very lively and extensively practiced tradition of formal debates in ancient India. These debates were conducted, sometimes with royal patronage, to examine various religious, philosophical, moral and doctrinal issues. The corpus of knowledge on conducting a successful debate was referred to as vādavidyā and several manuals dealing with this discipline had been produced. It was from these debates that the Indian tradition of logic and allied investigations were evolved and developed....

Deva people The Deva are a mythical people of Sri Lanka according to the Sanskrit epics. According to the Mahavamsa and Ramayana they lived among the Naga, Yakkha and Raskha. They ousted their arch enemies the Raskha from Sri Lanka, with the help of Vishnu. They were then subsequently conquered by King Ravana of the Raskha. After the Yakkhas had left to live in the mountains and remote dense forests, they met Gautama Buddha who converted them to Buddhism....

Devarishi Devarishi (Sanskrit: देवर्षि) means – ’the celestial sage’; it is one of the three categories of Rishis, the other two being – Brahmarishi (ब्रह्मर्षि) and Rajarishi (राजर्षि). Rajarishis were those Kshatriya kings who gained the status of Rishi; the difference between a Rishi and a Brahmarishi was that of the degree of penance and accomplishment, and their life-span. Vāyu Purāņa (LXI.79-92) tells us that the root - ऋष, from which the word ऋषि (Rishi) is derived, is used in the sense of motion (Knowledge), hearing truth and austerity, and gives the marks of a Devarishi....

Devi Gita image_size 250 religion Hinduism verses 507 author Traditionally attributed to Vyasa language Sanskrit chapters 10 name Devi Gita The Devi Gita (देवीगीता) is an ancient Hindu philosophical text from Devi-Bhagavata Purana, a major text of the Shakta devotees, in the form of dialogue between Mahadevi and king Himavan. It is also one of the sixty-four Gitas commonly referred to in Hindu scriptures. Nomenclature Gita means “song”, Devi is the sanskrit word for “Goddess”; the masculine form is deva)....