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The Tejobindu Upanishad (Sanskrit: तेजोबिन्दु उपनिषद्) is a minor Upanishad in the corpus of Upanishadic texts of Hinduism It is one of the five Bindu Upanishads, all attached to the Atharvaveda, and one of twenty Yoga Upanishads in the four Vedas The text is notable for its focus on meditation, calling dedication to bookish learning as rubbish, emphasizing practice instead, and presenting the Vedanta doctrine from Yoga perspective The Tejobindu is listed at number 37 in the serial order of the Muktika enumerated by Rama to Hanuman in the modern era anthology of 108 Upanishads

The Tejobindu Upanishad (Sanskrit: तेजोबिन्दु उपनिषद्) is a minor Upanishad in the corpus of Upanishadic texts of Hinduism It is one of the five Bindu Upanishads, all attached to the Atharvaveda, and one of twenty Yoga Upanishads in the four Vedas The text is notable for its focus on meditation, calling dedication to bookish learning as rubbish, emphasizing practice instead, and presenting the Vedanta doctrine from Yoga perspective The Tejobindu is listed at number 37 in the serial order of the Muktika enumerated by Rama to Hanuman in the modern era anthology of 108 Upanishads

Ashtanga yoga (Sanskrit: अष्टाङ्गयोग, romanized: aṣṭāṅgayoga, “the eight limbs of yoga”) is Patanjali’s classification of classical yoga, as set out in his Yoga Sutras He defined the eight limbs as yamas (abstinences), niyama (observances), asana (postures), pranayama (breathing), pratyahara (withdrawal), dharana (concentration), dhyana (meditation) and samadhi (absorption) The eight limbs form a sequence from the outer to the inner Postures, important in modern yoga as exercise, form just one limb of Patanjali’s scheme; he states only that they must be steady and comfortable...

In Dharmic culture, the tilaka (Sanskrit: तिलक) is a mark worn usually on the forehead, at the point of the Ajna chakra, or sometimes another part of the body such as the neck, hand, chest or arm Tilaka may be worn daily or for rites of passage or special spiritual and religious occasions only, depending on regional customs The term also refers to the Hindu ritual of marking someone’s forehead with a fragrant paste, such as of sandalwood or vermilion, as a welcome and an expression of honour when they arrive...

The Treta Yuga, in Hinduism, is the second and second best of the four yugas (world ages) in a Yuga Cycle, preceded by Krita (Satya) Yuga and followed by Dvapara Yuga Treta Yuga lasts for 1,296,000 years (3,600 divine years) Treta means ‘a collection of three things’ in Sanskrit, and is so called because during the Treta Yuga, there were three Avatars of Vishnu that were seen, the fifth, sixth and seventh incarnations as Vamana, Parashurama and Rama, respectively...

Kashmir Shaivism, or Trika Shaivism, is a nondualist tradition of Shaiva-Shakta Tantra which originated sometime after 850 CE Since this tradition originated in Kashmir it is often called “Kashmiri Shaivism” It later went on to become a pan-Indian movement termed “Trika” (lit The Trinity) by its great exegete, Abhinavagupta, and particularly flourished in Orissa and Maharashtra Defining features of the Trika tradition are its idealistic and monistic Pratyabhijna (“Recognition”) philosophical system, propounded by Utpaladeva (c...

The Trikāya doctrine (Sanskrit: त्रिकाय, lit “three bodies”; Chinese: 三身; pinyin: sānshēn; Japanese pronunciation: sanjin, sanshin; Korean pronunciation: samsin; Vietnamese: tam thân, Tibetan: སྐུ་གསུམ, Wylie: sku gsum) is a Mahayana Buddhist teaching on both the nature of reality and the nature of Buddhahood The doctrine says that Buddha has three kāyas or bodies, the Dharmakāya (ultimate reality), the Saṃbhogakāya (divine incarnation of Buddha), and the Nirmāṇakāya (physical incarnation of Buddha)

Trimūrti (; Sanskrit: त्रिमूर्ति trimūrti, “three forms” or “trinity”) is the triple deity of supreme divinity in Hinduism, in which the cosmic functions of creation, maintenance, and destruction are personified as a triad of deities, typically Brahma the creator, Vishnu the preserver, and Shiva the destroyer, though individual denominations may vary from that particular line-up The legendary yogi Dattatreya is often treated as not only one of the 24 avatars of Vishnu, but also of Shiva and Brahma as well in a single three-headed body...

The Christian doctrine of the Trinity (Latin: Trinitas, lit ’triad’, from Latin: trinus ’threefold’) defines God as being one god existing in three coequal, coeternal, consubstantial divine persons: God the Father, God the Son (Jesus Christ) and God the Holy Spirit, three distinct persons sharing one homoousion (essence) In this context, the three persons define who God is, while the one essence defines what God is This doctrine is called Trinitarianism and its adherents are called trinitarians, while its opponents are called antitrinitarians or nontrinitarians...

Tripiṭaka (Sanskrit: [trɪˈpɪʈɐkɐ]) or Tipiṭaka (Pali: [tɪˈpɪʈɐkɐ]), meaning “Triple Basket”, is the traditional term for ancient collections of Buddhist sacred scriptures The Pāli Canon maintained by the Theravāda tradition in Southeast Asia, the Chinese Buddhist Canon maintained by the East Asian Buddhist tradition, and the Tibetan Buddhist Canon maintained by the Tibetan Buddhist tradition are some of the most important Tripiṭaka in contemporary Buddhist world Tripiṭaka has become a term used for many schools’ collections, although their general divisions do not match a strict division into three piṭakas

Tulsidas (Hindi pronunciation: [tʊlsiːdaːs]; 1532–1623), also known as Goswami Tulsidas, was a Ramanandi Vaishnava Hindu saint and poet, renowned for his devotion to the deity Rama He wrote several popular works in Sanskrit and Awadhi, but is best known as the author of the epic Ramcharitmanas, a retelling of the Sanskrit Ramayana based on Rama’s life in the vernacular Awadhi Tulsidas spent most of his life in the city of Varanasi and Ayodhya...

Tyāga (Sanskrit: त्याग) is a Sanskrit word that means “sacrifice, giving up in generosity, forsaking, resigning” anything of value, as well as “renunciation” depending on the context It is an ethical concept in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism

The Mandala-brahmana Upanishad (Sanskrit: मण्डलब्राह्मण उपनिषत्), also known as Mandalabrahmanopanisad, is one of the minor Upanishads of Hinduism and a Sanskrit text It is attached to the Shukla Yajurveda and is classified as one of the 20 Yoga Upanishads The text describes Yoga as a means to self-knowledge, the highest wisdom Its text is structured as a teaching from Narayana (Purusha in Sun, Vishnu) to sage Yajnavalkya The text is notable for teaching eight step Yoga but with somewhat different conceptual framework than most other texts...

Upadeśa (Sanskrit: उपदेश), “teaching,” “instruction”, is the spiritual guidance provided by a guru or spiritual teacher

Upamāṇa (Sanskrit: “comparison”), upamana in Hinduism, is a pramāṇa, or means of having knowledge of something Observance of similarities provides knowledge of the relationship between the two It also means getting the knowledge of an unknown thing by comparing it with a known thing For example, assume a situation where a man has not seen a gavaya or a wild cow and doesn’t know what it is A forester told him that a wild cow is an animal like a country cow but she is more furious and has big horn in her forehead...