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A dramatic shift happened in Buddhism roughly 500 years after the historical Buddha. This dramatic...
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The goddess of sailors
For such a vast coastline, Indians do not have much of sea mythology. Most images of boats in...
Who is a Hindu? Hindu ship of...
There is a famous philosophical problem popularly known as the ship of Theseus, or the Theseus’s...
The mountain of Vedas
The Brahmanas (religious texts) refer to manuals that connect Vedic hymns (mantras) to rituals...
Aggregation of Buddhist atoms
The fundamental difference between Hinduism and Buddhism rests on the idea of the soul or atma...
Fever from Shiva’s rage
The Vedas, which are over 3,000 years old, refer to a deity called Rudra who is fierce and feared...
A Buddhist goddess
A thousand years after the Buddha’s nirvana, Buddhists finally acquired a goddess of (almost)...
The rise of Durga
The image of the buffalo-slaying lion-riding Durga starts appearing in Hindu mythology only in the...
The sacred form of Kashi
The holiness of Kashi, aka Varanasi, is perhaps related to its geography. In Kashi, the river...