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What Hindu Institution Will Generate All Others?

Research Pathway #4

Which single Hindu institution — the Hindu state, the gurukula, or the temple — could regenerate all others if everything else were lost?

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The Big Question

Which single Hindu institution — the Hindu state, the gurukula, or the temple — could regenerate all others if everythin…

Living temple as generative institution

Story of a Priest

Portrait of the head priest of the Hoysala-era Veera Narayana Temple at Belavadi — how a 12th-century heritage temple su…

Pankaj Saxena

Temple as multi-functional civilizational node

The Hindu temple as simultaneously sacred mountain, cosmic axis, human body, and gateway between worlds — a layered symb…

Pankaj Saxena

Why fragmentation is a feature, not a bug

Why Hindu organizational fragmentation is a feature, not a failure: Bodha's argument that Sanatana Dharma requires a div…

Pankaj Saxena

Education/gurukula model

Built on Dharampal's archival discoveries about pre-colonial India, this school argues that Svayambodha — self-knowledge…

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