Chaṭh - a Living Tradition and Cultural Homecoming
Chaṭh as lived civilizational memory: a personal account of returning to Bihar for the festival, and what the survival of this demanding, water-centered rite reveals about the deep roots of Hindu devotional practice in the body and the land.
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Dharmic Circuits - Sacred Pathways - Part 1
The Hindu geography of Bharatvarsha as a structured sacred space — how teertha yatra creates a living network of centers and pathways that defines the cultural boundaries of the civilization.
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Dharmic Circuits - The Temple, The Grove and The Lake - Part 3
Sringeri as the model of a complete sacred ecology — where the temple, the forest, the river, and the Vedic institution are not separate entities but one inseparable living system.
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Dukh, Depression and Journeys of Life - Depression is the Absence of Dukkha - Part I
The provocative argument that depression is the absence of duḥkha, not its presence — how the Sanskrit framework for suffering provides an experiential map that modern psychology, focused on symptom-removal, cannot offer.
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On the axis connecting festival (utsava), sacred geography (kṣetra), and scripture (śāstra): how Hindu festivals are to time what temples are to space — gradients of divine access that structure both the year and the land.
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The Problem of Culture Transmission
Tradition is not the past preserved but a living chain of transmission — an examination of the specific mechanisms by which Hindu civilization has carried its deepest knowledge forward, and where those mechanisms are breaking today.
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Portrait of the head priest of the Hoysala-era Veera Narayana Temple at Belavadi — how a 12th-century heritage temple survives and what the priest's life reveals about the community of practice that keeps the living tradition alive.
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Comparative overview of continuities and changes in Hindu tradition across historical periods.
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Popular overview of Hindu beliefs, practices, festivals, symbols, and philosophical foundations.
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Survey of major Hindu sects, their doctrines, institutions, and devotional lineages.
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History of Dharmashastras Vol 1
Reference study of dharmashastra literature, sources of dharma, and the historical formation of legal-ritual norms.
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History of Dharmashastras Vol 2 Part 1
Reference study of dharmashastra literature with focus on ritual, samskara, and normative practice.
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