NanjŌ BunyŪ
NANJŌ BUNYŪ (1849–1927), also transliterated Nanjio Bunyiu; Japanese Buddhist scholar who first introduced Sanskrit into Japan from Europe and laid the f...
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PaÑcatantra
PAÑCATANTRA. The Pañcatantra is a collection of animal stories, in Sanskrit, compiled by an unknown author some time prior to the sixth (possibly as early as the fourt...
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PuruṢa
PURUṢA is a Sanskrit word meaning "person" or "a man." Throughout Indian intellectual history the term has acquired the independent meanings of "...
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Sanskrit
The earliest traces of Sanskrit, an Indo-Aryan language that is part of the larger family of Indo-European languages, occur in the hymns of the Rig Veda (the earliest Hindu sacred writings), ...
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Sanskritization
The Indian sociologist M. N. Srinivas coined the term "Sanskritization" to identify a dominant strand of Indian society and culture, characterized by "the process ...
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Knowledge in Indian Philosophy
Almost all the philosophical texts in classical India were written in Sanskrit. How does one say knowledge in Sanskrit? And what do the Sanskrit terms that may be transl...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A drug that boosts levels of
the brain's own "bliss" chemical can help reverse symptoms of
depression in rats, U.S. and Italian researchers reported
Monday. The drug helps m...
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New Delhi (dpa) - British model Liz Hurley and her India-born
husband Arun Nayar are set to wed for a second time Friday in royal
Indian style in the northern city of Jodhpu...
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New Delhi (dpa) - British model Liz Hurley and her new India-born
husband, Arun Nayar left the northern Indian tourist town of Jodhpur
Saturday after a royal-style wedding t...
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The WriterThe Kama Sutra is written in Sanskrit, the classical Indian language in which many works of Hindu literature were written. Almost nothing is known about
Vatsyayana, its author
. He lived...
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KATHMANDU, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Nepali linguists have come
across an 82-year-old woman who they believe is the last
speaker of the Dura language, and hope to record the language
before she dies. Som...
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In Tara Guber's ideal world, American children would meditate in the lotus position and chant in Sanskrit before taking stressful standardized tests.But when she asked a public elementary school in...
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In Tara Guber's ideal world, American children would meditate in the lotus position and chant in Sanskrit before taking stressful standardized tests.But when she asked a public elementary school in...
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New Delhi (dpa) - India and Thailand Tuesday signed two agreements
in energy and culture and stepped up negotiations to conclude a
landmark free trade agreement (FTA) by 201...
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The numbers in India are frightening: In a country of more than 1 billion people, some 5.7 million are infected with HIV/AIDS. That makes India home to more victims of the disease than an...
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New Delhi (dpa) - The Indian government has decided to protest
against yoga-related patents granted by the United States Patent and
Trademarks Office, news reports said Wedn...
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Nanjō Bunyū
Sanskrit
Knowledge in Indian Philosophy
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