Deva

Jackson’s Dance moves. In Indian industry, there are so many artists, Musicians, dancers inspired by him. “Prabhu Deva” he is the best dancer in the India. And maybe he is in the top ten dancers in the world. He admires the Jackson. He told in his interview that “No one can be like him 100%, you can try but you cannot be The King of Pop ‘Michael Jackson’”- Prabhu Deva Not just a Prabhu deva, there are so many stars in the world follows him. When Michael Jackson was doing moonwalk, it was look…

Maha Maya’s dream. In her dream, the mother of the Buddha perceived herself being transported to Lake Anotatta in the Himalayas. She was bathed in the water, dressed in heavenly clothes, rubbed with perfumes, and decorated with divine flowers by the devas. Next, a white elephant gyrated three times around her and entered her womb from her right side. Soon the elephant disappeared and Queen Maya woke up. She realized this was an important message since the elephant was the symbol of greatness in…

the mythic past were capable to speak to one another, rival with each other, and still breed with each other. Hindu mythology has survived the modern changing times and has established itself in the Hindu traditions. The myths of apsaras, rakshasa, devas etc. ae abundant, animals changing into another form or having progeny through another animal form is evident in Hindu mythology. All these myths were not perceived as confusion but linked…

India had established trade cultural and political relations with Southeast Asian kingdoms. Influence of Indian civilization became most powerful among them and in Southeast Asian mainland. The people of Southeast Asia are said to have moved from southern China to southwards. Most forms of Hinduism are henotheistic where they recognize a single deity, and view other Gods reflection of the supreme God. These kinds of religions have traditionally been among the world’s most religiously tolerant…

Imagine being grown up in a cursed family. A family where everything good is about to happen and something goes wrong because of that curse. Sooner or later the curse’s effect gets stronger and stronger; for the family is gets worse and worse. The only way to get rid of it is by removing the curse and passing it down to another family. Curses are an expression of harm to come to another person (Guiley). Curses have been astronomically been bought and sold throughout centuries. Curses are an…

Concept of Vedic Religion by F. B. J. Kuiper, the creation myth is very specific in its theory. This Myth suggests that God was a creation of the universe as well or perhaps there is one single God and he gave birth to the universe and gave power to the devas (lords) to give it shape, bring it into existence and look after…

A religion with the involvement of many different nations, cultures and social systems, but with the same beliefs and practices of Siddhartha Gautama is identified as Buddhism. A religion of a dharmic world view of authority, cosmology, family, life cycle and morality that follow the life and teachings of the Buddha. Where the Buddhist texts are the ones followed as a guide in how to live and achieve enlightment in this world. Buddhism, a religion that is practiced around the world with a…

The Seven Stars Temple Remains locates 30 km southwest of Karasahr County and sits at the east foot of Mount Huola (霍拉山). The site was populated during the 7th and 8th century as part of the Karasahr Country (焉耆国), among the remains of which discovered several sculptures. This damaged artifact collected at the Seven Stars Remains was portrayed with a plump face, long and slim eye, and a subtle smile which indicate the classical Bodhisattva image of the Western Regions (西域). The Bodhisattva gazes…

By the colonial and post-colonial era in South Asia, many people of marginalized genders and sexualities are given harmful labels, and pushed to the fringed of societies by colonizers and elites. Colonizers used religion and economics to enforce a deviant label onto people with marginalized sexualities while reinforcing heterosexuality and the gender binary as being the only real way to have meaningful relationships, despite evidence of the fluidity of gender and sexuality, not only in narrative…

The universe and Brahman are one in the same. 2. Due to the flaws in the universe, Brahman must be separate. 3.Brahman and the Universe are one are one in the same in their distinction. Furthering the diversity of Hinduism is the worship of multiple devas, or lesser gods. This is similar…