Tarjini hasta is the term for a hand gesture (hasta) in Indian dance, sculpture, and ritual in which the hand is closed save for the index...

  The world is a ritually deadly place for many Hindus. Certain times of the day, days of the week, and seasons of the year are consider...

  "Rajabhiseka" means "royal anointing" in Sanskrit. The raja suya ritual was superseded with a royal consecration cer...

Keshanta ("beard shaving") Samskara. The thirteenth of the sixteen traditional life-cycle rites (samskaras). A young guy at ...

  Orthoprax Hindus (that is, Hindus who stress correct religious practice) lay great stress on cleanliness of their bodies and their immedia...

   (“hand”) A hasta is a hand posture used in Indian dance, sculpture, and ritual. In some circumstances, the hasta's name may merely de...

The consecration and consumption of some type of food and drink, rite, is often a precursor to casual socializing, which commonly follows th...

'Hinduism' is an English term coined by Raja Rammohan Roy, an Indian social reformer, in 1816 and 1817. Rammohan Roy, a Hindu by bir...

In the West, the word "meditation" has a long and complicated history, and it has no exact counterpart in Asian cultures. However,...