Based on exhaustive reference to primary source material, this volume explores the relationships between religious mythologies and religious philosophical syste

This third edition of the classic text updates the information contained in the earlier editions, and includes new chapters on the origins of Hinduism; its hist

The collection of papers in Ascetic Culture: Renunciation and Worldly Engagement was entirely conceived and developed by K. Ishwaran, who died in June 1998. The

Traditionally, research on the history of Asian religions has been marked by a bias for literary evidence, privileging canonical texts penned in ‘classical’