Downloadable lectures
Female speakers in the Upanishads and Mahabharata
Related: Gender, Mahabharata, Upanisads
Hinduism II: Bhakti through vernacular traditions (eight lectures)
Eight Sessions
Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky and Sanskrit
Related: Literature, Sanskrit
Semantic history of Vedanta and its implications for the study of Indian philosophy
Related: Philosophy, Upanisads, Vedanta
Pilgrimage as a geographic ritual in South Indian Hinduism
Related: Pilgrimage, Ritual
Conclusions: Mapping the mind in India and the West
Related: Consciousness, Science and Religion
Advaita-tattvam (delivered in Sanskrit)
Buddhist views on consciousness
Related: Buddhism, Consciousness, Science and Religion
Advaita Vedanta and the Kerala renaissance of the 19th century
Related: Modern India, Vedanta
Advaita: Vedantic and materialistic
K. Maheswaran Nair (Professor, Department of Sanskrit, University of Kerala)
Related: Vedanta
Saivite views on consciousness
Related: Consciousness, Saiva, Science and Religion
Hinduism and women
Ursula King (Professor Emerita, Senior Research Fellow and Associate Member of the Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Bristol. Professorial Research Associate, Centre for Gender and Religions Research, SOAS, University of London)
Related: Gender
The dvaita-advaita controversy
K. Maheswaran Nair (Professor, Department of Sanskrit, University of Kerala)
Related: Hindu Theology, Vaisnava, Vedanta
Indian and Western approaches to the mystery of consciousness
Related: Consciousness, Science and Religion
In Hindu tradition is gaming and gambling fun or a sin?
Any discussion of the motivation of gambling usually starts with the natural comparison to life. Life is a gamble. Everyday, people are faced with situations which involve risk and chance. Professor Rangachar looks at the religious antecedents of gaming and the reaction to its development.
Do games and play have a religious character?
Related: Games
A poet and a philosopher: Two women in the Sri Vaishnava tradition
Professor Vasudha Narayanan (University of Florida, USA and Tamal Krishna Visiting Fellow, President of the American Academy of Religion [2001])
Related: Gender, Literature, Vaisnava
Transnational religion: Hindu traditions in Cambodia, 5th-12th centuries
Professor Vasudha Narayanan (University of Florida, USA and Tamal Krishna Visiting Fellow, President of the American Academy of Religion [2001-2])
Related: Diaspora
Hindus in the diaspora: Their histories and traditions (six lectures)
This lecture series includes a general survey of the histories of Hindu communities outside India. The series will focus on the development and the maintenance of their traditions.
Related: Diaspora
Modernity and Madhva Vedanta: The beginning or the end of an esoteric tradition?
The Madhva school of Vedanta is an orthodox tradition that is being forced to rise to the challenges of modernity, and in particular, recent technological advances. Are these changes minor ones or do they strike at the very heart of Madhva doctrine? Do they point towards its end or are they a chance to flourish? Dr Sarma's talk addresses these and other related issues that would face any esoteric tradition.
Related: Veda
Fifty years of ashram life: Reminiscences from jyotiniketan
Related: Christianity, Comparative Theology
A Christian understanding of monotheism: In conversation with Hindu perspectives
Related: Christianity, Comparative Theology
Science and religion seminar: Cultural myths, biological forms, and subjective qualities: Western and Hindu views on the philosophy of biology
Related: Science and Religion