Śrī Laṅkāvē Ṭămpiṭa Vihāra sampradāya

Sri Lanka has had a celebrated history, a long colonial past, and since independence in 1948 has passed through a series of crises and political experiments. It has had a remarkabl...

This is Volume 5 in the A Cultural History of Hinduism Series. The series spans the temporal frame of 2000 B.C.E. to 2017 through six volumes representing distinctive time periods ...

This is the first book-length study of the thought of Sri Chinmoy (1931-2007), who became well known during his lifetime as the exponent of a dynamic spirituality of integral trans...

Sri Lanka—an island nation located in the Indian Ocean— has a population of approximately 19 million. Despite its diminuative size, however, Sri Lanka has a long and complex histor...

This chapter draws upon Sri Ramakrishna’s teachings and mystical testimony in order to develop a new conceptual framework for understanding the nature of mystical experience. In re...