Tantra at the British Museum
A short review of the exhibition ‘Tantra: enlightenment to revolution’ which is currently on at the British Museum.
Read More Tantra at the British MuseumWriting on ancient literatures and world mythology. Future articles will be on Rig Veda, Sanskrit, Old English, Indo-European literature, Egypt, China etc.
A short review of the exhibition ‘Tantra: enlightenment to revolution’ which is currently on at the British Museum.
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Read More Death and the Rig VedaT.S. Eliot — Wikimedia Commons (Octave.H) It is well-known that T.S. Eliot engaged deeply with Indian philosophy in ways which significantly influenced his worldview and his poetry. In fact,Eliot was a student of the eminent Sanskrit scholar Professor Charles Rockwell Lanman at Harvard University, and in fact Eliot’s PhD supervisor there, Josiah Royce, had also earlier learnt […]
Read More T.S. Eliot and Indian PhilosophyWhat follows is my own translation of Rig Veda Mandala 1 Sūkta 90. The final lines of this verse are well-known and well-loved as they feature in one of the Śānti Mantras. The repeated reference to honey (madhu) also seems to be picked up on later in the Madhu-vidyā section of the Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad. The […]
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