EditorialRishyasringa performing the ceremony for obtaining sons. He is shown chanting mantras and pouring obligations into a fire with the help of priests. Ramayana, Bala Kanda. Udaipur, 1712. Source: Add. 15295, f.36. Language: Sanskrit.
EditorialRishyasringa performing the ceremony for obtaining sons. He is shown chanting mantras and pouring obligations into a fire with the help of priests. Ramayana, Bala Kanda. Udaipur, 1712. Source: Add. 15295, f.36. Language: Sanskrit.
EditorialRishyasringa performing the ceremony for obtaining sons. He is shown chanting mantras and pouring obligations into a fire with the help of priests. Ramayana, Bala Kanda. Udaipur, 1712. Source: Add. 15295, f.36. Language: Sanskrit.
EditorialThe Neetiah-Karmum ceremony. In a grove of trees, the chief of the funeral offers rice-balls to the crows, three rice-balls to three stones, with Brahmin chanting appropriate mantras. A red sari cloth is brought to the widow whose younger children atte...
EditorialThe praying cylinders of Thibet. Buddhist prayer-wheels are rotating cylinders of varying size containing pieces of paper with prayers ('mantras') written or printed on them. The cylinders revolve clockwise, the direction of the sun's movement around t...
EditorialThe Neetiah-Karmum ceremony. In a grove of trees, the chief of the funeral offers rice-balls to the crows, three rice-balls to three stones, with Brahmin chanting appropriate mantras. A red sari cloth is brought to the widow whose younger children atte...
EditorialBhutanese immigrants split into groups of 12 and say mantras to Buddha before beginning an archery match in Shamong, N.J., Aug. 2, 2020. (Raul Vilchis/The New York Times)
EditorialThe Neetiah-Karmum ceremony. In a grove of trees, the chief of the funeral offers rice-balls to the crows, three rice-balls to three stones, with Brahmin chanting appropriate mantras. A red sari cloth is brought to the widow whose younger children atte...
EditorialRishyasringa performing the ceremony for obtaining sons. He is shown chanting mantras and pouring obligations into a fire with the help of priests. Ramayana, Bala Kanda. Udaipur, 1712. Source: Add. 15295, f.36. Language: Sanskrit.
EditorialThe Neetiah-Karmum ceremony. In a grove of trees, the chief of the funeral offers rice-balls to the crows, three rice-balls to three stones, with Brahmin chanting appropriate mantras. A red sari cloth is brought to the widow whose younger children atte...
EditorialThe praying cylinders of Thibet. Buddhist prayer-wheels are rotating cylinders of varying size containing pieces of paper with prayers ('mantras') written or printed on them. The cylinders revolve clockwise, the direction of the sun's movement around t...
EditorialJain yantra found in northern India, 1631. A yantra is an abstract diagram made up of several symbolic geometric forms which is used as an aid to meditation. They are used by Hindus, as well as Buddhists and Jains; this one is identifiedas Jain by its ...