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In order to better cope with the pressures and stresses of the current day, modern psychology is anxiously seeking to find new therapies to address the increasing disorders within the human psyche. In the process new fields of research,... more
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      ReligionNew Religious MovementsComparative ReligionHistory
Gli Yuga. La dottrina dei cicli cosmici L'età del mondo. Nel rapporto con il mondo, siamo costantemente protesi verso il futuro in una visione che privilegia il "divenire" piuttosto che il "consolidare"; ancor meno il recupero di ciò che... more
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      YugasKali-Yuga
Preface to the New Edition The cyclic view of history is a complete and integrated model of reality that was the basis of ancient philosophical thought for millennia before it was relegated to oblivion. During the Renaissance, the... more
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      Ancient HistoryPhilosophy Of ReligionHistory of IndiaSouth Asian Studies
The theory of the yugas has been connected to the story of the Mahābhārata since the late layers of the Epic itself, and it subsequently became a fundamental element of the justification for explaining its adharmic elements by linking its... more
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      HinduismHistory of IndiaIndian EpicsRamayana
The first part of this article addresses the origin and importance of the yuga theory in India. The second part deals with the discovery of the yuga system by the West, its use by modern Western esoteric writers, and its relevance to New... more
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      HinduismWestern Esotericism (History)YugasNew Age Religions
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      HinduismVedic Cosmology and CosmographyArcheoastronomy, Mithology and ReligionYugas
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      Critical TheoryReligionBuddhismHinduism
This dissertation discusses the political thought of five right-wing European thinkers of the twentieth and early twenty-first century: René Guénon (1886-1951), Julius Evola (1898-1974), Mircea Eliade (1907-1986), Alain de Benoist (b.... more
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      Comparative ReligionPolitical PhilosophyPolitical TheoryFascism
En Qué momento sucedieron las Yugas?. Un corto análisis de la forma en que se contabilizó el tiempo y que dió paso a los períodos de las Eras o Yugas hindúes. De los contenidos en los viejos registros hindúes, se puede proponer el... more
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      MuAtlántidaYugasLemuria
Demonstrates that the idea of Zodiac Ages was central to the ancient construction of Christianity.
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      Observational AstronomyTheologyCosmology (Anthropology)Early Christianity
VoI. 73 Societas Orientalis Fennica fI1m r f HELSINKI 1994 r. 1..53-2.1-1 PETTERI KOSKIKALLIO WHEN TIME TURNS: YUGAS, IDEOLOGIES, SACRIFICES PGTlcRl KOSKIKAUIO
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      Sacrifice (Philosophy)Philosophy of TimeMahabharataEpics
The present paper focuses on Aśvaghoṣa's treatment of King Śuddhodana and Kapila-vāstu, the latter's kingdom, in the Buddhacarita (BC) and the Saundarananda (SNa). As I shall try to demonstrate, the poet's depiction of Śuddhodana is... more
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      Political TheorySanskrit language and literatureIndian BuddhismIndian Epics
This volume gives a concise but comprehensive overview of the rich diversity of prophecy, its role in major world religions as well as in new religions and alternative spiritualties, its social dynamics and its impact on individuals’... more
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      New Religious MovementsConspiracy TheoriesTibetan BuddhismNew Age spirituality
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      Critical TheoryReligionComparative ReligionSociology of Religion
The Indian idea of revolving and regenerating time includes the system of Yugas or four ages of progressive moral and physical deterioration.l The four eras of decreasing duration-/c¡ ta2, tetä, dvãpara and &øli-bear the names of the four... more
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      Sacrifice (Philosophy)Philosophy of TimeMahabharataEpics
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      ReligionHinduismComparative ReligionMetaphysics
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      Critical TheoryReligionBuddhismHinduism
Classical or Angkor Wat Style (1080-1175): Angkor Wat, the temple and perhaps the mausoleum of King Suryavarman II, is the greatest of the Angkorian temples and defines what has come to be known as the classical style of Angkorian... more
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      TimeYugas
Publ. 2008: The Nidānasūtra contains a unique description of possible definitions of the days of a solar year. In a riddle it hides a type of two-year yuga which is possibly older than the usual five-year yuga of the vedāṅgajyotiṣa texts.
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      History of AstronomyAncient AstronomyVedic StudiesAncient Indian History and Culture
A brief Q. and A. responding to the issue of what is the cause of the dark transcendent-denying state of modernity--perhaps the darkest time ever. The conclusion is that the real cause is the heavy poor deluded karma of most of the souls... more
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      HistoryModernityNaturalismHistory Of Modern Philosophy
The notion of yugas or cyclical time has come to occupy a central place in the Indian worldview, particularly in our spiritual and philosophical understanding of the cosmos. The author argues that the notion of yugas was incorporated... more
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      MahabharataYugas