Aranyakas were prescribed for the later period of life of semi-retirement, called “Vānprasthāshram,” meaning, the age group “towards retirement to the forest” when the people who had fulfilled their duties of raising and supporting their families and children, and were on the way to the...
Since the beginning of this new millennium, the economic/financial effects of the Shemitah have been witnessed by every resident of the planet … in living color. The following excerpt provides a graphic illustration of the predictive power of the Shemitah. No one can now deny either the calendr...
Sam van Schaik: I spoke about my recent work on the role of magic in Buddhism, from a thousand-year-old book of spells from Dunhuang to the collections on modern practitioners documented under the Endangered Archives Programme. The book of spells is a small manuscript that contains a vast nu...
Because this homology was considered at the time to be an esoteric doctrine, the title “Upanishad” also became associated during the middle of the 1st millennium bce with a genre of textual works claiming to reveal hidden teachings. The Upanishads present a vision of an interconnected universe ...
will receive some degree of glory in the afterlife. At Christ’s return to earth, he will establish a millennial kingdom. After themillennium, the earth will become acelestial sphereand the inheritance of the righteous. Others will be assigned to lesser kingdoms named terrestrial and “telestial...
refers to things that are to take place in the distant future millennium 1000 year reign of Christ on earth 3 views of millennium amillennial, post millennial, premillennial rapture sudden, unexpected return of Christ where Christians are gathered up ...
the 1st millenniumbce. Western scholars have called them the first “philosophical treatises” of India, though they neither contain any systematic philosophical reflections nor present a unified doctrine. Indeed, the material they contain would not be considered philosophical in the modern, academic ...
Veda, a collection of poems or hymns composed in archaic Sanskrit by Indo-European peoples during the 2nd millennium bce.