Vaishnava

Vegetarianism represented the upper-caste Vaishnavas and Jains, and by recalling it in the context of Godrej soaps, the company hoped to achieve superior social status for its products.

Vaishnavas are monotheists, and believe Lord Krishna to be the same God worshiped by Christians, Jews and Muslims.

The editor then offers a vast panorama of cultural changes that occurred during the course of history producing a poet like Tagore whom Ezra Pound considered no less than a modern survival of the Alglo-Saxon bard because of Tagore's mingling of contemporary sensibility with the vernacular literature of the Bauls and Vaishnavas.

(10.) Zhonumalen (The Taker of Girls) is a Tibetan name of the teacher of Vaishnavas. See Jeffrey Hopkins, Maps of the Profound, (Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 2003), 134.

"The Final Journey: Complete Hospice for Departing Vaishnavas" is an updated and revised edition of the rituals and wishes of those who follow the branch of Hindu known as Vaishnavism, revering Vishnu as one of the primary forms of God.

But instead of smoothing over differences between Hindu Shaivites, Shaktas and Vaishnavas, here the suppression of religio-cultural differences takes on a globalized scale interlocuting between "world religions."

He divided Hinduism into three main branches--the Shaktas, Shaivites and Vaishnavas.

"Kumbhandas: The Devotee as Salt of the Earth," Richard Barz presents a translation of the oldest recension (A) of one of the accounts (varta) of the eighty-four Vaishnavas "so accomplished in their practice of the Pushtimarga that their lives became examples to be emulated by the members of the Vallabha sect" (p.

The missionary outreach of the Bengali Vaishnavas, especially through the sectarian organization of the Gaudiya Math, found successful expression in the preaching in the West of A.

Because of this tie to this philosophical foundation, Doyle is able to sprinkle Mead, Duesenbeny, Zelizer, Veblen, Weber, Marx, Freud, Ferenzi, Hindu law, Kant, the Code of Hammurabi, Hypocrites, DSM-IV, African cultures, Epicurus, the Talmud, the Mosaic code, Vaishnavas, Smith, Plato, Hermes (the God, not the design label), Fenichel, the Yoni (not the pianist), Islam, the Q'in Code, Jung, and a host of other cultural, scholarly, and philosophical references (although Doyle clearly does not recognize Woody Allen's body of work).

Thoothi, The Vaishnavas of Gudarat (London, 1935), p.

His devotees are known as Vaishnavas or Vaishnavites.