[[pii-religion]] # Hinduism [wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism) ## Overviews [[flood2003]] [[m-york-d-cush-c-robinson2008]] Encylopedia Devdutt Pattanaik has a series of popular books ## Scholarship [[collins2014]] [[bronkhorst2016]] [[w-kaelber1981]] [[keith1917]] [[selvanayagam1992]] [[doniger2009]] [[bronkhorst2011a]] ## Topics [[gunas]] [[indus-dravidian-bmac]] ## Other karma, reincarnation and "personal enlightenment and transformation", which did not exist in the Vedic religion, developed between 800 BCE and 200 BCE:[4][note 9]  Indian philosophers came to regard the human as an immortal soul encased in a perishable body and bound by action, or karma, to a cycle of endless existences."  Vedas changed to monist through->Upanishads->Vedanta ("end of the Vedas")->tantric (jnana & bhakti-> increased position of Shiva and Vishnu)  ## Biblio [[rolinson2016-10-29]] [[rolinson2019-11-30]]