Presents the history, customs, and beliefs of Hinduism, describing the mysteries and myths that sustained its growth over the centuries.

Hinduism (WORLD RELIGIONS)

Teen & Young Adult

Wangu, Madhu Bazaz

Religion & Spirituality

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Hinduism (World Religions)

Describes the origins of Buddhism in India and its spread throughout East Asia, and discusses recent developments.

Buddhism (The World Religions)

Describes the origins of Buddhism in India and its subsequent spread throughout East Asia and discusses the variety of its forms, literature, arts, and current status in the modern world.

Buddhism (World Religions)

Examines Hinduism, including its origin, beliefs, followers, ceremonies, demography, cultural contributions, and sacred sites.

In her present book Madhu B. Wangu gives a fascinating account of the emergence of the Kashmiri Goddess Khir Bhavani. She analyzes and interprets her historic context, sacred text, paintings and her temple at Tulmul in Kashmir, uncovering some engaging interpretations. Dr. Wangu's appealing writing and her significant researach will engage general readers. They will understand how milliions of Hindu deites have emerged. Expatriated Kashmirirs around the world, who feel nostaligic about the valley will enjoy rediscovering the tradition and history of their favorite goddess. Kashmiri pandits, in particular, will discern some of their peculiarities as Khir Bhavani represents their ethos as well as their worldview.

A Goddess is Born: The Emergence of Khir Bhavani in Kashmir

Spark Publishers

Chance Meetings: Stories About Cross-Cultural Karmic Collisions and Compassion

Madhu B. Wangu

"You must come at once if you want to stop the suttee from happening again..." This phone message summons Kumud Kuthiyala back to Neela Nagar, the blue town of her youth, and the shackled life she thought she had left behind forever... As a nine-year-old, Kumud witnessed the brutal and horrifying suttee ritual when her beloved aunt immolated herself on the burning pyre of her dead husband. Years later, Kumud summoned the courage to escape the isolated and primitive town of her youth to start a new life in Ambayu, a metropolitan city. She began as office help at Save Girls Soul Orphanage Center and progressed to become its director. At SGSO Center, she becomes a warrior for women's education and equal rights. She teaches young women to protect themselves from outmoded practices and rituals that victimize women. Then a phone call informs Kumud that the suttee of a sixteen-year-old is inevitable. She has vowed that she will never let it happen again. Still haunted by her aunt's suttee, she leaves everything behind, including her love, Shekhar Roy, to end the barbaric custom that scarred her for life, and to save the young bride from committing suttee. As Kumud travels back to the town of her youth, long-buried memories resurface and force her to remember the life from which she fled. The town that greets her is full of contradictions. It has electricity and clean water, and a new school is open to low castes, yet superstition and prejudice abound. How can she convince the town that their centuries-old tradition is cruel and barbaric, that a widowed young woman deserves the right to live? Can she change the minds of the townspeople and the Five Elders before it's too late?

The Last Suttee

Literature & Fiction

United States

Madhu Wangu

As a girl on the brink of womanhood in 1960s India, Shanti Bamzai has big dreams. Rather than enter into an arranged marriage like her sister, Shanti embarks on a journey into the unknown, leaving her family home behind for an education and a chance to chart her own destiny. While India experiences an upheaval of cultural and societal changes as old-world traditions collide with the modern global era, Shanti navigates college, a marriage of her own choosing, and motherhood, fighting a constant battle between the pressures of traditional expectations and her own burning desire to be an artist and an independent woman. A move to America presents exciting new opportunities, but Shanti is disappointed to find herself still hemmed in by the restrictions of her Indian upbringing. As her children become adults and her marriage becomes a shell of what it once was, Shanti must find the courage to step out of her husband’s shadow and into the life she’s always dreamed of.

The Immigrant Wife: Her Spiritual Journey

World Literature

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

This new fourth edition tells the story of Buddhism's origins and its development into three major schools of thought. It explores the concept of the 'socially enlightened Buddhist'; the growth and practice of Buddhism in America and the recent revival of Buddhism in Asia as well as giving an overall view of the faith.

Chelsea House Pub

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Hinduism (WORLD RELIGIONS)

Hinduism (World Religions)

Buddhism (The World Religions)

Buddhism (World Religions)

Hinduism (World Religions)

A Goddess is Born: The Emergence of Khir Bhavani in Kashmir

Chance Meetings: Stories About Cross-Cultural Karmic Collisions and Compassion

The Last Suttee

The Immigrant Wife: Her Spiritual Journey

Buddhism (World Religions)