Hinduism

"The larger the problems are around us, the deeper we must go if we are to be spiritually alive, able to manifest God’s healing power in a world that seems anything but holy," writes Professor Francis X. Clooney, S.J.

During a recent seminar, Jocelyne Cesari, T. J. Dermot Dunphy Visiting Professor of Religion, Violence, and Peacebuilding, argues that the foundational role of Hinduism in the building of the Indian secular nation-state can shed light on the current ultra...

Swami Sarvapriyananda, one of three Hindu monastics in residence at HDS this school year, discusses the Upanishads, their powerful message, the Four Great Sentences, and throws light on Ashtavakra Gita.

This past year, HDS began a major renewal project on our main campus building, welcomed new Hindu monastics in residence, became inspired—yet again—by the words and work of our faculty and students, and experienced many momentous moments. With 2019 coming...

A conversation with the three Hindu monastics visiting HDS this year, each representing a different Hindu tradition: Swami Sarvapriyananda (Ramakrishna Mission), Brahmacharini Shweta Chaitanya (Chinmaya Mission), and Sadhak Akshar–Guru: Mahant Swami...

Hindu monastics bring Vedanta to HDS and gain new perspectives on their tradition—and others Just like any student at Harvard, Swami Sarvapriyananda had dreams about what he would do when he grew up. As he sat in a classroom in Rockefeller Hall on Harvard...

In the annual Hindu View of Life lecture, Ruth Harris examines how Vivekananda conveyed the meaning of “guru-bakhti” to his female disciples, and the spiritual lens through which he sought to mold them in a male spiritual milieu.

Bright clouds of orange, yellow, purple, and blue floated through the HDS Campus Green on the afternoon of March 27 as students tossed colored powder at one another as part of an observance of Holi, the spring Hindu festival. The celebration marks the...

Anne Monius, Professor of South Asian Religions at HDS, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on November 8, 2018.

Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad engages with the intersectional nature of his Hindu identity through three key textual passages. This examination of Hinduism and intersectionality offered a new perspective on how identity is creatively and constantly reconfigured...