Event: Yoga Workshop at VU   

Lessons from Āyurveda for Living in our Complex World 

Vanessa C.M. Englert, PhD scholar, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam There’s so much to learn from Āyurveda, maybe “significance of principles and qualities” is not the first thing that comes to mind. And it surely isn’t the only thing that I am grateful to carry away from the 15-day course in Āyurveda by Dr. Alaknanda Puri at […]

Reflections

Owing to a rich multidimensional heritage, Hindu ancient scriptures contain knowledge and wisdom pertaining to all dimensions of life – material and spiritual. The current wave of western interest in Hindu ancient scriptures can be traced back to the 1800s. The earlier interest was more on the spiritual or the existential aspects. However, in recent […]

New Books

Victor A. van Bijlert (ret.) was a lecturer in the Department of Beliefs and Practices, Faculty of Religion and Theology, at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The nineteenth-century Hindu modernity, it is argued, sought both individual flourishing and collective emancipation from Western domination. For the first time Hinduism began to be constructed as a religion […]