Ancient Greeks had a knack for describing concrete events that were bound to specific locations, even when the Odyssey described Odysseus’s travels through the western
Reading Sanskrit can feel like swimming in an ocean. Indians and Greeks were asking questions about the most basic reality by 500 BCE. The
The above photo sure doesn’t look like an ancient Greek temple. Nor does it look like a Romanesque cathedral. Instead of focusing on the simplest
. Ancient Indians came up with a unique way of thinking about and classifying emotions. Absorption in the larger environment became central in
The gods in the Rigveda were a colorful lot, and they made up a group that was uniquely Indian. The most frequently honored was Indra,
Things often seem to happen on a cosmic scale in India. While living in the school outside Chennai in 1996 (it was called Madras then),
Ideas of geography in ancient India kept getting bigger and bigger. Most ancient cultures imagined a cosmic mountain, that’s either the home of the gods,
Here’s a cool way to spend Christmas–widening our horizons by exploring cultural crossroads that most people don’t know about. This photo’s from the other side
Many Indian temples seem the opposite of Greek ones. Instead of reducing forms to clear lines, many Indian shrines project so many gods and