Terms and Questions:

Central Concepts

 

 

Terms:

yuga

varna

 

 karma

 

samsara

 

dharma

 

moksha


Questions:

 

1.      How would you characterize the “lively tension” that, according to Kinsley, lends Hinduism its distinctiveness?

2.      How are the central concepts discussed in class represented in the images of Nataraja and the reclining Vishnu? (see the links on the studyaids page}

3.      What do Hindu notions of time have to do with dharma?

4.      How are moksha and varna related/not related?