tradiviorSouth Asia
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Investigations across South Asia, including India and neighboring societies, with regional differences and cross-border cultural continuities kept visible.
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Why Do Buddhists Make Prostrations?
Prostration appears across Buddhist traditions as reverence, training and deliberate lowering of the self. Tradivior will compare its meanings across regions and ask what repetitive full-body ritual may do to…
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Why Do Hindus Perform Puja With Lamps, Water, Flowers and Food?
Puja brings together light, water, scent, food, touch and gesture in a highly structured act of worship. Tradivior will trace how these offerings developed, what they mean within Hindu traditions,…