A controversy has erupted about the way the movie “Oppenheimer” depicts the scientist’s relationship with the Hindu sacred text the Bhagavad Gita. J. Robert Oppenheimer saw the Gita as a reflection of ...

Throughline fellow Akshara Ravishankar talks to producer Anya Steinberg about the history of the Bhagavad Gita, a centuries-old Hindu text, and how it continues to influence political and ...

When astronomers combed through an ancient Hindu text known as the Rig Veda, they discovered that it referenced a total solar eclipse that occurred roughly 6,000 years ago — making it the oldest known ...

Friendship is one of the purest and most powerful human bonds, and Hindu scriptures describe it as sacred, purposeful, and ...

Time travel—usually the stuff of science fiction movies and quantum theories—isn’t something you'd expect to find in ancient religious texts. But when you dive deep into Hindu mythology, a curious ...

(RNS) — The Bhagavad Gita As It Is, considered one of the most prevalent editions of the sacred Gita text, has been banned from Florida prison systems since 2022.

Hinduism gained ground in the region in the early centuries of the Common Era because it provided elites with a fully-fleshed metaphysical package along with literacy.