I was wondering whether anyone could recommend a book about the basic tenets of Hinduism. I know very little and a lot of stuff I've read seems to be confusing - so perhaps it would be better to start with something at the beginning !! 😮
Many thanks. 🙂
Hi HG
Only too happy to oblige! I've got a super book (thank you for making me take it off the shelf BTW as there are parts I've still to read properly) in the Teach Yourself series published by Hodder and Stoughton. It is, of course, Teach Yourself Hinduism by VP (Hemant) Kanitkar and W Owen Cole. It's very comprehensive and covers all sorts of interesting aspects of Hindu culture, not just the gods and temples. It's a paperback but I expect you could also get it from the library.
HTH
xxx
Hi Happygirl,
You might also like to look at "An introduction to Hinduism" by Gavin Flood. It is more of an academic text, but I think it gives a fairly good overview of hinduism, or sanatana-dharma as it is referred to in India.
Warm regards,
Shankar.
Thank you both. I've managed to get both books on Amazon (under the "used" section) so looking forward to their arrival. 🙂
I highly recommend [url]Autobiography of a Yogi[/url] by Paramahansa Yogananda, and [url]Man's Eternal Quest[/url], which is collection of talks given by Yoganada. Accessible, informative, thought provoking and very entertaining. They don't exactly explore Hinduism as a religion per se, but go a long way in explaining its essence.