Reading paths
Start here.
A few hand-picked reading orders through the library. The first one is the friendliest entry into Hindu Sanatana Dharma — the others go deeper into specific traditions.
New to Hinduism? Start here.
A guided first reading order.
Eight foundational articles, in the order we'd hand them to a friend asking 'where do I begin?'. Walks from the cosmic frame, through the chief gods and core scripture, into a festival you can place in the calendar today.
Vaishnavism — the path of Vishnu
Avatara, Bhagavata, and devotion.
Read Vishnu through his ten descents, the world of the Ramayana, and the teaching of Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita.
Shaivism — the path of Shiva
The cosmic dancer and his shrines.
Approach Shiva through the cosmic dance, his twelve light-shrines across India, and the night that belongs to him.
Vedanta — the inner inquiry
From cosmos to consciousness.
Walk from the Vedas into the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita — the texts that carry Hinduism's deepest inquiry into the self.
Festivals & rites of passage
The Hindu year, lived.
Hinduism is also a practice — of sacred days and life-cycle rites. This path walks through the major festivals and the sixteen samskaras.