The role of the visual is essential to Hindu tradition and culture, but many attempts to understand India's divine images have been laden with misperceptions. Darsan, a Sanskrit word that means "seeing," is an aid to our vision, a book of ideas to help us read, think, and look at Hindu images with appreciation and imagination.

• Upanisads (Oxford World's Classics)
• An Introduction to Hinduism (Introduction to Religion)
• The Bhagavad-Gita : Krishna's Counsel in Time of War (Bantam Classics)
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• The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic (Penguin Classics)