Brahmo Samaj
brāhmo samājThe reformist, monotheist society founded by Raja Ram Mohan Roy in Calcutta in 1828, drawing on the Upanishads and open to reason.
Where this term appears
- The Colonial Encounter and Orientalism History
Rammohan Roy's Brahmo Samaj, founded in 1828, met the missionary critique by reading the Upanishads as a pure, rational monotheism.
- The Reformers: How the Nineteenth Century Remade Hinduism History
…, the unity and omnipresence of nature's God." In 1828 he founded the Brahmo Samaj , a society for the worship of the one formless God, without images, drawing on the Upanishads and open to reason and to the be…
- What is Tantra? Lineages
The movements around Rammohan Roy, the Brahmo Samaj, Dayananda Sarasvati's Arya Samaj and, in his way, Vivekananda, promoted a purified Vedic Hinduism and cast Tantra as its dark opposite, the thing respectable…
- The Modern Frame Treatise
In the year 1828, in a Bengali Brahmin household in Calcutta, a 56-year-old reformer named Raja Ram Mohan Roy founded the Brahmo Sabha — what would later become the Brahmo Samaj .