Word: sanskriting
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...name comprising the Sanskrit words for "life" and "science," Ayurveda is based on the principle that everyone has a unique mixture of three energies: vata, or air; pitta, fire; and kapha, earth. When one of the energies gets out of balance?in my case, too much lethargic kapha in conflict with my fiery pitta nature?illness can arise. Or just crankiness and headaches...
...fake concentrations [on the housing application] that were based on the river, like Sanskrit studies and linguistics,” said Ashley N. Fochtman ’05, one of the eight group members...
...more telling indicator of this novel’s flavor is the Sanskrit epigraph with which the author, herself, chooses to begin the tale...
...Knowles was not afraid to cross colleagues who failed to stay on board. Three times in his deanship, he appointed trusted professors in unrelated fields to take over departments he believed were troubled—he deployed Professor of Music Christoph J. Wolff to oversee Linguistics in 1993 and Sanskrit in 1995, and just last year named Kenan Professor of English Marjorie Garber to take over Visual and Environmental Studies after removing the prior chair, Ellen Phelan, when she refused to resign...
Today, Harvard’s curriculum offers a myriad of concentrations focusing on ethnic and regional studies, including Afro-American Studies, East Asian Studies, Sanskrit and Indian Studies, and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. These concentrations bring together the cultures and histories of various ethnic groups to define their position in culture and society. But problems arise both about whether the bounds of these concentrations are too specific, and about whether this specificity marginalizes and Orientalizes the study of ethnicity in Harvard academia...