The Middle Persian word sahrestān had often been translated as ‘provincial capital’. Cereti examines an impressive corpus of texts belonging to the Zoroastrian tradition, such Sahrenstānīhā-ī-Ērānshar, Bundahisn, Dēnkard, Kārnāmag ī Ardaxsīr Pābagān, Gujastag Abālis, Sāyast nē-Sāyast, Yoist Friyān, Pahlavi commentary Widēwdād, inscriptions Sāpūr I and Kerdīr at Ka’aba-e Zartost Narseh’s one Pai...

This paper explores the possible connections between Persian Goddess Aredvi Sura Anahita and Sufi cosmology. How can we trace images, symbols functions of goddess in symbolic journey to Mount Qaf Sufism? The research question was posed by author after a collision mystical experiences dreams with figure while being on path. offers linguistic, scriptural hermeneutic analysis Avesta her role Zoroa...

Early Buddhist karma is an impersonal moral force that impartially and inevitably causes the consequences of actions to be visited upon the actor, especially determining their afterlife destination. The story of King Ajātasattu in the Pāli Samaññaphala Sutta, where not even the Buddha can intervene to save him, epitomizes the criterion of inescapability. Zoroastrian ethical thought runs along s...

Since fi rst discovered in the early 19th century, the ossuaries from Bushehr, Persian Gulf, have attracted attention as possible archaeological evidence for ancient Zoroastrian burial practice. Th is practice involved exposing cadavers to birds before the surviving remains were gathered for deposition in an ossuary. In this paper, the human remains recovered from two ossuaries at Bushehr are d...

Статья посвящена одному из самых спорных, а потому наиболее перспективных направлений современного осетиноведения, к коим относится проблема поиска и объяснения следов зороастризма в этнической религии осетин. В. И. Абаев категорически отрицал возможность зороастрийского влияния на религиозную скифо‑сармато‑аланскую традицию, силу чего, поиски зороастрийских элементов культуре осетин считал бес...

The article examines the impact of Zoroastrianism on criminal law and legal theory during reign Sasanian dynasty (224–651 C.E) in late Antique Persia. This was historic period when also ideology Iranian state, which granted Zoroastrian church extraordinary power influence, a unique situation is termed by author as ‘imperial Zoroastrianism’. first part paper how imperial evolved from previous un...

Zoroastrian Women in Temples: Places of Worship the Perspective Zoroastrians Diaspora USA In this article, I approach issue temple visits by women living USA. analysed field material terms motivations and circumstances these visits. The analysis showed that visit both Zarathushtrian places worship immediate area, as well those located further away, including their old homelands, although they v...