Sati
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Sati may refer to:
- An alternative name for Hindu goddess DakshayaniDakshayaniDākshāyani or Satī is a Hindu Goddess of marital felicity and longevity. She is worshipped particularly by Hindu women to seek the long life of their husbands...
, Shiva's first wife - Sati (practice)Sati (practice)For other uses, see Sati .Satī was a religious funeral practice among some Indian communities in which a recently widowed woman either voluntarily or by use of force and coercion would have immolated herself on her husband’s funeral pyre...
, an ancient Indian tradition of the immolation of a widow on her husband's funeral pyre, now illegal - Mindfulness (PaliPáli- External links :* *...
). In Buddhism the word ‘Sati’ usually carries the meaning of awareness or skillful attentiveness - School of mindfulness meditation established by John GarrieJohn GarrieJohn Garrie, later known as John Garrie Roshi, was a British actor who later became a respected teacher of Zen Buddhism. Born in 1924, he died in Taunton, Somerset on 22 September 1999 at the age of 75.-Acting career:...
Rōshi - Bhai Sati DasBhai Sati DasBhai Sati Das along with his elder brother Bhai Mati Das is one of the greatest martyrs in Sikh history. Bhai Sati Das and his elder brother Bhai Mati Das were followers of ninth Sikh Guru, Guru Tegh Bahadur...
, Sikh martyr executed by emperor AurangzebAurangzebAbul Muzaffar Muhy-ud-Din Muhammad Aurangzeb Alamgir , more commonly known as Aurangzeb or by his chosen imperial title Alamgir , was the sixth Mughal Emperor of India, whose reign lasted from 1658 until his death in 1707.Badshah Aurangzeb, having ruled most of the Indian subcontinent for nearly... - An alternate spelling of SatisSatisIn Egyptian mythology, Satis was the deification of the floods of the Nile River, and her cult originated in the ancient city of Swenet, now called Aswan on the southern edge of Egypt. Her name means she who shoots forth referring to the annual flooding of the river...
in Egyptian mythology - Sati, a character in the film The Matrix RevolutionsThe Matrix RevolutionsThe Matrix Revolutions is a 2003 American science fiction film and the third installment of The Matrix trilogy. The film was released six months following The Matrix Reloaded. The film was written and directed by the Wachowski brothers and released simultaneously in sixty countries on November 5,...
- Sati (film)Sati (film)Sati is a Bengali movie released in 1989 directed by Aparna Sen.The movie featured Shabana Azmi.- Synopsis :The young Brahmin girl in this story has a disastrous horoscope. In an Indian village in 1828, this can be a real handicap. The fact that she is mute only compounds her difficulties. Her...
, 1989 Bengali film directed by Aparna Sen and starring Shabana Azmi - Violeta "Sati" JurkonienėSati (Lithuanian singer)Violeta "Sati" Jurkonienė is a Lithuanian singer, a member of band Agama.-Biography:Sati was born in a family of a lawyer and a journalist in Klaipėda, Lithuania. At the age of seven started attending music school...
, a Lithuanian singer - Sati (novel), a novel by Christopher Pike