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Indian culture

  • Rasa (aesthetics), a concept in the Indian performing arts
  • Rasa (theology)
    Rasa (theology)
    Rasa is a Sanskrit theological concept specific to Krishna-centered bhakti traditions, such as Gaudiya Vaishnavism. The theological use of the word can be found early, about two thousand years before the Nimbarka or Caitanya schools of bhakti, in a phrase that Chaitanya traditions frequently...

    , a concept of taste or emotional rapture related to Krishna devotion
  • Rasā
    Rasa
    - Indian culture :* Rasa , a concept in the Indian performing arts* Rasa , a concept of taste or emotional rapture related to Krishna devotion* Rasā, a mythical river mentioned in the Rigveda...

    , a mythical river mentioned in the Rigveda
  • Rasa lila
    Rasa lila
    The Rasa lila or Rasa dance is part of the traditional story of Krishna described in Hindu scriptures such as the Bhagavata Purana and literature such as the Gita Govinda, where he dances with Radha and her sakhis...

    , a dance performed by the Hindu god Krishna with his consort Radha and other milk-maids

Places

  • Raša
    Raša
    Raša is a town and municipality in the inner part of the Raška Inlet in the south-eastern part of Istria, Croatia. Raša lies southwest of Labin at an elevation of ....

    , a town in Croatia
  • Rasa, Malaysia
    Rasa, Malaysia
    Rasa is a small town situated in Selangor, Malaysia. The term "Rasa" in Malay language means "Taste"....

  • Rasa Island, the old name of Oki Daitō
    Oki Daito
    , also spelled as Oki Daitō or Oki-Daitō, previously known as , is an uninhabited island in the Daitō island group southeast of Okinawa, Japan. It belongs to Kitadaitō Village. It was formally incorporated into Japan in 1900....

    , an uninhabited Japanese island
  • Rasa, a village in Grădiştea, Călăraşi
    Gradistea, Calarasi
    Grădiştea is a commune in Călăraşi County, Romania. It is composed of four villages: Bogata, Cuneşti, Grădiştea and Rasa. As of 2007 the population of Grădiştea is 4,731....

    , Romania
  • Rasa, the former name of Lhasa
    Lhasa
    Lhasa is the administrative capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China and the second most populous city on the Tibetan Plateau, after Xining. At an altitude of , Lhasa is one of the highest cities in the world...

    , Tibet

Other uses

  • Rasa (band), a musical duo formed in 1998
  • Rasa Music
    Rasa Music
    Rasa Music also now known as Rasa Living is a record label based in New York City. It is the sister record label of AMI which was formed in 1991 with the intention of nurturing cultural musicians from Australia and marketing their music internationally...

    , a record label
  • Rasa (mythology), a Lithuanian goddess
  • Tabula rasa
    Tabula rasa
    Tabula rasa is the epistemological theory that individuals are born without built-in mental content and that their knowledge comes from experience and perception. Generally proponents of the tabula rasa thesis favour the "nurture" side of the nature versus nurture debate, when it comes to aspects...

    , an epistemological thesis
  • Rasa, a character in Mobile Suit Gundam 00
  • Relative apparent synapomorphy analysis
    Relative apparent synapomorphy analysis
    Relative apparent synapomorphy analysis, or RASA, is a method that aims to determine whether a given character is shared between taxa due to shared ancestry or due to convergence. A synapomorphy is a shared trait found among two or more taxa and their most recent common ancestor, whose ancestor in...

    , a taxonomy term
  • Roosevelt Academy Student Association, Student Association of Liberal Arts Honors College in Middelburg, The Netherlands
  • Refineria Petrolera de Acajutla SA de CV, an oil refinery in El Salvador
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