Eastern category: 10105 books
by Jacob Needleman
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Philosopher Jacob Needleman's groundbreaking study of America's alternative spiritual movements is back in print with a new introduction by the author.
Originally published in 1970, The New Religions was the first full-scale study of alternative spirituality in America. It remains unparalleled...
The Bhagavad-Gita
Krishna's Counsel in Time of War
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
The Bhagavad-Gita has been an essential text of Hindu culture in India since the time of its composition in the first century A.D. One of the great classics of world literature, it has inspired such diverse thinkers as Henry David Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi, and T.S. Eliot; most recently, it formed the core of Peter Brook's celebrated production of the Mahabharata.
by Idries Shah
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
A treasure house of teaching materials, assembled in the Sufi manner.
Seeker after Truth contains both traditional tales and stories gleaned from contemporary sources, and snippets of table talk, discussions and teachings, letters and lectures by Idries Shah.
Taken together, it constitutes a handbook of materials designed to provoke a different kind of thought.
by Idries Shah
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Although enormously attractive as sheer entertainment, Dervish tales were never presented merely on the level of a fable, legend or folklore. They stand comparison in wit, construction and piquancy with the finest stories of any culture, yet their true function as Sufi teaching stories is so little-known...
Eastern Europe!
Everything You Need to Know About the History (and More) of a Region that Shaped Our World and Still Does
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
The critically acclaimed, first comprehensive, English-language informative AND highly entertaining overview of a region of vital importance to the European--and global--economy and that represents the ancestry of tens of millions of North Americans and others throughout the world
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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945, Volume II
Ghettos in German-Occupied Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
This volume offers a comprehensive account of how the Nazis conducted the Holocaust throughout the scattered towns and villages of Poland and the Soviet Union. It covers more than 1,150 sites, including both open and closed ghettos. Regional essays outline the patterns of ghettoization in 19 German...
The Collected Works of Chögyam Trungpa: Volume 8
Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
The Collected Works of Chögyam Trungpa brings together in eight volumes the writings of one of the first and most influential and inspirational Tibetan teachers to present Buddhism in the West. Organized by theme, the collection includes full-length books as well as articles, seminar transcripts,...
by Alan Watts
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
Philosopher, author, and lecturer Alan Watts (1915–1973) popularized Zen Buddhism and other Eastern philosophies for the counterculture of the 1960s. Today, new generations are finding his writings and lectures online, while faithful followers worldwide continue to be enlightened by his teachings....
by Lao Tzu, Richard John Lynn
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2007
"No one has done better in conveying Lao Tsu's simple and laconic style of writing, so as to produce an English version almost as suggestive of the many meanings intended. This is a most useful, as well as beautiful, volume—and what it has to say is exactly what the world, in its present...
by Idries Shah
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
The Way of the Sufi presents an unparalleled cross-section of material from Sufi schools, teachings and classical writings, as a basic course of Sufi study. The author begins with the outward aspects of the teaching most likely to puzzle the student coming fresh to the subject. He considers various attitudes...
Chinese Symbolism and Art Motifs Fourth Revised Edition
A Comprehensive Handbook on Symbolism in Chinese Art Through the Ages
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Written with reader accessibility in mind, this comprehensive handbook of symbolism in Chinese art and culture will be an invaluable resource for any student of Eastern art history, Chinese arts and crafts, and anyone interested in commonly held Chinese beliefs and their origins.
In Chinese...
Journeys East
20th Century Western Encounters with Eastern Religous Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2004
Journeys East tells the story of the twentieth century's encounters between East and West by exploring the lives of many of the most fascinating scientists, intellectuals, artists, and spiritual seekers of our time.
The Living I Ching
Using Ancient Chinese Wisdom to Shape Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
From the author of 365 Tao and a leading authority on Taoist practice and philosophy comes a completely innovative translation of the classic text of Eastern wisdom, the I Ching.
The I Ching, or Book of Changes, is an ancient manual for divining the future. Its basic text is traditionally attributed...
Holding Yin, Embracing Yang
Three Taoist Classics on Meditation, Breath Regulation, Sexual Yoga, and the Cir culation of Internal Energy
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2005
In Holding Yin, Embracing Yang, Eva Wong presents translations of three key texts containing the highest teachings of the Eastern and Western schools of Taoist internal alchemy—the discipline of cultivating health, longevity, and immortality by transforming the energetic structures of body and...