Eastern category: 10105 books
Confucius
The Man and the Way of Gongfu
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Through a systematic introduction of Confucius as a historical figure, a spiritual leader, a philosopher, a political reformer, an educator, and a person, this book offers a comprehensive, lucid, and in-depth articulation of Confucius and his teachings for Western students. It explains how his ideas...
Rock Your World with the Divine Mother
Bringing the Sacred Power of the Divine Mother into Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
The Divine Mother is known by many names and takes many forms. In Christianity, she is the Virgin Mary. In China, she is universally loved as the goddess of compassion, Quan Yin. In Hawaii, Pele, the goddess of fire, manifests in the form of a woman near the volcanoes. In India, she is embodied by...
Papaji Amazing Grace
Interviews with seekers of Enlightenment... and how they found it
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
15 profoundly beautiful and powerful spiritual interviews conducted by John David with seekers for Truth who sought out Papaji in the period from 1990 to 1997. An intimate look at the Master-disciple relationship. They are stories of a housewife, a businessman, even an officer of a nuclear powered...
by Alan Watts
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2000
Alan Watts noted author and respected authority on Far Eastern thought studied Taoism extensively and in his final years moved to a quiet cabin in the mountains and dedicated himself almost exclusively to meditating and writing on the Tao. This new book gives us an opportunity to not only understand...
Bagnowka
A Modern Jewish Cemetery on the Russian Pale
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016
In the last decade of the nineteenth century, a traditional Jewish cemetery was established in the small town of Bagnowka, located near the urban center of Bialystok in current northeastern Poland. Though governed then by Tsarist Russia, Bialystok was still inspired by the teachings of the Torah,...
by Devashish
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
While Paramahansa Yogananda may have been better known, Anandamurti was arguably the twentieth century's most compelling and controversial spiritual figure. Considered by some to be a social revolutionary with secret intentions of overthrowing the Indian government and by others to be a powerful Tantric...
Does It Matter?
Essays on Man's Relation to Materiality
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
This classic series of essays represents Alan Watts's thinking on the astonishing problems caused by our dysfunctional relationship with the material environment. Here, with characteristic wit, a philosopher best known for his writings and teachings about mysticism and Eastern philosophy gets down...
by Eknath Easwaran
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Easwaran’s best-selling translation of this classic Buddhist text The Dhammapada is reliable, readable, and profound.
Dhammapada means "the path of dharma," the path of harmony and righteousness that anyone can follow to reach the highest good. The Dhammapada is a collection of verses, gathered...
Essence of the Dhammapada
The Buddha's Call to Nirvana
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
In this companion to his best-selling translation of The Dhammapada, Eknath Easwaran explains how The Dhammapada is a perfect map for the spiritual journey.
Said to be the text closest to the Buddha’s actual words, The Dhammapada is a collection of short teachings that his disciples memorized...
by Dionysios Farasiotis
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
This powerful memoir tells the story of a Greek youth who, out of a desire to know the truth empirically, began to experiment in yoga, hypnotism, and various occult techniques. Eventually drawn back to the Faith of his forefathers Orthodox Christianity he visited the ancient monastic republic of Mount...
by Rabindranath Tagore
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
Written by Nobel Prize Laureate Rabindranath Tagore and available in paperback for the first time, Sadhana is a profound, highly accessible introduction to India’s ancient spiritual heritage.
Few figures in history have been as important as Rabindranath Tagore in bringing Indian philosophy...
Dot to Dot Zen a Primer of Buddhist Psyc
A Primer of Buddhist Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
This guide to Zen Buddhism helps explain classic Zen koans in a unique and fascinating manner.
For Westerners, Zen Buddhism is shrouded in the mysterious. Attempts at explanation are lost to double meanings and unanswerable questions. This fascinating book uses dot-to-dot simplicity to unravel...
JUNG E LE FILOSOFIE ORIENTALI
Il libro per conoscere e amare la cultura Yoga, il Buddhismo e la Meditazione Zen, il Tao, i Mandala e l'I Ching
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Carl Gustav Jung è da ritenersi non solo uno storico psichiatra e psicoanalista ma anche e soprattutto un grandissimo studioso delle culture e filosofie orientali. Se vogliamo, in tal senso, fu un vero e proprio precursore rispetto al crescente interesse verso dottrine tanto antiche quanto affascinanti,...
The Western Esoteric Traditions
A Historical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
Western esotericism has now emerged as an academic study in its own right, combining spirituality with an empirical observation of the natural world while also relating the humanity to the universe through a harmonious celestial order. This introduction to the Western esoteric traditions offers a...