Eastern category: 10105 books
Jung and his Mystics
In the end it all comes to nothing
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Jung’s psychology describes the origin of the Gods and their religions in terms of the impact of archetypal powers on consciousness. For Jung this impact is the basis of the numinous, the experience of the divine in nature and in human nature. His psychology, while possessed of a certain claim to...
Ye Shall Know the Truth
Christianity and the Perennial Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2005
Contains essays on mysticism, prayer, sacred art, the relationship between Christianity and other religious.
by Eknath Easwaran
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
Learn how to find true happiness by learning to live selflessly.
Easwaran is one of the twentieth century's great spiritual teachers and an authentic guide to timeless wisdom. He shows that true happiness is based on a paradox, which is why it is so hard to find. As long as we try to make ourselves...
by William Walker Atkinson, Yogi Ramacharaka
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
This book consists of Twelve Lessons, originally issued in monthly parts, treating upon the more advanced branches of the Yogi Philosophy and Oriental Occultism. It is practically a sequel to our book "Fourteen Lessons in Yogi Philosophy and Oriental Occultism," and continues the teachings...
The Buddhist Tradition
In India, China and Japan
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
This book, compiled from basic Buddhist writings, presents a survey of Buddhist thought in India, China, and Japan, covering the central doctrines and practices that has profoundly influenced human life in Asia. Developments in practical ethics, social attitudes, philosophical speculation, and religious...
by Swami Vivekananda
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 1955
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 1955
KARMA-YOGA AND BHAKTI-YOGA describes the method of reaching perfection through daily work and of sublimating human affection into divine love.
by Swami Ramdas, Susunaga Weeraperuma
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2005
In simple and eloquent language, Ramdas writes directly and from the heart and his message of certain deliverance through the unswerving remembrance of God is meant for all serious seekers of all religions.
Orient Express
A Travel Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Before John Dos Passos enjoys fame as a chronicler and critic of American society, he wins recognition for command of aesthetics. Orient Express, a memoir of the author’s travels through Eastern Europe, the Near East, and the Middle East, focuses on sights, sounds, and smells rather than plot or...
by Charles Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
This short illustrated piece describes a trip from Teheran in Persia to Samarcand in today's Uzbekistan by an Eastern European disguised as an Osmanli Dervish.
Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake
Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
According to the Buddha, the path of kindness is the path of happiness. Now Sylvia Boorstein, nationally bestselling author of It’s Easier Than You Think, has taken the 2500-year-old practice of developing the qualities of a compassionate heart—the core of the Buddha’s own practice—and made...
The apostle of freedom
A portrait of Vasil Levsky against a background of nineteenth century Bulgaria.
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2016
Vasil Levsky, whom the Bulgarians call the Apostle of Freedom, is Bulgaria's national hero; in the early 1870's he led an underground movement against the five-century-old Turkish occupation. A combination of Sir Galahad and Robin Hood, Vasil Levsky was an outlaw who outwitted his enemies and slipped...
Erased
Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2015
In Erased, Omer Bartov uncovers the rapidly disappearing vestiges of the Jews of western Ukraine, who were rounded up and murdered by the Nazis during World War II with help from the local populace. What begins as a deeply personal chronicle of the Holocaust in his mother's hometown of Buchach--in...
The Tibetan Book of the Dead : Or The After-Death Experiences on the Bardo Plane according to Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering
Or The After-Death Experiences on the Bardo Plane, according to L=ama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2000
The Tibetan Book of the Dead is one of the texts that according to legend Padma-Sambhava was compelled to hide during his visit to Tibet in the late 8th century. The guru hid his books in stones lakes and pillars because the Tibetans of that day and age were somehow unprepared for their teachings....
by D.T. Suzuki
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
The highly influential book that helped bring Eastern spiritual principles to the Western world.
One of the world’s leading authorities on Zen Buddhism, and a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, D. T. Suzuki was the author of more than a hundred works on the subject in both Japanese and English, and...