Eastern category: 10105 books
Quest for Justice
Select Tales with Modern Illuminations from the Mahabharata
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
The Mahabharata is one of the world’s most significant historical epics. At a staggering one hundred thousand stanzas, this massive work reveals a highly complex ancient civilization – one that not only excelled in the arts, sciences, and philosophy, but that also embodied the highest ideals...
by Alexus McLeod
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
This book is a study of the methodological, metaphysical, and epistemological work of the Eastern Han Dynasty period scholar Wang Chong. It presents Wang’s philosophical thought as a unique and syncretic culmination of a number of ideas developed in earlier Han and Warring States philosophy. Wang’s...
by Tony Grey
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Based on a popular legend in Gansu, the far western province of China, The Tortoise in Asia recounts the exploits of Marcus, a young Roman centurion schooled in the Greek classics who, after a devastating loss in a battle with the Parthians, is taken prisoner, marched along the Silk Road, and pressed...
The Rhyton from Danilo
Structure and Symbolism of a Middle Neolithic Cult-Vessel
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
The so called rhyton from Danilo, an archaeological site near the coastal town of Sibenik in Dalmatia, Croatia, is a four-legged Neolithic vessel made of fired clay that according to the consensus of archaeological opinion was most likely a cult vessel used in rituals of unknown origin and content....
by Arnaud Demaury
Language: French
Release Date: September 27, 2018
Language: French
Release Date: September 27, 2018
Bien que dans certaines traditions les déesses n'existent que dans le domaine spirituel, au Népal elles vivent et respirent.
Ces Kumari, où « déesses vivantes », sont considérées comme les manifestations terrestres de l'énergie féminine divine.
Sélectionnées comme enfants,...
Hinduism and Buddhism
An Historical Sketch, Volume 1-3
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
Probably the first thought which will occur to the reader who is acquainted with the matters treated in this work will be that the subject is too large. A history of Hinduism or Buddhism or even of both within the frontiers of India may be a profitable though arduous task, but to attempt a historical...
Buddhist Philosophy
A Comparative Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
Buddhist Philosophy: A Comparative Approach presents a series of readings that examine the prominent thinkers and texts of the Buddhist tradition in the round, introducing contemporary readers to major theories and debates at the intersection of Buddhist and Western thought.
Takes a comparative,...
by Kuan Loong
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Feng Shui guide and Chinese Zodiac forecast for those born in the year of the Rooster for the year of 2016. Get in depth analysis provided by Grand Master Kuan Loong on how you can take on this year and achieve your goals by catering to your strengths and weaknesses for the year. By applying Feng...
The Origins of Religious Violence
An Asian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Religiously motivated violence caused by the fusion of state and religion occurred in medieval Tibet and Bhutan and later in imperial Japan, but interfaith conflict also followed colonial incursions in India, Sri Lanka, and Burma. Before that time, there was a general premodern harmony among the resident...
The Book of Tea
The best written account about Japanese aesthetics and spirit. Annotated edition.
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Annotated edition of “The Book of Tea”, by Okakura Kakuzō.
Okakura Kakuzō's biography, biographical references of the historical characters in the book, chronology of Chinese dynasties, glossary and notes by Natalio Cardoso.
Master work about Japanese aesthetics
"The...
by J. Abraham Velez de Cea
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
Providing a rigorous analysis of Buddhist ways of understanding religious diversity, this book develops a new foundation for cross-cultural understanding of religious diversity in our time.
Examining the complexity and uniqueness of Buddha’s approach to religious pluralism using four main...
The Heart of Confucius
Interpretation of Genuine Living and Great Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2019
"This attractive little book tells what all Western readers should know about Confucius and why his teachings are important. They are the teachings that have influenced Chinese life for two and a half millenniums and expressed universal human ideals that have helped to shape civilization. Archie...
The Tiruvacagam
or “Sacred Utterances” of the Tamil Poet
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2017
This has always been considered the first of MAnikka-vACagar's poems, and it has all the characteristics of a preface, as enumerated in the NannUl; but its very technical completeness makes its genuineness doubtful; and it rather apperars to have been added by the Tillai assembly when the lyrics of...
by Cameron Yorke
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
A road trip of epic proportions through Europe from Sweden to Turkey and back, in 2005 when the world was just beginning to rediscover Eastern Europe after the Cold, and Balkan wars. Hilariously funny, sad, scary and outrageous at the same time, it tells a story of friendship, old and new, sex, lies,...