Eastern category: 10105 books
Virtuous Bodies
The Physical Dimensions of Morality in Buddhist Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2007
Virtuous Bodies breaks new ground in the field of Buddhist ethics by investigating the diverse roles bodies play in ethical development. Traditionally, Buddhists assumed a close connection between body and morality. Thus Buddhist literature contains descriptions of living beings that stink with sin,...
Ways of Heaven
An Introduction to Chinese Thought
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2019
A brilliant history of ancient China's masters of philosophy -- and how they help us understand China today
In Ways of Heaven, leading China scholar Roel Sterckx offers an engrossing introduction to classical China's world of ideas. Drawing on evocative examples from philosophical texts, literature,...
The Analects of Dasan, Volume III
A Korean Syncretic Reading
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
With extensive research and creative interpretations, Dasan's Noneo gogeum ju (Old and New Commentaries of the Analects) has been evaluated in Korean Studies as a crystallization of his studies on the Confucian classics. Dasan (Jeong Yak-yong: 1762-1836) attempted to synthesize and overcome the lengthy...
Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees
A Masterpiece of the Eighteenth-Century Japanese Puppet Theater
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 1993
A masterpiece of eighteenth-century Japanese puppet theater, Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees is an action-packed play set in the aftermath of the twelfth-century Genji–Heike wars. It follows the adventures of the military commander, Yoshitsune, as he tries to avoid capture by his jealous...
by Maurizio Falghera (a cura di), Maurizio Falghera
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Lo Zen presentato attraverso brevi storie e dialoghi tratti dalle opere dei principali maestri di questa filosofia di vita orientale. Semplice e nel contempo complesso in modo paradossale, lo Zen non si può definire in modo univoco; potrebbe essere analogo al processo di dimenticare, di disapprendere,...
La Pasqua
A cura di Gianni Borsa
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 25, 2018
Una raccolta di testi che sgorgano dal cuore – articoli di giornali, capitoli di libri – e che ruotano attorno al “mistero” pasquale, scritti in varie epoche della vita dal parroco di Bozzolo, recentemente indicato da Papa Francesco come “profeta” e testimone di una fede esemplare....
by Elena Iglesias
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2013
THE PHILOSOPHY OF MY WANDERING CAT is a collection of short stories for readers to reflect on and see how they can be instructive in their own lives. Her philosophical fables help shed light on a path to enlightenment.
Each of the stories incorporate the meaning of tarot cards....
Gradual Awakening
The Tibetan Buddhist Path of Becoming Fully Human
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Rediscover the Promise of Enlightenment
As Western culture has embraced practices like meditation and yoga, has something been lost in translation? “What we see in America today in both the yoga boom and mindfulness fad,” writes Dr. Miles Neale, “is a presentation of technique alone, sanitized...
by Alexander Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2019
The first-ever extensive biography of Tibet's most famous nonsectarian Buddhist lama
Known as the “king of renunciates,” Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye (1813–1899) forever changed the face of Buddhism through collecting, arranging, and disseminating the various lineage traditions of Tibet...
Bhagavad Gita Reader
All Verses in 4 Quarters
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
The Bhagavad Gita has been chanted and read in homes and workplaces. Children and families love to recite it during festivals and gatherings. It is the discourse that instructs man to realign himself to his duty and responsibility. It is the scripture that creates a strong foundation for implicit...
by Dwaraknath Reddy
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2015
Can God Improve My Balance Sheet?
Dwaraknath Reddy
When you aspire to attain success like never before, your plan of action cannot be that somehow you will conspire to make luck strike you and lightning strike your competitors! Though commendably simple and straightforward, the strategy is...
El libro del té
La mejor obra que se ha escrito nunca sobre la estética y el espíritu japoneses. Edición anotada.
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Edición anotada y en español de “The Book of Tea”, de Okakura Kakuzō.
Biografía de Okakura Kakuzō, referencias biográficas de los personajes históricos que aparecen en la obra, cronología de las dinastías chinas, glosario y notas por Natalio Cardoso.
Obra maestra sobre...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
In the religions of the world, there is strong emphasis on the practice of "purification" for the religious transformation of mind and body in connection with achieving such ultimate objectives as enlightenment and salvation. The contributors discuss the great diversity of forms and meanings...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2008
The Daode Jing, a highly enigmatic work rooted in ancient Chinese cosmology, ontology, metaphysics, and moral thinking, is regularly offered to college and high-school students in religion, philosophy, history, literature, Asian studies, and humanities courses. As a result, an ever-expanding group...