Eastern Religions category: 6161 books
by Richard Hughes Seager
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Over the past half century in America, Buddhism has grown from a transplanted philosophy to a full-fledged religious movement, rich in its own practices, leaders, adherents, and institutions. Long favored as an essential guide to this history, Buddhism in America covers the three major groups that...
A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 3
The Storm Clouds Descend, 1955–1957
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2013
It is not possible to fully understand contemporary politics between China and the Dalai Lama without understanding what happened in the 1950’s. The third volume in Melvyn Goldstein's History of Modern Tibet series, The Calm before the Storm, examines the critical years of 1955 through 1957. During...
by Rajiv Mehrotra
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
His Holiness The Dalai Lama, the remarkable exiled spiritual and temporal head of Tibet, is a statesman for our troubled times. This collection of 11 essays by scholars, writers, theologians, and others whose lives he has touched represents a broad spectrum of perspectives on this Nobel Peace Prize...
by Nirmal Kumar Bose
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2018
This book appears in English translation more than a quarter of a century after its first appearance in Bengali. The lucid and scholarly translation from the original Bangla Hindu Samajer Goran has been done by Andre Beteille. Prof. Beteille’s introduction analyses the qualities of Bose’s mind...
Dharmanand Kosambi
The Essential Writings
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
The life and writings of Dharmanand Kosambi (18761947), pioneering scholar of Pali and Buddhist Studies, comprise the substance of this book.Born in rural Goa, Dharmanand came under the spell of the Buddhas teachings during his adolescence. As described in his long autobiographical memoir (included here),...
Buddhists
Understanding Buddhism Through the Lives of Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Buddhists: Understanding Buddhism through the Lives of Practitioners provides a series of case studies of Asian and modern Western Buddhists, spanning history, gender, and class, whose lives are representative of the ways in which Buddhists throughout time have embodied the tradition.
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Buddhist Hagiography in Early Japan
Images of Compassion in the Gyoki Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2004
Hagiographies or idealized biographies which recount the lives of saints, bodhisattvas and other charismatic figures have been the meeting place for myth and experience. In medieval Europe, the 'lives of saints' were read during liturgical celebrations and the texts themselves were treated as sacred...
by Vicki Mackenzie
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2008
This is the incredible story of Tenzin Palmo, a remarkable woman who spent 12 years alone in a cave 13,000 feet up in the Himalayas.
At the age of 20, Diane Perry, looking to fill a void in her life, entered a monastery in India--the only woman amongst hundreds of monks---and began her battle against...
A Journey in Ladakh
Encounters with Buddhism
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2000
Now considered a classic among readers interested in Tibetan Buddhism and pilgrimages of the spirit of all kinds, A Journey in Ladakh is Andrew Harvey's spiritual travelogue of his arduous journey to one of the most remote parts of the world--the highest, least populated region in India, cut off by...
Meeting Shiva
Falling and Rising in Love in the Indian Himalayas
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Meeting Shiva is a spiritual memoir. Tiziana, a single woman in her mid-thirties, is at the end of an adventurous overland trip through the Himalayas, which she embarked on to search for her tantric soul mate. When the soul mate hasn’t materialized after eight months of wandering through Tibet,...
The Moon Appears When the Water Is Still
Reflections of the Dhamma
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Drawn from the Buddha’s teachings, contemporary literature, and the author’s own life, this collection of stories, anecdotes, and aphorisms provides inspiration and refreshment for practitioners of meditation. A sympathetic, observant, and compassionate voice drives these narratives, offering...
Pagan Portal-Zen Druidry
Living a Natural Life, With Full Awareness
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Taking both Zen and Druidry and embracing them into your life can be a wonderful and ongoing process of discovery, not only of the self but of the entire world around you. Looking at ourselves and at the natural world around us, we realise that everything is in constant change and flux - like...
by Donald Lopez
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2004
While Buddhism has no central text such as the Bible or the Koran, there is a powerful body of scripture from across Asia that encompasses the dharma, or the teachings of Buddha. This rich anthology brings together works from a broad historical and geographical range, and from languages such as Pali,...
The Nihongi
Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A.D. 697
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
The Nihon Shoki, translated as The Chronicles of Japan, is the second oldest book of classical Japanese history. The book is also called the Nihongi (The Japanese Chronicles). It is more elaborate and detailed than the Kojiki, the oldest book, and has proven to be an important tool for historians...