General Eastern Religions category: 553 books
by Jalal al-Din Rumi
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2007
'You don't seek guidance from those drunken men, So why insist they mend their rags again? God's lovers stand beyond all faiths, as they Are shown by God Himself a higher way.' Book Two of Rumi's Masnavi is concerned with the challenges facing the seeker of Sufi enlightenment. In particular it focuses...
What's Right with Islam
A New Vision for Muslims and the West
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
An American imam offers answers for today's toughest questions about Islam, and a vision for a reconciliation between Islam and the West.
One of the pressing questions of our time is what went wrong in the relationship between Muslims and the West. Continuing global violence in the name of...
by Thomas Merton
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 1995
**An ecumenical anthology, Thoughts on the East gathers Merton’s essential definitions of the religions that so much interested him—Taoism, Buddhism (in many forms, but especially Zen), Sufism, and Hinduism. **
Unified by Merton’s belief that East and West share “a unity of outlook...
The Hindu Way of Awakening
Its Revelation, Its Symbol: An Essential View of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Hinduism, as it comes across in this book, is a robust, joyful religion, amazingly in step with the most advanced thinking of modern times, in love with life, deeply human as well as humane, delightfully aware of your personal life's needs–or so it seems, for the teaching in this book is no abstraction:...
And Live Rejoicing
Chapters from a Charmed Life — Personal Encounters with Spiritual Mavericks, Remarkable Seekers, and the World's Great Religious Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
Spiritual trailblazer Huston Smith has written comprehensive books about religion and a memoir of his own life, but nowhere has he merged the two elements of seeking and experience with such storytelling flair as he has in these pages. Few have done as much as Smith to explore and illuminate the world’s...
by William James
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
This book would never have been written had I not been honored with an appointment as Gifford Lecturer on Natural Religion at the University of Edinburgh. In casting about me for subjects of the two courses of ten lectures each for which I thus became responsible, it seemed to me that the first course...
Great Swan
Meetings with Ramakrishna
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 1997
Ken Wilber says of Great Swan: “This is a wise, beautiful, brilliant book, designed to introduce us to—no, to directly immerse us in—the mind and spirit of the remarkable Ramakrishna. But as Hixon so accurately points out, ‘Ramakrishna is not a quaint person from an ancient culture, representing...
The Fruitful Darkness
A Journey Through Buddhist Practice and Tribal Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
“The wisdom of cultures that live harmoniously with nature spoken through the heart and mind of a true gnostic intermediary.” —Ram Dass
In this “masterwork of an authentic spirit person,” Buddhist teacher and anthropologist Joan Halifax Roshi delves into “the fruitful darkness”—the...
Convergence with Nature
A Daoist Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Exploring our relationship to nature—to animals, to plants, and to natural places—this book asks how that relationship can be shaped into an appropriate one that contributes to the good of people's lives as a whole. Religions and philosophies have much to say about our relationship with nature,...
by Brandon Toropov, Chadwick Hansen
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2002
You're no idiot, of courser. You know Taoism is one of the world's oldest religions, based on simplicity and balance. However, you may not know it has important parallels with modern Western faith; health, ecology, even in pop culture icons as Luke Skywalker and The Beatles.
But you don't have...
The Power of Tantra
Religion, Sexuality and the Politics of South Asian Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2009
In the West, the varied body of texts and traditions known as Tantra for more than two centuries has had the capacity to scandalise and shock. For European colonisers, Orientalist scholars and Christian missionaries of the Victorian era, Tantra was generally seen as the most degenerate and depraved...
by Ashish Dalela
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2018
Cosmic Theogony describes the Vedic trinity comprising the deities Vishnu, Shiva, and Brahma, which reflect the three aspects of the soul in Vedic philosophy, namely, cognition, emotion, and relation. The trinity initially led to the worship of the sun, the moon, and the stars, and then to the three...
From Kuan Yin to Chairman Mao
The Essential Guide to Chinese Deities
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
China is an immense land with a history spanning thousands of years, and its needs and problems are perhaps too many for a single deity to watch over. This book begins to explore the veritable army of gods, immortals, and deities to whom the Chinese have turned for help, support, and intervention--not...
by Gary Gach
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Reach Your Zen Moment!
The latest edition of The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Buddhism updates one of Alpha Books's most successful books in the religion/spirituality category, providing extensive information on both understanding the teachings and schools of Buddhism and incorporating the tenets...