World Wisdom: 168 books
Borderlands of the Spirit
Reflections on a Sacred Science of Mind
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2004
In today’s secular environment the two worlds of science and spirituality are alien worlds, distinguished primarily by a deep-seated antagonism in which the principles of spirituality and the pragmatism of modern science exist face to face in a perennial state of confrontation. This profoundly learned...
by Titus Burckhardt
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
This fascinating edited collection of art historian Titus Burckhardt’s most important writings on Hindu, Buddhist, and Taoist art is lavishly illustrated with 140 superb examples of Oriental art, architecture, statuary, and painting.
The Buddha Eye
An Anthology of the Kyoto School and it's Comtemporaries
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Contains essays by many of the most important twentieth century Japanese philosophers, offering challenging and illumination insights into the nature of Reality as understood by the school of Zen.
The Essential Sri Anandamayi Ma
Life and Teachings of a 20th Century Saint from India
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2007
Anandamayi Ma is a 20th century female saint from India. She has inspired many people, including prominent Americans and Europeans. This is a fully illustrated biography of her life and a selection of her teachings.
Art of Islam, Language and Meaning
Commemorative Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
Discover the beauty of Islam through Titus Burckhardt’s masterpiece Art of Islam, presented in a revised, commemorative edition containing 285 new illustrations.
Paths to the Heart: Sufism and the Christian East
Sufism and the Christian East
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Despite the long and well-known history of conflict between Christians and Muslims, their mystical traditions especially in the Christian East and in Sufism, have shared for centuries many of the same spiritual methods and goals. The purpose of this book, the first major publication of its kind, is...
Logic and Transcendence
A New Translation with Selected Letters
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2009
Frithjof Schuon (1907-1998) is the foremost representative of the “Traditionalist” or “Perennialist” school of comparative religious thought. This new edition of Logic and Transcendence, his most important philosophical work, is a fully revised translation from the French original and contains...
Education in the Light of Tradition
Studies in Comparative Religion
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
C.S. Lewis once remarked, “Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.” In most modern cultures, their education systems are often portrayed by the media to be “failing” and in need of reform. In this unique collection of 19 essays, a diverse...
A Buddhist Spectrum
Contributions to the Christian-Buddhist Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Essays distilling a lifetime of thought and practice by one of the earliest explorers of both the physical landscape of Tibet as well as it Vajrayana tradition.
The Fullness of God
Frithjof Schuon on Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
The Fullness of God is the first in a new series of titles featuring the essential writings of Frithjof Schuon. Here for the first time in one volume are the most important of Schuon’s chapters on the Christian tradition. The Fullness of God has been organized in such a way as to guide the reader from...
Seeing God Everywhere: Essays On Nature
Essays on Nature and the Sacred
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
How do people sense God's presence in created things?Seeing God Everywhere is an anthology of essays on nature and the sacred which address that question. Written by an impressive list of spiritual leaders and thinkers, these essays explore the question from many different perspectives. Reading these...
The Mystery of Individuality
Grandeur and Delusion of the Human Condition
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
The Mystery of Individuality explores the nature of human individuality through twelve chapter-mirrors, whose main focal points are spirituality, psychology, sociology, and love, and also the meaning of sacred art. The issues of leadership and justice, as well as of politics, and even crime, are also...
Christianity/Islam
Perspectives on Esoteric Ecumenism, A New Translation with Selected Letters
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2008
This new edition of Frithjof Schuon's fourteenth work, Christianity/Islam: Perspectives on Esoteric Ecumenism, is a fully revised translation of the original French edition of 1981, and contains an extensive new Appendix with previously unpublished selections from his letters and other private writings....
Frithjof Schuon
Messenger of the Perennial Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
Frithjof Schuon (1907-1998) is the foremost representative of the “Perennialist” or “Traditionalist” school of comparative religious thought. Michael Fitzgerald’s book is the most comprehensive biographical study of Schuon to date—one which shows how Schuon expressed his message not only...