Eastern category: 10105 books
by Hampa Nagarajaiah
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
A young prince who gave up power, position and money to follow the path of Jainism. He spent twelve long years in strict meditation and became a light to millions.
by Rajkumar Sharma
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
Guru Har Krishan Sahib Ji was declared as Eighth Nanak Guru by his father Shri Guru Har Rai Sahib Ji before his death in 1661. Ram Rai, the eldest son of Guru Har Rai Sahib, was inflamed with jealousy. He had long cherished a desire to be the next Guru of the Sikhs.Ram Rai sought the audience...
Wake Up
A Life of the Buddha
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
Though raised Catholic, in the early 1950s Jack Kerouac became fascinated with Buddhism, an interest that would have a profound impact on his ideas of spirituality and their expression in his writing from Mexico City Blues to The Dharma Bums. Published for the first time in book form, Wake Up is Kerouac’s...
A Brief Fantasy History of a Himalayan
Autobiographical Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
In this autobiographical narrative, Kyabje Thinley Norbu Rinpoche sets a magical scene as he describes his early years in "Snowland" (Tibet) as one of seven children of the renowned Nyingma master Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche. After touching on his youthful training and experiences, Rinpoche describes...
by Arthur Braverman
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
What motivated Sodo-san to spend the last twenty years of his life in a “temple under the sky”— a corner of a public park where he taught passersby what it means to be forever young through the funky tunes he played on his grass flute?
In The Grass Flute Zen Master: Sodo Yokoyama, we...
Thursday's Lotus
The Life and Work of Fuengsin Trafford
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2016
Fuengsin Trafford (née Sarayutpitag) is brought up in Thailand in a traditional and ambitious family of devout Buddhists. She shows aptitude as a child, but is desperate to escape the confines of home, making a resolution to leave and never return. It is only when a monk suggests that...
Prophet's Daughter: The Life and Legacy of Bahiyyih Khanum, Outstanding Heroine of the Bahai Faith
The Life and Legacy of Bahiyyih Khanum, Outstanding Heroine of the Bahai Faith
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
Prophet's Daughter is the first full-length biography of one of the greatest women in world religious history. Her towering spiritual strength offers readers an unrivaled model of sacrifice and service to one's faith. Born in Tehran, Bahiyyih Khanum (1846-1932) was the daughter of Baha'u'llah (1817-1892),...
The Lives and Liberation of Princess Mandarava
The Indian Consort of Padmasambhava
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
This lucid translation of a rare Tibetan text makes available for the first time to Western readers the remarkable life story of Princess Madarava. As the principal consort of the eighth century Indian master Padmasambhava before he introduced tantric Buddhism to Tibet, Mandarava is the Indian counterpart...
by Edith Holland
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Paphos Publishers offers a wide catalog of rare classic titles, published for a new generation.
Story of the Buddha is a short history of the famous man.
Viropanishad
Mahavir - The miracle the great
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
Read this book in order to take flight in the world of spiritualism, in order to scale the peaks of meditation, in order to attain the bliss of freedom from death. Read this book to find peace in day to day life, in order to discover the joy of a life spent in devotion, meditation and immersion in...
Great Disciples of the Buddha
Their Lives, Their Works, Their Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
A perennial favorite, Great Disciples of the Buddha is now relaunched in our best-selling Teachings of the Buddha series.
Twenty-four of the Buddha's most distinguished disciples are brought to life in ten chapters of rich narration. Drawn from a wide range of authentic Pali sources, the material...
Shirdi Sai Baba
Life and Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2019
Sai Baba assured his devotees that those devotees who would with full dedication, faith and devotion remember me, in his house there would never have any lack of food, clothing and facilities of luxuries. His life’s entire responsibility and needs would be on Shri Sai Baba, and he would always help...
One Monk, Many Masters
The Wanderings of a Simple Buddhist Traveler
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
In 1969, Paul Breiter was among the throngs of disaffected youth who traveled to the exotic East, seeking to escape the cultural and spiritual upheavals at home. He traveled first to India, thinking that indulging the senses would be his means of finding God. Instead, he found himself at a monastery...
The Yogin and the Madman
Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet's Great Saint Milarepa
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Tibetan biographers began writing Jetsun Milarepa's (1052–1135) life story shortly after his death, initiating a literary tradition that turned the poet and saint into a model of virtuosic Buddhist practice throughout the Himalayan world. Andrew Quintman traces this history and its innovations in...