Eastern Religions category: 6161 books
by Ebrahim E.I. Moosa
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Navigate the world's belief systems with this faith-filled resource!
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Theravada Buddhism
Theravada Buddhism. The Wheel of Dhamma in Motion
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2013
What is Theravada Buddhism? Setting the Wheel of Dhamma in Motion
Theravada (pronounced — more or less — "terra-VAH-dah"), the "Doctrine of the Elders," is the school of Buddhism that draws its scriptural inspiration from the Tipitaka, or Pali canon, which scholars...
Encountering God
A Spiritual Journey from Bozeman to Banaras
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Religion scholar Diana Eck is director of the Pluralism Project, which seeks to map the new religious diversity of the United States, particularly the increasing presence of Hindu, Buddhist, and Muslim communities. In this tenth-anniversary edition of Encountering God, Eck shows why dialogue with...
Rock Your World with the Divine Mother
Bringing the Sacred Power of the Divine Mother into Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
The Divine Mother is known by many names and takes many forms. In Christianity, she is the Virgin Mary. In China, she is universally loved as the goddess of compassion, Quan Yin. In Hawaii, Pele, the goddess of fire, manifests in the form of a woman near the volcanoes. In India, she is embodied by...
Jung and his Mystics
In the end it all comes to nothing
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Jung’s psychology describes the origin of the Gods and their religions in terms of the impact of archetypal powers on consciousness. For Jung this impact is the basis of the numinous, the experience of the divine in nature and in human nature. His psychology, while possessed of a certain claim to...
by Swami Ramdas, Susunaga Weeraperuma
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2005
In simple and eloquent language, Ramdas writes directly and from the heart and his message of certain deliverance through the unswerving remembrance of God is meant for all serious seekers of all religions.
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...
Selected Works of D.T. Suzuki, Volume III
Comparative Religion
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki was a key figure in the introduction of Buddhism to the non-Asian world. Many outside Japan encountered Buddhism for the first time through his writings and teaching, and for nearly a century his work and legacy have contributed to the ongoing religious and cultural interchange...
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...