Ananda: 46 books
by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
A new collection of essays by the great traditionalist/perennialist Ananda K. Coomaraswamy. This collection has been edited by his son, Rama Coomaraswamy, who is well known for his writings on the Christian tradition. The Essential Ananda K. Coomaraswamy contains 21 essays on topics reflecting the...
The Wisdom of Ananda Coomaraswamy
Reflections on Indian Art, Life, and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Ananda Coomaraswamy (1877-1947) was one of the most famous scholars of Indian art, culture, and religion. He served for many years as the Keeper of Indian and Islamic Art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, establishing one of the most impressive collections of oriental artifacts in the world. This anthology...
La Transformation de la Nature en Art
Les théories de l'art en Inde, en Chine, et dans l'Europe médiévale
Language: French
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Ananda Coomaraswamy, qui consacra sa vie à mettre en évidence ce qu'il appelait l'unanimité des traditions orthodoxes - unanimité qui, pour lui, découlait de ce qu'il n'y a pas deux Déités et donc, pas deux Vérités -, s'attache dans ce livre à montrer comment, partout et toujours, l'artiste...
Divine Love Astrology
Revealing Spiritual Truth for Personal Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Longtime astrologers Shiva Das and Mercy Ananda take readers through every aspect of astrology, from its history, principles, components, and meanings, to its use as a tool to raise awareness and to understand possibilities in cause and effect. With nearly 180 black and white illustrations, including...
Die Gabe der Empathen
Wie du dein Mitgefühl steuerst und dich und andere stärkst
Language: German
Release Date: May 14, 2018
Empathische Menschen zeichnet die wertvolle Gabe, sich in die Gedanken und Gefühle anderer Menschen hineinversetzen zu können. Was zunächst sehr schön klingt, kann aber dann zur Qual werden, wenn die Gefühle, die Trauer und Wut der anderen zum ständigen Begleiter werden und das eigene Leben...
by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
The late Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, curator of Indian art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, uniquely combined art historian, philosopher, orientalist, linguist, and expositor in his person. His knowledge of the arts and handcrafts of the Orient was unexcelled and his numerous monographs on Oriental...
by Ananda
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
The text is in four parts.Part One deals with the true nature of the self and reality and how to unify the two.In Part Two money, tradition, intoxicants, science, art, evolution, form, love, commodities, delusion, sexuality, family, work, joy and other topics of concern to beings embodied...
Showdown in the Sonoran Desert
Religion, Law, and the Immigration Controversy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
This book offers reflections on a daunting and controversial ethical question: How should we treat the strangers who enter this country illegally? To understand the experience of those directly confronted by this problem, Ananda Rose traveled to the Sonoran desert at the border between the U.S. and...
The Doula Guide to Birth
Secrets Every Pregnant Woman Should Know
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2009
Here is your guide to the fastest-growing trend in childbirth—a tradition as old as motherhood itself. Doulas, or professional labor assistants, have led thousands of expectant women through the birthing process in a way that’s safe and meaningful, and that creates the birth and postbirth experience...
by Ananda Devi
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
With brutal honesty and poetic urgency, Ananda Devi relates the tale of four young Mauritians trapped in their country's endless cycle of fear and violence. Eve out of Her Ruins is a heartbreaking look at the Mauritius tourists don't see, and an exploration of the construction of personhood at the margins of society.
by Ananda Wood
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2015
Must the Upanishads be 'difficult'? Actually, they are rather plain and direct. They do not construct any complex system of ideas and beliefs. Nor do they build up any elaborate picture of the world. Instead, in some what brief and uncompromising language, they ask what is plainly and simply true:...
Digital Sisterhood
A Memoir of Fierce Living Online
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Ananda Kiamsha Madelyn Leeke became a pioneer in the digital universe twenty-seven years ago, when she logged in to the LexisNexis research service as a first-year law student at Howard University School of Law. She was immediately smitten with what the World Wide Web could do. Later, while attending...
Heaven, Hell, and Everything in Between
Murals of the Colonial Andes
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Examining the vivid, often apocalyptic church murals of Peru from the early colonial period through the nineteenth century, Heaven, Hell, and Everything in Between explores the sociopolitical situation represented by the artists who generated these murals for rural parishes. Arguing that the murals were...
by Jason Ananda Josephson
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
Throughout its long history, Japan had no concept of what we call “religion.” There was no corresponding Japanese word, nor anything close to its meaning. But when American warships appeared off the coast of Japan in 1853 and forced the Japanese government to sign treaties demanding, among other...