Eastern Religions category: 6161 books

Few of the sacred texts of the world's great religions present their wisdom with the clear simplicity of the verses of the Buddhist Dhammapada, or Path to Virtue. Its direct style, clarity, and beauty place it at the forefront of Buddhist sacred literature, and its noble intent raises it to the highest...

This accessible history of Confucianism, or the 'Way of the Ru', emphasizes the religious dimensions of the tradition. It clearly explains the tradition's unique and subtle philosophical ideals as well as the 'arts of the Ru' whereby seemingly simple acts such as reading, sitting quietly, good manners,...

Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism fundamentally rethinks the nature of the transgressive theories and practices of the Buddhist Tantric traditions, challenging the notion that the Tantras were "marginal" or primitive and situating them instead—both ideologically and institutionally—within...

London, 1741. Gesundheitlich am Ende, finanziell ruiniert und trotz früherer Erfolge vereinsamt, fristet Georg Friedrich Händel sein Leben in tiefer Verzweiflung. Die Quelle, aus der sein musikalisches Schaffen hervorging, scheint versiegt zu sein. Doch da fällt ein Manuskript in seine Hände, das...

This distillation of important doctrines of Tibetan Buddhism includes a presentation of the four reflections that change the mind, bodhichitta, emptiness, the nature of mind, and Dzogchen. Also explores the nature of human embodiment and the apparitional nature of the world, with Buddha-nature as...

A Foreign Correspondent's Search for Her Cultural and Spiritual Identity What began as an assignment from her editor at the Wall Street Journal to investigate "America's hottest new fad," the secrets of sexual ecstasy in Tantra, became a story that would lead reporter Asra Nomani...

The Science of Breath & the Philosophy of the Tatwas is an ancient text translated from Sanskrit by Rama Prasad in 1894.  The Tatwas are the five modifications of the Great Breath, or central impulse, which keeps matter in a certain vibratory state.  The book deals with breathing and...

For more than a millennium, the fox has been a ubiquitous figure at the margins of the Japanese collective imagination. In the writings of the nobility and the motifs of popular literature, the fox is known as a shapeshifter, able to assume various forms in order to deceive others. Focusing on recurring...

Elibron Classics. Replica of 1873 edition by Joseph Masters, London. Metropolitan Philaret (secular name Vasily Mikhaylovich Drozdov, 26 December 1782 – 1 December 1867) was Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna and most influential figure in the Russian Orthodox Church for more than 40 years, from...

When Sylvia Fraser set off on her 7,500-mile journey of self-discovery, she was at a critical point when she wanted some larger, deeper purpose. As a solo traveler, free of the props and distractions of ordinary life, Fraser decided to treat India as a fabulous dream, in which everything that happened...

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The Daruma doll is also known as Dharma doll. Its design is rich in symbolism, and is regarded as a good luck charm by the Japanese. There is an eye-painting custom associated with Daruma doll.

In Chinese poetry and symbolism, the term peach blossom or tao hua is associated with love and romance. Peach blossom luck can have a positive or negative impact on one’s life, depending on whether it is tao hua yun or tao hua jie.