Eastern Religions category: 6161 books
Mediums, Monks, and Amulets
Thai Popular Buddhism Today
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Mediums, Monks, and Amulets is a sophisticated yet accessible study of the state of popular Buddhist beliefs as they are practiced in Thailand today. Using a combination of focused case studies and analysis, Pattana Kitiarsa explores the nature and evolution of popular Buddhism over the past three...
The Powerful Ephemeral
Everyday Healing in an Ambiguously Islamic Place
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2011
The violent partitioning of British India along religious lines and ongoing communalist aggression have compelled Indian citizens to contend with the notion that an exclusive, fixed religious identity is fundamental to selfhood. Even so, Muslim saint shrines known as dargahs attract a religiously...
by William Sturgis Bigelow
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
This is the annotated edition including * an extensive annotation of more than 10.000 words about the history and basics of Buddhism, written by Thomas William Rhys Davids The view of the Immortality of Man is, broadly speaking, that of the Buddhist religion. But Buddhism, like many other great religions,...
The Sea and the Sacred in Japan
Aspects of Maritime Religion
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
The Sea and the Sacred in Japan is the first book to focus on the role of the sea in Japanese religions. While many leading Shinto deities tend to be understood today as unrelated to the sea, and mountains are considered the privileged sites of sacredness, this book provides new ways to understand...
Head, Eyes, Flesh, Blood
Giving Away the Body in Indian Buddhist Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2006
Head, Eyes, Flesh, and Blood is the first comprehensive study of a central narrative theme in premodern South Asian Buddhist literature: the Buddha's bodily self-sacrifice during his previous lives as a bodhisattva. Conducting close readings of stories from Sanskrit, Pali, Chinese, and Tibetan literature...
The Neighborhood of Gods
The Sacred and the Visible at the Margins of Mumbai
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2018
There are many holy cities in India, but Mumbai is not usually considered one of them. More popular images of the city capture the world’s collective imagination—as a Bollywood fantasia or a slumland dystopia. Yet for many, if not most, people who live in the city, the neighborhood streets are...
by Miao Tsan
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
In The Origin Is Pure, Venerable Master Miao Tsan of the Vairocano Zen Monastery uses traditional Zen koans to reveal how to live in accordance with the nature of the Mind. He clarifies common misunderstandings about religious teaching and provides readers with specific ways to create positive spirits...
by Jonathan Landaw, Stephan Bodian
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
From the outside, Buddhism seems like a bundle of contradictions wrapped inside a paradox. It is a religion without a god, a belief system without rules, and a faith that encourages its adherents to question everything, including its own teachings. You could spend a lifetime studying Buddhist texts...
Coeur zen, esprit zen
Les enseignements du maître zen Ama Samy
Language: French
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Ama Samy est le seul maître zen reconnu d'origine indienne. Né en 1936 dans une famille de confession chrétienne, il fait ses études chez les jésuites et devient prêtre. Il se tourne ensuite vers l'hindouisme et suit les enseignements de sages réputés, tel Ramana Maharshi, expérimentant la...
by Manfred Hutter
Language: German
Release Date: October 13, 2016
Language: German
Release Date: October 13, 2016
Dieses Buch bietet einen kompakten und allgemein verständlichen Überblick über sieben Weltreligionen: Hinduismus, Buddhismus, Daoismus, Judentum, Christentum, Islam sowie – als Beispiel für eine neuere Weltreligion – die Baha’i. Der Autor schildert die Lehren, Verhaltensnormen, religiösen...
by Bhavna Dassan
Language: French
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Un ouvrage dun grand génie, comme le M appartient, pas seulement à l’lnde et son peuple mais à l’humanité entière. Il transcende toutes les limites institutionnalisées, sectaires et religieuses. Un disciple de n’importe laquelle des religions ou des...
Zen for Christians
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
"Whereas other Christianity-meets-Buddhism books stress ideology and the intellect, this one emphasizes daily acts of practice." — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
In this illuminating and insightful guide, Kim Boykin offers Christians a way to incorporate Zen practices into their...
Entwicklungen des Buddhismus im zwanzigsten Jahrhundert in Indonesien
Stroemungen, Verwerfungen und Aushandlungen der «Agama Buddha (di) Indonesia»
Language: German
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Dieses Buch untersucht den schwierigen Prozess, den der Buddhismus in Indonesien bis zu seiner staatlichen Anerkennung als Religion (Agama) durchlaufen hat. Dabei illustriert die Autorin die Verknüpfungen von Religions- und Minderheitenpolitik am Anpassungsprozess des Buddhismus an den Rahmen einer...
by Krishna
Language: German
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: German
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Die Bhagavadgita• Voll verlinkt, und mit Hypertext-Inhaltsverzeichnis• Mit ca. 100 interaktiv verlinkten Fußnoten• Mit einem erläuternden Artikel zur Bhagavadgita im AnhangDie Bhagavadgita (Sanskrit: gita – Lied, Gedicht; bhagavan – Herr, Gott; also »der Gesang Gottes«), verkürzt auch...