Eastern category: 10105 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
The Oxford Handbook of Indian Philosophy tells the story of philosophy in India through a series of exceptional individual acts of philosophical virtuosity. It brings together forty leading international scholars to record the diverse figures, movements, and approaches that constitute philosophy in...
Preying on the State
The Transformation of Bulgaria after 1989
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Immediately after 1989, newly emerging polities in Eastern Europe had to contend with an overbearing and dominant legacy: the Soviet model of the state. At that time, the strength of the state looked like a massive obstacle to change; less than a decade later, the state's dominant characteristic was...
Chinese Public Theology
Generational Shifts and Confucian Imagination in Chinese Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
It has been widely recognized that Christianity is the fastest growing religion in one of the last communist-run countries of the world: the People's Republic of China. Yet it would be a mistake to describe Chinese Christianity as merely a clandestine faith or, as hoped by the Communist Party of China,...
Intrinsic Awakened Nature
Manifesting the Wisdom of the Mind
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
In the fourth book in a series of contemporary Zen studies, Intrinsic Awakened Nature, Venerable Master Miao Tsan of the Vairocano Zen Monastery explores the manner in which many Western and Eastern religions share common principles, despite the distinct ways in which they spread their teachings....
Le Tao
Édition Age Digital
Language: French
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Le Tao signifie l'éternel, avec un contenu mis à jour en utilisant les valeurs Kabala. Signification centres autour des pensées incorporels, des conseils pour diriger tout en favorisant l'éternel comme une force unificatrice.
La Grande Étude de Confucius
Edition Age Digital
Language: French
Release Date: October 30, 2013
L'apprentissage de raffinement dans le contexte de la variation de circonstance à travers les niveaux de comportements appropriés. L'utilisation d'une formulation Kabala pour édifier et condenser importance traditionnel a été utilisé.
by Krishnakant
Language: French
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Language: French
Release Date: April 7, 2017
LE LIVRE QUI FAIT FUIR LES GURUS!
"La Dernière Directive par Krishnakant Desai a été peut-être la publication la plus influente dans le monde Vaisnava depuis 1977".
- HH Bhakti Vikasa Swami, un des gurus d'ISKCON
Qui devrait initier des disciples dans le Mouvement Hare...
Early Buddhist Narrative Art
Illustrations of the Life of the Buddha from Central Asia to China, Korea and Japan
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2000
Early Buddhist Narrative Art is a pictorial journey through the transmission of the narrative cycle based on the life of the historical Buddha. Karetzky, while demonstrating the various evolutions that the image of the Buddha underwent, maintains that there is an underlying homogeneity of the tradition...
Change, Continuity and Complexity
The Mahāvidyās in East Indian Śākta Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
The Mahāvidyās are the representative Tantric feminine pantheon consisting of ten goddesses. It is formed by divergent religious strands and elements: the mātṛ and yoginī worship, the cult of Kālī and Tripurasundarī, Vajrayāna Buddhism, Jain Vidyādevīs, Śaiva and Vaiṣṇava faith, Śrīvidyā,...
by Laozi
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015
The Tao Te Ching, also simply referred to as the Laozi, is a Chinese classic work. According to tradition, it was written around 6th century BC by the sage; pinyin: Lǎozǐ, literally meaning "Old Master"), a record-keeper at the Zhou dynasty court, by whose name the text is known in China....
by Richie Cooley
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2016
The sixth century B.C. was a pivotal time in world history. The Buddha had been born in the East, while Daniel the prophet had been taken away captive to Babylon. This short booklet explores the life and sayings of these two influential men from a fundamental Christian perspective.
Socially Engaged Art after Socialism
Art and Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
The post-1989 period has seen artists in Central and Eastern Europe embrace socially engaged practices. Reclaiming public life from the ideologies of both communist regimes and neoliberalism, their projects have harnessed the politically subversive potential of social relations based on trust, reciprocity...
The Tripolye Culture Giant-Settlements in Ukraine
Formation, development and decline
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
The crucial role that the Ukrainian 'branch' of the Tripolye culture played in shaping the historical formation of the Ukraine, and indeed that of Europe, is still not fully understood or appreciated. Although we are mostly aware of its finely-crafted and decorated pottery, along with the highly-discussed...
A Cup of Buddha
A Blueprint to Truth
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
A Cup of Buddha: reflections on truth discusses how to take the journey toward inner peace, toward truth in entertaining, simple language beyond the abstract and mystical concepts typically found in eastern philosophy books. The book applies eastern philosophy to western living utilizing pop culture...