Eastern category: 10105 books
Loved and Protected
Stories of Miracles and Answered Prayers
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
If we ask God for help, will He respond?The stories in this book answer loud and clear: "YES!"In extraordinary and eye-opening accounts, we see the Divine Hand:• Physically and instantaneously moving people out of harm’s way• Healing life-threatening injuries and diseases• Providing important...
Two Zen Classics
The Gateless Gate and The Blue Cliff Records
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2005
The strange verbal paradoxes called koans have been used traditionally in Zen training to help students attain a direct realization of truths inexpressible in words. The two works translated in this book, Mumonkan (The Gateless Gate ) and Hekiganroku (The Blue Cliff Record), both compiled during the...
Religions of India
A User Friendly and Brief Introduction to Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, and the Jains
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2002
A concise and plain spoken introduction to Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, and the religion of the Jains. This book is for students and anyone else desiring to learn the basics of religion in India in a quick yet comprehensive way.
by Kahlil Gibran
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
A revelatory collection of essays and poems by a master of Eastern philosophy
In these writings, Gibran offers verses and lyric prose that possess all the grandeur of rich music. Here are the great truths and heartening joys drawn from the tears and sufferings of man. Each work sparkles with...
by Jonathan Landaw, Stephan Bodian, Gudrun Bühnemann
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
Your hands-on guide to this widely practiced and ancient religion
Buddhism, one of the world's most widely practiced religions, is a fascinating yet complex eastern religion that is rapidly spreading throughout western civilization. What does it mean to be a Buddhist? What are the fundamental...
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 Dr. Meath Conlan
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
A new book by author Meath Conlan, PhD takes select teachings of a modern-day Buddhist Master and reveals how common ground of inter-spiritual wisdom can be found between his aphorisms, or sayings, and teachings of the Desert Elders from the early Christian centuries (250 AD to Late Roman Antiquity)....
by J. A. Kempf
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2014
For over 2,000 years, the area of India that is today western Bihar and eastern Uttar Pradesh has served as the destination for devout Buddhist pilgrims from all over Asia. In 2010, James Kempf and his wife Renate undertook a pilgrimage to the Buddhist sacred sites together with 28 other Western pilgrims....
Bhagavad Gita
The Beloved Lord's Secret Love Song
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
The Bhagavad Gita is often regarded as the Bible of India. With a gripping story and deeply compelling message, it is unquestionably one of the most popular sacred texts of Asia and, along with the Bible and the Qur'an, one of the most important holy scriptures in the world.
Part of an ancient...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Yoga is a body of practice that spans two millennia and transcends the boundaries of any single religion, geographic region, or teaching lineage. In fact, over the centuries there have been many "yogas"--yogas of battlefield warriors, of itinerant minstrels and beggars, of religious reformers,...
Unbounded Wholeness
Dzogchen, Bon, and the Logic of the Nonconceptual
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2006
In this book, Anne Carolyn Klein, an American scholar and teacher of Buddhism, and Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, a rigorously trained Tibetan Lama who was among the first to bring Bon Dzogchen teachings to the West, provide a study and translation of the Authenticity of Open Awareness, a foundational...
Yoga Spandakarika
The Sacred Texts at the Origins of Tantra
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2005
Translation and commentary of one of the most important texts of the Kashmirian Shivaism tradition of Tantra
• Author was a student of the late Kalu Rinpoche
• Explores the transmission of Mahamudra, the Great Cosmic Gesture
• Includes the Vijnanabhaïrava Tantra, which...
by Joey Lott
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2016
Are you seeking for spiritual enlightenment and inner peace?Do you long for the mystical secret that will unlock permanent peace in your life? In Peace Feels Like This, Joey Lott can help you reach your goal, but not in the way you might expect. In fact, you’re going to need to throw away your...
by Farid Mirbagheri
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Rich with a history stretching back thousands of years and endowed with an Eastern heart and a Western mind, the Mediterranean island of Cyprus is a tourist destination for millions of visitors from around the world every year. However, this beauty of the landscape has been somewhat marred by the...