Eastern category: 10105 books
by Joan Tollifson
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
This book points relentlessly to what is most obvious and impossible to avoid: the ever-present, ever-changing, nonconceptual actuality of the present moment that is effortlessly presenting itself right now. This book is an invitation to wake up from commonplace misconceptions and to see through the...
by Issac Chander
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Book OverviewBelow you’ll find a brief synopsis of each one of the nine chapters presented in this book. In the end, you’re going to find that they all build on one another, ultimately allowing you to soak in the Buddhist culture to the best of your ability.Chapter 1is going to provide...
Rays of the One Light
Weekly Commentaries on the Bible & Bhagavad Gita
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1996
Parallell passages from the Judeo-Christian Bible and the Bhagavad-Gita of India reveal a single unified teaching. East meets West and theological barriers tumble. Two Scriptures become one Truth.
by Charles Webster Leadbeater
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2015
It is desirable that one who wishes to study Theosophy thoroughly should acquaint himself in the course of time with the whole of Theosophical literature. This is no light task; and the order in which the books are taken is of importance if a man wishes to get out of them the best that he can. But...
Mount Fuji
Icon of Japan
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Illustrated with color and black-and-white images of the mountain and its associated religious practices, H. Byron Earhart's study utilizes his decades of fieldwork—including climbing Fuji with three pilgrimage groups—and his research into Japanese and Western sources to offer a comprehensive...
The Power of Tantra
Religion, Sexuality and the Politics of South Asian Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2009
In the West, the varied body of texts and traditions known as Tantra for more than two centuries has had the capacity to scandalise and shock. For European colonisers, Orientalist scholars and Christian missionaries of the Victorian era, Tantra was generally seen as the most degenerate and depraved...
Japanese Religions on the Internet
Innovation, Representation, and Authority
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Japanese Religions on the Internet draws attention to how religion is being presented, represented and discussed on the Japanese Internet. Its intention is to contribute to wider discussions about religion and the Internet by providing an important example – based on one of the Internet’s most...
Salaam/Shalom
A Jewish Teacher in an Islamic School
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
Salaam/Shalom is the true story of a Jewish womans experiences as a teacher in an Islamic school as she embraces a beautiful awakening and learns to focus on likenesses rather than differences.
Janet Goldman relies on extensive research and her own personal experiences during her two years...
Islam in China
Religion, Ethnicity, Culture, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2002
'Are they really Muslims?' Islam in China reveals the struggle for identity of the small yet vital Muslim community of China, a little studied minority on the fringes of the Islamic world now thrust into the spotlight by the opening of China to the world and the rise of independent Muslim republics...
Varieties of Secularism in Asia
Anthropological Explorations of Religion, Politics and the Spiritual
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Varieties of Secularism is an ethnographically rich, theoretically well-informed, and intellectually coherent volume which builds off the work of Talal Asad, Charles Taylor, and others who have engaged the issue of secularism(s) and in socio-political life. The volume seeks to examine theories of...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
In the face of the current environmental crisis—which clearly has moral and spiritual dimensions—members of all the world’s faiths have come to recognize the critical importance of religion’s relationship to ecology. The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Ecology offers a comprehensive...
Wake Up!
Awakening to Your True Self
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
In every heart there is a thirst for truth. It does not matter how you are or what you are. People may think it is impossible to awaken to your real self, but it is possible right here, right now, for everyone. There are absolutely no boundaries in thisabsolutely none. Self-created boundaries are...
坪阳再生人（简体）100个侗族轮回转世访谈案例
史上灵魂转世最翔实揭秘
Language: Chinese
Release Date: April 28, 2017
《坪阳再生人：一百个侗族转世访谈案例》，这本书由李常珍先生2016年深入中国湖南和广西交界侗族居住区实地考察后写出的纪实文学作品。本书包含坪阳及周边几十个侗族山寨的100名再生人采访案例，写作完全忠于当事人原意，本书文字可以和全程采访视频互勘。
记住前世的再生人世界各地均有零星发现，但本书调查的再生人突出特点是他们大多数对死亡后到投胎这段“中阴期”（死亡后至出生）记忆十分清晰，这对于研究灵魂转世有巨大价值。本书深入揭示了灵魂在“阴间”的活动细节，对读者可能有很大的启发意义。对比其他同类出版物，例如Ian...
Bhagavad Gita for Modern Times
Secrets to Attaining Inner Peace and Harmony
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
In this new translation and commentary on the ancient Sanskrit text, Swami Tirtha offers a completely fresh and accessible interpretation, making it easy to apply its teachings to daily life. The timeless wisdom of the Gita is illuminated by modern-day, real-world instances examining personal spiritual...