Eastern category: 10105 books
The Afterlife of Sai Baba
Competing Visions of a Global Saint
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Nearly a century after his death, the image of Sai Baba, the serene old man with the white beard from Shirdi village in Maharashtra, India, is instantly recognizable to most South Asians (and many Westerners) as a guru for all faiths—Hindus, Muslims, and others. Tracing his rise from small village...
by E. J. Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Buddhist Scriptures by E. J. Thomas
This is a short collection of excerpts from Buddhist scripture, selected by an expert in the field. It includes several stories drawn from the Buddhas' life, including past lives from the Jataka. While less stress is placed on theological matters, the basics of the Buddha's message are all here.
The Upanishads
A New Translation by Vernon Katz and Thomas Egenes
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
This new translation of The Upanishads is at once delightfully simple and rigorously learned, providing today’s readers with an accurate, accessible rendering of the core work of ancient Indian philosophy.
The Upanishads are often considered the most important literature from ancient India....
The Bhagavad Gita
A Guide to Navigating the Battle of Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
A new translation of the great classic--with wide-ranging, multi-traditional commentary that emphasizes its practical advice for living with integrity.
“All there is is Krishna.”
Upon hearing this famous and enigmatic line from the Gita’s seventh chapter when he was a boy, Ravi...
by Babaji Bob Kindler
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Who could forget their own mother, what to speak of the Mother of all souls? Kali, the Divine Mother of the Universe, emerges from these pages to engulf one with infinite love in this extraordinary description of Her many divine aspects.
Mother Kali is the Universal Archetype, the primeval...
A Gathering of Brilliant Moons
Practice Advice from the Rime Masters of Tibet
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Deepen your meditation with advice on Buddhist practice from celebrated masters of Tibet’s nonsectarian rimé tradition.
For generations, Buddhist masters in Tibet have composed sheldam, poignant instructions tailored to the needs of their disciples in the form of short works of advice. Often...
by Jed McKenna
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
The second book in the Jed Talks series by Jed McKenna, author of the Enlightenment Trilogy and the Dreamstate Trilogy.
Jed McKenna is the author of The Enlightenment Trilogy (Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing, Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment, and Spiritual Warfare) and The Dreamstate...
The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way
Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 1995
The Buddhist saint N=ag=arjuna, who lived in South India in approximately the second century CE, is undoubtedly the most important, influential, and widely studied Mah=ay=ana Buddhist philosopher. His many works include texts addressed to lay audiences, letters of advice to kings, and a set of penetrating...
The Web of Buddhist Wisdom
Introduction to the Psychology of the Abhidhamma
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Long before people in the West started to study the workings of the human mind, Buddhism was trying to understand body and mind through introspection and meditation. This knowledge has grown to be a very thorough and detailed classification and analysis of mental and physical phenomena. This refined...
The Transformation of Yiguan Dao in Taiwan
Adapting to a Changing Religious Economy
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2008
The most influential sect in the Chinese mainland in the 1940s, Yiguan Dao was largely destroyed in mainland China in 1953. Yiguan Dao not only survived, however, but developed into the largest sect in Taiwan, despite its suppression by the Kuomintang state. In 1987, through relentless efforts, the...
by Ashish Dalela
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2018
Cosmic Theogony describes the Vedic trinity comprising the deities Vishnu, Shiva, and Brahma, which reflect the three aspects of the soul in Vedic philosophy, namely, cognition, emotion, and relation. The trinity initially led to the worship of the sun, the moon, and the stars, and then to the three...
Is the Apple Really Red?
10 Essays on Science and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2014
The clash of ideologies between science and religion - this book argues - is based on an incorrect understanding of matter, disconnected from consciousness, and an incorrect notion of God, disconnected from matter, space and time. The ideas of soul, morality, God and afterlife can also be scientific,...
Universal Freedom
Advaita Vedanta in the Life Practice of the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
Beginning with his very early childhood Elios' life (Dr. Manfred Eichhoff) has been accompanied by intense spiritual experiences. After studying several paths of both Eastern and Western Traditions and their practices, his unquenchable thirst for the Truth has ultimately led him to a certain state...
Shiva and the Primordial Tradition
From the Tantras to the Science of Dreams
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2006
An extensive examination of the underpinnings of the Shaivite Tradition
• Reveals the influence of Shaivism on the Western world
• Discusses Shaivism’s understanding of sacred sexuality
• Presents the connections between Vedic poetry and metaphysics
In Shiva and...