Eastern category: 10105 books
The Buddha Eye
An Anthology of the Kyoto School and it's Comtemporaries
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Contains essays by many of the most important twentieth century Japanese philosophers, offering challenging and illumination insights into the nature of Reality as understood by the school of Zen.
Meditation Secrets for Women
Discovering Your Passion, Pleasure, and Inner Peace
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Finally—an approach to meditation especially for women!
The benefits of meditations are manifold—but so few practices are tailored to the special needs and interests of women. Now, with Meditation Secrets for Women, you can discover how to love your body and find a time and place to tune...
The Essence of Buddha
The Path to Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
The essence of Buddha is about living a life with meaning and purpose. It offers a contemporary interpretation of the way to enlightenment, written by highly revered spiritual leader. The fundamental tenets of the Buddhist understanding of life, such as The Eightfold Path, The Six Paramitas and the Laws...
by Laura Amazzone
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Goddess Durga and Sacred Female Power is an exploration of the many faces of the Goddess Durga in ancient and contemporary culture. This book takes us on a pilgrimage to goddess temples and natural shrines, to visit shamans and living goddesses in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal, and to India for the...
Sri Chaitanya’s Life and Teachings
The Golden Avatara of Divine Love
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Tucked away in ancient Sanskrit and Bengali texts is a secret teaching, a blissful devotional (bhakti) tradition that involves sacred congregational chanting (kīrta**na), mindfulness practices (japa, smaraṇam), and the deepening of one’s relationship with God (rasa). Brought to the world’s...
by Mark Siderits
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
This volume brings together nineteen of Mark Siderits's most important essays on Buddhist philosophy. Together they cover a wide range of topics, from metaphysics, logic, philosophy of language, epistemology, and ethics, to the specific discussions of the interaction between Buddhist and classical...
Philosophy and the Martial Arts
Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
This is the first substantial academic book to lay out the philosophical terrain within the study of the martial arts and to explore the significance of this fascinating subject for contemporary philosophy.
The book is divided into three sections. The first section concerns what philosophical...
White Fire
Spiritual Insights and Teachings of Advaita Zen Master Mooji
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Most of us are eventually compelled to search for meaning and fulfillment amidst the increasing busyness, isolation, and uncertainty of daily life. When our outer pursuits have failed to bring lasting contentment, it is our great fortune that we are inspired to turn inward. If you have found yourself...
Questions from the City, Answers from the Forest
Simple Lessons You Can Use from a Western Buddhist Monk
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
"Sincere inquiry always sparks our movement towards truth. Deep questions signal the manifestation of the very energy through which we outgrow ourselves." -- from the Introduction.
Born in Chicago, a law school graduate and real estate professional, Ajahn Sumano abandoned his comfortable...
by Henry Olcott
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
Colonel Henry Steel Olcott [1832-1907] was the first western Buddhist convert, probably since antiquity. He co-founded the Theosophical Society and was its first president. The only contributor to the 19th century southern Buddhist revival who was born a Protestant, Olcott was able to promote Eastern ideas to western society.
The Ecstasy of Enlightenment
Teaching of Natural Tantra
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1998
The Ecstasy of Enlightenment is an inside look at the spiritual world of Tantra--one of themost sophisticated, alluring, and controversial forms of Buddhism. Cleary unlocks the mysteries of the Carya-Giti, a collections of teachings by more than twenty famous Siddhas, or Tantric adepts, who lived during...
by Perle Besserman
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2007
Perle Besserman's adventures in a Japanese Zen monastery provide the groundwork for this lively, heartwarming narrative of a woman's life in Zen. Engaging in cross-cultural dialogues with nuns and laywomen in India, China, Japan, and more, Besserman dispels the notion that women had nothing to do...
by Donna Stellhorn
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
2013 brings powerful business and intense romantic opportunities for those who can harness the particular power of the 2013 Snake Year. What can your Chinese Zodiac Sign reveal about your luck in 2013? Which signs are most compatible in love relationships? What are the Flying Star predictions for...
Tales Of Awakening
Travels, Teachings and Transcendence with Namgyal Rinpoche (1931-2003)
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
From the teachings, travels, and spontaneous interactions with his students of Namgyal Rinpoche, a now-deceased Canadian Buddhist monk and teacher of meditation, this skillfully-curated collection of first-hand student recollections conveys a deep level of relationship with a living meditation master...