Eastern category: 10105 books
by Teddy Stanowski
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
When people begin to search for religions, they may start with talking to friends and family, people that they know and trust. They may have heard of them going to church, and might want to try that out. Others that are looking into more eastern traditions such as Confucianism, Buddhism or Taoism...
Reflections on Silver River
Tokme Zongpo's Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Reflections on Silver River consists of a new translation of Tokmé Zongpo's Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva and a verse-by verse commentary. In just thirty-seven verses, Tokmé Zongpo summarizes the bodhisattva path. While this revered and loved text from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition has...
From the Gita to the Grail
Exploring Yoga Stories & Western Myths
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
What is the meaning of Shiva dancing on a dwarf named Avidya? Why does Vishnu sleep upon an endless snake? To what did the Buddha awaken? What do we mean by soul? The practice of Yoga has become quite common and popular in the West; however, the stories of Yoga are still strange to Western ears. What...
Karmasiddhiprakarana
The Treatise on Action by Vasubandhu
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1987
Under the influence of his teacher, Louis de la Valle Poussin, Prof. Lamotte published several works in French, which were primarily editions, translations and commentaries on Tibetan and Chinese Buddhist texts. The theories and concepts contained in this particular work are closely related to those...
by Louis Komjathy
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
The first book-length introduction to an exciting new interdisciplinary field—written by an internationally recognized leader of the Contemplative Studies movement
This is the first book-length introduction to a growing and influential interdisciplinary field focused on contemplative practice,...
Life of Buddha
According to the Ancient Legends of India
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
The Life of Buddha is based on a prolonged study of Indian legends, poems, history and literature.
The Life of Buddha not only adds to the actual knowledge of the facts surrounding the life of the Lord Buddha, but it also renders intelligible much that has hitherto mystified the Western student...
Arrested Mourning
Memory of the Nazi Camps in Poland, 19441950
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
«Analyzing the earliest debates over the memory of Nazi camps, the author makes an important contribution to the study of their origin, reducing the existing asymmetry in our knowledge on the relevant phenomena in Western and Eastern Europe. This is all the more important as the Poles and Polish...
The Pyramid Spiral
Dance of the Five Elements
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
During the time that the author was living in Nepal (2001-2007) and studying various meditation techniques as well as an overall science of the mind with her Tibetan Buddhist spiritual masters there, she visited the 'Caves of Immortality' at Maratika, in Eastern Nepal and Mount Kailash in West Tibet....
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2014
Discover every aspect of Moldova and the breakaway "Dniestr Republic" now known as Transnistria in this massive, authoritative compilation of up-to-date official documents with details about everything from history and geography to the current political and military situation. Thirty parts...
by Béla Tomka
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
A Social History of Twentieth-Century Europe offers a systematic overview on major aspects of social life, including population, family and households, social inequalities and mobility, the welfare state, work, consumption and leisure, social cleavages in politics, urbanization as well as education,...
Dismantling the Fantasy
An Invitation to the Fullness of Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
If you move into the deepest teachings of any great spiritual tradition, at some point you must move beyond the tradition itself and any idea of enlightenment. What is it that remains when the spiritual path, and even enlightenment, is transcended? Dismantling the Fantasy is a consideration of the movement...
Spiritual Initiation and the Breakthrough of Consciousness
The Bond of Power
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2003
Explains the phenomenon of shaktipat, the spiritual transmission of power from a teacher to a devotee
• Shows how technology has eroded personal power and how insight and awareness can play a higher role in our lives
• Reveals how insight is the vehicle for profound self-transformation
Shakti...
Beyond Mindfulness
Living Life Through Everyday Zen
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2015
Zen Buddhist teachings and writings of the late Ken Jones
Red Army Sniper
A Memoir on the Eastern Front in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
'I did not regard myself as a slacker. Even in childhood I taught myself to carry out tasks entrusted conscientiously and carefully. In war, it is no secret that the casual don't survive'.
Yevgeni Nikolaev was one of Russia’s leading snipers of World War II and his memoir provides and unparalleled...