Eastern Religions category: 6161 books
by
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
This anthology provides a lively and stimulating view of the lives of ordinary citizens in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. For the second edition of this popular textbook, readings have been updated and new essays added. The result is a timely collection that explores key themes...
Butterflies on a Sea Wind
Beginning Zen
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Anne Rudloe was attracted to Zen as a college student. But it seemed premature for a 21-year-old to focus on the difficulties of life when she'd hardly begun to live. Twenty-five years later, she was ready to explore the spiritual discipline that originated in Asian monasteries more than a millennium...
All About Reiki
Your Beginner's Guide to Discovering What Reiki Is, Healing and Self Treatments, Attunements, Your Seven Chakras, Performing Aura Viewings, and the Reiki Symbols
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
Are you searching for a quick and easy guide to get you started with Reiki?
Do you want to gain an understanding of Reiki, without having to visit a Reiki practitioner?
Are you looking to understand what chakras are, how you can make them work in your favor to increase motivation,...
by Alistair Shearer
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2010
“A wonderful translation, full of contemporary insight yet luminous with eternal truth.”—Jacob Needleman
The Yoga Sutras were cast in their present form in India around the third century b.c. Yoga is from the Sanskrit root meaning “union,” and a sutra is a thread or aphoristic verse....
Explaining Mantras
Ritual, Rhetoric, and the Dream of a Natural Language in Hindu Tantra
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Wandering Ascetic Life of Acharya Satyananda Avadhuta
My Thirty-five Years with Baba Anandamurtijii
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
In the opening volume of his memoirs, Acharya Satyananda recounts his first twelve years with his guru, Shrii Shrii Anandamurti, during which he became the first monastic disciple of the great Tantric master. From his initiation in 1955, when he worked alongside Anandamurti in the Jamalpur railway...
by Arthur Avalon (Sir. John Woodroffe)
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2013
In "The Garland of Letters" the english orientalist Sir. John Woodroffe ( Arthur Avalon ) explaines a particular way inside the tantric tradition: the way of tantra sastra, the bija, the chakra an the related mantra. Contents:
Author's Preface THE GARLAND OF LETTERS (VARṆ AMĀLĀ)...
by
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Written by a team of internationally renowned scholars, this volume provides an in-depth introduction to religion in contemporary China. Instead of adopting the traditional focus on pre-modern religious history and doctrinal traditions, Chinese Religious Life examines the social dimensions of religious...
by Fujiwara no Tokihira
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2017
Rituals reflecting Shinto culture and beliefs, many of them drawing on the mythology of Shinto as reflected in the earlier Kojiki. In most cases the rituals take the form of prayers, but in some instances the text describes ritual practices as well.
Age of the Sages
The Axial Age in Asia and the Near East
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
By setting traditions and thinkers such as Zoroaster, Jeremiah, Isaiah, Gautama Buddha, Confucius, Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle side by side, we are able to see more clearly the questions with which they struggled, their similarities and differences, and how their ideas have influenced religious thought down to our day.
The Daoist Monastic Manual
A Translation of the Fengdao Kejie
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2004
The Fengdao kejie or "Rules and Precepts for Worshiping the Dao" dates from the early seventh century and is a key text of medieval Daoist priesthood and monasticism, which was first formally organized in the sixth century. Compiled to serve the needs of both monastic practitioners and priests in...
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.