Eastern Religions category: 6161 books
The Garden of Reality
Transreligious Relativity in a World of Becoming
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
The Garden of Reality contemplates the relativity of religious truth, religious pluralism, transreligious discourse, postmodern cosmology, and multireligious mysticism. Its transreligious approach aims at a future multireligious, peaceful society in an ecological and cosmic context. It proposes that...
by Lao Tzu
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Tao (the Way) is one of the most profound and influential of the world's spiritual traditions, and the Tao Te Ching (The Book of the Way and Its Virtue) has left its imprint on Far Eastern philosophy, art, and literature for over two thousand years. This classic of meditative insight was an important...
by Ashish Dalela
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Why did I choose to name this collection “Western Questions, Eastern Answers”? Philosophy and science in the West have largely been practiced with the aim to understand the present world. A number of theories have been propounded, none of which are free of problems. Philosophy and science in the...
Five Volumes of Spiritual Wisdom: The Wisdom of the Torah, The Wisdom of the Talmud, The Wisdom of the Koran, The Wisdom of Muhammad, and The Wisdom of Buddha
The Wisdom of the Torah, The Wisdom of the Talmud, The Wisdom of the Koran, The Wisdom of Muhammad, and The Wisdom of Buddha
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Words of ancient wisdom from some of the world’s most seminal texts
The Wisdom of the Torah is an instruction in the central beliefs of three world religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. But by observing the Torah, or the Hebrew Bible, as a collected work of multiple authors spanning...
by Amrutur V. Srinivasan
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Your hands-on guide to one of the world's major religions
The dominant religion of India, "Hinduism" refers to a wide variety of religious traditions and philosophies that have developed over thousands of years. Today, the United States is home to approximately one million Hindus.
If...
by Swami Nikhilananda, Dhan Gopal Mukerji III
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
An inspiring in-depth look at the nineteenth-century
Godman of India and Prophet of Harmony.
Sri Ramakrishna, one of the greatest spiritual personalities of our time, is widely recognized as the Prophet of the Harmony of Religions. After perfecting the practice of several religions—including...
Vivekananda, World Teacher
His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
A message of love, compassion and the spiritual unity of
humankind from one of India’s visionary teachers
Vivekananda’s message gives us hope for the future. His love for humanity gave him the mandate for his message, and his innate purity gave him an irresistible power that nobody could...
Pathways to Joy
The Master Vivekananda on the Four Yoga Paths to God
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
At the 1893 Parliament of Religions in Chicago, Swami Vivekananda transformed Western thinking. He showed that, far from being an exotic novelty, Hinduism is an important, legitimate spiritual tradition with valuable lessons for the West. Pathways to Joy is a selection of 108 of his sacred teachings...
by J. J. M. de Groot
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
J. J. M. (Jan Jakob Maria) de Groot, Ph.D., (1854-1921) was a Dutch Sinologist and historian of religion. In this scholarly book published in 1910, he details the history, rituals, and beliefs of the major traditional religions of China: universal animism, polydemonism, specters, ancestral worship,...
by Independent Forum for Faith and Media
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
This series of e-booklets was commissioned by the IFFM to provide media professionals with quick reference material on the religious traditions in South Africa. They will be published in the order in which we receive them from the representatives of the faith traditions. This does not imply that it...
The Bahai Faith
The Emerging Global Religion
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
This is an excellent introduction to the history, teachings, administrative structure and the community of the Bahai Faith, the youngest and one of the fastest growing of the world’s independent religions. The authors trace the religion’s growth from its obscure beginnings in Iran during the nineteenth...
Retrieving Our Spiritual Heritage
Bahai Chair for World Peace Lectures and Essays, 1994–2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Retrieving Our Spiritual Heritage is a collection of speeches and essays that place the human spirit and the oneness of humanity at the heart of public discourse. Dr. Bushrui calls for interfaith dialogue and focuses on some of the timeless shared values of many of the world’s religions—such as love,...
by Lao Tzu, Yi-Ping Ong
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Tao Te Ching, by Lao Tzu, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics* *series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of...
The Origins of Yoga and Tantra
Indic Religions to the Thirteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2008
Yoga, tantra and other forms of Asian meditation are practised in modernized forms throughout the world today, but most introductions to Hinduism or Buddhism tell only part of the story of how they developed. This book is an interpretation of the history of Indic religions up to around 1200 CE, with...