Eastern Religions category: 6161 books
The Supreme Doctrine
Psychological Studies in Zen Thought
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
(With an Introduction by Aldous Huxley)
In its Eastern aspects—Chinese, Hindu, and Japanese—Zen Buddhism has proved a puzzle, although a stimulating one, to the Western mind. Himself a Westerner, Dr. Benoit has approached it through an occidental manner of thinking. “For the first time,...
Mindfulness
A Beginner's Guide to Meditation & Intentional Living
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2015
**Have you ever wanted to meditate or considered starting a meditative practice but didn't know where to begin? **
Mindfulness: A Beginner's Guide to Meditation and Intentional Living provides clear, easy to follow instructions on starting meditative practice.
Using the meditation...
Into the Twilight of Sanskrit Court Poetry
The Sena Salon of Bengal and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
At the turn of the twelfth-century into the thirteenth, at the court of King Laksmanasena of Bengal, Sanskrit poetry showed profound and sudden changes: a new social scope made its definitive entrance into high literature. Courtly and pastoral, rural and urban, cosmopolitan and vernacular confronted...
Buddhist Practice on Western Ground
Reconciling Eastern Ideals and Western Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2004
This is the first book to offer Buddhist meditators a comprehensive and sympathetic examination of the differences between Asian and Western cultural and spiritual values. Harvey B. Aronson presents a constructive and practical assessment of common conflicts experienced by Westerners who look to Eastern...
Radiant Mind
Awakening Unconditioned Awareness
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
Whether it is called enlightenment, pure presence, or "unconditioned awareness," there exists an awakened state of true liberation that is at the heart of every contemplative tradition.
Yet according to Peter Fenner, this experience of boundless consciousness does not have to exist...
The Awakened Man
The Heretic, the Anarchist, the Rebel
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
THIS BOOK IS THE ANSWER TO THE ESSENTIAL QUESTION OF SELF-EXPLORATION
Given that by now you have probably read all the versions of „handbooks about self-knowledge & personal development", you are probably wondering if there is anything new, yet unseen, that can be offered to you...
Change, Continuity and Complexity
The Mahāvidyās in East Indian Śākta Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
The Mahāvidyās are the representative Tantric feminine pantheon consisting of ten goddesses. It is formed by divergent religious strands and elements: the mātṛ and yoginī worship, the cult of Kālī and Tripurasundarī, Vajrayāna Buddhism, Jain Vidyādevīs, Śaiva and Vaiṣṇava faith, Śrīvidyā,...
by Richie Cooley
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2016
The sixth century B.C. was a pivotal time in world history. The Buddha had been born in the East, while Daniel the prophet had been taken away captive to Babylon. This short booklet explores the life and sayings of these two influential men from a fundamental Christian perspective.
Western Lights
A Collection of Short Essays on Buddhism
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Western Lights is a collection of essays from the viewpoint of a Western Buddhist teacher. It speaks about Eastern concepts like karma, hope, attachment, and emptiness from a personal perspective and in terms familiar to Americans. They're grounded in subject matter familiar to Americans like politics,...
by Amrita M. Salm, Judy Howe Hayes
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2019
After his epochal speeches at the World Parliament of Religions, Chicago in 1893, Swami Vivekananda spent more than three years in the United States and Europe sowing the seeds of Vedanta through illuminating his talks. These talks have come down to us through Sarah Ellen Waldo and J. J. Goodwin.
Ellen,...
Wake Up
A Life of the Buddha
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
Though raised Catholic, in the early 1950s Jack Kerouac became fascinated with Buddhism, an interest that would have a profound impact on his ideas of spirituality and their expression in his writing from Mexico City Blues to The Dharma Bums. Published for the first time in book form, Wake Up is Kerouac’s...
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
“A magnificent achievement. In its power to touch the heart, to awaken consciousness, [The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying] is an inestimable gift.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
A newly revised and updated edition of the internationally bestselling spiritual classic, The Tibetan Book of...
Be Still and Know
Reflections from Living Buddha, Living Christ
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1996
In his acclaimed national bestseller, Living Buddha, Living Christ, renowned thinker and scholar Thich Nhat Hanh explored the deep connections between Christianity and Buddhism. Be Still and Know uses selections from his groundbreaking work to create a handbook of meditations and reflections that...
by Chih-Hsu Ou-I
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2001
For centuries the I Ching has been used as a basic map of conscious development, containing the underlying principles of all religions, and highly prized by followers of Buddhism. Chih-hsu Ou-i uses the concepts of Tianti Buddhism to elucidate the I Ching—concentration and insight, calmness and...