Eastern Religions category: 6161 books
Confucianism as a World Religion
Contested Histories and Contemporary Realities
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
Is Confucianism a religion? If so, why do most Chinese think it isn't? From ancient Confucian temples, to nineteenth-century archives, to the testimony of people interviewed by the author throughout China over a period of more than a decade, this book traces the birth and growth of the idea of Confucianism...
Nirvana
Concept, Imagery, Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
The idea of nirvana (Pali nibbāna) is alluring but elusive for non-specialists and specialists alike. Offering his own interpretation of key texts, Steven Collins explains the idea in a new, accessible way - as a concept, as an image (metaphor), and as an element in the process of narrating both...
Grassroots Zen
Community and Practice in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Buddhism is one of the fastest growing religions in the States
Of all the different kinds of Buddhism, Zen is uniquely attractive to Westerners due to its lack of dogma. Experience, rather than belief, is what is most highly valued in Zen. It was first popularized by the Beats including Jack...
by Masaharu Anesaki
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Masaharu Anesaki's History of Japanese Religion continues to be a much-cited pillar of Japanese studies and is now available in digital format.
The original draft of the present book was an outcome of the author's lectures at Harvard University during the years 1913-15, when he had the honor...
by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
A highly original discussion of problems of philosophy of religion from the lndian point of view. The exposition shows that the Christian theologian who will take the trouble to study Indian religion seriously, and not merely “historically,” will find in its teachings abundant extrinsic and probable...
by Eric Van Horn
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
There are many aspects of Buddhism found in most religions. These include ethics and morality, altruism and iconic stories of inspirational people. But The Little Book of Buddhist Wisdom looks at what makes Buddhism unique.
This begins with the most central teaching of Buddhism, The Four Noble...
The American Encounter with Buddhism, 1844-1912
Victorian Culture and the Limits of Dissent
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
In this landmark work, Thomas Tweed examines nineteenth-century America's encounter with one of the world's major religions. Exploring the debates about Buddhism that followed upon its introduction in this country, Tweed shows what happened when the transplanted religious movement came into contact...
by Ronald L. Grimes
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
In religious studies, theory and method research has long been embroiled in a polarized debate over scientific versus theological perspectives. Ronald L. Grimes shows that this debate has stagnated, due in part to a manner of theorizing too far removed from the study of actual religious practices....
The Secret of Secrets
The Secret of the Golden Flower
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
This book is one of the most esoteric treatises in the world. It will show you the way to become more than the body and the way to bloom - how not to remain a seed but to become a golden flower. What, in India, they call the one thousand-petalled lotus, in China they call the golden flower. It is...
The Good Heart
A Buddhist Perspective on the Teachings of Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2005
In this landmark book of interfaith dialogue, the Dalai Lama provides an extraordinary Buddhist perspective on the teachings of Jesus, commenting on well-known passages from the four Christian Gospels including the Sermon on the Mount, the parable of the mustard seed, the Resurrection, and others....
by Rangaswami Parthasarathy
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Who was Sai Baba? Where did he come from and what was his message? How and why was he worshipped as a God? Who were his disciples and why were they attracted to him? What do his devotees, numbering millions all over the country, think of his lilas? Have they experienced his compassion, and received succour...
by A. R Nanda
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
"“The Eternal Sai Phenomenon” attempts to unravel the nature of Sai phenomenon primarily in the context of the timeless Shrimad Bhagavad Gita. Sai path has been analysed from the standpoint of various yogas, like Karma yoga, Gnana yoga, hyana yoga and Bhakti yoga. Anecdotes from Shirdi Sai Babas...
The Buddha Party
How the People's Republic of China Works to Define and Control Tibetan Buddhism
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
The Buddha Party tells the story of how the People's Republic of China employs propaganda to define Tibetan Buddhist belief and sway opinion within the country and abroad. The narrative they create is at odds with historical facts and deliberately misleading but, John Powers argues, it is widely believed...
A Voluntary Exile
Chinese Christianity and Cultural Confluence since 1552
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Western missionaries in China were challenged by something they could not have encountered in their native culture; most Westerners were Christian, and competitions in their own countries were principally denominational. Once they entered China they unwittingly became spiritual merchants who marketed...