Eastern Religions category: 6161 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Religion and Orientalism in Asian Studies analyses the role of religion in past and present understandings of Asia. Religion, and the history of its study in the modern academy, has exercised massive influence over Asian Studies fields in the past century. Asian Studies has in turn affected, and is...
Early Buddhist Meditation
The Four Jhanas as the Actualization of Insight
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
This book offers a new interpretation of the relationship between 'insight practice' (satipatthana) and the attainment of the four jhànas (i.e., right samàdhi), a key problem in the study of Buddhist meditation. The author challenges the traditional Buddhist understanding of the four jhànas as...
by Roy Melvyn
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Shinran calls to us, who are inclined to identify ourselves within our own bodies, to awaken to that which is true, real and eternal.After decades of reading and reflection, Shinran compiled these texts as his enduring proclamation of the meaning of Amida Buddha's Primal Vows for his life...
Integral Buddhism
And the Future of Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
An edifying view of Buddhism from one of today's leading philosophers: a look at its history and foundational teachings, how it fits into modern society, and how it (and other world religions) will evolve.
What might religion look like in the future? Our era of evolution in social consciousness...
Indian Asceticism
Power, Violence, and Play
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Throughout the history of Indian religions, the ascetic figure is most closely identified with power. A by-product of the ascetic path, power is displayed in the ability to fly, walk on water or through dense objects, read minds, discern the former lives of others, see into the future, harm others,...
Science and Spiritual Practices
Transformative Experiences and Their Effects on Our Bodies, Brains, and Health
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
"I have personally adopted many of the practices Rupert describes in his book and experienced more love, joy, empathy, gratitude, and equanimity as a result. We are all indebted to Rupert, who has tirelessly brought us deep insights from both science and spirituality.” —Deepak Chopra
The...
by Teitaro Suzuki
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Açvaghosha's Discourse on the Awakening of Faith in the Mahâyâna
tr. by Teitaro Suzuki
The original Sanskrit text is lost. The Awakening of Faith has been used as a textbook for Buddhist priests. This translation was the first into English; it is by Teitaro Suzuki, one of the principal writers...
by T.W. RHYS DAVIDS, HERMANN OLDENBERG
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
VINAYA TEXTS - Part III
T.W. RHYS DAVIDS AND HERMANN OLDENBERG
PART III
THE KULLAVAGGA, IV-XII
Translated from the Pali by T.W. Rhys Davids and Hermann Oldenberg. The Sacred Books of the East series, comprising fifty volumes, has translations of key sacred texts of Hinduism, Buddhism,...
Dawn After Dark
A Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2007
Dawn After Dark is a discussion between a French art critic and a Japanese religious leader. They personify two distinctively human pursuitsart and religionthat are bound together by a sense of the sacred. For more than a century, Western thought has celebrated and sustained an optimistic faith in...
Gnostic Apocalypse and Islam
Qur'an, Exegesis, Messianism and the Literary Origins of the Babi Religion
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Of the several works on the rise and development of the Babi movement, especially those dealing with the life and work of its founder, Sayyid Ali Muhammad Shirazi, few deal directly with the compelling and complex web of mysticism, theology and philosophy found in his earliest compositions.
This...
by Charles Webster Leadbeater
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
In thinking of the Lord BUDDHA we must not forget that He is very much more than merely the founder of a religion. He is a great official of the Occult Hierarchy, the greatest of all save one, and the founder in previous incarnations of many religions before this one which now bears His title. For...
Sayings of the Buddha
New translations from the Pali Nikayas
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2008
'As if someone were to hold up a lamp in the dark so that those with eyes could see - in exactly the same way Gotama has made the truth clear in various ways.' Gotama the Buddha, who lived the life of a wandering ascetic in northern India during the fifth century BCE, is looked to as the founder of...
by Charles Eliot
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
This classic text by Charles Eliot traces the origins and principles of these two great world religions.
Hindu Worldviews
Theories of Self, Ritual and Reality
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Designed to help readers deepen their understanding of Hinduism, and reflecting themes central to the study of religion and culture, Jessica Frazier explores classical Hindu theories of self, the body, the cosmos, and human action. Case studies from Hindu texts provide readers with direct access to...