Eastern Religions category: 6161 books
by T.W. Rhys Davids, Herman Oldenberg
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Vinaya Texts (Part I)
Translated from the Pâli by T.W. Rhys Davids and Herman Oldenberg.
The Pâtimokkha and The Mahâvagga, I-IV.
The Sacred Books of the East Part Thirteen
Translated from the Pali by T.W. Rhys Davids and Hermann Oldenberg. The Sacred Books of the East series, comprising...
by Jeffery D. Long
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
Hinduism is the world's third largest religion and still growing. It is the oldest major religion with a tradition reaching back millennia and having many notable peaks and periods of glory. It has influenced and been affected by other world religions, including Islam and Buddhism, as well as Christianity....
Mystical Science and Practical Religion
Muslim, Hindu, and Sikh Discourse on Science and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Mystical Science and Practical Religion examines the religious discourse employed by Muslim, Hindu, and Sikh applied science professionals and students, mainly engineers and Information Technology (IT) workers. Although applied scientists, especially immigrants to the United States, have shown high...
Some Trouble with Cows
Making Sense of Social Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 1994
Fascinating in its combination of personal stories and analytical insights, Some Trouble with Cows will help students of conflict understand how a seemingly irrational and archaic riot becomes a means for renegotiating the distribution of power and rights in a small community.
Using first-person...
Religion and the Specter of the West
Sikhism, India, Postcoloniality, and the Politics of Translation
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
Arguing that intellectual movements, such as deconstruction, postsecular theory, and political theology, have different implications for cultures and societies that live with the debilitating effects of past imperialisms, Arvind Mandair unsettles the politics of knowledge construction in which the...
Buddhist Monasticism in East Asia
Places of Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
The area of Buddhist monasticism has long attracted the interest of Buddhist studies scholars and historians, but the interpretation of the nature and function of monasteries across diverse cultures and vast historical periods remains a focus for debate. This book provides a multifaceted discussion...
Teaching Buddhism
New Insights on Understanding and Presenting the Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Buddhist studies is a rapidly changing field of research, constantly transforming and adapting to new scholarship. This creates a problem for instructors, both in a university setting and in monastic schools, as they try to develop a curriculum based on a body of scholarship that continually shifts...
DEATH, AND AFTERWARDS
From the English poet, best known for the Indian epic, dealing with the life and teaching of the Buddha, who also produced a well-known poetic rendering of the sacred Hindu scripture Bhagavad Gita
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
This eBook edition of "DEATH, AND AFTERWARDS" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Excerpt: "MAN is not by any means convinced as yet of his immortality. All the great religions have in concert, more or less positively, affirmed...
Sri Chalisa Collection In English Rhyme
श्री चालीसा संग्रह
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
The Hindu Chalisas for the first time are presented in English rhyme covering the most popular Hindu gods and goddesses including Lord Ganesh, Lord Shiv, Lord Vishnu, Lord Krishna, Lord Ram, Lord Hanuman, Lord Shani, Ma Gayatri, Ma Durga, Ma Laxmi, Ma Mahakali, Ma Saraswati, Ma Ganga and Ma Santoshi.
Misra’s...
Absent Mother God of the West
A Kali Lover's Journey into Christianity and Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
This book about the missing Divine Feminine in Christianity and Judaism chronicles a personal as well as an academic quest of an Indian woman who grew up with Kali and myriad other goddesses. It is born out of a women's studies course created and taught by the author called The Goddess in World Religions....
by Sofia STRIL-REVER, DALAÏ-LAMA
Language: French
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: October 17, 2013
À un moment où le Dalaï-lama s'interroge sur l'avenir et sur sa succession, Sofia Stril-Rever recueille ses paroles empreintes de réalisme sur les enjeux présents et son regard sur le monde de demain.
Le Dalaï-lama livre son autobiographie spirituelle empreinte de réalisme sur les enjeux...
Le Karma
Ce qu’il est, ce qu’il n’est pas, pourquoi il est important
Language: French
Release Date: June 7, 2017
Un livre clair et précis pour mieux comprendre le karma !
L’enseignement du Bouddha sur le karma (littéralement « action ») n’est rien d’autre que son explication compassionnée de ce que sont les choses : nos pensées et nos actes déterminent notre futur, et donc nous sommes...
Autour de Jung
Le bouddhisme et la sophia
Language: French
Release Date: July 6, 2016
Henry Corbin a rencontré Jung à de multiples reprises, avant de prendre sa succession, lors des rencontres d'Ascona, en Suisse italienne, où se sont réunis pendant des années les plus grands spécialistes mondiaux de l'expérience religieuse tels Mircea Eliade, Hermann Hesse, Gilbert Durand,...
by T.W. RHYS DAVIDS, HERMANN OLDENBERG
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
VINAYA TEXTS - Part II
T.W. RHYS DAVIDS AND HERMANN OLDENBERG
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, Taoism, Confucianism, Zoroastrianism,...