Eastern Religions category: 6161 books
The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems
A Tibetan Study of Asian Religious Thought
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems, by Thuken Losang Chokyi Nyima (1737-1802), is arguably the widest-ranging account of religious philosophies ever written in pre-modern Tibet. Like most Tibetan texts on philosophical systems, this work covers the major schools of India, both Buddhist and...
by Muhammad Vandestra
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2018
Buddhism is the religion of more than 500 million people around the globe. The majority of those people live in Asia but there are substantial Buddhist communities in other continents. There are two main Buddhist traditions, Theravada (The School of the Elders) and Mahayana (The Great Vehicle). Buddhism...
Pedagogy for Religion
Missionary Education and the Fashioning of Hindus and Muslims in Bengal
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2011
Offering a new approach to the study of religion and empire, this innovative book challenges a widespread myth of modernity—that Western rule has had a secularizing effect on the non-West—by looking closely at missionary schools in Bengal. Parna Sengupta examines the period from 1850 to the 1930s...
Beside Still Waters
Jews, Christians, and the Way of the Buddha
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
A compelling question for people of faith today is how to remain committed to one's own religious tradition while being open to the beauty and truth of other religions. For example, some fear that Buddhism is a threat to Western faith traditions and express grave doubts about interreligious and cross-cultural...
by Jaellayna Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
This book is almost certain to resonate with any reader, regardless of their own cultural, professional, or faith orientation. As a member of the Baha’i Faith, Jaellayna draws on inspiration from many people, many sources.
Advance reviews have included comments such as:
“You have such...
Re-figuring the Ramayana as Theology
A History of Reception in Premodern India
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
The Rāmāyana of Vālmīki is considered by many contemporary Hindus to be a foundational religious text. But this understanding is in part the result of a transformation of the epic’s receptive history, a hermeneutic project which challenged one characterization of the genre of the text, as a...
THE RELIGIOUS QUEST OF INDIA : HINDU ETHICS
A HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL ESSAY
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
The writers of this series of volumes on the variant forms of religious life in India are governed in their work by two impelling motives.
They endeavour to work in the sincere and sympathetic spirit of science. They desire to understand the perplexingly involved developments of thought and...
The Upanisads
A Complete Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
The Upaniṣads are among the most sacred foundational scriptures in the Hindu religion. Composed from 800 BCE onwards and making up part of the larger Vedic corpus, they offer the reader "knowledge lessons" on life, death, and immortality. While they are essential to understanding Hinduism and Asian...
by Jayeeta Ganguly
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Buddhism, one of the greatest world religions, spans 2500 years of Asian history. It is a diverse complexity of not only doctrines and institutions, but also ritual, moral, devotional and meditative practices. Since the Awakening of Gautama Buddha in the fifth century B.C.E., Buddhism has focused...
The Fourth Turning
Imagining the Evolution of an Integral Buddhism
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
What might the Buddhism of the future look like? With all that we have learned in the modern and postmodern world, how can Buddhists be true to the central teachings of the tradition while also including them in a new framework that is inclusive of ongoing discoveries? Ken Wilber here explores these...
Buddhism Observed
Travellers, Exiles and Tibetan Dharma in Kathmandu
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
How do contemporary Westerners and Tibetans understand not only what it means to be 'Buddhist', but what it means to be hailed as one from 'the West' or from 'Tibet'? This anthropological study examines the encounter between Western travellers and Tibetan exiles in Bodhanath, on the outskirts of Kathmandu,...
Death, and Afterwards (Unabridged)
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: September 18, 2015
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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: July 4, 2017
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Women in Early Indian Buddhism
Comparative Textual Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
The path of practice as taught in ancient India by Gotama Buddha was open to both women and men. The texts of early Indian Buddhism show that women were lay followers of the Buddha and were also granted the right to ordain and become nuns. Certain women were known as influential teachers of men and...