Eastern Religions category: 6161 books
by Kakuzo Okakura
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
This is the annotated edition including * an extensive annotation of more than 10.000 words about the history and basics of Buddhism, written by Thomas William Rhys Davids The results of Mr. Okakura's visits to China and India, where he made exhaustive studies, are brilliantly set forth in this book,...
To Love Is to Know Me
The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living, Volume 3
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living is Easwaran's verse-by-verse commentary on the Bhagavad Gita.
Easwaran’s translation of the Bhagavad Gita is the best-selling English edition in the US. In this verse-by-verse commentary, Easwaran brings the Gita’s teachings into our own lives. Full of...
Nourishing the Essence of Life
The Outer, Inner, and Secret Teachings of Taoism
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2004
The teachings of Taoism, China's great wisdom tradition, apply to every aspect of life, from the physical to the spiritual—and include instruction on everything from lifestyle (a life of simplicity and moderation is best) to the work of inner alchemy that is said to lead to longevity and immortality.
Here,...
Goddess and the Guru
A Spiritual Biography of Sri Amritananda Natha Saraswati
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Nearly four decades ago, an intense series of spiritual visions led one of India's top nuclear physicists, until then a religious skeptic and man of science, to walk away from his prestigious post at the heart of the country's missile-defense complex. Retreating into the remote jungles of eastern...
Essence of Mind
An Approach to Dzogchen
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
This handbook to spirituality gathers together Danish meditation teacher Jes Bertelsen's advice on training the mind through wordless prayer and meditation to realize the essence of consciousness. Bertelsen has been teaching philosophy and meditation since the early 1970s; in 1989, he met the Tibetan...
The Essence of Jung's Psychology and Tibetan Buddhism
Western and Eastern Paths to the Heart
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
The Essence of Jung's Psychology and Tibetan Buddhism cuts to the heart of two very different yet remarkably similar traditions. The author touches on many of their major ideas: the collective unconscious and karma, archetypes and deities, the analyst and the spiritual friend, and mandalas. Within...
by Matthieu Ricard
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Why meditate? On what? And how? In his latest book ***Why Meditate?***—an instant bestseller in the author’s native France—Matthieu Ricard aims to answer these very questions.
As a molecular geneticist turned Buddhist monk, Ricard brings a wholly unique perspective to the practice of...
The Heart of the Revolution
The Buddha's Radical Teachings of Forgiveness, Compassion, and Kindness
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
“The Buddha’s teachings are not a philosophy or a religion; they are a call to action and invitation to revolution.”
Noah Levine, author of the national bestseller Dharma Punx and Against the Stream, is the leader of the youth movement for a new American Buddhism. In Heart of the Revolution,...
Treasury of the True Dharma Eye
Zen Master Dogen's Shobo Genzo
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Treasury of the True Dharma Eye (Shobo Genzo, in Japanese) is a monumental work, considered to be one of the profoundest expressions of Zen wisdom ever put on paper, and also the most outstanding literary and philosophical work of Japan. It is a collection of essays by Eihei Dogen (1200–1253), founder...
Sacred World
The Shambhala Way to Gentleness, Bravery, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1998
"This is the first book to offer step-by-step instruction in Shambhala warriorship. Combining Buddhist mindfulness practice and pre-Buddhist shamanic teachings, Shambhala warriorship training teaches ways to call on powerful, natural energies for personal and collective transformation. It shows us how to use everyday situations to unite mind, body, and emotions in a harmonious whole.
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
The largest-selling edition of the Gita in the Western world, Bhagavad-gita As It Is is more than a book. It is alive with knowledge and devotion; thus it has the power to change your life for the better.
Bhagavad-gita is knowledge of five basic truths and the relationship of each truth...
The Dalai Lama and the Emperor of China
A Political History of the Tibetan Institution of Reincarnation
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
A major new work in modern Tibetan history, this book follows the evolution of Tibetan Buddhism's trülku (reincarnation) tradition from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, along with the Emperor of China's efforts to control its development. By illuminating the political aspects of the trülku...
Essence of the Bhagavad Gita
A Contemporary Guide to Yoga, Meditation, and Indian Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
In this companion to his best-selling translation of the Bhagavad Gita, Easwaran explores the essential themes of this much-loved Indian scripture.
Placing the Gita in a modern context, Easwaran shows how this classic text sheds light on the nature of reality, the illusion of separateness,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
The Bhagavad Gita, the Song of the Lord, is an ancient Hindu scripture about virtue, presented as a dialogue between Krishna, an incarnation of God, and the warrior Arjuna on the eve of a great battle over succession to the throne.
This new verse translation of the classic Sanskrit text combines...