Eastern Religions category: 6161 books
The Bhagavad Gita
A Guide to Navigating the Battle of Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
A new translation of the great classic--with wide-ranging, multi-traditional commentary that emphasizes its practical advice for living with integrity.
“All there is is Krishna.”
Upon hearing this famous and enigmatic line from the Gita’s seventh chapter when he was a boy, Ravi...
by Babaji Bob Kindler
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2013
Who could forget their own mother, what to speak of the Mother of all souls? Kali, the Divine Mother of the Universe, emerges from these pages to engulf one with infinite love in this extraordinary description of Her many divine aspects.
Mother Kali is the Universal Archetype, the primeval...
A Gathering of Brilliant Moons
Practice Advice from the Rime Masters of Tibet
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Deepen your meditation with advice on Buddhist practice from celebrated masters of Tibet’s nonsectarian rimé tradition.
For generations, Buddhist masters in Tibet have composed sheldam, poignant instructions tailored to the needs of their disciples in the form of short works of advice. Often...
The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way
Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 1995
The Buddhist saint N=ag=arjuna, who lived in South India in approximately the second century CE, is undoubtedly the most important, influential, and widely studied Mah=ay=ana Buddhist philosopher. His many works include texts addressed to lay audiences, letters of advice to kings, and a set of penetrating...
The Web of Buddhist Wisdom
Introduction to the Psychology of the Abhidhamma
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Long before people in the West started to study the workings of the human mind, Buddhism was trying to understand body and mind through introspection and meditation. This knowledge has grown to be a very thorough and detailed classification and analysis of mental and physical phenomena. This refined...
Shiva and the Primordial Tradition
From the Tantras to the Science of Dreams
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2006
An extensive examination of the underpinnings of the Shaivite Tradition
• Reveals the influence of Shaivism on the Western world
• Discusses Shaivism’s understanding of sacred sexuality
• Presents the connections between Vedic poetry and metaphysics
In Shiva and...
Questions from the City, Answers from the Forest
Simple Lessons You Can Use from a Western Buddhist Monk
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
"Sincere inquiry always sparks our movement towards truth. Deep questions signal the manifestation of the very energy through which we outgrow ourselves." -- from the Introduction.
Born in Chicago, a law school graduate and real estate professional, Ajahn Sumano abandoned his comfortable...
by Henry Olcott
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
Colonel Henry Steel Olcott [1832-1907] was the first western Buddhist convert, probably since antiquity. He co-founded the Theosophical Society and was its first president. The only contributor to the 19th century southern Buddhist revival who was born a Protestant, Olcott was able to promote Eastern ideas to western society.
Tales Of Awakening
Travels, Teachings and Transcendence with Namgyal Rinpoche (1931-2003)
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
From the teachings, travels, and spontaneous interactions with his students of Namgyal Rinpoche, a now-deceased Canadian Buddhist monk and teacher of meditation, this skillfully-curated collection of first-hand student recollections conveys a deep level of relationship with a living meditation master...
Zen Lessons
The Art of Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2004
This guide to enlightened conduct for people in positions of authority is based on the teachings of several great Chinese Zen masters. Drawing on private records, letters, and long-lost documents of the Song dynasty (tenth to thirteenth centuries), Zen Lessons consists of short excerpts written in...
by Mario Poceski
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
The Records of Mazu and the Making of Classical Chan Literature explores the growth, makeup, and transformation of Chan (Zen) Buddhist literature in late medieval China. The volume analyzes the earliest extant records about the life, teachings, and legacy of Mazu Daoyi (709-788), the famous leader...
Red Thread Zen
Humanly Entangled in Emptiness
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
A radical, life-affirming book that reconciles Zen with our embodied humanity.
Love, attachment, the passions, gender, carnality, birth, bodily being, mortality, belonging, suffering, hope, despair, personhood, imagination, vitality, the struggle to be fully human—how do these things dwell wholly...
Reflections on Silver River
Tokme Zongpo's Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Reflections on Silver River consists of a new translation of Tokmé Zongpo's Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva and a verse-by verse commentary. In just thirty-seven verses, Tokmé Zongpo summarizes the bodhisattva path. While this revered and loved text from the Tibetan Buddhist tradition has...
Karmasiddhiprakarana
The Treatise on Action by Vasubandhu
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1987
Under the influence of his teacher, Louis de la Valle Poussin, Prof. Lamotte published several works in French, which were primarily editions, translations and commentaries on Tibetan and Chinese Buddhist texts. The theories and concepts contained in this particular work are closely related to those...