Eastern Religions category: 6161 books
Virtuous Bodies
The Physical Dimensions of Morality in Buddhist Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2007
Virtuous Bodies breaks new ground in the field of Buddhist ethics by investigating the diverse roles bodies play in ethical development. Traditionally, Buddhists assumed a close connection between body and morality. Thus Buddhist literature contains descriptions of living beings that stink with sin,...
Ways of Heaven
An Introduction to Chinese Thought
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2019
A brilliant history of ancient China's masters of philosophy -- and how they help us understand China today
In Ways of Heaven, leading China scholar Roel Sterckx offers an engrossing introduction to classical China's world of ideas. Drawing on evocative examples from philosophical texts, literature,...
The Analects of Dasan, Volume III
A Korean Syncretic Reading
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
With extensive research and creative interpretations, Dasan's Noneo gogeum ju (Old and New Commentaries of the Analects) has been evaluated in Korean Studies as a crystallization of his studies on the Confucian classics. Dasan (Jeong Yak-yong: 1762-1836) attempted to synthesize and overcome the lengthy...
Gradual Awakening
The Tibetan Buddhist Path of Becoming Fully Human
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Rediscover the Promise of Enlightenment
As Western culture has embraced practices like meditation and yoga, has something been lost in translation? “What we see in America today in both the yoga boom and mindfulness fad,” writes Dr. Miles Neale, “is a presentation of technique alone, sanitized...
by Alexander Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2019
The first-ever extensive biography of Tibet's most famous nonsectarian Buddhist lama
Known as the “king of renunciates,” Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye (1813–1899) forever changed the face of Buddhism through collecting, arranging, and disseminating the various lineage traditions of Tibet...
Bhagavad Gita Reader
All Verses in 4 Quarters
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
The Bhagavad Gita has been chanted and read in homes and workplaces. Children and families love to recite it during festivals and gatherings. It is the discourse that instructs man to realign himself to his duty and responsibility. It is the scripture that creates a strong foundation for implicit...
El libro del té
La mejor obra que se ha escrito nunca sobre la estética y el espíritu japoneses. Edición anotada.
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Edición anotada y en español de “The Book of Tea”, de Okakura Kakuzō.
Biografía de Okakura Kakuzō, referencias biográficas de los personajes históricos que aparecen en la obra, cronología de las dinastías chinas, glosario y notas por Natalio Cardoso.
Obra maestra sobre...
Freud's India
Sigmund Freud and India's First Psychoanalyst Girindrasekhar Bose
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
The sharp contrast between cultures with a monotheistic paternal deity and those with pluralistic maternal deities is a theme of abiding interest in religious studies. Attempts to understand the implications of these two vast organizing principles for religious life lead to an overwhelmingly diverse...
Caitanya Vaisnava Philosophy
Tradition, Reason and Devotion
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
In the sixteenth century, the saint and scholar Sri Caitanya set in motion a wave of devotion to Krishna that began in eastern India and has now found its way around the world. Caitanya taught that the highest aim of life is to develop selfless love for God Krishna, the blue-hued cowherd boy who spoke...
by Massimo Claus
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Ma Nichiren Daishonin che cosa ha detto realmente? Questa è la domanda che frulla nella testa dei molti discepoli di Nichiren. In questi suoi trattati Nichiren spiega la sua visione del Sutra del Loto e il Suo insegnamento. Così, senza intermediari, il lettore ha la possibilità di arrivare direttamente a...
by Massimo Claus
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Ma Nichiren Daishonin che cosa ha detto realmente? Questa è la domanda che frulla nella testa dei molti discepoli di Nichiren. In questi suoi trattati Nichiren spiega la sua visione del Sutra del Loto e il Suo insegnamento. Così, senza intermediari, il lettore ha la possibilità di arrivare direttamente a...
by Massimo Claus
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Unica traduzione italiana attualmente disponibile.
Il testo che presentiamo è una delle opere più lette del Buddhismo Giapponese, noto non solo come testo religioso, ma anche come classico della letteratura Nipponica. Il famoso filosofo giapponese Nishida Kitaro (1870-1945) ha dichiarato che se...
Il Taoismo
La Via è la meta
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Questo volume raccoglie una serie di lezioni tenute da Alan Watts fra il 1968 e il 1973, a cui parteciparono folle entusiaste e dal background culturale estremamente variegato: alcuni erano suoi allievi, altri erano incuriositi dalla filosofia del wu wei, il «non agire», altri inseguivano i venti...
Il nettare degli Dei
Filosofie e religioni d'Oriente
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 25, 2015
L'Oriente nasconde molti tesori capaci d'indirizzare verso una dimensione spirituale insita in noi; una dimensione che, una volta conosciuta e realizzata, può condurci alla pace, all'armonia, non soltanto in noi stessi ma anche nel mondo in cui viviamo, un mondo ancora pesantemente dilaniato da futili...