Eastern Religions category: 6161 books

Si diceva una volta – ai tempi in cui dominava l’eurocentrismo – che la Cina non aveva e non ha mai avuto una filosofia. Oggi le cose sono cambiate. Il mondo è più vasto dei confini dell’Europa e ormai ben pochi osano affermare ciò. È un fatto che da sempre il ceto dirigente della cultura...

In the late 18th century Bhagavad-gita became the first Sanskrit work to be rendered in a European tongue, and since that time it has generated countless translations and secondary analyses. Among these, however, H.D. Goswami's Comprehensive Guide with Literal Translation excels in its capacity to...

Philosophy is, in its essence, the quest of reality. In the attempt to determine what is real, one has to choose, in the first instance, between the percipient self and the things that it perceives. This choice may seem to be purely metaphysical, but sooner or later it becomes a moral choice and one...

Occult Science in India By Louis Jacolliot This book was written in the 1860s, when reliable information about Hinduism was just starting to filter back to the west. Jacolliot was searching for the roots of western esoteric traditions in the far East. The high point of this book is the travelogue...

Kali the Mother by Sister Nivedita "Margaret E. Noble was an Irish woman who was converted to Hinduism by the noted Indian Guru Vivekananda during the Victorian era. Under the name Sister Nivedita she devoted her life to selflessly serving the poor of India, particularly women, in Calcutta,...

Buddhist Mahâyâna Texts Translated by E. B. Cowell, F. Max Müller and J. Takakusu Part I: The Buddha-karita of Asvaghosha THE Sanskrit text of the Buddha-karita was published at the beginning of last year in the 'Anecdota Oxoniensia,' and the following English translation is now...

Philosophy is, in its essence, the quest of reality. In the attempt to determine what is real, one has to choose, in the first instance, between the percipient self and the things that it perceives. This choice may seem to be purely metaphysical, but sooner or later it becomes a moral choice and one...

Extrait :  2. Qu’est-ce qu’un bouddhiste ? C’est un homme qui vénère le Bouddha comme la Lumière du monde, comme le maître et le guide suprême de tous les êtres vivants ;  qui regarde comme vraie la doctrine qu’il a enseignée ; en suit les préceptes et qui a affirmé ses...

This is the extended and 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 author of " The Creed of Buddha " can safely say that no better exposition of Buddhism has ever been...

Albert Schweitzers Einführung in die Weltanschauung der indischen Denker ist inzwischen ein Klassiker. Knapp, verständlich und kompetent erklärt der Theologe und Arzt das religiöse und philosophische Denken der Inder von den Upanischaden über Buddhismus und Jainismus bis hin zum modernen Neohinduismus....

Zum Buch Das Zen – eine besondere historische Entwicklung innerhalb des chinesischen Buddhismus mit großer Wirkung auf viele Länder Ost- und Südostasiens – ist auch aus dem westlichen Kulturkreis nicht mehr wegzudenken. Damit hat sich die mit dem Zen verbundene Meditationspraxis zweifelsohne...

Zitate aus dem Buddhismus und Ihre Auslegungen Hier versucht der Autor etwas Licht in die Thesen Buddhas zu bringen, mit seiner unmaßgeblichen Meinung analysiert er die Thesen mit subjektiver Auslegung. Er versuchte dabei, möglichst nur die, aus seiner Warte, wohl wichtigsten  Punkte hervorzuheben....

Der Daoismus ist im Westen durch die Lehre von Yin und Yang und das I Ging, aber auch durch die Tradition der Körper- und Geisteskultivierung bekannt. Techniken der Atemkontrolle, Taijiquan, Qigong und daoistische Kampfkunst erfreuen sich seit Längerem auch bei uns großer Beliebtheit. Hans van...

Per la prima volta in italiano il Dizionario di Confucianesimo, un'opera enciclopedica con migliaia di lemmi su tutti gli aspetti del Confucianesimo. L’ideologia che va sotto il nome di Confucianesimo ha dominato per millenni la nazione più grande del globo. Sarebbe già una ragione sufficiente...