Eastern category: 10105 books
The Jewelled Kitchen
A Stunning Collection of Lebanese, Moroccan and Persian Recipes
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Kehdy's cookbook is an inspired collection of classics and innovative dishes from a part of the world which, at the moment, is enjoying its overdue place in the sun. Her contribution and original, thoughtful and delicious. Go get it! --Yottam Ottolenghi Bethany Kehdy is renowned for the contemporary...
Essence of the Upanishads
A Key to Indian Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
The Katha Upanishad embraces the key ideas of Indian mysticism in a mythic story we can all relate to – the quest of a young hero, Nachiketa, who ventures into the land of death in search of immortality.
But the insights of the Katha are scattered, hard to understand. Easwaran presents them...
Like a Thousand Suns
The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living, Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 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...
by Alistair Shearer
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2010
“A wonderful translation, full of contemporary insight yet luminous with eternal truth.”—Jacob Needleman
The Yoga Sutras were cast in their present form in India around the third century b.c. Yoga is from the Sanskrit root meaning “union,” and a sutra is a thread or aphoristic verse....
The Secret of the Golden Flower
Ancient Wisdom Publications (New Translation
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
A Chinese classic of the "inner alchemy" of Taoism, this book was first translated by Richard Wilhelm (also translator, in the 1920s, of the Chinese philosophical classic the I Ching). Wilhelm, was German, and his translations from Chinese to German were later translated to English by Cary...
A Call for Revolution
A Vision for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * A LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * A SPIRITUALITY & PRACTICE BOOK AWARD WINNER * A NAUTILUS BOOK AWARD WINNER
A Landmark Message from His Holiness the Dalai Lama: Are we ready to hear it? Are we ready to act?
I call on you to confront the challenges...
Dalai Lama's Little Book of Mysticism
The Essential Teachings
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Mysticism is popularly understood as becoming one with God or the Absolute. Here in this inspirational book are the Dalai Lama's thoughts on:
The nature and meaning of mysticism
How we can live lives infused with mystical experience
How mysticism can result in both personal and social change
The...
by Ravi Ravindra, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2004
Explores St. John’s Gospel from an Eastern perspective to reveal the interconnectedness of all faiths and the need for interfaith dialogue
• Takes readers beyond academic and historical analyses by exploring the mystical foundation of the Gospel
• Includes the full text of the...
Explaining Mantras
Ritual, Rhetoric, and the Dream of a Natural Language in Hindu Tantra
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Wandering Ascetic Life of Acharya Satyananda Avadhuta
My Thirty-five Years with Baba Anandamurtijii
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
In the opening volume of his memoirs, Acharya Satyananda recounts his first twelve years with his guru, Shrii Shrii Anandamurti, during which he became the first monastic disciple of the great Tantric master. From his initiation in 1955, when he worked alongside Anandamurti in the Jamalpur railway...
by Arthur Avalon (Sir. John Woodroffe)
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2013
In "The Garland of Letters" the english orientalist Sir. John Woodroffe ( Arthur Avalon ) explaines a particular way inside the tantric tradition: the way of tantra sastra, the bija, the chakra an the related mantra. Contents:
Author's Preface THE GARLAND OF LETTERS (VARṆ AMĀLĀ)...
by Bruno Mugnai, Chris Flaherty
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2016
Chris Flaherty and Bruno Mugnai in this second volume of the ‘Lange Türkenkrieg’ examines in deep eastern European warfare and its implications in the global debate on infantry firepower, cavalry tactics and engineering techniques in this period. Covering relatively unknown corps and military...
Critique of Cosmopolitan Reason
Timing and Spacing the Concept of World Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Since the Enlightenment, the definition of terms such as humanity, citizenship and rights has fluctuated and these ideas continue to have relevance for contemporary discussions of globalization from a «cosmopolitan» perspective. This volume goes back to the conception of cosmopolitanism in Greek...
by Melech Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 1987
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 1987
The stirring story of the economic and cultural struggles of the eastern European immigrants to the United States in the early 1900's, as witnessed through the lives and contributions of eleven different men. Their contributions in politics, education, trade-unionism, philosophy, poetry and drama...