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by Venerable Adrian Feldmann
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Born in Melbourne in 1943, Adrian Feldmann was one of the first Westerners to become a monk in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. On the eve of a three-year, solitary meditation retreat, he recounts the inner and outer journeys that lead him to Nepal where, in the early 1970's, he met two Tibetan lamas,...
Selected Works of D.T. Suzuki, Volume III
Comparative Religion
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki was a key figure in the introduction of Buddhism to the non-Asian world. Many outside Japan encountered Buddhism for the first time through his writings and teaching, and for nearly a century his work and legacy have contributed to the ongoing religious and cultural interchange...
Pyrrhonism
How the Ancient Greeks Reinvented Buddhism
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2008
Pyrrhonism is commonly confused with scepticism in Western philosophy. Unlike sceptics, who believe there are no true beliefs, Pyrrhonists suspend judgment about all beliefs, including the belief that there are no true beliefs. Pyrrhonism was developed by a line of ancient Greek philosophers, from...
Market Dreams
Gender, Class, and Capitalism in the Czech Republic
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
Drawing on a rich trove of focus group data, interviews, and textual sources, Elaine Weiner's Market Dreams powerfully captures the varied responses of female managers and factory workers in the Czech Republic to their country's transition from socialism to capitalism. Her work, rooted in sociology...
The Vatican «Ostpolitik» 1958-1978
Responsibility and Witness during John XXIII and Paul VI
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
The appraisal of the political dialogue and negotiations with the communist regimes of East Central Europe commenced by the Holy See in the 1960s did not provoke only lively debates among contemporaries, but remains to the present day one of the most debated questions of the twentieth-century history:...
by Massimo Cimarelli
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
"The purpose of the work of my whole life has been to deliver this holy book in your hands, and make you able to enter the Most Noble Path by contacting the teaching of the Buddha" This is the note that on his deathbed Kenji asks his father to write on the copies, addressed to his friends,...
The Hindu Way of Awakening
Its Revelation, Its Symbol: An Essential View of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Hinduism, as it comes across in this book, is a robust, joyful religion, amazingly in step with the most advanced thinking of modern times, in love with life, deeply human as well as humane, delightfully aware of your personal life's needs–or so it seems, for the teaching in this book is no abstraction:...
Edo Kabuki in Transition
From the Worlds of the Samurai to the Vengeful Female Ghost
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Satoko Shimazaki revisits three centuries of kabuki theater, reframing it as a key player in the formation of an early modern urban identity in Edo Japan and exploring the process that resulted in its re-creation in Tokyo as a national theatrical tradition. Challenging the prevailing understanding...
The Art of War—Spirituality for Conflict
Annotated & Explained
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
Discover the spiritually incisive strategies for peacefully resolving conflict
in this masterpiece of military strategy.
Written 2,500 years ago by Chinese general Sun Tzu, The Art of War is a poetic and potent treatise on military strategy still in use in war colleges around the world. Yet...
The Baha'i Faith
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In this clear, readable, and informative guide, Momen provides a vibrant introduction to all aspects of the Baha’i Faith, which now has over 5.5 million adherents. From the spiritual development of the individual to the belief in the need for world peace, Momen’s comprehensive study gives anyone...
by Kahlil Gibran
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
This classic work showcases the early brilliance and philosophical foundation of Kahlil Gibran, one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century
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Kahlil Gibran, author of The Prophet and one of the twentieth century’s most revolutionary, inspiring writers, effortlessly...
Samkara's Advaita Vedanta
A Way of Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2005
Samkara (c.700 CE) has been regarded by many as the most authoritative Hindu thinker of all time. A great Indian Vedantin brahmin, Samkara was primarily a commentator on the sacred texts of the Vedas and a teacher in the Advaitin teaching line. This book serves as an introduction to Samkara's thought...
by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Dr. Suzuki is generally regarded as the outstanding spokesman for Zen Buddhism in the West. A master stylist in the English language, he writes of Zen with the directness and concreteness that characterize Zen itself. As he describes the training of the monk, he is as the same time bringing this rigid...
by Carolyn Rose Gimian
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 1999
Chögyam Trungpa wrote more than two dozen books on Buddhism and the Shambhala path of warriorship. The Essential Chögyam Trungpa blends excerpts from bestsellers like Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism, Meditation in Action, and other titles into a...