World Wisdom imprint: 132 books
by Frithjof Schuon
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
During the last three years of his life Frithjof Schuon wrote approximately 3,500 short poems in his mother tongue German. These poems, which have been called “metaphysical music,” cover every possible aspect of spiritual doctrine, practice and virtue, as well as the role and function of beauty....
Adastra & Stella Maris
Poems by Frithjof Schuon
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2003
The spiritual traveler may carry this German/English bilingual book of poems for a lifetime and not exhaust its content.
The Boy & His Mud Horses
& Other Stories from the Tipi
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Beautifully illustrated by award-winning author Paul Goble, The Boy and His Mud Horses features a collection of 27 traditional stories from different Native American tribes, including the Pawnee, Cheyenne, Blackfoot, and Lakota. Also includes a foreword by Albert White Hat, Sr., a nationally respected Lakota leader and linguist.
The Underlying Religion
An Introduction to the Perennial Philosphy
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2007
The Underlying Religion is an anthology of 25 essays by 14 of the leading exponents of the “perennialist” or “traditionalist” school of comparative religious thought, associated with René Guénon, Ananda Coomaraswamy, and Frithjof Schuon. This school is well known for its espousal of the “transcendent...
Spiritual Perspectives and Human Facts
A New Translation with Selected Letters
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2007
This new edition of philosopher Frithjof Schuon’s classic Spiritual Perspectives and Human Facts is a fully revised translation of the French edition, and contains a new extensive appendix of previously unpublished selections from Schuon’s letters and other private writings related to the topics...
Prayer Fashions Man
Frithjof Schuon on the Spiritual Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2004
In this newly revised English translation from the French, including a comprehensive glossary, this volume surveys the enormous range of Schuon's writngs on prayer and spiritual life.
Music Of The Sky: An Anthology Of Spirit
An Anthology of Spiritual Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
A collection of spiritual poetry from antiquity to the present, reflecting many styles and expressions of our experince of the sacred through the medium of poetry. Organized into three universal dimensions of spiritual life, the awareness of suffering and death, the experience of the depth of compassion...
The Essential Vedanta
A New Source Book of Advaita Vedanta
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2004
This book is the only comprehensive introduction to Advaita Vedanta that traces the history of this tradition by means of primary sources. The sources (in translation) are drawn from Sanskrit texts by some of the most important advaitic thinkers. The editors have filled in the appropriate background...
In the Face of the Absolute
A New Translation with Selected Letters
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Religion scholar Huston Smith called Frithjof Schuon "the most important religious thinker of [the 20th] century." In this revised edition of his classic work, perennialist author Frithjof Schuon addresses diverse aspects of the religious phenomenon with his characteristic authority. In the book’s...
The Shin Buddhist Classical Tradition
A Reader in Pure Land Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
This book is an anthology of passages gathered from the leading monks and teachers of the Pure Land, or Shin, school of Buddhist teaching. Extending from the foundational texts and first interpreters in the 4th century, to Rennyo in the15th century, Professor Bloom’s selections trace the development...
Islam, Fundamentalism, and the Betrayal of Tradition, Revised and Expanded
Essays by Western Muslim Scholars
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2009
Eight years after the horrific attacks of September 11th, misunderstanding and distrust between Islam and the West are still as rampant as ever. In this new and fully revised edition of his critically acclaimed book, Joseph Lumbard collects a series of essays that explain not only the veil of misconceptions...
The Power of the Sacred Name
Indian Spirituality Inspired by Mantras
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
In Hinduism, as in all of the great religious traditions from around the globe, the repeating or singing of a sacred name is an integral part of prayer and daily life. With chapters that explore the contribution of Mahatma Gandhi and Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism, this edited collection of the writing...
Borderlands of the Spirit
Reflections on a Sacred Science of Mind
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2004
In today’s secular environment the two worlds of science and spirituality are alien worlds, distinguished primarily by a deep-seated antagonism in which the principles of spirituality and the pragmatism of modern science exist face to face in a perennial state of confrontation. This profoundly learned...
by Titus Burckhardt
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
This fascinating edited collection of art historian Titus Burckhardt’s most important writings on Hindu, Buddhist, and Taoist art is lavishly illustrated with 140 superb examples of Oriental art, architecture, statuary, and painting.