World Wisdom imprint: 132 books

Contains essays by many of the most important twentieth century Japanese philosophers, offering challenging and illumination insights into the nature of Reality as understood by the school of Zen.

Anandamayi Ma is a 20th century female saint from India. She has inspired many people, including prominent Americans and Europeans. This is a fully illustrated biography of her life and a selection of her teachings.

Discover the beauty of Islam through Titus Burckhardt’s masterpiece Art of Islam, presented in a revised, commemorative edition containing 285 new illustrations.

Despite the long and well-known history of conflict between Christians and Muslims, their mystical traditions especially in the Christian East and in Sufism, have shared for centuries many of the same spiritual methods and goals. The purpose of this book, the first major publication of its kind, is...

Frithjof Schuon (1907-1998) is the foremost representative of the “Traditionalist” or “Perennialist” school of comparative religious thought. This new edition of Logic and Transcendence, his most important philosophical work, is a fully revised translation from the French original and contains...

C.S. Lewis once remarked, “Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.” In most modern cultures, their education systems are often portrayed by the media to be “failing” and in need of reform. In this unique collection of 19 essays, a diverse...

Essays distilling a lifetime of thought and practice by one of the earliest explorers of both the physical landscape of Tibet as well as it Vajrayana tradition.

The Fullness of God is the first in a new series of titles featuring the essential writings of Frithjof Schuon. Here for the first time in one volume are the most important of Schuon’s chapters on the Christian tradition. The Fullness of God has been organized in such a way as to guide the reader from...

How do people sense God's presence in created things?Seeing God Everywhere is an anthology of essays on nature and the sacred which address that question. Written by an impressive list of spiritual leaders and thinkers, these essays explore the question from many different perspectives. Reading these...

The Mystery of Individuality explores the nature of human individuality through twelve chapter-mirrors, whose main focal points are spirituality, psychology, sociology, and love, and also the meaning of sacred art. The issues of leadership and justice, as well as of politics, and even crime, are also...

This new edition of Frithjof Schuon's fourteenth work, Christianity/Islam: Perspectives on Esoteric Ecumenism, is a fully revised translation of the original French edition of 1981, and contains an extensive new Appendix with previously unpublished selections from his letters and other private writings....

Frithjof Schuon (1907-1998) is the foremost representative of the “Perennialist” or “Traditionalist” school of comparative religious thought. Michael Fitzgerald’s book is the most comprehensive biographical study of Schuon to date—one which shows how Schuon expressed his message not only...

During the last three years of his life Frithjof Schuon wrote approximately 3,500 poems in his mother tongue German. These poems express every conceivable subtlety of spiritual and moral counsel, and the same sharpness of intellect, profundity, comprehensiveness, and compassion which one finds in Schuon’s other writings. 

In this new edition of his powerfully original work, Schuon covers an array of metaphysical, cosmological, and anthropological subjects. In the book’s signature essay, entitled “To Have a Center”, the author surveys the ambiguous phenomenon of modern genius, showing how Western humanistic society...