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Dora van Gelder Kunz |
The Personal Aura |
$24.99 $17.49 |
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| An original study of the human aura, this book includes 19 paintings that
depict the emotional energies which surround each person. The changes that occur
from infancy to old age are illustrated by the auras of specific people. The
pictures also show changes that occur in the aura in illness. The author worked
with artist Juanita Donahoo to produce the paintings in full color. The Personal
Aura presents a fresh view of these subtle aspects of the human constitution,
which are hidden... |
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David Pond |
Chakras: The Energy of Life |
$12.99 $9.09 |
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| This book will convince you that inner imbalance is not caused by situation in the outer world. Chakras for Beginners explains how to align your energy on many levels to achieve balance from the inside out. In everyday terms, you will learn the function of the seven body-spirit energy vortexes called chakras. Practical exercises, meditations, and powerful techniques for working with your energy flow will help you overcome imbalances that block your spiritual progress. |
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Bruce Goldberg |
The Magic of Astral Voyages |
$15.99 $11.19 |
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| In Astral Voyages, Dr. Bruce Goldberg presents dozens of time-tested
techniques that train you to safely leave your physical body and explore other
dimensions, near and far. Freedom from physical, mental, emotional, psychic, and
spiritual entanglements is yours at last through astral travel. Get ready for
the trip of a lifetime!
Free yourself from the limitations of the earth plane
and the laws of space and time. More than 65 exercises that train you to safely
leave your... |
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Roy Eugene Davis |
The Science of God Realization |
$9.99 $6.99 |
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| The primary cause of human suffering and unhapiness is an illusional sense of separation between the real Self and God. To be enlightened is to know that we are spiritual beings and have accurate, comprehensive knowledge of the infinite field of Consciousness and the processes of life. Review: "For those of you who have been wobbling between political movements and spiritual search, this is a wonderful book. It sorts out the virtues and shortcomings of socialism and... |
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Savitri L. Bess |
The Path of the Mother |
$20.99 $14.69 |
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| Throughout this fascinating spiritual adventure and personal pilgrimage, Savitri Bess introduces us to Ammachi, the great Holy woman from India. Bess lovingly offers us lessons, insights, and prayers that might very well break open your heart and change your life!"The Path of the Mother: With the Divine Guidance of the Holy Mother, Ammachi, written by Savitri L. Bess is fabulous! I hope to convey to those who have not yet read it the awesome power and love within its pages. This book... |
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Satya Prakash Agarwal |
The Gita for 21st Century |
$16.95 $11.87 |
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| This latest version of Bhagvad-Gita (with shlokas in Sanskrit and
commentary in English) explains how the message of social service has been
derived from this universal scripture. Written in a simple style, it will enable
common people (including high school students) to obtain a clear understanding
of the teachings of the Gita so that they can work efficiently for the good of
the society (and for their own good too).
About the Author:
Dr.Satya P.Agarwal is a Social... |
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M.P. Pandit |
The Yoga of Love |
$12.95 $9.07 |
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| The Yoga of Love concerns itself with the union of the human soul with the divine through emotion, the heart's movements of aspiration, longing and seeking, and the fulfilment of the divine relationship with the soul.
This yoga is the fount from which the great saints have drawn their inspiration and strength. The soul's ecstasy of love has given us Mirabai, St. Francis, Hanuman, Kabir and others in all the religious and spiritual traditions of the World.
About the Author:
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Ophiel |
The Art and Practice of Astral Projection |
$12.99 $9.09 |
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| "Astral Projections do work, But Not with the Results You Expect, because the
Inner Planes are not what you thought they were or were taught they were. So, I
suggest you forget what you have been told the Inner Planes are like or
speculate on what you are going to see and experience. Learn the Art. Practice
the Art. And follow where the results lead. You will then Know what the Inner
Planes are like."
Review:
"This is a great book! It actually makes it clear that... |
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Christine Townend |
The Hidden Master |
$15.99 $11.19 |
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| 'The Hidden Master' is the story of an inquiry into the nature of total
transformation of the human psyche, sometimes called enlightenment, as revealed
by a realised Teacher, Vimala Thakar. It is also a story about the interaction
of two forces-the force of understanding (the Teacher) and the force of inquiry
(the seeker after truth). In attempting to live and practice the teaching of
Vimalaji, the inquirer, Christine Townend, decided to record and analuyse the
inner and outer... |
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Subhash Kak |
The Asvamedha - The Rite and it's Logic |
$12.99 $9.09 |
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| This book describes the Asvamedha rite and its symbolism to explain distinctive aspects of the Vedic sacrifice system. Several questions related to the Asvamedha are posed and answered in the context of Vedic epistemology. This rite has three important functions: (i) it presents and equivalence of the naksatra year to the heaven, implying that it is rite that celebrates the rebirth of the Sun; (ii) it is symbolic of the conquest of Time by the king, in whose name the rite is... |
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Kelsang Gyatso |
Understanding the Mind |
$18.49 $12.94 |
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| An Explanation of the Nature and Functions of the Mind. An understanding
of the mind and the ultimate nature of reality, lies at the heart of Buddhist
view and practice.
About the Author:
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso is a fully accomplished meditation
Master and internationally renowned teacher of Buddhism. He is the author of a
series of highly acclaimed books that transmit perfectly the ancient wisdom of
Buddhism to our modern world. He has also founded many Buddhist Centres... |
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Arun Kumar Singh |
The Comprehensive History of Psychology |
$19.37 $13.56 |
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| The Comprehensive History of Psychology is a simple introduction to the history of psychology. It provides a basic understanding of the major systems and theories in psychology is a comprehensive way. It covers in detail the historical backgrounds taking place before the emergence of each system. As such, it provides a better understanding about the historical emergence of the status of psychology in beginning and its separation from philosophical traditions. It covers a lucid discussion with... |
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Supriya Rai |
Spiritual Masters: The Buddha |
$8.49 $5.94 |
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| In this book, three men narrate the story of the Buddhas life. One is his
son and disciple, Rahula. Another is King Bimbisaras charioteer, Triguna, who is
a creature of fiction. The third narrator is Ananda, a cousin and disciple of
the Master and later, his attendant. As they proceed with the narration, their
understanding of the Masters Teaching deepens, enabling each one to achieve his
own transformation.
The Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, lived and taught over 2500 years ago. His... |
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Palden Choedak Oshoe |
The Nepal Cookbook |
$16.95 $11.87 |
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| Unless in 1986 you discovered Nepali Delights, the first edition of this
book, it's unlikely that you have a Nepali cookbook in your collection. This
compendium of family recipes from more than 50 contributors provides a sampling
of the favorite dishes that make up this cuisine influenced by both Tibetan and,
more familiar to American readers, East Indian cooking. Grains are the base of the diet,
mustard oil and ghee are used for cooking, and chiles, garlic, ginger, and cumin
are... |
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Marc Edmund Jones |
The Guide to Horoscope Interpretation |
$9.99 $6.99 |
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| The Guide to Horoscope Interpretation presents the author's many original thoughts on this facet of astrology. Twenty-eight horoscopes are delineated, and basic points of interpretation are provided for forty-four others. This text offers a technique of judgement, but not a series of patterns which can be said to have any existence outside their function as guiding factors in the process of analysis. Astrology is able to predict the probabilities in a given situation because it... |
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Gill Farrer-Halls |
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Buddhist Wisdom |
$39.95 $27.97 |
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| Joyful Effort, Right Livelihood, Compassionate Living, Freedom from Suffering - such principles offer healing balance to the hectic pursuit of the American Dream and explain why Buddhism is the fastest growing religion in the West. In Buddhism, many seekers find their true path to peace and happiness, regardless of hardship. This lavishly illustrated gift book includes:
The story of Prince Siddhartha and Buddhism's spread throughout Asia
Basic beliefs of Buddhism, emphasizing the Tibetan,... |
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Henrietta Wells |
Homeopathy: The Modern Prescriber |
$14.49 $10.14 |
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| This book is a practical approach to using homeopathics. It gives step-by-step instructions for many first aid situation and how to treat everyday coughs, colds, and fevers as well as food poisoning and even hangovers! It also addresses a number of controversial issues including vaccination, giving homeopathic alternatives. A responsible and helpful guide to homeopathic remedies - when they are appropriate and when they are not. |
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Vasant Lad |
The Yoga of Herbs |
$12.99 $9.09 |
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| For the first time, here is a detailed explanation and classification of
herbs, using the ancient system of Ayurveda. More than 270 herbs are listed,
with 108 herbs explained in detail. Included are many of the most commonly used
western herbs with a profound Ayurvedic perspective. Important Chinese and
special Ayurvedic herbs are introduced. Beautiful diagrams and charts, as well
as detailed glossaries, appendices and index are included.
About the Authors:
Vansant... |
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Sivananda Yoga Centre |
The Yoga Cookbook - Vegetarian Food for Body and Mind |
$26.95 $18.86 |
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| The teachings of yoga advocate a vegetarian diet, with special emphasis on
foods that bring peace to body, mind, and spirit. The Yoga Cookbook contains
more than 170 recipes prepared under the guidance of the world-renowned
Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centers. Illustrated with more than sixty beautiful color
photographs, these delicious, easy-to-prepare recipes have an international
flavor. Begin the day with Citrus Slices with Pomegranate Seeds and Carrot and
Molasses Muffins. Savor... |
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Cyrus Stearns |
The Buddha from Dolpo |
$21.95 $15.37 |
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| The Buddha from Dolpo examines the life and thought of the Tibetan
Buddhist master, Dolpopa Sherab Gyaltsen (1292- 1361). Known as "The Buddha from
Dolpo," he was one of the most important and original thinkers in Tibetan
history, and perhaps the greatest expert on the tantric teachings of the
Kalacakra or "Wheel of Time." Based largely upon esoteric Buddhist knowledge
believed to be preserved in the legendary land of Shambhala, Dolpopa's theories
continue to excite controversy in... |
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K. Jaya Sekhar |
The Best Bet |
$12.99 $9.09 |
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| This book blazes a new trail in presenting Vedic Astrology to the twenty-five century reader. There is an organised, systematic approach making the ancient system most relevant to modern life. The logic and rationale behind the apparently mystical and arbitary rules given by the sages is convincingly presented. This book is based on independent research and forty years of astrological practice of the author. ..... this book is meant for people who consider marriage a social... |
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Joan Bunning |
Learning the Tarot |
$23.95 $16.77 |
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| A how-to-book with a lesson format, Learning the Tarot is a creative,
uncomplicated system that adapts to a user's specific needs. Whether for
beginners or advanced students, the 19 lessons, included in Learning the Tarot,
are structured in an unoverwhelming manner which allows the student to quickly
grasp concepts of divinations and self-exploration.
About the Author:
Joan Bunning, a graduate in Social Psychology from
Cornell... |
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M.P. Pandit |
The Yoga of Knowledge |
$12.99 $9.09 |
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| The book presents a clear and systematic vision of the Yoga of Knowledge,
and the author explains, clarifies and illustrates the principles of the yoga as
described by Sri Aurobindo. The seeker gains insight into the transformation of
man the mental being seeking knowledge into a spiritual being embodying
knowledge through oneness.
About the Author:
M.P. Pandit is a world-recognised authority on yoga and the Indian spiritual
tradition. He has written or edited more than... |
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M.P. Pandit |
The Yoga of Works |
$10.99 $7.69 |
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| The book deals with the problem of life energy, action and direction, which
confronts us all whenever we try to integrate our spiritual aspirations with the
daily life around us and the need to "work" in the society and play a role in
the vast undertakings of the Western world.
About the Author:
M.P. Pandit is a world-recognised authority on yoga and the Indian spiritual
tradition. He has written or edited more than eighty books on the teachings of
Sri Aurobindo and the... |
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M.P. Pandit |
The Yoga of Self-Perfection |
$23.95 $16.77 |
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| The book represents a unique contribution of Sri Aurobindo to the science of yoga, which has generally in the past set its goal as the dissolution of the powers of life and personality into the Transcendent. Whereas the traditional paths of works, knowledge and love all rely on a predominant part of the personality to lead the seeker to the realization of the Divine Consciousness.
About the Author:
M.P. Pandit is a world-recognised authority on yoga and the Indian spiritual tradition.... |
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Shafica Karagulla |
The Chakras and the Human Energy Fields |
$14.49 $10.14 |
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| The book provides clairvoyant observation of the chakras. These can be
used as a reliable diagnostic tool to determine an individual's state of health
and even spiritual condition... In its analyses and detailed descriptions, this
book is a quantum leap beyond the pioneering work 'The Chakras' by Charles W.
Leadbeater.
The key to health and disease, the authors show, lies in the dynamic interaction between the body's physical, emotional, and mental fields and universal energy... |
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Trevor Leggett |
Realization of the Supreme Self |
$18.99 $13.29 |
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| This book presents the Gita yoga in the light of explanations by Sankara. The Gita can be misread, as Sankara says. It is not a gradual ascent to the final devotion of the soul to a Lord high above. The whole basis of Gita yoga is confirmation through experiments not mere exhortion. This highly significant book presents the Gita as a training manual for spiritual practice.
This book is an excellent guide accessible to all. While highlighting the heart of the Gita text, the author by means of... |
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Frank Arjava Petter |
Reiki: The Legacy of Dr. Usui |
$9.99 $6.99 |
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| A great deal has been written and said to date about the history of Reiki
and its founder. The author has come across documents that quote Mikao Usui's
original words. In a number of essays, he discusses topics related to Reiki and
the viewpoints of an independent Reiki teacher. Questions that his students
asked and he answered throw light upon Usui's very personal view of the
teachings. Materials meant as the basis for his student's studies round off the
entire work. A family tree... |
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Dr. Tamdin Sither Bradley |
Principles of Tibetan Medicine |
$12.99 $9.09 |
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| Tibetan medicine is a complete medical system. It is called So-ba Rig-pa, or the science of healing, and is based on the four medical tantras called Gyud-bzhi. The present book includes: theory of practice of Tibetan Medicine, historical background, diagnosis, treatments and therapies, tips for healthy diet and lifestyle.
"This book is an excellent primer of Tibetan Medicine and certainly will be of interest to anyone studying alternative healing methods. It's clear from the beginning that... |
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Geshe Kelsang Gyatso |
The Bodhisattva Vow |
$8.49 $5.94 |
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| In this guide to compassionate living, Geshe Kelsang explains in detail
how to take and keep the Bodhisattva vows. He gives advice on every aspect of a
Bodhisattva's moral discipline, as well as explaining a special practice for
purifying our mind.
The essence of Mahayana Buddhism is the Bodhisattva's way of life. A Bodhisattva's every action is motivated by the wish to attain full enlightenment for the sake of others; and to fulfil this wish he or she takes the Bodhisattva vow and... |
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William Q. Judge |
The Ocean of Theosophy |
$16.95 $11.87 |
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| Theosophy is that ocean of knowledge which leads to wisdom about God. It is a religion with scientific foundation. Embracing both the scientific and the religious advancement, Theosophy is a scientific religion and religion science. It is not a belief or dogma formulated or invented by man, but it is a knowledge of the laws which govern the evolution of physical, astral, psychical and intellectual constituents of nature and of man. The teaching of Theosophy deal for the present chiefly with our... |
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Edwin C. Steinbrecher |
The Inner Guide Meditation |
$23.95 $16.77 |
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| A completely revised edition of this best-selling title. Describes the transformational journey to enlightenment and awareness using the tarot, astrology, the Qabalah, the alchemy of transformation, and analytical psychology. |
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Rohit Mehta |
The Call of the Upanishads |
$18.49 $12.94 |
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| The Upanishads contain a large number of inspiring and instructive passages and verses--it has not been possible to include all of them in this book. For the purposes of this book the author has taken those verses and passages that have a bearing on the mystical teaching of the Upanishads. It is mysticism which is the very core of the Upanishads--and so in understanding this mysticism one comes to the heart of the sublime and magnificent teaching of the Upanishads.
About the Author:... |
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Gopala Krishna |
The Yogi: Portraits of Swami Vishnudevananda |
$12.99 $9.09 |
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| This little book is a documentary compilation of primary autobiographical sources and reminiscences by disciples and friends from the life of the late “Flying-Swami”, Swami Vishnu-devananda 91927-1993) of India and Canada, Hindu monk and pilot. Swami Vishnu was one of the twentieth century’s most extraordinary activists for world peace and justice, non-violence, open borders, and the realization of the global citizenship of all humanity in what he called a “true world order” awaiting the... |
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Roy Eugene Davis |
The Spiritual Basis of Real Prosperity |
$12.99 $9.09 |
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| This book is the heir of a previously published one titled "Creative imagination". Roy E. Davis, a direct disciple of Paramahansa Yogananda and spiritual director of "Center for spiritual awareness" explains how to get results in life by using creative visualization. This book may be useful to people wanting to discover the inner power of the mind. Trustable experiences shared. In this book the author proclaims that life need not be difficult, painful, or limited.... |
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Roy Eugene Davis |
The Self-Revealed Knowledge that Liberates the Spirit |
$9.99 $6.99 |
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| In this important book, Roy Eugene Davis explains why authentic spiritual awakening that provides a new perception of reality and makes possible a clear view of exceptional possibilities is of primary importance for our total well-being and for the nurturing and support of the collective consciousness of Planet Earth. A very good book about eastern spirituality. Suggested to serious seekers of all paths. The author presents a clear explanation of the soul's awakening through progressive... |
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Ronald T. Potter-Efron |
Working Anger: Preventing and Resolving Conflict on the Job |
$12.99 $9.09 |
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| Some conflict is normal and inevitable within any organization. But too much anger and too many disagreements can't help but harm productivity and lower morale.
Working Anger provides guidelines for handling conflict in ways that actually improve performance and help build positive attitudes. It offers a practical, step-by-step program designed to help prevent unnecessary conflicts and successfully resolve disagreements when they do arise.
This book is for anyone who has had trouble dealing... |
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Joseph L. Henderson |
The Myths of Death, Rebirth and Resurrection |
$24.95 $17.47 |
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| The tribal initiation of the shaman, the archetype of the serpent, exemplifies the death of the self and rebirth into transcendent, "unknowable" life. In their book "The Myths of Death, Rebirth and Resurrection," Henderson and Oakes trace the images and patterns of spiritual initiation in religious rituals and myths of resurrection, poems and epics, the cycles of nature, and universal human responses in art and dreaming. The authors dramatize the metamorphosis from a common experience of... |
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Blanche Agassy McCord |
The Expanding Light Cookbook |
$12.49 $8.74 |
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| The book is for great-tasting, healthful, vegetarian cuisine including
Indian, Middle Eastern, Japanese, Thai, Italian and Mexican. Every recipe is
simple, easy to use and delicious. In it you will find terrific new vegetable
dishes, grains, beans, soups, salad dressings and quick brands. There are dairy
as well as non-dairy recipes. Besides the book provides a wide selection of
suggested menus for lunches and dinners for various seasons of the year.
Appendices provide valuable... |
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Eva Judy Jansen |
The Book of Buddhas |
$22.95 $16.07 |
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| Modern students who are drawn to the study and practice of Buddhism are not always able to easily learn the symbolic meaning of the various types of statuary connected to the study of this philosophy.
In Buddhism, every symbol has a meaning, and this book explores the symbolism of the ritual objects that are used on statues and painting, as well as explaining the ritual meaning of the objects associated with Buddhism.
This book serves as an introduction for Western students. it is not a... |
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Tara Ward |
The Healing Handbook |
$25.49 $17.84 |
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| This will help you to revitalise your life force. Many people view healing as a purely physical experience while many others rely dealing with the whole person and acknowledging the connection between the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual aspects of the self. Spiritual healing can be very effective on a basic level and can be taught relatively easily. In The Healing Handbook, author Tara Ward presents a range of techniques and tools for healing yourself and others, including children... |
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Jane E. Hartman |
Radionics and Radiesthesia |
$11.49 $8.04 |
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| Everything that exists, including thought, is a form of energy. Such is the wisdom guiding the increasingly widespread practice of radionics (healing at a distance) and its complement rediesthesia (dowsing). Radionics & Radiesthesia explains this unique therapy, providing insights into the energetic analysis and treatment of ailments affecting humans, animals, plants, and soil. Ultimately, it presents a model that helps us reconnect with our own healing gifts.
The reader will learn... |
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F. Max Muller |
The Sacred Books of the East: Pahlavi Texts (Vol. 5) |
$16.49 $11.54 |
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| These volumes of the Sacred Books of the East series include translations of all the most important works of the seven non-Christian religions that have exercised a profound influence on the civilizations of the continent of Asia. The Vedic Brahmanic system claims 21 volumes, Buddhism 10, and Jainism 2; 8 volumes comprise Sacred Books of the Paris; 2 volumes represent Islam; and 6 the two main indigenous systems of China. Translated by twenty leading authorities in their respective fields,... |
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Penney Peirce |
The Intuitive Way |
$25.49 $17.84 |
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| It demonstrates practical applications from speeding decision making to expanding personal growth and makes you aware about following benefits of active intuition: A positive, life-enhancing attitude More synchronicity and good luck Greater efficiency with less effort Attention to detail while seeing the big picture Increased creativity and imagination Confidence in your own insights Understanding your soul's purpose About the Author: Pennep Peirce, a... |
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Daniel Santos |
Feng Shui for the Body |
$14.49 $10.14 |
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| Balancing Body and Mind for a Healthier Life. Feng shui means "the flow of
things." In this breakthrough book, the Chinese principles of energy flow,
usually applied to arranging one's home, are extended to the real house we
inhabit - our human body.
As Daniel Santos learns from these fascinating teachers to balance the energies of body and mind according to feng shui principles, he guides readers on a profound journey of self-discovery and self-healing. Postures, exercises,... |
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Dennis Thompson |
The Ayurvedic Diet |
$14.49 $10.14 |
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| The Ayurvedic Diet combines the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda for health and healing with modern scientific approach to body physiology. This book offers practical solutions for everything from chronic health problems and weight control to the proper exercise and life style management. It is essential reading for all who want to lose weight, stay young and be healthy. The book is a unique blend of Ayurvedic and Western thought...It has taken a person with a true healing consciousness combined with... |
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Amadea Morningstar |
Breathe Free |
$14.49 $10.14 |
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| For the first time, a self help book that tells it all! An expose on respiratory diseases and their natural treatment. Learn how you can heal and/or manage common colds/flu, earaches/asthma, allergies/hay fever,pleurisy/pneumonia, coughs/sore throats, bronchitis/emphysema, AIDS and ARC related respiration infection. Covers information you wish your doctor wouldshare with you such as what is happening to your body, emotional informationyour body may be giving you, specific foods,... |
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Caroline Latham |
The Heart of Healing Body, Mind and Spirit |
$21.95 $15.37 |
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| Simplicity and modesty are the key-notes of this book. Even a master
healer is likely to find within it gems and insights to remind him of what he
knows. For those who would like to heal but do not know where to start, it is
quite invaluable. Whether healing is a path which you want to make into a
career, or is simply your way of returning a gift to life, this book will get
you started. It is full of practical help and inspiration to stay the course. It
is quiet in-the-mind healing... |
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Frank Arjava Petter |
The Original Reiki Handbook of Dr. Mikao Usui |
$18.99 $13.29 |
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| Dr. Mikao Usui developed the Reiki System and founded the original Japanese Usui Reiki Ryoho Gakkai organization. This book shows you the original handpositions of Dr. Usui's Reiki Handbook. It has been illustrated with 100 photos to make it easier to understand. The hand positions for a great variety ofhealth complaints have been listed in detail, making it a valuable referencework for anyone who practices reiki. Now that the original handbook has beentranslated into English, Dr. Usui's hand... |
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Hiroshi Motoyama |
Theories of the Chakras |
$17.99 $12.59 |
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| In this fascinating book, Hiroshi Motoyama describes his unique model of mind/body interactions. In addition, he describes a number of meditation and Yoga exercises that can help his readers awaken their "chakras", the body's "circles of light". Motoyama is to be commended for taking a strong ethical stance, urging causation when working toward "emancipation" and stressing the need for "balance". His familiarity with a multitude of wisdom traditions has... |
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Deepak Kashyap |
Healing The Future |
$14.49 $10.14 |
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| It sounds crazy in these ‘physical' times, yet is a fact that the greatest possibilities of body-cure lie in our ability to ‘forget' the body. As we gradually lose body-consciousness—identifying more and more with the spirit—physical disability and mental trauma wear off on their own. To practise yoga is to climb from body to mind, and from mind to spirit. Healing (literally, to make whole), is then much more than riddance from physical imperfections. It is the... |
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Raymond Buckland |
Color Therapy |
$21.95 $15.37 |
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| This book covers the full spectrum of color use in healing, providing
instructions for a variety of simple, yet effective, techniques.
You will learn how to:
Explore the effects of color in talismans and magic
squares
Use color to enhance crystal-gazing, numerology,
tarot and other divination practices
Awaken psychic abilities with chakra color
meditations
Draw treasure maps to tap into universal abundance
Perform color healings and balance your aura
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Thomas Egenes |
Eternal Stories from the Upanishads |
$18.99 $13.29 |
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| The Upanishads include some of the most beloved and illuminating stories
from the vast literature of India's Vedic tradition. Adapted from the original
text, these tales tell the story of enlightenment in simple, poetic language
that will appeal to all. the power and beauty of Vedic life unfolds in a variety
of settings: a teacher and his student in a secluded forest ashram, a great seer
meditating in a Himalayan retreat, and a proud king bowing to the wisdom of the
poor. |
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Mahesh Bhatt |
The Courage to Stand Alone |
$18.99 $13.29 |
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| No God, no teaching, no spiritual salvation, no hope - U.G. Krishnamurti offers you none of these. On the contrary, he demolishes everything you've ever stood for. He said, "Unless humankind comes to terms with the blunt truth that it is no more important than the mosquito or the field rate, it is doomed. Whatever I say cannot be used to promote myself or promote any cause for the welfare of mankind. What I say undermines the very foundation of human thought. How can society be interested in... |
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Steven Rosen |
Diet for Transcendence: Vegetarianism and the World Religions |
$9.99 $6.99 |
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| Drawing from a wealth of original religious documents and texts in Diet for Transcendence the author Steven Rosen takes us on a fascinating journey back in time to explore the essential and often misunderstood roots of the world's major religious traditions to discover how vegetarianism was a cherished part of their philosophy and practice.
Table of Contents:
Foreword
Introduction
Christinaity
Early Christianity
Judaism
Isklam
Ahimsa and Eastern... |
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B. B. Lal |
The Saraswati Flows On: The Continuity of Indian Culture  |
$80.49 $56.34 |
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| This book deals with two major controversies relating to India's past. First, It has been asserted by many scholars, both Indian and foreign, that the Sarasvati mentioned in the Rigveda is the Helmand of Afghanistan. The author examines the entire Rigvedic evidence and demonstrates that it goes counter to aforesaid assumption.
On the other hand, there are compelling geographical data in the Rigveda itself which unambiguously show that the Rigvedic Sarasvati is none other than the present-day... |
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Trudy Lanitis |
Bio-Etheric Healing: A Breakthrough In Alternative Therapies |
$14.49 $10.14 |
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| The book offers an effective way to communicate directly with the Etheric Body. This remarkable step-by-step guide covers the techniques and applications of Bio-Etheric Healing and tells us how to harness the healing powers of the Etheric Body.In this book you will learn: How to talk directly to your etheric body to help diagnose ailments; How to talk to the etheric body of others, even over a distance, to help heal their ailments; how to analyze and heal the chakras etc.Table of... |
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Satyaki Kraig Brockschmidt |
The Harmonium Handbook |
$10.99 $7.69 |
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| The story behind the modern version of the harmonium is a fascinating testimony to the love, skill, innovation, and interminingling of may of the world's great cultures.This book provides detailed instruction on how to play, maintain, and repair this popular devotional instrument. It also reveals the colorful history of free-reed instruments (such as the harmonium), which dates back to the time of Marco Polo. |
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Gloria Germani |
Mother Teresa: An East-West Mysticism |
$14.49 $10.14 |
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| This book was the first one that placed Mother Teresa among the great personalities of both Western and Eastern mysticism, and the spiritual mystical aspect of Mother Teresa was recently confirmed by the reserved documents that came to light in the process of beatification. This work goes deeper into these aspects not only through a comparison with the Hindu philosophies and the ethical-religious views of Mahatma Gandhi but also through the meeting points with Eckhart, the master of Western... |
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Lex Hixon |
Coming Home: The Experience of Enlightenment in Sacred Tradition |
$12.99 $9.09 |
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| This book is an unusually clear and readable exploration of these questions. Its experiential bent and spirit of universality have brought it wide recognition as a classic. Lex Hixon warmly guides the reader through an intriguing array of traditional teachings to the essential truth of all the world's great religions, which is simply to come home. |
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Francois Gautier |
The Guru of Joy |
$18.99 $13.29 |
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| This is the authorised biography of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, one of the founders of the international Art of Living Foundation, which has centers in over 140 countries. The Guru of Joy is an insightful volume and offers unpublished material about Sri Sri's childhood, adolescence and growth. Read about his organization, the Healing Breath Workshop he has devised, and the Sudershan Kriya. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar is truly the greatest living spiritual Master of today. This book presents him in a... |
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Debabrata Sen Sharma |
An Introduction to The Advaita Saiva Philosophy of Kashmir |
$22.49 $15.74 |
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| Ancient Indian tradition traces the origins of the Saiva cult to the Agamic thought current. The emergence of the Trika school of Saivism in Kashmir marks the climax in the development of the Advaita Saiva thought, being backed up by a rich Sanskrit literature. The doctrine of recognition (pratyabhijna) constitutes the cardinal doctrine in the philosophy of the Advaita Saiva School. The sadhaka (spiritual seeker) has to try to discover his real being by removing the various veils, to thereafter... |
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David Frawley |
From the River of Heaven |
$14.95 $10.47 |
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| From The River of Heaven is a broad compendium of wisdom and insight that
reaches into all aspects of life and all domains of human culture. It covers
such diverse topics as the different systems of Yoga, the scriptues of India,
the universal meaning of Hinduism, Philosophies, both Hindu and Buddhist, Yogic
Cosmology, the Gods and Goddesses, Sanskrit and Mantra, the Vedic view of
society, the science of Karma and Rebirth, the inner meaning of Rituals,
Ayurveda (ancient Indian... |
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Sadguru Sant Keshavadas |
Gayatri: The Highest Meditation |
$7.99 $5.59 |
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| In yoga, the mantra is a mystical formula, an incantation, which aids the individual to liberate the self and attain bliss and ultimate fulfillment. This book describes the Gayatri, the mantra which helps the higher man to be born in us all. It describes in great detail the meaning and many facets (water rites, sitting posture, time, atmosphere, breath control, pronunciation of sacred sounds) of this ancient meditation. Anyone who ever heard Sadguru Sant Keshavadas speak, as I did, became... |
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Catherine Ludvik |
Hanuman |
$14.95 $10.47 |
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| The monkey-god Hanuman, one of contemporary Hinduism's most popular
deities, has a long history in Indian art and literature. This study traces
Hanuman's gradual evolution from his role as helper and messenger of Rama in the
Valmiki Ramayana in the 3rd century B.C.E. to his more dominant function in
Tulasi Dasa's Ramacaritamanasa, written circa 1575 C.E.
The study begins with a concentrated overview of Hanuman's non-Aryan
origins and later associations. It then illustrates and... |
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Bansi Pandit |
The Hindu Mind |
$34.95 $24.47 |
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| Hinduism is the oldest surviving religion on the world. The religions and philosophical literature of Hinduism is vast, diverse and covers thousands of years of accumulated spiritual experiences of Hindu Saints and Seers. This book presents the fundamentals of Hindu religions and philosophical thought in a logical and straightforward manner. The purpose being, to create a story book for further study of Hinduism.
About the Author:
Bansi Pandit, nuclear engineer by profession, Kriya... |
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Anantanand Rambachan |
The Hindu Vision |
$8.95 $6.27 |
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| This is a discerning and lucid articulation of Hindu belief and practice. Professor Rambachan combines insight born out of his own devotion with mastery of relevant texts and traditions to create a gem of a book. He describes worship in its familial and temple contexts, holding before the reader the aim of worship as unbroken awareness of God in all of life. This awareness intensifies and expands the religious and moral meaning of life, death, and human action, Dharma, moksa and... |
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Richard Schiffman |
Mother of All |
$24.95 $17.47 |
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| 'Mother of All' is the compelling story of one of the great mystics of our
time. Mother Anasuya Devi of Jillellamudi was revered by millions in southern
India for her homespun wisdom, motherly love, and extraordinary spiritual
powers. Her profound yet enigmatic teachings powerfully challenged traditional
patriarchal views and rejected the common Hindu belief that the world is an
illusion. Married and the mother of three children, she was a living witness to
her own core teachings... |
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Elizabeth U. Harding |
Kali - The Black Goddess of Dakshineshwar |
$14.49 $10.14 |
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| Most major religions--Christianity, Judaism, Islam--do not acknowledge the feminine power of God. Nevertheless, this mysterious feminine power of God strikes a special chord in most people's hearts. The concept of the Mother Goddess in the West--the meek, ever-loving, patiently suffering female--is very different than the image of Kali in the Hindu pantheon. The Dakshineswar Temple in India is devoted to the worship of Ma Kali, and this book tells you all about the temple and how Kali is... |
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Harsha V. Dehejia |
Parvatidarpana: An exposition of Kasmir Saivism through the images of Siva and Parvati |
$12.99 $9.09 |
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| In Parvatidarpana - Harsha V. Dehejia exposits the basic tenets of Kashmir Shaivism through the celebrated marriage of Shiva and Parvati and the image of Ardhanarishvara. Enjoyment of the mythic marriage and the image leads to a greater understanding of Kashmir Shaivism, and the epistemology of this philosophical system in turn leads the aesthete to a greater celebration of the arts inspired by this mythic event.About the Author:Harsha.V. Dehejia has a double doctorate, one in... |
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Carol Rushman |
Forecasting Your Life Events - The Art of Predictive Astrology |
$21.95 $15.37 |
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| The techniques presented in The Art of Predictive Astrology show you how
to forecast upcoming trends and life events for yourself, friends and family,
and astrological clients. Author Carol Rushman, a practicing astrologer for over
twenty-five years, shares her method for astrological prediction, including: the
"natal promise" of the birth chart; secondary progressions, including the
progressed Moon, and progressed house cusps; transiting planets; lunations (New
and Full Moons) and... |
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Bruce M. Sullivan |
Seer of the Fifth Veda |
$10.99 $7.69 |
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| On the depiction of Krsna Dvalpayana Vyasa in the Mahabharata. Scholarly
work with implications for understanding Vedic Gods and worldview. |
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F.Max Muller |
Sacred Books of the East |
$961.99 $673.39 |
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| 50 Volume Set
The Dhammapada and Sutta-Nipata (Sacred Books of the East) by F. Max Muller (Translator), V. Fausboll (Translator)
There are altogether 50 volumes if you wish to order individual volumes please enquire. |
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Paul Deussen |
Sixty Upanishads of the Veda (2 Vols) |
$54.49 $38.14 |
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| The Upanisads from the concluding of the Vedas and are, therefore, called the Vedanta or the end of the Veda. The number of the Upanisads is not fixed. The collection of Upanisads translated by Darashikoh into Persian contained 50 Upanisads. The Muktika Upanisads gives a list of 108 Upanisads. There are about 112 Upanisads published by Nirnaya Sagar Press. But only ten Upanishads which were commented upon by Sankaracarya are taken to be genuine and most authoritative. The Upanisads, which teach... |
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R.C. Prasad |
The Sraddha - The Hindu Book of the Dead |
$6.49 $4.54 |
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| Of the sixteen samskaras which encompass a Hindu life the last one is performed for the dead by their sons or grandsons or relatives. Many passages in the Puranas and Dharmasastras extol the role of the son in the life of devout Hindu. The present book deals with the rite of Sraddha and vindicates the popular belief that Sraddha, being an important topic, forms an integral part of Hindu Dharmasastra. The belief in the after-death survival of deceased ancestors and their separate world... |
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Steven Rosen |
The Reincarnation Controversy |
$9.99 $6.99 |
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| An excellent resource for students of religion and the general public. Recent polls show that seventy percent of Americans believe in reincarnation, but religious tradtions often totally reject this idea. However, this book explores the history of religions and shows that they pose no barrier to the acceptance of reincarnation.
Review:
"...Rosen clears up many myths and stereotypes of reincarnationist thought found in the major world religions. It is a pleasure to see so... |
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R.C. Prasad |
The Upanayana: The Hindu Ceremonies of the Sacred Thread |
$12.99 $9.09 |
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| Upanayana is one of the sixteen samskaras or purify rites in which a boy is invested with the sacred thread and thus endowed with second or spiritual birth and qualified to learn the Veda by heart. In this ceremony the boy goes to an Acarya well-versed in the Vedas with a view to be initiated into Vedic studies or a Guru draws a boy towards himself and initiates him into one of the three twice-born classes. From the day the initiation ceremony takes place the young celibate commits him to a... |
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Bharati Krsna Tirthaji |
Vedic Mathematics (Paperback) |
$10.99 $7.69 |
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| This epoch-making and monumental work on Vedic Mathematics unfolds a new method of sum-solving. Vedic Mathematics relates the truth of numbers, in this turth they become equally applicable to all sciences and arts. Vedic Mathematics is the result of intuitional visualization of fundamental mathematical truths born after eight years of the highly-concentrated endeavour of Jagadguru Sri Bharati Krsna Tirtha. Quite different from the modern Western method, Vedic Mathematics brings to light how... |
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Bharati Krsna Tirthaji, Dr. V.S. Agarwal |
Vedic Mathematics (Hardback) |
$25.49 $17.84 |
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| This epoch-making and monumental work on Vedic Mathematics unfolds a new method of sum-solving. Vedic Mathematics relates the truth of numbers, in this turth they become equally applicable to all sciences and arts. Vedic Mathematics is the result of intuitional visualization of fundamental mathematical truths born after eight years of the highly-concentrated endeavour of Jagadguru Sri Bharati Krsna Tirtha. Quite different from the modern Western method, Vedic Mathematics brings to light how... |
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Bhaiyaram Sarma |
The Vivaha - The Hindu Marriage Samskaras |
$12.99 $9.09 |
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| Sanskrit mantras used in the Hindu nuptial rites now comes in English! With
the hymns romanized for the benefit of those who do not have any knowledge of Hindi or Sanskrit, this book is a boon for the modern generation, especially expatriate Hindus living in foreign lands. Written originally in Hindi, the book is translated into English by R.C. Prasad. |
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Jeffrey Armstrong |
God The Astrologer |
$21.95 $15.37 |
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| How we Continually Create Our Own Destiny -
God the Astrologer systematically reveals the lost links between religion, science, destiny and free will. It is a clear guide to how the Divine actually manifests in the material world and how we can cooperate. It explains and offers the profound revelation that God is the Original Astrologer.
D i s c o v e r:
You are not the sign you think you are
Western astrologers are using star positions that are
off by 2000 years
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Guy L. Beck |
Sonic Theology: Hinduism and Sacred Sound |
$31.99 $22.39 |
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| The Hindu world is permeated by sound: drums, bells, gongs, cymbals, conches, flutes, and an array of vocalizations play a central role in worship. Guy Beck contends that the traditional Western focus on Hinduism's visual component has often been at the expense of the religion's most important feature—its emphasis on sound. In his new study Beck addresses this longstanding imbalance, contending that Hinduism is essentially a sonic theology. Beck argues that sound participates at... |
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Dom Moraes |
The Open Eyes |
$38.99 $27.29 |
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| In this entertaining and witty mix of history, diary and the ramifications of the modern age the story of the land of Karnataka is told through the eyes of many people. Following the paths gazed by these eyes, Mores's personal experiences bring out the feel and smell of the place, but more, the hope.
Dom begins in the dense woods roamed by wild tigers and panthers. He begins with a little native boy whose large eyes open and see his changing country with mild curiosity and at times... |
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Rohit Mehta |
J. Krishnamurti and the Nameless Experience |
$21.95 $15.37 |
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| One of the most revolutionary thinkers of our age, J. Krishnamurti challenges every norm and value of individual as well as social life. He is not interested in mere outer changes; he stands for a fundamental transformation. The New Man must first arise, he states, before a New Society can be born. This book deals comprehensively with all aspects of Krishnamurti's teachings - his philosophy, psychology, and "practice of no-practice."
This book deals comprehensively with all aspects of... |
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Ramananda Prasad |
The Bhagavad Gita: The Song of God |
$12.99 $9.09 |
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| The Bhagavad-Gita has the original Sanskrit Text with Roman Transliteration, and a lucid English Rendition. Concise and to the point commentaries of two hundred twenty seven selected key verses are provided. One hundred thirtythree verses are printed in red to enable the first-time readers to study these verses before delving deep into the vast ocean of transcendental knowledge. The teachings of saints and sages of major religious denominations as well as world leaders and scholars have been... |
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Roy Eugene Davis |
The Eternal Way - Inner meaning of the Gita |
$21.95 $15.37 |
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| One of the earliest commentaries on the popular and highly respected yoga
scripture known as the Bhagavad Gita. Roy Eugene Davis explains the inner
meaning in the light of Kriya Yoga in this new commentary on this scripture. Its
seven hundred verses encourage the reader to acquire Self-knowledge and to
intentionally engage in constructive performance of personal duties along with
dedicated spiritual endeavor--to practice Kriya Yoga. The Sanskrit word kriya
means "action." Yoga can... |
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Deedre Diemer |
The ABC's of Chakra Therapy |
$13.95 $9.77 |
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| The ABC's of Chakra Therapy is a practical, user-friendly guidebook that
leads you on a journey of self-healing and transformation by exploring your
energy field--specifically the seven main energy centers, or chakras. Deedre
Diemer's unique approach draws on a variety of therapies--visualization, sound,
color, aromatherapy, reflexology, crystals and gemstones, along with yoga and
other physical exercise. She combines facets of these powerful healing
techniques so you can clear... |
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Sri Chinmoy |
The Wisdom of Sri Chinmoy |
$16.49 $11.54 |
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| Chinmoy, the Bengali lecturer and author of Wings of Joy who now lives in
New York City and conducts twice-weekly peace meditations at the United Nations,
teaches a Hindu method of meditation that he calls the "path of the heart." This
book is a compilation of excerpts from Chinmoy's writings and teachings, grouped
thematically and in alphabetical order, from "Advice" to "Yoga." Other topics
among the 87 entries include "Beauty," "Dreams," "Faith," "Intuition,"
"Religion," "Sex" and... |
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Sunita Pant Bansal |
Myths and Legends of the World |
$21.95 $15.37 |
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| Myths are stories of the gods and of god-like heroes. They tell of
beginning and ends, creation and destruction, life and death. They explain the
how the why of life. Heroes are heroines, monsters and villains, all come
together in these tale of courage, daring and romance from all over the world.
Readers will meet popular heroes like Roland and Perseus, as well as the
lesser-known characters ssuch as Danko and Hine-Moa, in stories from countries
as far apart as New Zealand and... |
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Liz Simpson |
The Book of Chakra Healing |
$38.95 $27.27 |
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| The Book of Chakra Healing is a comprehensive guide to the ancient Indian system of chakras. These centres of "spinning energy" in the body help to maintain your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual balance. This book offers practical way to work on your chakras and shows you how to unblock and rebalance your energy. Understanding chakra healing involves colour, knowledge of ancient myths, archetypes, bodywork, crystals, meditations, visualizations, open questions and affirmations. It... |
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D. E. Harding |
To Be and Not to Be, that is the Answer |
$16.95 $11.87 |
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| This book explains how to uncover and tap the Infinite Core or Centre. The
source of happiness, love and meaningful lives lies very much deep within
ourselves.
A life-changing and quite remarkable book. Practical,
accesible, eminently readable, and while revealing fundamental and extraordinary
truths, always impart a sense of joy--even fun! The author is living evidence of
the success of his methods--active, alert and full of energy at the age of
93! |
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Robert Powell (Editor) |
The Experience of Nothingness |
$18.99 $13.29 |
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| This volume shows the paths by which the experience of nothingness is becoming common among all those who live in free societies, and details the various experiences that lead to the nothingness point of view These are among the final talks that Nisargadatta gave in the last year of his life or so. In this powerful book of Q & A between teacher and seeker we have some extremely detailed and terse teachings on the Nature of Reality. Nisargadatta's answers cut to the chase and go... |
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Geshe Kelsang Gyasto |
The Meditation Handbook |
$14.95 $10.47 |
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| This introduction to Buddhist meditation provides background material on meditation - why we need to meditate; how to prepare for meditation; and how to enjoy a successful meditation session. It also teaches twenty-one easy-to-follow meditations, which together form the entire Buddhist path to enlightenment. Suitable for beginners and more advanced meditators alike.
The book speaks about: What is meditation and how does it work; how to integrate meditation into our daily life; how to find... |
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Deepak Chopra |
The Seven Spiritual laws of Success |
$14.95 $10.47 |
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| Deepak Chopra's The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success provides a remarkably clear presentation of how spiritual laws such as Karma and Dharma can enrich your life. The small book provides chapters on the following seven laws: The Law of Pure Potentiality The Law of Giving The Law of "Karma" or Cause and Effect The Law of Least Effort The Law of Intention and Desire The Law of Detachment The Law of "Dharma" or Purpose in Life Each chapter discusses a law in a lucid discussion, followed... |
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J. Donald Walters |
The Light of Superconsciousness - How to Benifit from Emerging Spiritual Trends |
$21.95 $15.37 |
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| We are now at a major turning point in our personal and planetary
development. Our values are changing dramatically: many of us are moving away
from our previous emphasis on mere worldly gain, toward a new embrace of our own
inner spiritual development. "The Light of Superconsciousness - How to Benefit
from Emerging Spiritual Trends" explains the emerging techniques and attitudes
that will help ease the transition to a more spiritually nurturing society and
teach us to awaken the... |
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A.J. Alston |
The Devotional Poems of Mirabai |
$11.49 $8.04 |
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| A translation of over two hundred of the songs attributed to the early sixteenth-century female bhakti poet Mirabai. These poems express an intense love for Krishna. The Devotional Poems of Mirabai offers the reader a sober English translation of two hundred of her Padas, based on the interpretative work of Indian scholars that has appeared during the last few decades. Three introductory essays deal with her life, her place in the Bhakti movement and the characteristics of her poetry. ... |
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S.K. Cosmic Kapoor |
Vedic Mathematics Decodes Space Book |
$12.99 $9.09 |
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| Contents: Introductory Glimpsing transcendental Transcendental features of human frame Gentle initiatives for young minds Old to new formats Approaching space plan with Sathapatya measuring rod. The theme Vedic Mathematics is an absorbing and emerging field. It poses a new challenge for the systems analysts interested in the organisation potentialities of the space. The postulates and axioms are of interesting features. It accepts the emergence and existence... |
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Swami Satyasangananda Saraswati |
Sri Vijnana Bhairava Tantra: The Ascent |
$19.49 $13.64 |
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| The theme of Vijnana Bhairava Tantra is dharana, or concentration, a subject most relevant today. This new translation and commentary of a classical tantric text sheds much light on the practice of dharana, which until now has been revealed only by peripheral explanations. The text comprises 112 different dharanas, or techniques of concentration, which can easily be incorporated into one's daily life. Although dharana is a practice intended for an adept, whose mind is steady and controlled, the... |
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Suzanne Segal |
Collision with the Infinite |
$12.99 $9.09 |
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| She thought she had gone mad, but she was enlightened and didn't know it! Some people spend years in caves trying to experience what suddenly happened to Suzanne Segal. This is the incredible story of a young woman who irrevocably lost all sense of personal self, or an "I". It is the story of her mind's desperate attempts to come to grips with -- or deny! -- her spiritual condition, a process which took eight years.-- Collision with the Infinite is an extraordinary work. One... |
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Swami Satyananda Saraswati |
Meditation from the Tantras |
$12.99 $9.09 |
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| Meditations from the Tantras is a clear and comprehensive book on meditation for beginners. The general aim is to show the possibilities open to the practitioner of meditation, the preparation that is necessary, as well as practical methods to attain meditative experiences. Featuring fundamental pratyahara (sensory withdrawal) practices such as Antar Mouna™ and introductions to other meditation techniques such as Yoga Nidra,™ ajapa japa, trataka, the kriyas and the different forms... |
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Jaideva Singh |
Siva Sutras - The Yoga of Supreme Identity |
$16.49 $11.54 |
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| Siva Sutras are considered to be a revealed book of the Yoga: supreme identity of the individual self with the Divine. Dr. Jaideva Singh has studied the book with the help of his guru Swami Laksmana Joo, the sole surviving exponent of this system in Kashmir and has provided an English Translation of the Sutras together with the commentary of Ksemaraja. Each Sutra is given in Devanagari as well as in Roman Script. Then the meaning of every word of the Sutra is given in English, followed by a... |
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Jaideva Singh |
Spanda Karikas: The Divine Creative Pulsation |
$14.49 $10.14 |
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| The present book is of the supreme significance from four points of view. Firstly, it breaks a new ground in Indian philosophy. According to it, the Self is not simply witnessing consciousness as maintained by Sankhya, Patanjala Yoga, Vedanta, but an active force of Spanda.Secondly, the ultimate reality is not simply a logical system, a mysterious background of bloodless categories, but spanda or living, throbbing Energy, the Divine creative Pulsation, the source of all manifestation, physical... |
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Shan-Tang Hsu |
Feng Shui for relationships: The Yin and Yang of Love |
$21.95 $15.37 |
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| Love, the Force that shapes the entire universe, is a process of dynamic balance of Yin and Yang energies. The interaction of Yin and Yang is not an abstraction; it is the experience of love in all its forms.
The author has combined his knowledge of traditional Feng Shui and Taoist philosophy in this simple, direct guide to healthy and harmonious relationships. As Feng Shui gains popularity many people have discovered that working with these ancient techniques manifests love and abundance in... |
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Hajari |
Voice of the Rsis: An epilogue to devayana third epic of India |
$20.99 $14.69 |
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| The Voice of the Rsis is a complementary volume to the great epic “Devayana” and to the “Glimpses of Devayana” already published in English. This anthology of Mantras from the Vedas and Upanisads is interpreted here with simplicity and clarity to their utmost beauty. These Mantras refer to many events mentioned in the Devayana and prove that these are not imaginary but they in fact have existed for aeons in our Vedas, Upanisads and the Epics. The approaching Golden Age... |
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N.R. Bhatt, |
The Great Tantra of Ajita (5 Vols. Set) Part of Kalamul Sastra S |
$249.95 $174.97 |
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| The Hindu temple is the seat of a full culture including material commodities and services, arts ranging from cooking and flower decoration, to music and philosophy. To conceive, build, organize, manage, maintain such a privileged site of culture an authentic and well thought out theory and guidance is required. Sanskrit Agamic literature plays this role. The Saiva religion is based on a set of twenty-eight Tantra's.
The Ajitamahatantra is the fifth in a international list, a lengthy text,... |
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E.H. Johnston |
Buddhacarita or Acts of the Buddha |
$25.49 $17.84 |
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| The Buddhacarita is the most famous work of Asvaghosa, the well-known Buddhist poet-philosopher supposed to have been a contemporary of King Kaniska of the early 2nd century a.c. Of the twenty-eight cantos of the epic poem a little less than half is now available in the original, but complete translations in Chinese and Tibetan have been preserved. This edition consists of three parts. The first part contains the Sanskrit text and the second the translation of the first fourteen cantos,... |
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Brian Edward Brown |
The Buddha Nature |
$27.49 $19.24 |
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| One of the fundamental tenets of Mahayana Buddhism animating and grounding the doctrine and discipline of its spiritual path, is the inherent potentiality of all animate beings to attain the supreme and perfect enlightenment of Buddhahood. This book examines the ontological presuppositions and the corresponding soteriological-epistemological principles that sustain and define such a theory. Within the field of Buddhist studies, such a work provides a comprehensive context in which... |
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Michael L. Emmons |
Meditative Therapy |
$14.49 $10.14 |
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| As an explanation of the therapist's role in guiding clients' emotional, physical and spiritual growth, this comprehensive manual offers the professional therapist the therapeutic procedures that facilitate inner-directed natural healing and recovery.
Two decades ago, Emmons' popular work, The Inner Source, showed thousands of readers how to tap their own powerful "inner source" of emotional healing. Now he offers to the professional therapist a full description of the therapeutic procedures... |
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U. G. Krishnamurti |
The Mystique of Enlightenment |
$21.95 $15.37 |
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| A scathing critique of contemporary spirituality by one of its most
unusual figures. In the well-known history of J. Krishnamurti (no relation), few
names have been so strongly associated as U. G., with whom he shared a close but
contentious relationship over many years.
In a world in which spiritual techniques, teachers, concepts, and organizations are legion, U. G. Krishnamurti stands nearly alone in his rejection of it all: "I am only interested in describing this state, in... |
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Samuel Beal |
Buddhist Records of the Western World |
$39.95 $27.97 |
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| Among the various travelogues, Hiuen Tsiang's Si-yu-ki or Records of the
Western World, is regarded to be the most valuable source-book for the study of
ancient Indian history. Si-yu-ki is not merely a travel-diary recording Hiuen
Tsiang's visit to various places in India and the places en route, but is also
an account of the conditions of India during the seventh century. This journey
was undertaken by Hiuen Tsiang primarily with a view to visiting the Buddhist
places of pilgrimage... |
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John E. Coleman |
The Quiet Mind |
$14.49 $10.14 |
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| The Quiet Mind is a classic (and true) story of a spiritual odyssey. John Coleman, a CIA agent in Asia in the 1950's, is forced to resign when his cover is blown. He embarks on a vigorous pursuit of a different sort: a quest for spiritual truth. Coleman travels through India, Burma, Japan and Thailand and encounters such legendary teachers as Krishnamurti, Maharishi, D.T. Suzuki and Sayagyi U Ba Khin. His search for peace of mind and liberating insights comes to fruition in Yangon... |
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Dalai Lama |
Healing Anger: The Power of Patience from a Buddhist Perspective |
$14.95 $10.47 |
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| In this book the Dalai Lama shows how through the practice of patience and tolerance we can overcome the obstacles of anger and hatred. He bases his discussion on A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life, the classic work on the activities of Bodhisattvas-those who aspire to attain full enlightenment in order to bengit all beings.
Relevant not only to Buddhists but to everyone seeking self-improvement, this outstanding teaching by the world's foremost Buddhist, based on the "Patience" chapter... |
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E.B. Cowell |
The Jataka Stories of the Buddha's Former Births |
$108.00 $75.60 |
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| Jataka stories or birth-legends were widely known in the third century b.c. Each story, narrated by the Buddha, opens with a preface relating the particular circumstances in the Buddha's life, revealing some events in the long series of his previous existences as a bodhisattva. These stories magnify the glory of the Buddha and illustrate Buddhist doctrines and precepts by appropriate examples. The foremost interest of these legends lies in their relation to folklore giving a vivid picture of... |
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Peter Lemesurier |
The Unknown Nostradamus |
$21.95 $15.37 |
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| Was Nostradamus really a man of extraordinary prophetic vision? Or did he
cobble together prophecies current at the time? And how did he survive in the
rigidly Catholic, inquisitorial world of 16th-century Europe? This book
considers Nostradamus's life and work and the medieval world of the time.
The Unknown Nostradamus opens up the still medieval world of the time as well as his life and work. Appendices present a selection of key texts both by and about him, most of which have never... |
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Erich Frauwallner |
The Philosophy of Buddhism |
$50.99 $35.69 |
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| The translation of Erich Frauwallner's Die Philosophies des Buddhism, first published in 1956, open up a classic introduction to Buddhist thought to a broader English language readership. The book covers the period of early canonical literature with examples of its philosophically relevant ideas, followed by the principal philosophical concepts of systematic Sravakayana Buddhism.
In the main part of the book, Frauwallner presents the first survey of the development of the philosophical... |
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Robert Powell |
Discovering the Realm Beyond Appearance |
$14.49 $10.14 |
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| “In Discovering The Realm Beyond Appearance,” Dr. Powell comments elegantly on the insights of Krishnamurti and Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, and explains his own insights on the nature of the unified state. All those seeking higher levels of awareness will find powerful tools in this book.Drawing upon a rich and diverse stream of religious traditions form Hinduism to Zen Buddhism, Powell argues that the path to spiritual peace and happiness comes through a transformation to the... |
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Paul Brenner |
Buddha in the Waiting Room |
$16.95 $11.87 |
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| From his perspective of forty years in the medical profession, Dr. Paul
Brenner redefines what health is: no more and no less than the acceptance and
appreciation of life. Health is not simply the absence of illness. As the author
comes to realize that we all have an innate wisdom of what's right for our
bodies, he crystallizes the discontent with the medical profession and the hope
that there is a better alternative to our definition of heath.
When, in 1976, Dr. Brenner left his... |
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Geshe Kelsang Gyatso |
Meaningful to Behold: The Bodhisattva's Way of Life |
$16.95 $11.87 |
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| Many people have the compassionate wish to benefit others, but few understand
how to effectively accomplish this in daily life. Bodhisattvas are friends of
the world, who have such strong compassion they are able to transform all their
daily activities into a means to benefit others.
The path of the Bodhisattva was exquisitely explained in the universally
loved poem Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life by the 8th century master
Shantideva. With this commentary by Geshe Kelsang,... |
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Michele Martin |
Music in the Sky |
$21.95 $15.37 |
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| This book offers the biography and the teachings of the 17th Karmapa, who
escaped from Chinese-occupied Tibet three years ago and is now living in exile
in northern India. The biography offers numerous miracle stories, tales of
wisdom beyond the boy's years and other extraordinary accomplishments. It also
presents a dramatic account of the Karmapa's flight from Tibet at the tender age
of 14. Other sections contain some of his public addresses and poetry. If the
teachings seem... |
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Kurt Titze |
Jainism - A Pictorial Guide to the Religion of Non-Violence |
$160.49 $112.34 |
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| Jainism is a religion which appeals to the eye at first sight. Visitors to places like Ranakpur or Shravanabelagola will verify this observation. Paradoxically, Jainism is at the same time one of the least known religions of the world. With this opening sentence on page one, Kurt Titze invites the reader, after acquainting him or her with the main tenets of the world's classical religion of non-violence to join him on a fascinating pilgrimage. The past glories of India have been... |
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K.V. Mardia |
The Scientific Foundations of Jainism |
$9.49 $6.64 |
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| In "The Scientific Foundations of Jainism" Prof. Mardia attempts to elucidate the point that Jainism is a science with religion. It brings together his attempts in a unified way. Four axioms are constructed which highlight the foundations of Jainism. For example, axiom 1 states that "The soul exists with karmic matter and it longs to be purified". These four axioms focus on the essence rather than on detail . After a very brief introduction to Jainism, the author... |
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Roy Eugene Davis |
The Book of Life |
$8.95 $6.27 |
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| For sincere spiritual aspirants willing to awaken from all illusions, here is
"the everlasting way" to implement a life style in harmony with natural laws
which are entirely, constructively supportive of wellness and facilitate
awakened spiritual consciousness.
Chapters include:
(a) Where are All the Saints? (b) What Do You Want? (c) What Everyone
Should Know About the Reality, Being, Life, Power and Substance of God. (d)
Meditation for Life Enhancement and Illumination of... |
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Roy Eugene Davis |
The Path of Light |
$14.95 $10.47 |
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| The practical means by which life's aims and purposes can be accomplished
have been taught for centuries by enlightened teachers. With this book, the
transmission of this helpful knowledge continues. kriyas are "actions" performed
to resist, weaken, and remove mental and physical conditions which blur,
distort, and restrict our awareness. Removal of these obstacles allows yoga--the
return of awareness to its original, natural state of wholeness--to be
consciously realized.
Because... |
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Susunaga Weeraperuma |
The Sayings of J. Krishnamurti |
$12.99 $9.09 |
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| A collection of 514 of the sayings of Krishnamurti up to the year 1968; covers such topics as Awareness, Concentration, Fear, Happiness, Love and Meditation. |
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David Frawley |
The Oracle of Rama |
$14.49 $10.14 |
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| The Oracle of Rama, is perhaps the greatest Oracle of India, as well as one of the simplest and easiest to use. Like the I Ching, it consists of various verses that one can get to answer one's questions. While the I Ching uses the symbolism of the world of Nature for providing its forecasts, 7he Oracle of Rama uses the symbolism of Lord Rama, a Divine incarnation, and the Yoga of Devotion (Bhakti Yoga) that developed around him. It condenses the great universal laws of karma into the story of... |
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William Dwight Whitney |
Root, Verb-Forms and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language |
$11.49 $8.04 |
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| This work is supplement to the author's earlier work "Sanskrit Grammar". It contains in detail all the quotable roots of the Language, with the tense and conjugation-systems made from them, and with the noun and adjective formation that attach themselves most closely to the verb, and further with the other derivative noun and adjective-stems usually classed as primary with great accuracy. Whitney's work lists all the quotable roots of the Sanskrit language together with the... |
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T. Burrow |
The Sanskrit Language |
$49.95 $34.97 |
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| The Sanskrit Language presents a systematic and
comprehensive historical account of the developments in phonology and
morphology. This is the only book in English which treats the structure of the
Sanskrit language in its relation to the other Indo-European languages and
throws light on the significance of the discovery of Sanskrit. It is this
discovery that contributed to the study of the comparative philology of the
Indo-European languages and eventually the whole science of... |
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A.P. buddhadat Mahathera |
Concise Pali-English Dictionary |
$16.49 $11.54 |
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| This concise Pali-English Dictionary has been prepared mainly for use by students in schools and colleges. The author is not only eminent Elder of the Buddhist Order but one of the leading Pali scholars recognized both in the East and the West as an authority on the subject. It is to be observed that the author has kept more or less to the traditional sense of words while not altogether ignoring the meanings given by Western scholars in their translations and lexicons.Many errors in the latter... |
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Vasudeo G. Apte |
The Concise Sanskrit English Dictionary |
$9.99 $6.99 |
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| In this work the compiler has avoided lesser-used Sanskrit words, all technicalities, and words which can easily be seen as simple derivatives of given words. In this effort, the complier has successfully reduced the bulk of the dictionary without compromising its usefulness. |
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V.R. Ramachandra Dikshitar |
The Purana Index |
$167.95 $117.57 |
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| Three Volume Set:
A comprehensive Index to all the Purans was desideratum. Puranas constititue an important branch of Indian literature Prof. V.R. Ramachandra set himself on this work intially on five Mahapuranas viz. Vayu, Brahmanda, Matsya, Vinsu, and Bhagavata. The present work is in three parts. The work is exhaustive in nature and covers the vast and varied field of ancient Indian culture in all aspects.
Access to this most important surviving work of
classical... |
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E.H. Whinfield |
The Mathnawi |
$31.95 $22.37 |
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| This great work by Rumi, who has been called 'the greatest mystical poet
of any Age', was forty-three years in the writing. During the past seven hundred
years, this book, called by Iranians 'the Koran in Persian', a tribute paid to
no other book, has occupied a central place in Sufism.
Rumi's name is associated with the founding of the Order known in Europe as the 'Whirling Dervishes', and in the East as 'the Path of the Master'.
About the Author:
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V.S. Apte |
The Student's Sanskrit-English Dictionary |
$20.99 $14.69 |
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| The Student's Sanskrit-English Dictionary meets the need of the English knowing reader who is interested in the study of classical as well as modern Sanskrit. It covers a very large field- epics such as the Ramayana and Mahabharata, Puranas and Upapuranas, Smrti and Niti literature, Darsanas or systems of Philosophy, such as Nyaya, Vedanta, Mimamsa, Sankhya and Yoga, Grammar, Rhetoric, Poetry in all its Branches, Dramatic and Narrative literature, Mathematics, Medicine, Botany, Astronomy, Music... |
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Gayatri Devi Vasudev |
The Art of Matching Charts |
$6.99 $4.89 |
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| This book is a complete and comprehensive guide to the intricate art of matching charts. Nowhere in the world except, perhaps, in India have marriages survived lifelong for generations. This is solely because marriages are made on astrological factors. For the first time ever, this book tells you what actually constitutes matching of charts and how to go about it. Matching of charts for marriage is a very important area of astrology. Matching becomes indispensable if we realise... |
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Kim-Anh Lim |
Practical Guide to the I Ching |
$21.95 $15.37 |
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| A comprehensive overview of the I Ching's evolution in Chinese history and
philosophy. Explains how to cast hexagrams, and includes complete
interpretations. |
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Dagmar Ehling |
The Chinese Herbalist's Handbook |
$41.95 $29.37 |
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| A clinical guide to the identification and application of Chinese herbology used in medicine today. Within the context of Oriental medicine, Chinese herbal medicine is one of the oldest treatment modalities. Though it is not aws well known in the West, it is rapidly gaining popularity.
China has achieved full integration of traditional Chinese and Western medicine and practitioners are usually traiined in both practices. Patients are cross-referred on a continuous basis; they view both types... |
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David Frawley |
The Astrology of Seers |
$16.49 $11.54 |
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| The Astrology of The Seers is clear yet comprehensive presentation of Vedic astrology and makes this difficult to understand subject clear, practical and relevant. It explains all of its important factors relative to Western astrology. Topics include planets, signs, houses, aspects, harmonic charts and planetary periods, along with rules of prediction and interpretation. It outlines the remedial measures of Vedic astrology including gems, colours, herbs, mantras, deities, Yoga practices... |
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Kenneth Williams |
The Cosmic Calculator - 5 Volume Set |
$79.95 $55.97 |
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| The remarkable system of Vedic mathematics was created after careful study of ancient Sanskrit texts early last century. The Vedic system with its direct, easy and flexible approach forms a complete system of mental mathematics (though the methods can also be written down) and brings out the naturally coherent and unified structure of mathematics. Many of the features and techniques of this unique system are truly amazing in their efficiency and originality.
Being a mental system, Vedic... |
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Swami Rama Tirtha |
In Wood of God-Relization: Volume - 2 (The Deluxe Edition) |
$11.49 $8.04 |
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| It contains 37 lectures and talks of Rama. All these deal with the various aspects of Vedanta in an appealing and attractive manner. Contents: Part I—Cosmic Consciousness: How to Realize it The Path of Truth The Spiritual Law of Character The Kingdom of Heaven True Spirituality and the Psychic Powers The Sacred Syllable OM God Within The Way to Self-Realization Some Objections in the way of Self-Realization Some Obstacles in the way of Self-Realization I am... |
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Cyndi Dale |
The Magical Power of Chakra Healing |
$38.95 $27.27 |
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| Imagine what a miracle it would be to live each day filled with vital
energy, a sense of fulfilled wholeness, and clear awareness of your purpose in
life. You can live that miracle with the help of The Magical Power of Chakra
Healing, which explains how to access all the powerful forces of your
full-energy body. The book begins where the traditional seven-chakra system
leaves off. It is the first book to explain how to work with the energy of the
back sides of the charkas, as well... |
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Sunyata |
Dancing with the Void |
$18.99 $13.29 |
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| "In this life play I have not been in quest of Guru, God, Truth, Grace, Salvation, nirvana, or power lust. I had no ambition to be different from what I am. Blessedly, I had escaped headucation, and was free of any imposed knowledge. I had no property. I did not marry. I did not belong to any cliques or creed. I was not attracted to their magnetism. I felt all is within our Self. I had nothing to assert or resent. Nor had I anything to boast about or regret. I was fully contented. I had joy in... |
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Nisargadatta |
The Nectar of Immortality |
$12.99 $9.09 |
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| Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897-1981) is a revered master of the Tantric Nath lineage. His reputation and the popularity of his works have been increasing geometrically since his death in 1981. He is an inspiring example of an ordinary merchant and family man who attained complete realization of the Infinite, who taught that true freedom is a possibility for every one of us. Disciples and seekers from all over the world were drawn to his humble loft in the tenements of Bombay. Even on the... |
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Stephen Sturgess |
The Yoga Book: A Practical Guide to Self-Realization |
$18.49 $12.94 |
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| The Yoga Book: A Practical Guide to Self-Realization is not a book for the mildly interested, the dabbler in yoga, or those who only want to perform physical exercises. This is not a book that can be digested in one night either, nor is it perhaps suitable for beginners flying solo.
Author Stephen Sturgess calls upon his knowledge and experience in yogic traditions as well as Christianity to bring the body into the service of the mind. Sturgess says that the book is about Ashtanga Yoga, also... |
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Rammurti Sharma |
The Encyclopaedia of Vedanta |
$16.49 $11.54 |
Temporarily Out of Stock |
| Information about vedantic key terms and about eastern and western
indological scholars. The author is a reknowned sanskrit and vedanta expert. The
book is concise, high level and technical. (Remark: The alphabetic order is
according to devanagari). The book seems to belong into a typical library of an
indologist or an advaita ashram (the type of, where they still use their
brains). |
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Tr. By Swami Venkatesananada |
The Supreme Yoga: Yoga Vasistha |
$16.49 $11.54 |
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| The Yoga Vasistha has been a favourite book of spiritual seekers in India these several centuries. Its special appeal lies in its thoroughly rational approach, and in its presentation of Vedanta as a philosophy to bridge the gulf between the secular and the sacred, action and contemplation, in human life, through a comprehensive and lofty spirituality. This monumental scripture is the greatest help to the spiritual awakening and the direct experience of the truth. This is certain. If this is... |
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Hans H. Rhyner |
Ayurveda - The Gentle Health System |
$23.95 $16.77 |
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| It is an easy-to-read, lavishly illustrated book that shows how it works.
Rather than relying on medication to cure ailments, as Western medicine does,
Ayurveda emphasizes daily nutrition habits and physical routines for maintaining
health so that you don't get sick in the first place. You will find out how to
tell which physical type you are and then get full information on the practical
regimens that are right for you.
You'll find ways to diagnose and treat many conditions... |
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Vasant Lad |
Ayurveda - The Science of Self-Healing |
$12.99 $9.09 |
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| For the first time a book is available which clearly explains the principles and practical applications of Ayurveda, the oldest healing system in the world. The beautifully illustrated text thoroughly explains the following: History & Philosophy Basic Principles Diagnostic Techniques Treatment Diet Medicinal Usage of Kitchen Herbs & Spices First Aid Food Antidotes & Much More... More than 50 concise charts, diagrams and tables are included, as well as a glossary and... |
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Light Miller |
Ayurveda and Aromatherapy |
$12.99 $9.09 |
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| This book is a collection of twenty-five years of healing experience using
aromatherapy and Ayurveda. It includes a self-dianosis questionnaire to
determine your metabolic type, descriptions of essential oils, and recipes for
the use of essnetial oils for common problems. It contains detailed information
on over 100 essential oils, as well as over 100 illustrations and photographs.
About Authors:
Dr S. Bryan and Light Miller travel extensively,
teaching... |
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David Frawley |
Ayurveda and The Mind: The Healing of Consciousness |
$16.49 $11.54 |
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| Ayurveda and the Mind is perhaps the first book published in the West that
explores specifically the psychological aspect of this great system. The book
explores how to heal our minds on all levels from the subconscious to the
superconscious, along with the role of diet, impressions, mantra, meditation,
yoga and many other methods to create wholeness.
Dr. Frawley has once again demonstrated his unique talent of digesting
ancient Vedic knowledge and feeding us this understanding... |
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J. Donald Walters |
Out of the Labyrinth : For Those Who Want to Believe But Can't |
$21.95 $15.37 |
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| The last hundred years of scientific and philosophical thought have caused
dramatic upheavals in how we view our universe, our spiritual beliefs, and
ourselves. With the advent of Darwinism, relativity, nihilism, and
existentialism, traditional religious dogmas have been challenged as never
before. Increasingly, people are wondering if enduring spiritual and moral
truths even exist.
Out of the Labyrinth brings fresh insight and understanding to this difficult problem. In clear and... |
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Rahul Peter Das |
The Origin of the Life of a Human Being |
$64.95 $45.47 |
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| This study attempts to determine how the ancient Indian medical and
sexological texts would answer a non-medical question namely; What happens in a
woman's body at the time of conception? This question also has social and
religious relevance.
To this end, numerous relevant texts were exhaustively analysed, along with
several secondary sources and relevant data from other traditional medicinal
systems. The highly complicated material, with data often widely scattered or
embedded in... |
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Amadea Morningstar |
The Ayurvedic Cook Book |
$16.49 $11.54 |
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| The Ayurvedic Cookbook gives a fresh new perspective on this ancient art of self-healing. Over 250 taste-tested recipes are specifically designed to balance each constitution, with an emphasis on simplicity, ease and sound nutrition. Recipes range from exotic Indian meals to old American favorites. Amadea Morningstar, M.A., a Western trained nutritionist, and Urmila Desai, a superb Indian cook, are both well-versed in a variety of healing traditions. The Ayurvedic Cookbook includes an... |
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Light Miller |
Ayurvedic Remedies for the Whole Family |
$25.49 $17.84 |
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| This book provides universal value for anyone on the journey to self-healing and enlightened approaches for each stage in the span of human life: pregnancy, birth, childhood, teen years, young adulthood, and the maturing years. Light details a variety of common sense, natural, and alternative therapies easily available to everyone. Additionally, Light brings to the reader the timeless body-mind techniques of meditation, forgiveness, and discovery of one's purpose as the bedrock of all... |
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Sunita Pant Bansal |
The Great Philosophers of the World |
$21.95 $15.37 |
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| If we are to understand and appreciate the ideas propounded by the great
philosophers of the past, we must begin by studying their lives. Thoughts are
shaped by the thinker's environment and day-to-day experiences. This book
reflects this approach and contains short biographies of the philosophers of the
world along with a clear exposition of their thoughts. It is amazing to note
that the search for ultimate truth has been pursued with great persistence and
wisdom since the very... |
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Joshua Mack |
The Circle of Karma |
$21.95 $15.37 |
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| What is Karma, exactly? Is it punishment? Payback through divine
intervention? A universal method of checks and balances? Karma is really none of
that. The Circle of Karma sets out to explain the fundamentals. From the initial
recognition of Karma and the Buddhist perspective to the western world's
adoption of Karma, the author brings it out of antiquity and strips it down to
its essence, so that you understand it in the context of your everyday life.
Featuring a mixture of amusing... |
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Dr. Stephen Gascoigne |
The Chinese Way to Health |
$31.99 $22.39 |
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| This highly illustrated and practical self-help guide introduces you to
the principles and techniques of Chinese medicine and shows you how to use them
in your daily life. According to Chinese philosophy, life energy - Qi - flows
throughout the body and directly affects our state of health. By developing an
understanding of this flow of energy, we can prevent illness as well as treat
symptoms when they arise. With clear, safe advice from an expert author and
consultants, there is no... |
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Jiawen Miao |
The Chinese Way to Keep Fit |
$17.99 $12.59 |
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| This is a book of gentle, effective exercises designed to improve circulation, correct poor posture, and build muscle tone. The movements are based on traditional martial arts practices that not only offer physical benefits but also strengthen the mind-body connection. A series of photographs illustrates eachj set of exercises, which consist of dynamic sitting and standing poses that require slow transitional movements from one posture to another. |
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Walter Lubeck |
The Complete Reiki Handbook |
$13.95 $9.77 |
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| Walter Lubeck describes in a clear concise fashion a method of treatment
which--irrespective of all challenges, obstacles or legal restrictions--offers
therapeutic possibilities in the face of the challenges confronting naturopathy
and empirical medicine today. This book will help to broaden the knowledge thus
gained and provide more insight into Reiki so that it may be applied with
greater ease and care. This book is especially commendable as it establishes
connections between... |
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Partap Chauhan |
Eternal Health - The Essence of Ayurveda |
$21.95 $15.37 |
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| Eternal Health presents the ancient principles of traditional Indian healing in an accessible, modern format. It is a comprehensive introduction to the core beliefs and theories of Ayurveda, with practical advice to enable you to adopt this philosophy in your daily life. This informative guide includes:
Nutrition and dietary advice for your constitution
Daily routines to minimize stress and enhance well-being
Methods to gain energy, vitality and longevity
Safe and easy herbal remedies... |
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Rodolphe Balz |
The Healing Power of Essential Oils |
$21.95 $15.37 |
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| Essential oils - fragrant essences for health and well-being, are among
the most popular natural remedies today. The heart of this book contains an
index of essential oils and their many properties. More than 200 essential oils
are described in precise detail here, followed by a particularly comprehensive
therapeutic index which makes it easier to put them to practical
use. |
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Stephen Arroyo |
Practicing the Cosmic Science |
$16.95 $11.87 |
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| This new edition of Practicing the Cosmic Science by Stephen Arroyo is a
revised and expanded version of the controversial book that redefines
astrology's purpose (formerly titled The Practice & Profession of
Astrology).
Arroyo maintains that a "Cosmic Psychology" is needed
today as the new millennium unfolds. This book shows that this can indeed be
achieved through a reformulated, modern type of astrology. Never before has
there been such a practical presentation of astrology... |
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Maya Tiwari |
The Path of Practice: A Woman's Book of Ayurvedic Healing |
$22.49 $15.74 |
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| The book details well-known Vedic practices of pranayama that creates
balance and harmony to body and mind resulting in a state of deeper awareness.
The few mudras and asanas suggested are also explained with remarkable
simplicity and lucidity. She introduces concepts of Ayurvedic healing expanding
on the importance of mantras to include the positive impact of sound energy and
its healing potential. A major portion of her book concentrates on the vitality
and energy that is derived... |
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Paula Marvelly |
The Teachers of One Living Advaita |
$18.99 $13.29 |
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| A unique collection of interviews with the world's most influential spiritual teachers. Paula Marvelly has had wonderful conversations with the leading, as well as the less well-known, spiritual teachers of the world on the nature of non-duality. They all draw their understanding from the process of Self Enquiry, a simple and yet direct investigation into the nature of oneself.
The Teachers of One is ultimatly the story of one woman's spiritual journey --- a courageous voyage of self... |
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Kenneth Williams |
Astronomical Applications of Vedic Mathematics |
$18.99 $13.29 |
Temporarily Out of Stock |
| The extraordinary power and versatility of Vedic mathematics leads to new and extremely efficient methods in Astronomy. In this self-contained book a few applications are given including Prediction of Eclipses, the digit by digit solution of Kepler's Equation, the Prediction of Planetary Positions and the Solution of Spherical Triangles. Many of the ideas introduced in this book can be developed further and also suggest other lines of research. |
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Nevill Drury |
The Dictionary of the Esoteric |
$21.95 $15.37 |
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| With ovear 3000 cross-referenced entries this is an invaluable reference
to the mystical and esoteric traditions. It gives succinct definitions in the
fields of magic hermeticism, alchemy, spiritualism, parapsychology, eastern and
western mysticism, mind and consciousness research divination, tarot, and a
variety of less welll-known subjects. It also features biographies of leading
figures in the field with details of their lives, philosophies and writings-
from astrologer... |
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Hiralal .L. Laji |
The Great Mystery of Life Beyond Death |
$14.49 $10.14 |
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| The varied experience which a spirit undergoes after death are described in the book with clarity and verisimilitude, giving the reader a rare glimpse of another, unknown dimension. Professor Kaji`s sincerity and veracity are patent. He laid no claim to supernatural powers, extrasensory perception or even a deep knowledge of the subject, and he disclaimed all responsibility for the views expressed. Regardless of its provenance, however, the book makes fascinating reading and will certainly... |
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Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche |
Wonders of the Natural Mind |
$14.49 $10.14 |
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| Although the Dzogchen teachings are principally familiar to Westerners through the teachings of the Nyingma school, they also survive in the ancient Bon Religion of Tibet.
Wonders of the Natural Mind presents Dzogchen as taught in the Zhang Zhung Nyan Gyud, the fundamental Bon text. The book summarizes the main points of Dzogchen and its relation to the various systems of Bon teaching.
In offering these teachings, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche provides the reader with a vivid and engaging... |
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Marcus Schmieke |
Vastu: The Origin of Feng Shui |
$38.49 $26.94 |
Temporarily Out of Stock |
| Vastu in Sanskrit means 'Nature and the surrounding environment'. And Vaastu (with a long a) means 'the art of building one's living and working spaces in harmony with Nature'. Although the universal influences of Mother Nature are beyond our control, the science of Vastu enables one to attract Nature's auspicious influences into the home and office and thereby improve many aspects of life such as wealth, health, energy levels, spirituality, prosperity, influence, education, fame,... |
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Donald Walters |
The Art and Science of Raja Yoga |
$29.95 $20.97 |
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| The Art and Science of Raja Yoga contains fourteen lessons in which the original yoga science emerges in all its glory-a proven system for realizing one's spiritual destiny. Absolutely unique, this is the most comprehensive course available on yoga and meditation today. The Art and Science of Raja Yoga can be used both by beginning and long-time practitioners of yoga.
The Art and Science of Raja Yoga gives you a complete and detailed presentation of yoga postures, yoga philosophy,... |
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Michell Ginsberg |
The Far Shore |
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Vipassana, The Practice of Insight
We have all had in touch with ourselves. From the far shore we see with honesty, clarity, and true acceptance. The Far Shore offers reflections on this experience in everyday life, and is addressed to all who are drawn to the path of awareness and compassion.
About the Author:
Mitchell Ginsberg, Ph.D., is a teacher in the Thai Buddhist... |
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Daya Mata |
Finding the Joy Within You |
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| 'Finding the Joy Withing you - Personal Counsel for God Centered Living' is a compassionate and deeply encouraging book. In this collection of talks, informal counsel, and personal reminiscences, Sri Sri Daya Mata shares the guidance and inspiration she received as a close disciple of Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda. This anthology conveys the indepth guidance she absorbed during thos transforming years-- the practices and principles that lead to realization of the infinite love and joy that... |
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Aziz Kristof |
The Human Buddha |
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| The message for the new millennium presents a vision of awakening which reveals the human face of the Buddha. It is essential at this moment in our evolution to return to a more realistic perspective of enlightenment. Most seekers cannot relate to the concept of enlightenment for they feel intimidated by the image of the ‘flawless' Buddha. Here, the Human Buddha is no longer a spiritual superman who denies natural longings, desires and human imperfections. The Human Buddha is indeed a... |
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Paramahansa Yogananda |
Journey to Self-Realization: Enlightenment for the New Millennium |
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| "Have you ever longed for the divine presence to clearly express it's full truth - beauty - and inspiration through the written word?" Journey to Self-Realization comes as close as possible to this ideal expression in this world. The living presence of God-love and Inner light vividly emanates from the pages of Yogananda's anthologies. The inspiration felt while reading these expressions of divine communion heave a far- reaching effect on the heart and soul of most sincere readers.... |
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Dalai Lama |
The Path to Enlightenment: An introduction to Tibetan Buddhism |
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| The Dalai Lama provides an extensive lesson on the path to enlightenment. His discourse draws out the meaning of the Third Dalai Lama's famous "Essence of Refined Gold" as he speaks directly to the listener offering spiritual advice, personal reflections, and scriptural commentary. Abridged.An introduction to Tibetan Buddhism.
About the Author:
Tenzin Gyatso was born in Amdo, Tibet in 1935 and was recognized as the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, spiritual and temporal leader... |
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Gay Watson |
The Resonance of Emptiness |
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| This book presents an exploration of Buddhist philosophy and practice as a potential resource for an approach to psycho-therapy which is responsive to the needs of its time and context, and attempts to open up a three-way dialogue between Buddhism, psychotherapy and contemporary discourse to reveal a meaningful theory and practive for a contemporary psychotherapy.
This book raises the question of what it is in Buddhism itself that provides such a rich resource for psychotherapy. Gay Watson... |
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Rohit Mehta |
The Secret of Self-transformation: A Synthesis of Tantra and Yoga |
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| The central theme of discussion in this monograph revolves round the problem of man's self-transformation in the midst of an artificial and soulless civilization. According to the author, the solution to the problem lies in a synthesis between ‘the two principal traditions of India'—Yoga and Tantra which he defines as philosophy and practice. In his view, only on a successful synthesis between the two depends the full flowering of the individual, and only ‘a transformed individual can become a... |
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Elizabeth Anne Benard |
Chinnamasta: The Aweful Buddhist and Hindu Tantric Goddess |
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| This is the first monograph which examines the rare Buddhist and Hindu Tantric goddess, Chinnamasta, her rituals, her names and forms (namarupa) and their symbolism by comparing and contrasting her sadhanas (spiritual practices) in Hinduism and Buddhism. The entire Hindu "Chinnamastatantra" section from the Sakta Pramoda, the Buddhist "Chinnamunda Vajravarahisadhana" and the "Chinnamunda Vajravarahisadhana" and the "Trikayavajrayoginistuti" are translated... |
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Geshe Kelsang Gyatso |
Clear Light of Bliss: The Practice of Mahamudra in Vajrayana Buddhism |
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| This is an explanation of the advanced practices of Vajrayana Buddhism, the supreme path to enlightenment taught by Buddha. The book provides a detailed and practical explanation of the completion stage practices of Tantric Mahamudra.
Within all of us lies a source of infinite bliss and compassion for others. The special methods explained within Tantric Buddhism enable us to discover this bliss for ourselves.
Contemporary Tantric master, Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, explains step-by-step how we... |
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David Frawley |
Tantric Yoga and the Wisdom Goddesses: Spiritual Secrets of Ayurveda |
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| Tantric Yoga and the Wisdom Goddesses is an excellent book introducing the essence of Hindu Tantrism. the book discusses all the major concepts and offers valuable corrections for many existing misconceptions. It also introduces the reader to the core Tantric practices of meditation and mantra recitation, focusing on the Ten Wisdom Goddesses (dasa-mahavidya). This book presents the meditational and mantric side of Tantra, which is the more common side of Tantra practiced in India. It is... |
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David Kinsley |
Tantric Visions of the Divine Feminine: The Ten Mahavidyas |
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| The mysteries of Tantra have engrossed countless meditators for centuries. Since the time of Buddha, these secrets have been passed down from accomplished master to disciple largely by word of mouth. Now drawing from his own experience and the works of Je Tsongkhapa and other great Tibetan Yogis, Geshe Kelsang clearly sets out all the stages of the four classes of Tantra, giving a full explanation of generation and completion stages. Tantra is revealed as the gateway to a blissful new world. ... |
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Janet Gyatso |
Apparitions of the Self: The Secret Autobiographies of a Tibetan Visionary |
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| Apparitions of the Self is a groundbreaking investigation into what is known in Tibet as "secret autobiography," an exceptional, rarely studied literary genre that presents a personal exploration of intimate religious experiences. In this volume, Janet Gyatso translates and studies the outstanding pair of secret autobiographies by the famed Tibetan Buddhist visionary, Jigme Lingpa (1730-1798), whose poetic and self-conscious writings are as much about the nature of his own identity, memory, and... |
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Jeffrey Hopkins |
The Buddhism of Tibet: The Dalai Lama |
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| The Buddhism of Tibet consists of four texts, the first two written by the
fourteenth Dalai Lama himself and the remaining two chosen by him for Western
readers: The Buddhism of Tibet explains the principal topics and central
practices of Buddhism. The Key to the Middle Way leads the student to the
discovery of the true meaning of emptiness. The Precious Garland by Nagarjuna is
famous for its descriptions of the Bodhisattva path of compassion and for its
clear, concise analysis of... |
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Randolph Kloetzli |
Buddhist Cosmology: Science and Theology in the Images of Motion and Light |
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| This work attempts to begin the process of interpreting the major phases of Buddhist Cosmological speculation by seeing in them various dramas of salvation tailored to the philosophical and theological predilections of their respective traditions.
To a large extent, this interpretation relies on an examination of continuities between the Buddhist cosmologies and those of the Hellensitic world as a whole. In the course of this study, two major cosmological traditions emerge; those which rely... |
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Sydney Piburn |
The Dalai Lama a Policy of Kindness |
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| Winner of the nobel Peace prize. An Anthology of Writings by and about the
Dalai lama
This book offers a comprehensive view of the Dalai Lama, both his personal life and his thoughts on issues of global concern. An engaging picture emerges of a man whose goodwill, understanding a practicality have brought him respect from world leaders and the acclaim of millions around the world.
After the Dalai Lama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
in 1989, Sidney Piburn put this book together in... |
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Geshe Kelsang Gyatso |
Heart Jewel: Commentary to the Essential Practice of the New Kadampa Tradition of Mahayana Buddhism |
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| Kadampa Buddhism is becoming increasingly popular as a clear and practical spiritual path for the contemporary practitioner.
Originating with the special presentation of Mahayana Buddhism by the great Buddhist masters Atisha and Je Tsongkhapa, Kadampa Buddhism makes the path to enlightenment accessible to the modern world and explains clearly how to transform our lives into the spiritual path.
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, a meditation master of this living tradition, explains two essential... |
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Lobsang P. Lhalungpa |
The Life of Milarepa |
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| Now recognized as the standard translation of one of the most beloved stories of the Tibetan people, The Life of Milarepa is both a portrait of the greatest Tibetan Buddhist saint and folk hero and a profoundly detailed guidebook to the search for consciousness. This book is about the tale of Tibet's most beloved saint, Milarepa translated from a Tibetan source. It tells of how he embarked on the journey of revenge, and then realizing the grave mistake of taking many lives, seek the... |
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Robert A.F. Thurman |
The Speech of Gold |
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| About the Author:
Named as one of Time Magazine's 25 Most Influential
People of 1997 Robert A. F. Thurman, PhD., has been a college professor and
writer for 30 years, and holds the first endowed chair in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist
Studies in America (Jey Tsong Khapa Chair, Columbia University.); He is
the co-founder and president of the non-profit oranization, Tibet House
New York. He was the first Western Tibetan monk, a student and for over 35... |
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Adrian Snodgrass |
Symbolism of the Stupa |
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| In his preface to The Symbolism of the Stupa Prof. Craig Reynolds writes "The stupa is a symbolic form that pullulates throghout South Southeast and East Asia. In its Indian manifestations it is an extreme case in terms of architectural function: it has no usablehas a basic simplicity. In this state of the art` studt Adrian Snodrass reads the stupa as a cultural artifact. The mounment concretizes metaphyswical principles and generates multivalent meanings in ways that can be articulated with... |
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W.Y. Evans-Wentz |
The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation |
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| This book is the repository of paramount important teachings. Which have been transmitted to the people of the Occident from most illustrious Teachers of Tibet and India. For the first time in English. The chief purpose of the book is to show the way not only to intellectual understanding but to actual psychic realization of the Nirvanic goal proclaimed by Gautama, the Buddha. And in as much as no other treatise quite like this treatise has yet appeared in the Western World, it... |
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Pyhllis Granoff |
The Clever Adulteress and Other Stories: A Treasury of Jain Literature |
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| The stories in this collection span almost one thousand years of story-telling in India. Most originate in North India and all were written by Jain monks for the edification and amusement of the faithful. The treasures of India's heritage of story-telling are known to us today mainly from these Jain stories which have been carefully preserved through the years. The Stories in The Clever Adulteress have been translated by a renowned group of scholars from India, North America and Europe. Each... |
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Shukdeo Singh |
The Bijak of Kabir |
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| Kabir was an extraordinary poet whose works have been sung and recited by
millions throughout North India for half a millennium. He was perhaps illiterate
(I don't touch ink or paper, this hand never grasped a pen), and he preached an
abrasive, sometimes shocking, always uncomprising message exhorting his audience
to shed their delusions, pretensions and empty orthodoxies in favour of an
intense, direct personal confrontation with truth.
The Bijak is one of the most important... |
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Hazrat Inayat Khan |
The Dance of the Soul |
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| This collection of aphorisms is just a gem of wisdom and mysticism with a
touch of humour. It helps you to discover your very being at the same time as
hinting practical solutions for your daily life: feeling, thinking, speaking,
acting. It is the only book Hazrat Inayat Khan actually wrote himself. All the
others (vide The Sufi Message, Vols. I-XIII) are representations of his
discourses. Besides aphorisms it contains a small yet highly inspiring
collection of prayers. Throughout... |
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Ma Prem Shunyo |
Diamond Days with Osho: The New Diamond Sutra |
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| A fascinating record of the spiritual experiences of Ma Prem Shunyo and her transformation through Osho. This book has the lovely quality of both revealing glimpses of higher energy flow and author's responses to down to earth events in her life with Osho. The most interesting thing about this book is that although it is a personal diary of a devotee, reading it gives us the joy of reading a beautiful novel. This memoir has three powerful things going for it. First: it describes the inner... |
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Harry Aveling |
The Laughing Swamis |
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| The book provides a careful study of both Indian concepts and practices of renunciation and of the Western "Counter Culture" of the sixties which formed an integral part of the background of these seekers. The teaching of Satyananda and Rajneesh on renunciation are analysed in depth. Finally, the major part of the book is devoted to a description of the lives and experiences of the renunciates themselves. |
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Paramahansa Yogananda |
The Science of Religion |
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| "Science without religion is lame," Einstein once declared, "and religion without science is blind." Here is a short yet masterful summary of the principles and practices by which it is possible to attain direct, personal experience of higher Reality. The value of this small book is beyond estimation in words, since between these narrow covers is to be found the flower of the Vedas and the Upanishads, the essence of Patanjali, foremost exponent of the Yoga philosophy... |
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Kireet Joshi |
Sri Aurobindo and the Mother |
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| The original works of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, which numbers over
sixty, provide a comprehensive view of the width, depth and height of this
unprecedented endeavour. The reader will find in this book a brief account of
some of the major landmarks and major curves of the graph of the great story of
Sri Aurobindo's and Mother's labour and achievement. |
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A.H. Francke |
History of Western Tibet: One of the Unknown Empires |
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| A History of Western Tibet is based on foreign and western Tibetan sources of information. The western Tibetan sources of information are records on stones and on paper. Records on stones cover the period 200 B.C. to 1900 A.D. Records on paper are the chronicles of the Kings of Leh. Though these are edited ones, much remains to be done.
The readers will find A History of Western Tibet interesting which is the outcome of scholarly enterprise and research as much as of familiarity with the... |
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Georg Feurstein |
In Search of the Cradle of Civilization |
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| The book shows that the ancient Indians were no primitives but possessed a high spiritual culture, which not only influenced the evolution of the Western world in decisive ways but which still has much to teach us today. India's archaic spirituality is codified in the rich symbols, metaphors, and myths of the magnificent Rig-Veda, which is shown to be much older than has been widely assumed by scholars. The present book also unravels the astonishing mathematical and astronomical code... |
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Egbert Richter Ushanas |
The Indus Script and the Rg-Veda |
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| This book offers a detailed study of the Indus script in relation to the Rg-Veda. In the first chapters of this book, the author discusses and rebuts several well-known misconceptions about the Vedas and the Vedic Period. The deciphering of the Indus script has been met with suspicion and ridicule. Many people are nowadays of the opinion that the Indus script is altogether indecipherable. The masterkey of this book is the discovery of a symbolic connection between the Indus signs and the... |
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Kireet Joshi |
The Veda and Indian Culture: An introductory essay |
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| This is an introductory book on the Veda meant for the beginners. The book
avoids pedantic discussions and presents in a rapid manner the core of the Vedic
discovery. The Vedic Rishis have described the human journey, its difficulties
and its battles as also the secret of the victory. The central issue is how to
perfect our ordinary psychological faculties. The entire science of yoga owes
its origin to the Vedic psychology. At present mankind is passing through a
crisis which can be... |
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Johannes Bronkhorst |
The Two Traditions of Meditation in Ancient India |
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| This book elucidates the early Buddhist teachings and beliefs concerning meditation and its role to liberation. An analysis is offered also of the non-Buddhist (especially Jaina and early Hindu) practices and beliefs as they are described in the non-Buddhist literature of the time. Passages in the Buddhist canon which emphasize the distinctions between Buddhism and other religious currents are also taken into consideration. |
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Charles Bell |
The People of Tibet |
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| The present book is an attempt to speak about the life of the Tibetan
people in their own homes. Shut-off from the outer world by their immense
mountain barriers Tibet still presented a virgin field of enquiry. There has
been little change in the inner life of the people during the last thousand
years.
About the Author:
Sir Charles Bell
was born in calcutta in 1870 and educated in England at Winchester
and Oxford. He joined the Indian Civil Service.... |
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Ferd Mahler |
Under the Painted Eyes: A Story of Nepal |
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| The three novels of "Under The Painted Eyes" are set in the shadow of the
great Himalayan Mountains and against the background tapestry of Nepal's
fascinating history and rich culture. Fictional and historical characters live,
love, fight and worship under the watching eyes of the Adi Buddha, which are
painted on the torans of the Swayambhunath and the Bodnath and other ancient
temples. The novels tell of romance and love over the centuries and the
happiness and tragedy they bring.... |
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Bimalakanta Roychaudhuri |
The Dictionary of Hindustani Classical Music |
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| In this book the author has dealt with the musical terms as found in the old sastras and are also in common use. He has explained these terms in simple language with reference to their history of origin.
Description of seventy-eight different musical instruments and forty-seven different Talas are also there. An essential aid to research-scholars and students of music. The Bengali version of the book Bharatiya Sangeetkosh earned for him "Sangeet Natak Academy" award as the best book on music... |
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Gayatri Devi Vasudev |
Astrology and the Hoax of Scientific Temper |
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| A fine book of essays. It is marred in places by a shrill tone & consistently drops us into the middle of ongoing arguments, such as the one over the famous Humanist manifesto of 1975. Includes unmentioned sidebars & cartoons. This book is an inspired collection of writings that expose the fraud of "scientific temper" in its attack on astrology. Astrology always had its critics, the unfair and unjust criticism should be nipped at the bud. This book tells you all... |
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Dennis M. Harness |
The Nakshatras: The Lunar Mansions of Vedic Astrology |
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| Hindu mythology plays an important role in understanding the meaning of the nakshatras. This guide shows how the nakshatras can be used in both natal chart analysis and muhurtha, or electional astrology. An additional section also explores the role of nakshatras in relationship compatibility. This book provides an excellent practical presentation to this important astrological system. It shows us how to access the wisdom of the Nakshatras in our personal life and for our society. It shows... |
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Madame La Roux |
The Practice of Classical Palmistry |
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| Gypsies have been reading palms for hundreds of years and everyone knows
that they can tell you the future. Madame La Roux is a bona fide gypsy who has
traveled the country and read thousands of palms. In this fact-packed book, she
teaches you how to get information from the lines, the fingers, the thumb, the
bumbs and knots, the hills and valleys of the palm--so you can accurately
predict the future for yourself and for your friends. It is an easy-to-learn
technique, and she... |
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Erin Sullivan |
Retrograde Planets: Traversing the Inner Landscape |
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| "Geocentricity might well be egocentricity." The phenomenon of retrograde
motion is based on our Earth-centered view of the solar system, but the movement
and cycles of retrograde planets are based entirely on the apparent motion of
the Sun through the zodiac. This book organizes and explains retrograde motion
from a systems-viewpoint-the system of the Sun and planets-and interprets
retrograde planets natally, by progression, and in transit.
Erin Sullivan has penetrated the veil of... |
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Bepin Behari |
The Timing of Events |
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| The timings of events fulfils an important need of Vedic Astrology. Predictive astrology aims at identifying the specific period for the occurence of a specific event. Several principles on this subjec have been indicated in classical texts. Many of them are not available to a large number of modern students. The present study on the subject by Bepin Behari gives various principles on the subject in a very lucid and readable manner. It discussed Dasa system, transits of... |
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James Glover |
Vedic Mathematics for Schools Vol I, II and III (3 Volumes) with CD's |
$105.99 $74.19 |
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| Three Volumes with CD's "Gopi bhagya madhuvrata srngiso dadhi sandhiga khala jivita khatava gala hala rasandara" Translation: O Lord anointed with the yogurt of the milkmaids' worship (Krishna), O savior of the fallen, O master of Shiva, please protect me. Is that a prayer to Krishna or a consonant code for the solution of pi/10 = 0.31415926535897932384626433832792? Or both? Vedic mathematics is composed of sutras, which have been formulated... |
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Kenneth G. Zysk |
Asceticism and Healing in Ancient India: Medicine in the Buddhist Monastery |
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| The rich Indian medical tradition is usually traced back to Sanskrit sources, the earliest of which cannot much antedate the common era. In this book, Asceticism and Healing in Ancient India, Kenneth Zysk shows that Buddhist scriptures, some centuries older their Sanskrit relatives, contain abundant information about medical practice and are our earliest evidence for a rational approach to medicine in India. He argues that Buddhism and the medical tradition were mutually supportive: that... |
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Shalila Sharamon |
The Chakra Handbook: From Basic Understanding to Practical Application |
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| The Chakra Handbook provides a practical insight into various human potentialities. It unveils the power that works within the body in tandem with a complex energy system. The book delves into the subject in a comprehensive manner a lay person can understand and practice chakra meditation indicating that the secret of sexual impulse isn't wrapped in the genitals, but exists in every cell of the body, in the interaction of the male and female forces in all the manifestations of creation. |
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Robert E. Svoboda |
The Greatness of Saturn |
$12.99 $9.09 |
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| The Greatness of Saturn allows you to experience directly the healing power of one of the world's greatest myths. The telling of mythic stories has always been a powerful form of therapy, bring healing to people facing adversity. The Greatness of Saturn is such a therapeutic myth, told and retold through many centuries. Taken from the Vedic tradition, it honors the planet Saturn, who personifies time, limitation, loss, and all forms of adversity. No person goes through life without sometime... |
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Prash Trivedi |
The Rahu Ketu Experience |
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| India's most insightful young astrologer ... Prash Trivedi offers what is probably the longest, most researched and most original book on Rahu and Ketu published in modern times ... This book is worthy of serious examination by all students of Astrology and all those interested in the great mysteries of life, death, karma and transformation.
About the Author:
Prash Trivedi is one of the world's foremost authorities on Jyotish. His ancestral background includes notable Sanskrit... |
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Alex Wayman |
Calming the Mind and Discerning the Real |
$23.95 $16.77 |
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| In 1402 Tson-kha-pa, the founder of the Gelupa sect of
Tibetan Buddhism, completed ' Lam Rim Chenmo.'
Lama Tson-kha-pa's famous Lam Rim Chenmo is perhaps the most elaborate and elegant presentation of the Buddhist path and is one of the most renowned Tibetan Buddhist classics. The work falls into the Lam-rim genre which stemmed from the Kadampa school of Tibetan Buddhism. Its main structure is based on the division of three levels of spiritual beings, which Atisha puts forth in The Lamp for... |
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John Grimes |
The Vivekacudamani of Sankaracarya Bhagavatpada |
$20.99 $14.69 |
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| Advaita Vedanta is one of the most important and widely studied schools of thought in Hindu philosophy and the Vivekacudamani is one of the most important texts in the Advaita tradition and the most popular philosophical work ascribed to the great Idnian philosophers, Sankara Sankara (c. 650-700) is considered to be a giant among giants and probably the most venerated philosopher in Idnia's long history. |
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Prash Trivedi |
The Book of Nakshatra |
$24.49 $17.14 |
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| It is the common knowledge that the 12 star-signs map the sky and set the stage for the drama of life. This book expands this awareness manifold by revealing that it is the 27 constellation, and not the 12 signs, which truly map the ecliptic and provide the celestial backdrop for affair on earth. It is our hope that you will enjoy this cosmos journey as much as we have enjoyed making it available to you.Table of Contents:Introduction Ashvini Bharani Krittika Rohini Mrigashira Ardra Punarvasu... |
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Shridhar B. Shrotri |
The Religion of the Veda |
$29.95 $20.97 |
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| The work is complete in four chapters preceded by an introduction discussing in detail the sources, viz., the Vedas, brahmanas and Sutras.
Translation of Oldenberg's classic German work on Vedic religious beliefs, cults and customs. trans. by Shridhar B. Shrotri. Represents the best of orientalist scholarship. |
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Prash Trivedi |
Sun - The Cosmic Powerhouse |
$6.49 $4.54 |
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| Prash & Veno offer a comprehensive, historical, numerological as well as esoteric study of the king among the planets - Sun. This work also highlights why it is time to do away with the widely prevalent Sun-Sign astrology.
"As some wise men say ~ the whole chart can be deciphered just by looking at the placements of the Sun, Moon and the Lunar Nodes. After covering the astrology of the Lunar Nodes in the previous work by... |
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Ramana Maharshi |
Ramana, Shankara and the Forty Verses |
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| Ramana Maharshi and Shankara are two of the greatest and
most important sages in the tradition of Advaita. This book contains some
of the major works of Shankara actually translated by Ramana maharshi. It
includes Shankara's famouns 'The Crest Jewel of Discrimination (Vivekacudamani)'
and Maharshi's 'Seminal Forty Verses on Reality.'
Ramana Maharishi was one of India's true Jnanais or Spiritual Beings. He lived a simple and profound life in Arunachala which exhuded wisdom,... |
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R. Sathyanarayana |
Karnataka Music As Aesthetic Form |
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| 'Karnataka Music As Aesthelic Form' is probably the first serious and
systematic attempt to analyse and explain aesthetic experience of Karnataka
music in the perspective of its multiple values. It deals with a
traditional art form of ndian music which is performed and enjoyed by many
millions of music lovers in India and abroad. Its focus is Karnataka music
but much of what it says in the first half applies to Indian music in
general. |
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S. K. Mullarpattan |
The Last Days of Nisargadatta Maharaj |
$11.49 $8.04 |
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| Thirteen days after the great Advaita sage Nisargadatta Maharaj took ‘Mahasamadhi’ in 1981, S. K. Mullarpattan, his beloved disciple and longest-serving English interpreter, gave a momentous speech at the condolence meet. In moving words, he recounted incidents from the last days of Maharaj, and the indelible impact the great sage left upon anyone who came into contact with him. To commemorate the 25th anniversary of Maharaj’s ‘Mahasamadhi’, we bring you the... |
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Frank E. Reynolds |
The Life of Buddhism |
$19.49 $13.64 |
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| The contributors focus on a number of religious practices across the Buddhist world, from Sri Lanka to New York, Japan to Tibet. The essays highlight not so much Buddhist doctrine or sacred texts, but rather the actual behavior and lived experience of Buddhist adherents.
Bringing together fifteen essays by outstanding Buddhist scholars from Asia, Europe, and North America, this book offers a distinctive portrayal of the "life of Buddhism." The contributors focus on a number of... |
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Brian Ruhe |
Freeing the Buddha |
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| This book is not written to reinvent the wheel and offer up "just another introduction to Buddhism.". This has a fresh approach of Buddhism which does not stir up dust in areas that most people have not thought of. There are Buddhist teachers who would discuss things privately such as Buddhist views on UFOs, Adolf Hitler and the historical Jesus, but they would not give public talks or publish books on such controversial subjects.
Sit, relax and wake up! Study major aspects of... |
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Vimala Thakar |
Insights into the Bhagavad Gita |
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| The Bhagavad Gita is very sacred because it deals with the organic wholeness of Life; and the inbuilt complexity of Life. It affirms the interplay between the microcosm and macrocosm and persuades us to remain united with the ultimate reality, not only to intellectual understanding, but through everything that we do, at every moment. Thus, the deepest spiritual insight concerning the Bhagavad Gita are presented, herein, into the words full of clarity and compassion.
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Andrew Harvey |
Perfume of the Desert |
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| In this text, poet and mystic Andrew Harvey teams with photographer Eryk Hanut to bring the esoteric world of Sufism to life. Harvey's translations of Rumi, Kabir, and Rabia are paired with a compilation of Sufi stories, sayings, folk tales and jests.
"Here is a book on Sufism that conveys the love and passion that belongs to this path. Andrew Harvey speaks with the language of lovers, and his book carries the invisible perfume for which the soul longs".
Renowned for his inspiring... |
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Bob Gibbons |
Erotic Art of the Kathmandu Valley |
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| This book goes a long way to providing an insight into these questions. It gives us glimpses of life depicted as explicityly as it may without hurting the sentiments of more conservative societies. "This 'Naughtiness' of Nepalese art may send blushes to the furthest periphery of your senses. Erotic Art of the Kathmandu Valley', 116 pages, softback, colour photos, discusses the reasons for the erotic art on the temples, and is a cultural guide to this often misunderstood topic.... |
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E.B. Havell |
Encyclopaedia of Architecture in the Indian Subcontinent |
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| The book is a scholarly account of the glories of India's architectural heritage and deals with the entire subcontinet including Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. The book traces the cultural contacts which have contributed to the rich mosaic of temples, mosques, palaces, forts and other nonuments that have gone towards the creation of one of the greatest civilizations of the world.
The book is a scholarly account of the glories of India's architectural heritage and deals with the... |
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K. Narain |
The Philosophy of the Vallabha School of Vedanta |
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| Suddhadvaita or the system of Pure Monism of Sri Vallabhacarya claims to be the most faithful and authentic exposition of the real teachings of the Upanisads as it purifies the Non-Dual Ultimate Reality of the extraneous concept of Maya introduced by Samkara under the influence of Buddhism. In this system we have the concept of Non-Dualism or Advaita in its pristine, Upanisadic sense unblemished by Samkara's Illusionism, the concept of a Concrete, Personal and determinate Ultimate Reality. In... |
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H.H the Dalai Lama |
Commentary on the Thirty Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva |
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| Ngulchu Gyalsas Thogmed Zangmo's The Thirty Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva is one of Tibetan Buddhist's most popular texts, incorporated in the Mind Training text and also able to be explained according to the Lam Rim tradition. Its advice is timeless and its relevance is universal
This commentary by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, as expounded during Kalachakra teachings at Bodh Gaya, is characterised by its clarity, practicality and profundity. Each stanza of the root text is elucidated... |
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G.D. Bakshi |
Dances with the Cranes |
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| "Dances with the cranes" celebrate, the magic and mystery of death and rebirth. These are poems of reincarnation that trace the rites of passage of the soul in the flight of the majestic Black Necked Cranes. Each year, from September to November these birds migrate from Tibet and colder regions of China to Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh. The Black Necked Cranes is the National Bird Bhutan. It is called Thrug-Thrug-Kam by the Druktas. It is deemed to be a good omen. It is a symbol of good fortune,... |
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K. Narain |
The Fundamentals of Advaita Vedanta |
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| This book is a reliable compendium covering the whole gamut of philosophical problems and metaphysical issues concerning the system of Sri Samkaracarya's Advaita Vedanta. Besides referring to the philosophical conceptions and arguments as available in Samkara's works, it also attempts the exposition of the arguments and ideas of the eminent Post Samkarite philosophers to give a logically satisfactory exposition to Samkara's system of Advaita Vedanta.
This work is a thorough exposition, based... |
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David Frawley |
Ayurveda and Marma Therapy |
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| Marmas are the Ayurvedic equivalent of acupuncture points; they are connected to the chakras and nadis of yoga and can be treated with massage, aromatherapy, herbs, and yoga practice. This book outlines 107 main marma points throughout the body, with a clear illustrations for each point and instruction for treatments such as acupressure, massage, aromatherapy, acupuncture, yoga, and meditation. Additional information is included on the use of acupuncture on the marma points and the relation of... |
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David Frawley |
Vedantic Meditation: Lighting the Flame of Awareness |
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| As yoga gains popularity across the U.S., many people are becoming interested in its traditional Vedic roots. While Buddhist meditation is well represented on bookshelves, there has been little Vedantic philosophy written in lay terms until now.
Author David Frawley guides readers through the challenges of cultivating
awareness, calming the mind, and practicing meditation according to Vedanta and
Hinduism. He examines how cultural knowledge systems in the West lead
individuals to... |
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H.H the Dalai Lama |
Cultivating a Daily Meditation |
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| During April 1985, and again in October 1986, His Holiness the Dalai Lama delivered a series of discourses on Buddhist view, meditation and action.
These discourses and the ensuing discussions were recorded and later edited to produce this informative account of the Buddhist teachings and how they may be applied in daily life
Two discourses in which His Holiness touches upon the essential points of the Dharma and provides a clear and simple method to cultivate a daily practice of meditation.... |
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H.H the Dalai Lama |
Dialogues on Universal Responsibility and Education |
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| The first book of its kind to be published by the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, Dialogues on Universal Responsibility & Education offers a fascinating insight into the philosophical background of India and its transference to modern thought, as well as the practical wisdom of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Drawn from two workshops held in New Delhi between the Dalai Lama and a group of Indian scholars, philosophers, teachers and social reformers. Taking the concept of universal... |
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Dalai Lama |
Universal Responsibility and the Good Heart |
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| The message of His Holiness the XIVth Dalai Lama of Tibet to the world, this collection contains a wide selection of articles, interviews and answer to questions, on Buddhism, politics, science, universal responsibility and the inculcation of good heart from various talks and writings of the XIVth Dalai Lama. A collection of articles and interviews with the present Dalai Lama reflecting his thoughts and activities over the past twenty years.
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Gopesh Kumar Ojha |
The Solar Return or Varshaphal |
$14.95 $10.47 |
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| The information contained in this book is of immense use to the students and aspirants enabling them to make swifter progress in their decisions. In short this book is unique in itself as it contains the so far unfolded Secrets of the Solar Revolutions.
About the Authors:
Pandit Gopesh Kumar Ojha, has written books on Vedic Astrology, physionomy, palmistry and various branches of Samudrik Shastra. His books on Astrology are also used as text books in India.
Pandit... |
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Phanindralal Gangooly |
The Surya Siddhanta |
$44.99 $31.49 |
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| The oldest and most important treatise of the post-Christian period on Indian Astronomy that has come down to us is the Surya Siddhanta consisting 14 chapters written in slokas. Alberuni says that Lata was the author of this work. According to the introductory verses Surya, the sun god, revealed it to Asura Maya in the city of Romaka.
This translation stands out as a model of research work in the field of Hindu astronomy. After sometime Calcutta University published a reprint of this... |
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Dr. KS Charak |
Surya the Sun God |
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| Surya the Sun God is a book that deals with the various aspects of the Sun not confined to astrology and astronomy only. It is an elaborate and multi-dimensional treatment of the Sun.
The different aspects of the Sun covered in this book include the following:
The identity of the Sun with the Universal Soul, and a
link between the macrocosm and the microcosm.
A connection between the Sun outside and the Fire
element that operates within the individual body.
Origin of... |
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Satprem |
Mother's Agenda: 1965 - Volume 6 |
$13.99 $9.79 |
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| Recorded by Satprem, a disciple of the Mother, in the course of numerous personal conversations with her, Mother's Agenda is the complete logbook of her exploration in the cellular consciousness of the human body. It covers 23 years of experiences which parallel some of the most recent theories of modern physics, and are perhaps the key to man's passage to the next species.
This 6,OOO-page work in 13 volumes represents the day-to-day account over 22 years(1951-1973 ) of Mother's... |
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Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada |
Easy Journey to Other Planets |
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| It is said that the perfect yogi can relinquish his body at death and journey, at the speed of mind, to antimaterial planets far beyond the limits of the material universe. Encompassing the systems of sankhya, astanga and bhakti, this absorbing publication treats the science of yoga, particularly in its application to out-of-body travel. Forget NASA's elaborate arrangements and huge, dangerous metal machines. Learn the easy way to journey through the solar system. Using subtle, spiritual... |
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Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada |
Introduction to the Bhagavad-gita |
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| Bhagavad-Gita was originally spoken to liberate one from the bodily conception of life, and Arjuna put himself in this position in order to receive this information from the Lord. One must become free from the bodily conception of life; that is the preliminary activity for the transcendentalist. One who wants to become free, who wants to become liberated, must first of all learn that he is not this material body. Mukti, or liberation means freedom from material consciousness. ... |
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Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada |
The Matchless Gift |
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| The matchless gift is permanent freedom from material
suffering. But how to obtain the gift? What is the price to pay?
No money in the word can buy spiritual freedom. Yet it is the rarest, most valuable, and most sought-after commodity. And it is equally available to the poor and the wealthy. Do you want the gift in your life? The choice is yours. Here are the steps to achieve it, laid out one after another. Take one step at a time, and you'll find you've bought the matchless gift.
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Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada |
Dharma : The Way of Transcendence |
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| The Sanskrit word dharma is one of the oldest and most amabigious terms in the Vedic literarture. Here, Swami Prabhupada explians its use, what it relates to, and most importantaly, how to practice dharma or "one's duty." This book is a collection of lectures and discussions given by Swami Prabhupada in the late 1960's and 70's. Everything is explained so that even someone who is not familiar with the Vedic teachings will understand, yet the deepth of... |
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Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami |
Readings in Vedic Literature, The Tradition Speaks for Itself |
$6.49 $4.54 |
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| Discover the Vedic tradition for yourself in this essential handbook on Vedic literature. Here's an excellent companion for any student interested in the Vedas.
Readings in Vedic Literature is often used as a college textbook because of its clarity and concise presentation of Indian philosophy.
It easily unravels the mystery of the broad base of Indian knowledge and philosophy.
You'll get the essential ideas of the Vedic tradition, as well as a sample of Vedic writings and a look at the... |
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Dr. Richard Thompson and Others |
Origins, Higher Dimensions in Science |
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| Scientists propose theory after revised theory to explain the nature and origin of the universe and life forms. Origins peers into core questions largely ignored by the scientific community.
From archeology and evolution to consciousness and higher dimensional science, Origins provides thought-provoking grounds for further exploration.
About the Author: Dr. Richard L. Thompson
Dr. Richard L. Thompson was born in Binghamton, New York in 1947. In 1974 he received his Ph.D. in... |
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Swami Sadi Shiva tirtha |
The Ayurvedic Encyclopedia |
$41.99 $29.39 |
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| This book contains all the ingredients for a healthy life. "...the most comprehensive, clear and user friendly resource book on Ayurveda available today. Swami Tirtha has done us all a great service by compiling this thorough and reliable reference... provides western medical translations and a valuable glossary."
For families, medical and holistic practitioners, pharmacists and professors.
Discover the secrets of natural healing... |
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Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada |
The Topmost Yoga System |
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| Although there are many types of yoga practice, the Vedic literature explains that no matter which practice you choose, success is only achieved when bhakti is present. What is bhakti-yoga, and how can you add it to your life or your current yoga practice? As bhakti is a pivotal element in any yogic or religious practice, it is known as the topmost yoga. In the Bhagavad-gita, Krishna explains bhakti-yoga to his dear friend Arjuna, and here Srila Prabhupada expands these concepts in this... |
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Samvid |
The Way to Supreme Bliss |
$5.95 $4.17 |
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| This important work forming part of Paramanandatantram is held as an authoritative treatise on Srividya worship the most important branch of the Sakta tradition. Like most other tantrika works, it is in the form of a conversation between Siva and his Consort Devi.
Dedicated to the Sadhakas of Yoga, Vedanta, Srividya and Self-enquiry Text in Samskrta with Translation and Notes by Samvid based on the commentary of Maheswaranandantha
This book contains 24th Chapter of Paramananda Tantram being... |
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Dr. Lopsang Rapgay |
The Tibetan Book of Healing |
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| Having been the religious secretary to H.H. Dalai Lama and a monk, perhaps the greatest potency in this book is the clear and well laid out approach for developing a well-grounded spirituality and meditation practice that he {Dr. Rapgay} offers in accordance with body/mind types and which people of all traditions can heartily embrace.
A comprehensive look at the healing modalities offered in Tibetan medicine.
Dr. Rapgay has presented the preventive health care aspects--diet, exercise,... |
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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi |
Maharishi's Absolute Theory of Defence |
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| 'Supreme Knowledge for everyone-everywhere' Principles of invincibility from the perspective of modern science provide a scientific understanding of how the growth of coherence in individual and collective consciousness gives rise to national invinciblity. Military is purposeful only if it has the indomitable power of invincibility, with the natural ability to prevent the birth of an enemy. Maharishi's Absolute Theory of Defence offers this indomitable strength of invincibility to the... |
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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi |
Maharishi's Absolute Theory of Government |
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| 'Supreme Knowledge for everyone-everywhere'
Now that the technology to enliven absolute administration on the individual and collective levels of consciousness is completely available through Maharishi's Transcendental Meditation and and TM-Sidhi Programme, it is possible to establish the perfect, ideal system of administration on every level-family, community, city, state, nation, and the whole world-and create administration on a par with the perfect administration of the... |
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Tony Nader |
Human Physiology - Expression of Veda and the Vedic Literature |
$137.99 $96.59 |
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| A textbook of life for everyone. Modern Science and Ancient Vedic Science discover the fabrics of immortality in the human physiology.
'Here is the first and final disclosure of knowledge that presents every human being as the embodiment of the total creative process in Nature and renders human life as a field of all possibilities. This offers mastery over Natural Law to everyone and perfection to every nation--Heaven on Earth.' - Maharishi
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Ralph T.H. Griffith |
The Hymns of the Rgveda |
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| The Rgveda, the odest literary record of the Aryan race and the sacred book of the Hindus, has very few authentic translations in English. Most of the translations are only the imitations of interpretations which the mediaeval hindus, as represented by Sayana, have offered. Griffith's is the only translation which, though guided by Sayana, ventures to deviate from him widely and frequently. it may be ranked as an independent translation hitherto made in English.
The Rig Veda derive its... |
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Vaman Shivram Apte |
The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary |
$76.99 $53.89 |
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| A complete yet low-priced practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary for students. The author has added quotations and references to some of the more peculiar meanings of words, especially those which occur in works generally read by the student at school or college. The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary is especially useful for beginners as it provides them with apt illustrations of the meaning as well as the sense of the words, and enables them to become equipped with a large range of... |
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Luis S.R. Vas |
The Mind of J. Krishnamurti |
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| "The Mind of J Krishnamurti" edited by Luis S R Vas is a
must read for those who want to know the brilliant mind of J Krishnamurti. Call
him what you like, a philosopher, theosophist, psychologist, spiritualist or a
teacher he has carved a place among the greats. The book contains a collection
of commentaries, reviews and evaluations of his thoughts. The editor is being
too modest to call the book an introduction to Krishnamurti's thinking. It is a
compendium perceived and... |
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Osho |
The White lotus |
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| The white lotus is a beautiful symbol. White represents multidimensionality, because white contains all the colors of the spectrum. That is the most strange, unbelievable quality about white: it contains all the colors yet it seems to be colorless. About the Author: OSHO was born on 11 December 1931, and attained 'enlightenment' at the twenty-one, and went on to complete his academic studies. He spent several years teaching philosophy at the University of Jabalpur. By the... |
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Osho |
The Revolution |
$16.49 $11.54 |
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| A fiery book alive with Osho's love for Kabir and for the only revolution that counts: enlightenment. It is the only revolution that can bring about a total transformation so that we can once again see the world through eyes free of all the judgments and conditionings that have been put there from the outside. A new vision is needed in the world - a new vision which will be as scientific as possible and as religious as possible. That I call revolution. The world is waiting for that... |
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Osho |
This Very Body The Buddha |
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| About the Author: OSHO was born on 11 December 1931, and attained 'enlightenment' at the twenty-one, and went on to complete his academic studies. He spent several years teaching philosophy at the University of Jabalpur. By the late 1960, Osho had begun to develop his unique dynamic meditation techniques. He felt that modern man is so burdened with the archaic traditions of the past as well as the anxieties of modern-day living, that he must go through a deep cleansing process... |
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Osho |
The Message Beyond Words: A Dialogue with the Lord of Death |
$33.99 $23.79 |
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| In this book Osho turns the penetrating eye of enlightenment on the mist of fear and misunderstanding that surrounds death in our modern minds. He debunks the myth of death and shares a vision that is both decidedly practical and deeply mysterious.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Death Is The Maste
A Night Meditation
The Thirst For The Deathless
The Morning Meditation
Worthy Of Truth
Tratak Meditation
Alight With The Inner Fire
Never Born, Never Dies
A Small... |
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Dr. V. Ganapati Sthapati |
The Scientific Edific of Brihadeeswara Temple, Tanjore, Tamilnadu |
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| This book is an unique exposition attempted effectively and exhaustively on the science and technology of the architectural wonder i.e. the great Brihadeeswara Temple situated at Tanjore, designed and constructed by one of the great grandfathers of Dr.Ganapati Sthapati, Kunjra Mallan Raja Raja Perunthachan, during the 10th century AD under the patronage of King Raja Raja Chozhan.
The ancient Indian science of Vaastu Shastra finds fullest expression in this magnificent edifice and Sthapati has... |
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Dr. V. Ganapati Sthapati |
The Colossal Statue Of Ayyan Thiruvalluvar |
$5.95 $4.17 |
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| In this book, the master architect Dr.Ganapati Sthapati writes on his master sculpture the 133 ft high all-granite statue of noble poet Ayyan Thiruvalluvar that now stands sky high in the shore of Kanya Kumari, in the Southern tip of Indian sub-continent.
About the Author:Born in the year 1927, at Pillayarpatti, a village near Karaikudi, Tamilnadu, Dr. V. Ganapati Sthapati comes from an illustrious family of temple architects and sculptors. His family lineage stretches back... |
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Rafi'el-Imad Faynan |
The Essential Arabic : A learner's Practical Guide |
$8.95 $6.27 |
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| This practical guide to modern Arabic is presented in a very simple and easy-to-grasp style. Unique in its approach, it explains the language by analyzing sample sentences in the kind of crystal clear manner which leaves a lasting impression on the reader's mind.
The step-by-step approach of this easy-to-use guide will be found useful not
only for beginners, but also for more advanced students.
About the Author: Raf'el-Imad-Faynan, is a professor of Arabic at... |
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Atul Gupta |
The Power of Vedic Maths: For Admission Tests, Professional and Competitions and Examinations |
$9.99 $6.99 |
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| Vedic mathematics is gaining widespread popularity among the student community as well as maths lovers. The absence of a book, explaining the techniques in a simple language, has been felt acutely for a long time. This book has been written using a step-by-step approach, and attempts to fill the exiting void. It includes several solved problems in addition to 1000 practice problems with answers.
Vedic Mathematics is gaining widespread popularity among the student... |
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Alex Wayman |
The Buddhist Tantras |
$12.99 $9.09 |
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| The book, volume 9 of the Buddhist Tradition series, places the position of the Buddhist Tantras within Mahayana Buddhism and recalls their early literary history. It discusses the foundations of Buddhist Tantras and rarely available Special Studies; female energy and symbolism a correlation between the tantric portions of the Kanjur and the Tanjur.
This book has been divided into four sections. Part One: The Introduction places the position of the Buddhist Tantras within Mahayana buddhism... |
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Alex Wayman |
Yoga of the Guhyasamajatantra |
$28.95 $20.27 |
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| This work opens up the subject of perhaps the most profound of Buddhist Tantras, The Guhyasamajatantra by shedding light on its relation with previous literature including the Brahmanical tradition and by revealing the elevated type of Yoga. It goes for toward replacing the previous supposition that this Tantra can be understood by mere reading by one oblivious of the extensive commentarial tradition that incorporates the precepts of the Gurus.
Attempts to connect the Guhyasamajatantra with... |
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Fernando Tola |
The Yogasutras of Patanjali on Concentration of Mind |
$18.99 $13.29 |
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| The Yogasutras are one of the most important works of Indian culture, and constitute the foundational text of Yoga. An attempt to interpret the Yogasutras based on some special criteria: (1) To use the traditional commentaries as auxiliaries, not as guides, (2) To interpret those sutras which Patanjali anaysis real phenomena, (3) To adhere to a unitary and singular meaning for the technical terms of Patanjali, and (4) To adhere also to the definitions given by Patanjali. |
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Swami Satyananda Saraswati |
A Systematic Course in the Ancient Tantric Techniques of Yoga and Kriya |
$128.49 $89.94 |
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| This is the most comprehensive text ever published on yoga. It contains a complete course of 36 structured lessons on all the practices of integral yoga. The lessons were compiled from the teachings given by Swami Satyananda and are useful as a practical and theoretical guide to all levels of yoga teachers and aspirants. The book presents a synthesis of yoga in a scientific and systematic manner. The different branches of hatha yoga, raja yoga, mantra yoga, karma yoga, bhakti yoga, jnana yoga... |
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Swami Buddhananda |
Moola Bandha (The Master Key) |
$6.49 $4.54 |
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| This book is dedicated to those honest and relentless yoga practitioners who are searching for the master-key to unlock the door to the abode of maha kundalini. Little has ever been written on the ancient practice of bandha, which is regarded as an important aspect of both hatha and kundalini yogas. Moola Bandha is a simple yet dynamic practice with profound physical, mental and spiritual benefits for the practitioner.
The text focuses on the theory and practice of bandha. The physical,... |
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Swami Muktibodhannanda |
Swara Yoga (The Tantric Science of Brain Breathing) |
$9.99 $6.99 |
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| This book contains the original Sanskrit text of the Shiva Swarodaya with a translation in English. The theory section includes references to scientific research into the influence of breathing patterns on the right and left hemispheres of the brain, instinctual behaviour and higher brain functions, which is correlated with the tantric view of human physiology. In the practice section the techniques of this ancient yoga are explained in detail. For this practice prior experience in pranayama,... |
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Swami Satyasangananda Saraswati |
Tattwa Shuddhi (The Tantric Practice of Inner Purification) |
$6.49 $4.54 |
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| Tattwa shuddhi is an ancient tantric practice for purification of the elements, published for the first time in this comprehensive text. Every individual is comprised of five basic elements. Through the process of tattwa shuddhi, the purification and transformation of these elements takes place.
This book contains the theory of tattwas and detailed instructions for the practice. Tattwa shuddhi uses the tantric tools of yantra, mantra and mandala. It can be performed as a sadhana in itself or... |
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Swami Satyananda Saraswati |
Taming the Kundalini |
$6.49 $4.54 |
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| Taming the Kundalini is a collection of letters written by Swami Satyananda Saraswati to a close disciple, during the period 1959-62. Through this detailed and intimate account of yogic and spiritual training, the reader is given a rare glimpse into the unfoldment of the guru-disciple relationship and the implementation of progressive sadhana as a powerful tool to awaken consciousness. In this book Swami Satyananda offers to all his spiritual advice and encouragement and leads the reader into... |
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Dr.Swami Shankardevananda |
Practices of Yoga for the Digestive System |
$9.99 $6.99 |
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| Faulty diet, tension and lack of exercise are the chief causes of most digestive disorders. This book explains how the practices of yoga and yogic diet can be utilized to balance these factors and eliminate digestive problems. Written by Dr.Swami Shankardevananda Saraswati under the guidance of Swami Satyananda Saraswati, the book combines the traditional medical view with the ayurvedic and yogic views of healthy digestion.
Includes practical information on food and digestion: a medical... |
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Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati |
Yoga Darshan (Vision of the Yoga Upanishads) |
$19.49 $13.64 |
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| Yoga Darshan gives a contemporary yogic vision of the Upanishads as expounded by Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati. Taking a holistic and practical view of spiritual life, this text provides a picture of yoga that is both panoramic and precise. In the theoretical section the different traditions and philosophies of yoga are clearly identified and explained along with clear expositions on hatha, raja, mantra, karma, jnana, laya and esoteric yogas. The practical section highlights classical... |
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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar |
Wisdom for the new Millenium |
$9.99 $6.99 |
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| The whole world is made up of love you have heard this before. All is God and all is love. Then what is the purpose of life if everything is already God? Where is life heading to? “Life is heading toward perfection. If everything is God, or love, isn’t it already perfect? No, because although the creation is all love, this love has six types of distortions. They are: anger, lust, greed, jealousy, arrogance, and delusion. One moves from the distortions, to pure love. This is the... |
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Swami Satyananda Saraswati |
Four Chapters on Freedom - Commentary on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali |
$16.49 $11.54 |
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| This text contains the full Sanskrit text of Rishi Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, along with transliteration, translation and commentary. Serious yogic aspirants and spiritual seekers will find invaluable guidance within these pages.
Four Chapters on Freedom contains the full Sanskrit text of Rishi patanjali's Yoga sutras as well as transliteration, translation and an extensive commentary. The Yoga Sutras, containing 196 epithets or threads of Yoga, is the most respected treatise on Yoga. In his... |
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Swami Satyananda Saraswati |
Karma Sannyasa (The Noble Path for the Householder) |
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| How is it possible to live the life of a householder and yet maintain a balance between external and internal growth? In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna tells Arjuna, there is no harm in action, the danger lies in attachment and dependence on the fruits of the actions performed. If you can understand this concept and implement it in your daily life, then you will gradually experience a higher quality of experience. This is essentially the concept of karma sannyasa; live life fully, participate in... |
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Swami Sayananda |
Samarpan: Living the Divine Connection |
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| Samarpan is the culmination of all spiritual sadhanas and the ultimate point of human evolution. It is a process of unconditional self-surrender in which the limited individual ego is transformed over thousands of life-times into an instrument of the divine will able to commune with God and to serve His entire creation.
This book compiled from the enlightened wisdom of two modern day sages Swami Sivananda Saraswati and his disciple. Swami Satyananda Saraswati (Author of Asana Pranayama Mudra... |
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Swami Satyananda Saraswati |
Light on the Guru and Disciple Relationship |
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| Many people have argued that a guru is not necessary, because the real guru is already within us. This is true, but how many of us can claim to hear, understand or follow his instructions? In fact, most of us even tend to doubt his existence. How many of us can discriminate between the real inner guru and the monkey mind, acting out the dictates of the ego? This inspiring book is written in two parts: the first by Swami Satyasangananda, who accompanied her guru, Swami Satyananda, on his... |
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Arun Kumar Singh |
The Comprehensive History of Psychology (Paperback) |
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| The Comprehensive History of Psychology is a simple introduction to the
history of psychology. It provides a basic understanding of the major systems
and theories in psychology is a comprehensive way. It covers in detail the historical backgrounds taking place before the emergence of each system. As such, it provides a better understanding about the historical emergence of the status of psychology in beginning and its separation from philosophical traditions. It covers a lucid discussion... |
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Lex Hixon |
Mother of the Universe |
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| In this delightful translation by Lex Hixon, we hear the pillow talk of the mystic poet Ramprasad to his Goddess Kali, Mother of the Universe, Mother of Reality-a tantric love affair which the Divine that will completely enchant the reader. |
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Robert Powell |
The Ultimate Medicine - Dialogues with a Realized Master |
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| Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj was one of the important spiritual teachers of the twentieth century. A realized master of the Tantric Nath lineage, he lived and taught in the slums of Bombay, India.
A steady stream of students, Indians and Westerners, fortunate enough to discover Maharaj during his lifetime, came to sit at his feet in the small loft where he received visitors. In the tradition of Ramana Maharshi, he shared the highest Truth of nonduality in his own unique way, from the depths of... |
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Swami Vishnudevananda |
Hatha Yoga Pradipika: Classic Guide for the Advanced Practice of Hatha Yoga |
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| This book is intended as an aid for those who wish to learn the advanced practices of Hatha Yoga from a qualified teacher. It is suggested that it also be used in conjunction with the Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga by Swami Vishnudevananda, the Sivananda Companion to Yoga and Yoga Mind and Body both by the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre.
Many of the instructions given here have been purposely veiled by the original writers, others need elaboration, and many require the guidance of a... |
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Alan Jacobs |
The Principal Upanishads |
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| The origins of the Upanishads, sacred writings of Hinduism, predate recorded history. They are thought of by many as perhaps the greatest of all the books in the history of world religions. Since they were revealed to the Rishis of the Vedic civilisation some 5,000 to 10,000 years ago, many have come to regard them as the kernel of the mystical and philosophical truths that are the basis of understanding religion today. Alan Jacobs has used free modern verse to convey the essential... |
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Frank Arjava Petter |
The Hayashi Reiki Manual |
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| In this book we offer you the Hayashi Reiki Ryoho Shishin (Reiki treatment plan) in a fresh translation, illustrated with photographs and graphics to make it easy for you to use. We describe the most important teachniques without which this approach to Reiki cannot be uderstood. you will also find a number of photographs and other material never before published, as well as the yamaguchi family story in the light of Reiki.
Traditional Japanese Healing Techniques from the Founder of the... |
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Sachin Thobde |
The Miracle Engineer |
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| If you want a simple way to approach God then just say, "God send some
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your miracle can help me" and then see how Grace descends and fills your heart
with celestial love.
Welcome back to life! This book presents the personal experiences of a young
boy with God - The Miracle Engineer. Written straight from the heart, this
endearing book will open your soul to the glory of God. |
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Charlene Leslie-Chaden |
A Compendium of the Teachings of Sri Satya Sai Baba |
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| A compilation of Sathya Sai Baba's significant statements on more than 1,100 different subjects, including many taken from His recent discourses. The source of each quote is documented. Sathya Sai Baba declared it was a "Very Good Book!"; then He signed and blessed the manuscript, and materialized a three diamond ring for the author.
The subjects are presented in an easy to read format, and arranged in alphabetical order, from Aarthi to Zoroastrianism, to facilitate accesability. An extensive... |
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Dr. Eswara Das |
History and Status of Homeopathy Around the World |
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| Homeopathy is being practiced in all continents - either as an independent
system or as a complimentary and alternative form of medicine. Within little
over two hundred years of its origin, the system has been able to muster
popularity and official patronage in several countries. The author discusses the
status of homeopathy in different countries. 'History and Status of Homeopathy Around the World,' gives
background on medical colleges and homeopathic training in many countries.... |
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Elgin H. Johnston |
The Dialectical method of Nagarjuna : Vigrahavyavartani |
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| Though only a 'minor work' in form, as regards its contents the Vigrahavyavartani is a fundamental text of Madhyamaka, as well as of the early Indian dialectical tradition. Not only does it admirably illustrate the dialectical method followed by Nagarjuna, the founder of the school, but it also clarifies the idea of Voidness (Sunyata) which has been so often misunderstood, not only in modern times and abroad, but in India itself and in Nagarjuna's own time. Vigrahavyavartani is a... |
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Th. Stcherbatsky |
The Central Conception of Buddhism |
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| A short treatise on the meaning of the word 'Dharma', explaining the principle of Radical Pluralism which asserts that the elements alone are realities while every combination of them is a mere name covering a plurality of separate elements.
The work explains in detail the principle of Radical Pluralism which asserts that the elements alone are realities while every combination of them is a mere name covering a plurality of separate elements. The principle has been elucidated by its... |
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Celina Luzanne |
Heritage of Buddha - The Story of Siddhartha Gautama |
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| Since the appearance of the epoch-making works of Rhys Davis, Kern, and
Oldenberg, the sources for the history of Buddha and Buddhism, have been greatly
increased. The accessions to our knowledge of the Pali texts are indeed chiefly
due to Rhys Davids, but this new data has never been incorporated into previous
results. This present
work sets forth information that is known from records which had not, till
the publication of this book, been presented in a Western forum. It is... |
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Gregory Fields |
Religious Therapeutics |
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| Body and Health in Yoga, Ayurveda, and Tantra. |
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Kolla Chenchulakshmi |
The Concept of Parinama in Indian Philosophy |
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| The present book is an attempt to give an exhaustive and critical exposition of the "concept of parinama in Samkhya-Yoga system". The book begins with an introduction, which provides a synoptic picture of the philosophical characterization of the Samkhya-Yoga system. It is followed by five chapters- the first chapter `Metaphysics` is an account of the dualism of purusa and prakrti. The Yoga view of God is also discussed.The second chapter `Satkaryavada` explains the theory of satkarya and the... |
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K.N. Subramanian |
The Yoga Vasishta |
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| About the Book
The Yoga Vasishta of Valmiki is a monumental spiritual work containing the teachings of Vasishta to Rama. For countless centuries it has inspired and guided spiritual seekers. Academic scholars have long neglected the work but a proper study of it is sure to re-orient the attitude of the intellectuals to the non-dual reality and the world-process, and convince them that the final Advaitic Teaching is not that the world is an illusion but that it is... |
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James Glover |
Vedic Mathematics for Schools Vol I, II and III (3 Volumes) without CD's |
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| "Gopi bhagya madhuvrata srngiso dadhi sandhiga khala jivita khatava gala hala rasandara" Translation: O Lord anointed with the yogurt of the milkmaids' worship (Krishna), O savior of the fallen, O master of Shiva, please protect me. Is that a prayer to Krishna or a consonant code for the solution of pi/10 = 0.31415926535897932384626433832792? Or both? Vedic mathematics is composed of sutras, which have been formulated over many centuries, some of... |
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Stephen Knapp |
Search For Destiny : A Spiritual Adventure in the Himalayas |
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| This is a highly mystical and spiritual adventure for
those who prefer their metaphysical insights, realizations, and learning to come
through light reading, stories, and descriptions of experiences. This story
relates a man's quest for Truth and shows his journey from a state of confusion
to one of the highest levels of enlightenment and self-empowerment. It is a book
that will take you to other worlds and unlimited realms.
Deep within the mystical and spiritual practices of
India... |
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Dr. N.N. Bhattacharyya |
History of the Tantric Religion |
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| The book studies the different aspects of Tantrism, its vastness and intricacies, its heterogeneous and contradictory elements and gives a historical perspective to the conglomeration of ideas and practices through space and time. It also incorporates a review of Tantric art and a glossary of technical terms. Tantrism, both traditional and Buddhist, with its vast literature containing intricate ritualistic and philosophical details occupies an important place in the religious and cultural life... |
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Gordon Risley Hearn |
The Seven Cities of Delhi |
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| The present volume contains an excellent account of the history and architecture of Delhi. It will afford readers and visitors not only a clear guide to all that is seen in Delhi but also an intelligent record of the history of the place in all its various phases.
Sir Hearn coined the phrase "Seven Cities of Delhi", popularizing the famous
drawing of the seven cities that accompanied the original text. Both the drawing
and the notion of the seven cities of Delhi have survived to this day.... |
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Pandit Durgaprasad |
The Haravijayam of Rajanaka Ratnakara |
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| The Haravijaya of Ratnakara is an epic poem (mahakavya) belonging to the era of artificial poetry.
The mahakavya is not oral poetry; it is artificial and learned; it lays more importance on description than narration. Its only claim to the term epic lies in its breadth of content. A great kavya takes its plot from myth or from history; it must further the four ends of man; it must contain descriptions of cities, seas, mountains, moonrise, and sunrise. A great kavya should also be ornamented... |
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Swami Dayanand |
The Philosophy of Religion in India |
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| The book is a creditable attempt to present within a small compass some of the most important and salient features of Hindu religion. It offers a vivid exposition of all features of the vast and comprehensive Hindu faith.
The coloured paintings are a graphic illustration of much of the symbolism
and metaphor, which are usually misunderstood by students of Hinduism. The
discussion is based on Shastric references, giving weight to the authority of
the book. The language is easy and... |
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Subodh Kapoor |
The Philosophy of Saivism |
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| Saivism, may be defined as the setting aside of the triune equality of Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva, and the merging of the former two Gods in the God - Siva. But it is also more than this. It is supreme being, infinite, eternal, an exempt from subjection to the law of ultimate absorption into the universal spirit. Rudra appears quite early in the Veda with a
well-recognized and well-marked personality of his own. He is an important
deity, whose anger is to be dreaded and whose favour is to be... |
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Subodh Kapoor |
The Systems of Indian Philosophy |
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| About the BookTraditionally, six schools of thought propagated Vedic wisdom, each from a different philosophical perspective. Each of these perspectives or darshanas is associated with a famous sage who is the author of a sutra (code) expressing the essence of his darshana. The sad-darshana (six philosophical views) are nyaya (logic), vaisesika (atomic theory), sankhya (analysis of matter and spirit), yoga (the disciplinie of self-realization), karma-mimamsa (science of... |
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Swami Lakshman Joo |
Vijnana Bhairava : The Practice of Centring Awareness |
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| The Vijnana Bhairava is one of the most important Tantras of Kashmir Saivism, at least as far as the practical aspect of the yoga of this school is concerned. It teaches 112 dharanas, or ways of centring awareness and entering divine consciousness (which includes ordinary and extraordinary experience), as well as tantric methods of spiritual practice such as kundalini, mantra and mudra. The modern need to integrate all aspects of life makes this ancient text of great relevance to our times. In... |
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F.H. Giddings |
The Principles of Sociology |
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| An early work by Giddings, designed as a basis for statistical studies which largely concentrated on the particular ethnic and racial characteristics of various national groups, this work was to prove his most important work. About the
Author:
Franklin Henry Giddings (1855-1931) was an American sociologist. In 1894 he
became professor of sociology at Columbia University, where he earned a
reputation as a brilliant teacher. His explanation of social phenomena was based... |
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Frederick Franck |
The Buddha Eye |
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| The essays in The Buddha Eye: An anthology of the Kyoto
School are taken from The Eastern Buddhist, certainly one of the most quietly
influential journals to have appeared in the twentieth century. Founded in
1921 by the now famous Suzuki Teitaro Daisetz, during the many decades of its
life it has been a vehicle for seminal articles by many of the most important
philosophers of Zen, including D.T. Suzuki, Nishitani Keiji, abe masao,
hisamatsu Shin'ichi and many others who... |
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Joseph E.B. Lumbard |
Islam, Fundamentalism, and the Betrayal of Tradition |
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| This book offers an analysis by Western Muslim scholars
of the key reasons behind the dangerous breaksown in understanding between Islam
and the West.
This book capably argues for a return to the true spirit of classical Islamic intellectualism, disregarding the distractions and obstacles created by the West. Its strongest chapter, "Recollecting the Spirit of Jihad" by Reza Shah-Kazemi, marshals the... |
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Frithjof Schuon |
Form and Substance in the Religions |
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| The writings of Frithjof Schuon are charactgerized by
essentiality, universality and comprehensiveness. They have the quality of
essentiality in the sense that they always go to the heart and are concerned
with the essence of whatever they deal with. Schuon possesses the gift of
reaching the very core of the subject he is treating, of going beyond forms to
the essential formless Center of forms whether they be religious, artistic or
related to certain features and traits... |
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John C. H. Wu |
The Golden Age of Zen |
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| "The Golden Age of Zen" examines the history of the
great Chinese Zen Masters of the 7th through to the 10th century. It portrays
the Masters in their 'Five Houses' and enables the reader to situate their
teachings and thus enjoy them in their context.
Here is a book that will do much to clarify the still very confused Western
idea of Zen Buddhism.
About the AuthorWu Ching-hsiung (1899-1986), known
as John C. H. Wu was born in China, and was an... |
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Algis Uzdavinys |
The Golden Chain |
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| Presenting key writings of the most important sources of Pythagorean, Platonic and Neoplatonic thought, The Golden Chain defines this philosophy as a spiritual and contemplative way of life that ultimately leads to the vision of God. These writings point to underlying influences from Chaldean, Egyptian, Phoenician and Indian sages, suggesting that the Hellenic wisdom from which all subsequent Western philosophy arose was established upon a perennial philosophy of unchanging metaphysical and... |
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Mishi Saran |
Chasing the Monk's Shadow |
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| In the seventh century AD, the Chinese
monk Xuanzang set off on an epic journey to India
to study Buddhist philosophy from the Indian masters. Traveling along the Silk Road,
braving brigands and blizzards, Xuanzang finally reached India, where his spiritual quest took
him to Buddhist holy places and monasteries throughout the subcontinent.
Fourteen hundred years later, Mishi Saran follows in Xuanzang's footsteps to
the fabled oasis cities of China and Central Asia, and the Buddhist... |
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Suniti Kumar Chatterji |
The Origin and Development of the Bengali Language (3 vols.) |
$73.00 $51.10 |
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| The first systematic and detailed history of Bengali—a
modern Indo-Aryan language- by an Indian scholar, it is an invaluable
contribution to the scientific study of the modern Indo-Aryan Languages as a
whole and is a landmark in the history of philological researches into Indian
languages.
"The admirable work, says Sir George Grierson in his Foreword, "which is a fine example of wide knowledge and of scholarly research, is the result of a happy combination of proficiency in facts and... |
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Brian Dana Akers |
The Hatha Yoga Pradipika |
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| An Indian yogi named Svatmarama wrote the Hatha Yoga
Pradipika in the fifteenth century C.E. In writing the text,
Svatmarama drew on his own experience and on older works now lost. Over the
last half millennium this book has established itself as the classic work
on Hatha Yoga.
Learn about: chakras, kundalini, yoga, hatha yoga, asanas, pranayama, mudras, bandhas, meditation, shakti, nadis, neti, bindu and siddhis.
Contains the original Sanskrit, a new English
translation,... |
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Asha Gupta |
Education in the 21st Century: Looking Beyond University |
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| Whereas the impact of globalization on politics, economy, society and culture are well-studied and well-researched, it is difficult to visualize and conceptualize the changes occurring at the power knowledge realm. The book is an attempt to look beyond the traditional concept of a university to be able to grasp not only the drastic changes taking place at higher education systems worldwide but it also traces the causes and consequences of the same. Earlier the universities acted as the... |
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Dr. Vasant Dattatray Lad |
Secrets of the Pulse: The Ancient Art of Ayurvedic Pulse Diagnosis |
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| Thousands of years ago, Ayurveda described multiple levels of the radial pulse that could be used to interpret the status of the organs and systems of the body as well as the mental and physical constitutions of the individual. For the first time in the West, this book presents this ancient art and provides a method by which anyone can learn to read his own pulse.
Imbalances and potential disease states can be detected in their early stages, giving one the opportunity to correct them before... |
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David Frawley |
Yoga and the Sacred Fire |
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| About the Book
Yoga and the Sacred Fire explores the evolution of life and consciousness according to the cosmology and psychology of Fire, viewing Fire not only as a material but also as a spiritual principle. It shows how Yoga's deeper fire wisdom can help us move forward to an enlightened planetary age, where humanity and... |
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Eliot Jay Reson |
Experiencing the Soul |
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| Learn how you can experience the bliss of the soul now, and not merely as a by-product of a life-threatening crisis such as a near-death experience.
Before Birth, During Life, After Death. This comprehensive anthology features interviews with world-renowned luminaries such as the Dalai Lama, Jean Houston, Betty Eadie, and Ram Dass about the nature of the soul, and offers groundbreaking scientific evidence for its existence.
About Author
An expert in the field of death and... |
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Vicki Pitman |
The Nature of the Whole: Holism in Ancient Greek and Indian Medicine |
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| Vicki Pitman is a qualified naturopathic herbalist, iridologist, reflexologist, aromatherapist and massage practitioner, concentrating on Ayurvedic medicine.
She has extensive knowledge of the therapeutic properties of the plant kingdom and holistic methods of treatment. She is author of "Herbal Medicine: The Use of Herbs for Health And Healing". Because of Vicki's knowledge of aromatherapy and her specialised knowledge of Ayurveda she talks very informatively not only as a tutor but also as... |
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Thomas Wilson |
Swastika the Earliest Known Symbol and its Migrations |
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| About the Book
The word swastika is derived from the Sanskrit svastika (in Devanagari, स्वस्तिक), meaning any lucky or auspicious object, and in particular a mark made on persons and things to denote good luck. It... |
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William Muir |
The Caliphate (2 vols.) |
$67.00 $46.90 |
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| A Caliph is the spiritual head and temporal ruler of the Islamic state. In principle, Islam is theocratic: when Muhammad the Prophet died, a caliph (successor) was chosen to rule in his place. The caliph had temporal and spiritual authority but was not permitted prophetic power; this was reserved for Muhammad. The caliph could not, therefore, exercise authority in matters of religious doctrine.
About the Book
The Caliphate, is based upon the Annals of... |
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S. Tattvabhusan |
The Brahma Sutras |
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| About the Book
The Brahma Sutras, called also the Vedanta Sutras, the Sarika Mimansa, the Uttara Mimansa, and by several other names, are a body of aphorisms expounded and systematizing the teachings of the Upanishads and refuting doctrines opposed to them. They are the earliest known work on the subject and are ascribed to Badarayana, the compiler of the Vedas. As such they are held in high esteem by all the chief schools of Hindu religious thought. Most of the leading saints... |
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Dr. A.G. Mathew |
Indian Spices |
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| India, notably its South West coastal area is blessed with abundant supply of spices, which has fascinated mankind from time immemorial. For this very same reason merchants from the Middle East began trade with the country. Many battles fought, treaties entered into and alliances forged to establish the control of the spice trade bear eloquent testimony to the great importance people attached to spices. Printed on Art paper and with beautiful photographs it is worthy addition to any one's... |
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Swami Lakshman Joo |
Kashmir Shaivism : The Secret Supreme |
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| Swami Lakshman Jee is the last living Master of the oral tradition in Kashmir Shaivism. This exposition of the non-dual philosophy with practical applications is his first book in English. The tantric teachings are hidden in a language of allusion and symbols. Swamiji offers the skeleton key of the oral tradition that allows access to secrets. The intent is to preserve the tradition and to make it available. The emphasis is on practical realization of Truth through the experience of... |
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Radhakamal Mukerjee |
Astavakragita: The Song of the Self Supreme |
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| Astavakragita (The Song of the Self Supreme) contains the Sanskrit text of Astavakragita (both in Nagari and Roman script), its English translation, Exegesis and Glossarial Index. It presents in twenty chapters the substance of Astavakra`s teaching in respect of the Cosmic Self in the form of his dialogue with Janaka, the seer-king of Videha. The teaching is based on the Upanishadic creed of Absolute monism (Advaitavada) that identifies the Self with the non-dual Ultimate Reality.
But the... |
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Shifu Nagaboshi Tomio |
The Bodhisattva Warriors |
$21.40 $14.98 |
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| This unique study of the genesis and development of the
earliest form of Buddhist self-defense practiced by Chuan Fa monks and mystics
shows both the philosophical and physical basis of the skills developed and
passed on to subsequent generations.
There are many who mistakenly believe Buddhism to be a predominantly philosophical teaching that regards physical and spiritual being as incompatible, or even antagonistic, toward each other. This book seeks to reunite these concepts. Its... |
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Masanobu Fukuoka |
The One Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming |
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| Masanobu Fukuoka is one of the most radical and influential agrarian thinkers of this century. 'One Straw' describes the events that led to the development of Fukuoka's concept of 'natural farming'. In this book, he emphasises the basic principles of non-cultivation and non-chemical farming by the incorporation and controlled use of weeds rather than their eradication. Using these methods Fukuoka produces greater crops than achieved by chemically-based and modern farming practices. Year by year... |
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Mahatma Gandhi |
All Men Are Brothers |
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| A great teacher appears once in a while. Several centuries may pass by without the advent of such a one. That by which he is known is his life. He first lives and then tells others how they make live likewise. Such a teacher was Gandhi.
These Sections from his speeches and writings compiled with great care and
discrimination by Shri Krishna Kripalani will give the reader some idea of the
workings of Gandhi's mind, the growth of his... |
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Gene Sharp |
Gandhi Wields The Weapon Of Moral Power |
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| We have arrived at a moment in human history when wars have to be banned if humanity is to survive. Nations are forging nuclear weapons which, if used in a war, are likely to destroy or poison life on this planet for generations. Man has, therefore, for his very survival to find some other way of overcoming conflict than war.
Against this background Gandhiji's life, message and work derive vital significance for he points to an alter native to war. He turned his back to... |
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William Woodville Rockhili |
The Land of the Lamas: Notes of a Journey Through China Mongolia and Tibet |
$15.90 $11.13 |
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| "Rockhill was a remarkable American orientalist who was a diplomat in Beijing. He
was fascinated with Tibet, and worked for four years to study Tibetan (he
was already fluent in Chinese). In 1888 he resigned his position
and set off westward from Beijing on the Silk Road. His intent was
to get to Lhasa disguised as a Chinese. His plan was thwarted but, undaunted, he tried again
a year later; this time he got within 100 miles of his goal. While... |
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Bu Ston |
The History of Buddhism in India and Tibet |
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| The History of Buddhism and Tibet contains the translation of the 2nd part of Bu-ton's History of Buddhism, beginning with the life of Buddha and ending with an account of the work carried out by the Tibetan Lotsvas and Indian Pandits of Bu-ton's own period and immediately before him (XII and XIII cent.). The
book contains translations of the Buddhist Cannonical texts, exegetical
treatise from Sanskrit and numerous quotations from both sutra and sastra.
Because of this it... |
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Theodore Stcherbatsky |
The Conception of Buddhist Nirvana with Sanskrit Text of Madhyamaka-Karika (Hardcover Edition) |
$21.40 $14.98 |
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| The Conception of Buddhist Nirvana provides an English translation
of Nagarjuna's chapters on Causality and Nirvana, Chandrakirti's comprehensive
commentary on the Sanskrit Text, and presents a rare exposition of the
Madhyamaka Dialectic. The book is edited by Jaideva Singh with an
exhaustive introduction, containing the historical background of the Madhyamaka
philosophy, a lucid exposition of its merciless logic, an admirable presentation
of its uncanny metaphysics and a systematic... |
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Somani |
Proceedings of the National Seminar on Natural Farming |
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| The full set of papers that were discussed at the symposium on organic farming held by the Rajasthan College of Agriculture.
An important document for those interested in "scientific" comparisons between organic and chemical-based farming sytems. |
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Sri Aurobindo |
The Life Divine (Hard Cover) |
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| Sri Aurobindo's principal philosophic work, a theory of spiritual evolution culminating in the transformation of man from a mental into a supramental being and the advent of a divine life upon earth.
"In my explanation of the universe I have put forward this cardinal fact of spiritual evolution as the meaning of our existence here", Sri Aurobindo wrote to a disciple.
"Behind the appearances of the universe", he explained, "there is the Reality of a Being and Consciousness, a Self of all... |
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Masanobu Fukuoka |
The Natural Way of Farming |
$32.49 $22.74 |
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| Here in one volume are the secrets of Fukuoka's approach to farming the natural way. Natural farming is based on the observation of nature and allowing it to do what it naturally does best. Born in a small farming village on the island of Shikoku in Southern Japan in 1914, Masanobu Fukuoka was trained in microbiology as a plant pathologist. His career began as an agriculture customs inspector running tests on incoming and outgoing plants at the port of Yokohama. At twenty-five, he started to... |
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Arthur Osborne |
The Incredible Sai Baba - The Life & Miracles of a Modern-Day Saint |
$6.49 $4.54 |
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| This book is an account of the strange life and amazing powers of Sai Baba, one of the most unusual of India's holy men.
Sai Baba never wrote a book, never even read one, and yet learned scholars sat at his feet. He lived in a mosque, and yet his Hindu disciples outnumbered his Muslim ones. He taught them all according to their own faith, yet made them live at peace together. He taught through symbols, and through a wild profusion of well-attested miracles.
Although Sai Baba died in 1918, he... |
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Prabhakar (Batti) |
Among the Not So Great |
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| Twenty intimate pen-portraits of old sadhakas with whom the author was in close personal touch. These reminiscences, most of which were serialised over the years in Mother India, stretch back to events up to 60 years ago.
Each piece is accompanied by a photograph. The author in his inimitably witty and intimate style brings alive the spirit of utter devotion to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother that marked the early days of the Ashram.
The title, inspired by Dilip Kumar Roy's book 'Among... |
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Herbert Guenther |
Meditation Differently |
$18.90 $13.23 |
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| 'Meditation Differently,' presents a translation of an important Tibetan work which contrasts and compares two central traditions of Buddhist meditative practice - the Mahamudra and the rDzogs-chen practice- particularly the sNyingthig version. This book offers not only a translation, but also a detailed and critical commentary based on original Tibetan sources. The commentary offers a
hermeneutical and phenomenological study of the key ideas in the understanding
of Being and of... |
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Samten G. Karmay |
The Treasury of Good Sayings - A Tibetan History of Bon |
$18.99 $13.29 |
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| This volume is a partial translation of the Tibetan text, 'legsbshad-mdzod,' a history of the Bon religion. Bon is a pre-Buddhist system of belief in Tibet, which survived many persecutions, and still covered large parts of Tibet till occupation by Communist China in 1959. The book gives a full account of the ancient religion, its origins and developments, its struggles against the later imported Buddhism, and its fight for survival in spite of persecution and even abolition on two... |
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Edward Conze |
The Buddha's Law Among the Birds |
$8.20 $5.74 |
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| In the Buddhist religion, the Dharma concept of the
Buddha is not confined to men, but is taught to all kinds of beings, including
ghosts and animals. According to a legend Avalokitesvara, the Bodhisattva of
Mercy, had taken among the birds the form of a cuckoo - an animal which
recommends itself to the Buddhist mind by its attitude to family life.
Probable, no more than three centuries ago, an unknown
Lama wrote a charming book describing how the birds of the Himalayas met under... |
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Gautam Sen |
The Mind of Swami Vivekananda |
$8.49 $5.94 |
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| Swami Vivekananda was one of the great religious minds of the 19th century. His appearance in Congress of World Religion in America was a momentous event in the history of religion. Here, he forever changed the Western view of Vedanta Hindu philosophy. What was hitherto considered an assortment of superstitions was revealed by Vivekananda's eloquence to be a sophisticated religious and metaphysical system which won the respect of Western thinkers. What is the substance of ... |
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Translated by Bibek Debroy |
The Bhagavad Gita |
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| A masterful translation of the Bhagavad Gita, along with
the Sanskrit original. A faithful rendition of the 2000-year-old ‘Song
Celestial', Bibek Debroy's translation resonates with the spirit of the original
while using modern idiom and language. He captures, verse by verse, the essence
of this ancient philosophical poem which debates eternal questions of right and
wrong, action and consequence, and the conflicting nature of duty and love.
The text stands by itself, complete and... |
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Peter Matthiessen |
The Snow Leopard |
$28.00 $19.60 |
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| When Matthiessen went to Nepal to study the Himalayan blue sheep and, possibly, to glimpse the rare and beautiful snow leopard, he undertook his five-week trek as winter snows were sweeping into the high passes. This is a radiant and deeply moving account of a "true pilgrimage, a journey of the heart."
In the autumn of 1973, the writer Peter Matthiessen set out in the company of zoologist George Schaller on a hike that would take them 250 miles into the heart of the Himalayan region of Dolpo,... |
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Rukmini Chawla |
Apostle of Love: The Life of Mother Teresa |
$7.00 $4.90 |
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| ‘I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds, I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?'
- Mother TeresaBorn in a country far from the city which she would make her home, Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu dreamt of coming to Calcutta to serve the poorest of the poor. Two decades later, she single-handedly started the Missionaries of Charity, an organization which has today come to embody the values of compassion and care in a world of suffering.... |
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Translated by Arshia Sattar |
The Ramayana |
$28.99 $20.29 |
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| A brilliant new translation of the timeless epic. One of India's two greatest epics, the Ramayana pervades the country's moral and cultural consciousness. For generations it has served as a bedtime story for Indian children, while at the same time engaging the interest of philosophers and theologians. Now this magnificent translation makes the monumental work available to a new audience. Believed to have been composed by Valmiki sometime between the eighth and sixth centuries BC, the Ramayana... |
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Bulbul Sharma |
The Ramayana for Children |
$22.50 $15.75 |
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| The Ramayana is one of the best-known epics in the world, the tale of Rama, the prince of Ayodhya, who exiles himself to the forest for fourteen years to honour his father's word. In the forest, Rama, his wife Sita and his brother Lakshmana meet new friends and strange foes, and each day brings new adventures. But their happy life is spoilt when Ravana of Lanka, the king of demons, abducts Sita.
To rescue her Rama enlists the help of the monkey army. In that final battle, many heroes die and... |
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Hazrat Inayat Khan |
The Sufi Message (Vol.XIII) |
$10.95 $7.67 |
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| This is the thirteenth volume of the Indian edition of all the works of Hazrat Inayat Khan, the great Sufi mystic who lectured and taught in the western world. This book and other volumes in this series contain his lectures, discourses and other teachings as taken down in shorthand. The complete series contains fourteen volumes. Each volume is complete in itself, and therefore may be read without any necessity to study following or... |
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R K Narayan |
The Ramayana |
$12.99 $9.09 |
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| A shortened modern prose version of the Indian epic. The Ramayana is, quite simply, the greatest of Indian epics—and one of the world's supreme masterpieces of storytelling.
‘Almost every individual living in India,' writes R. K. Narayan in the Introduction to this new interpretation, ‘is aware of the story of The Ramayana. Everyone of whatever age, outlook, education or station in life knows the essential part of the epic and adores the main figures in it—Rama and Sita. Every child is told... |
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Meera Uberoi |
The Mahabharata |
$25.49 $17.84 |
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| A modern retelling of an ancient tale of power, love, duty and revenge.To Indians, the Mahabharata is not merely a story of the power struggle between princes divided on the issue of inheritance. It is representative of human nature and of life itself, for woven into the elaborate narrative of a heroic tale are writings on ethics, law, philosophy, history, geography, statecraft and religion. Meera Uberoi has retold this epic tale of love and hatred, joy and sorrow, pride and endurance, with... |
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Navin Chawla |
Mother Teresa, 2002 Edition |
$14.10 $9.87 |
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The acclaimed biography of the most famous and admired woman in the world.
Reviews:
'Quite extraordinarily moving…' - The Hindustan Times
'Chawla's book is one written from the heart.' - The Pioneer
‘Of the books so far written about her, Navin Chawla's is perhaps the most detailed…a meticulously researched work that approaches its subject with the level-headed briskness characteristic of Mother Teresa herself.' - The Times of India
‘An absorbing... |
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Navin Chawla |
Mother Teresa |
$18.99 $13.29 |
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| Reviews: The acclaimed biography of the most famous and admired woman in the world. ‘Chawla's book is one written from the heart.' - The Pioneer ‘Of the books so far written about her, Navin Chawla's is perhaps the most detailed ... a meticulously researched work that approaches its subject with the level-headed briskness characteristic of Mother Teresa herself.' - The Times of India ‘An absorbing biography ... provides a splendid view from... |
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Robert Powell |
The Blissful Life: As Realized through the Teachings of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj |
$11.49 $8.04 |
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| Compiled and edited by Robert Powell this book attempts to distill the essence of the teachings of Nisargadatta Maharaj from the available information and present the result in terms that are readily intelligible and do not require any specialized religious or philosophical knowledge or aptitude. |
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Edited by Jean Dunn |
Consciousness and the absolute: the final talks of Sri Nisargadatta |
$8.49 $5.94 |
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| In this book you will find the last teachings of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, the final dialogues he had with the people who came from all over the world to hear his words. These talks, coming during the last days of his life, were the culmination of the rarest teachings he had to give us; they were the summit of the heights of his wisdom.... |
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Dr. Ravi Ratan |
Handbook of Aromatherapy |
$38.99 $27.29 |
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| This book will serve as a guide to beginners as well as the practitioners of aromatherapy, whether for skin, hair and beauty care or in the field of health care and healing practices.
The book is divided into three sections:
The first section covers in detail a wide range of essential and carrier oils and their therapeutic properties. Special emphasis has been put to cover the methods of use, blending of oils and methods of application.
Second section has been... |
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Ramana Maharshi |
Who am I?: the teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi |
$5.49 $3.84 |
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| "Who am I?" is the title given to a set of questions and answers bearing on Self-enquiry.
The questions were put to Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi by one Sri M. Sivaprakasam Pillai about the year 1902. Sri Pillai, a graduate in Philosophy, was at the time employed in the Revenue Department of the South Arcot Collectorate. During his visit to Tiruvannamalai in 1902 on official work, he went to Virupaksha Cave on Arunachala Hill and met the Master there. He sought from him spiritual guidance, and... |
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Edited by Robert Powell |
The Nectar of Immortality: Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj's discourses on the eternal |
$12.99 $9.09 |
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| Living the absolute non-duality of Being in every moment, Nisargadatta Maharaj taught true freedom is a possibility open to every one of us. He drew disciples from all over the world to his humble loft in the tenements of Bombay. Even on the written... |
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Gene Sharp |
Gandhi Wields the Weapon of Moral Power |
$5.70 $3.99 |
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| We have arrived at a moment in human history when wars have to be banned if humanity is to survive. Nations are forging nuclear weapons which, if used in a war, are likely to destroy or poison life on this planet for generations. Man has, therefore, for his very survival to find some other way of overcoming conflict than war.
Against this background Gandhiji's life, message and work derive vital significance for he points to an alter native to war. He turned his back to violence, but he did... |
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M. K. Gandhi |
The Essence of Hinduism |
$4.95 $3.47 |
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| The Essence of Hinduism is so planned and arranged that each section naturally leads to the next one. The first chapter examines the moral basis of Hinduism. The nature of the universal Moral Law or Power that sustains the universe is described in the second chapter. How can a seeker come face to face with the Supreme Spirit - through faith or trained reason or a judicious combination of both? An answer to this conundrum will be found in the third chapter. The Bhagvad Gita is an Upanishad, a... |
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M. K. Gandhi |
The Law and The Lawyers |
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| This book will have more than served its purpose if it inspires the reader, be he a lawyer or a layman, with the belief that the vocation of the lawyer is an honourable vocation requiring the highest standards of rectitude, integrity and uprightness, and that its practice is in no way inconsistent with the pursuit of truth. |
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R. K. Prabhu |
The mind of Mahatma Gandhi |
$6.49 $4.54 |
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| From the Foreword by S. Radhakrishnan: There is so much misunderstanding today about Gandhi's views and ways of thinking. This book, where we find collected together the relevant extracts from Gandhi's own writings on the central principles of his faith and conduct, will help to make Gandhi's position clearer to the modern mind. Reviews: "To many it will have the value of a new Bible or a new Gita; for here are words that have come out from the depth of... |
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M. K. Gandhi |
The Way To Communal Harmony |
$6.10 $4.27 |
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| The Way to Communal Harmony is a compilation of Gandhi's reflections on certain problems which divide mankind. Though they deal immediately with India, their validity extends beyond the circumstances of our country. Everywhere in the world, individuals and groups are divided because of fear, suspicion and hatred. It depends on local conditions whether the division expresses itself along religious, economic, political, caste or colour lines. Whatever be the form, insecurity is perhaps the major... |
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Hideyo Ogawa |
Process and Language - A Study of the Mahabhasya |
$39.09 $27.36 |
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| Process and Language is a comprehensive and detailed study of the semantics of verbs in Sanskrit as presented by Patanjali in his commentary, Mahabhasya, on Astadhyayi, 1.3.1 Bhuvadayo dhatavah. This portion of his commentary contains a skillfully arranged discussion of topics related to the linguistic units, known as verbal roots, or dhatu. A verbal root is the core of the derivation of any utterance in Panini's grammar. In his Vakyapadiya, Bhartrhair, a later Paniniya, defined the meaning of... |
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Ravindra Varma |
The Spiritual Basis Of Satyagraha |
$4.95 $3.47 |
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| Ravindra Varma is a learned scholar, who has been running the Institute of Gandhian Studies at Gopuri, Wardha for several years. He has been introducing the youth, especially the college students and post-graduates, to the life and message of Gandhiji. His knowledge, and his trying to live according to the Gandhian ideology gives depth to whatever he says or writes.
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Pyarelal |
Going To Wipe Their Tears |
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| Between 1946-47, occured the heart-rending communal divide across the sub-continent and Mahatma Gandhi's valiant, single-handed struggle to stand against the tornado of primitive passions. With what super-human strength did Gandhiji carry on the battle is summed up by Pyarelal (Gandhiji's faithful secretary for 28 years) in one panoramic stroke of the pen : "During those fateful days like a Titan he rushed from one danger spot to another to prop up the crumbling heavens."
An attempt is made in... |
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A.D. Smith |
The Problem of Perception |
$23.00 $16.10 |
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| A major contribution to the theory of perception, A. D. Smith presents a truly original defense of direct realism--the view that in perception we are directly aware of things in the physical world.
The Problem of Perception offers two arguments against direct realism--one concerning illusion, and one concerning hallucination- that no current theory of perception can adequately rebut. Smith then develops a theory of perception that does succeed in answering these arguments; and because these... |
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Rudrangshu Mukherjee |
India Then and Now |
$149.00 $104.30 |
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| India lives in many centuries. Discover the majesty and sweep of India's rich cultural and historical heritage, replete with the people, events and places that have contributed the chequered mosaic of India's past. Featured in this exquisite book, India Then and Now gives rare and never-before-seen vintage photographs from some of the finest collections across the world. The vibrant and ever-changing cultural landscape of contemporary India is also featured in a series of photographs,... |
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Sri Aurobindo |
Abhaya: Fear - Its Cause and Cure |
$5.99 $4.19 |
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| One of four books which form part of a series of compilations from the works of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. They have emerged from workshops and interactive sessions on the concerned subjects, and therefore show a strong practical orientation.
The other 3 books in the series are:
Dhyana: Meditation for Inner Growth
Karmayoga: Perfection in Work
Sadhana: A Guide to Self-Mastery
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Dr. Tsering Thakchoe Drungtso |
Healing Power of Mantra: The Wisdom of Tibetan Healing Science |
$18.99 $13.29 |
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| This book provides a fascinating insight into Tibetan Medicine and introduces the reader to a little known area of spiritual practice and healing. Never before has this subject been published in such comprehensive detail. This book has the potential to profoundly transform your world-view. The writer discusses where destructive emotions come from, how the human mind is shaped and how these impulses can be transformed. According to Tibetan Medicine, illness is viewed as an imbalance not only... |
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Dr. Tsering Thakchoe |
Tibetan Medicine :The Healing Science of Tibet |
$44.99 $31.49 |
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| For millennia Tibetans have practiced the secret techniques of healing in Tibet. This amazing healing science still continues to be held in high esteem today. This book introduces the principles of the ancient Tibetan healing science previously unavailable to English readers. It is a journey into the healing methods of the 'Roof of the World' and captures the essence of its medical system. It offers the readers an in-depth analysis of Tibetan medical history, both Buddhist and Pre-Buddhist... |
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Arthur Lillie |
The Popular Life of Buddha |
$12.70 $8.89 |
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| - Containing an Answer to the Hibbert Lectures of 1881. The Hibbert Lectures are an annual series of non-sectarian lectures on theological issues. They are sponsored by the Hibbert Trust, which was founded in 1847 by the Unitarian Robert Hibbert with a goal to uphold "the unfettered exercise of private judgement in matters of religion.". The Hibbert Lectures of 1881 were centred on the origin and... |
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Paramahansa Yogananda |
The Divine Romance |
$8.99 $6.29 |
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| The Divine Romance is a volume of talks by Paramahansa Yogananda, one whose life was continual romance with the Divine. It is thus a book about God's love for each soul created by Him, and how we as incarnate souls can experience God's loving presence in our lives.
Table of Contents:
How to Cultivate Divine Love
A World Without Boundaries
Controlling Your Destiny
How to Work Without Fatigue
Where Are Our Departed Loved Ones?
The Spectrum of Spiritual Consciousness... |
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Minakshie Das Gupta |
The Calcutta Cook Book: A Treasury of Recipes From Pavement to Place |
$18.99 $13.29 |
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| The Calcutta Cookbook is more than a cookbook. It is a culinary chronicle of travelers and traders, many of whom whilst the city of Calcutta and its distinctive cuisines. For the first time, recipes from the Bay of Biscay to the China Sea and from Central Asia and Tibet to Sri Lanka have been tasted, tried and collected in a golden treasury for the cook and the collector.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Unlidding the Pot
Dos And Don'ts
A History and Philosophy... |
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Paramahansa Yogananda |
Wine of the Mystic |
$6.49 $4.54 |
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| This award-winning work brings to light the deeper truth and beauty of a well-loved but long-misunderstood masterpiece—the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. With an in-depth commentary on every quatrain, Paramahansa Yogananda reveals the profound kinship between the Rubaiyat's hidden metaphysical philosophy and India's ancient science of Yoga. He presents as well a fascinating exploration of the mystical experience and such subjects as: the mystery of destiny and free will, the intricacies of... |
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Paramahansa Yogananda |
Where There Is Light |
$5.99 $4.19 |
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| A practical handbook to which readers can quickly turn for a reassuring sense of direction in times of uncertainty or crisis, or for positive guidance and encouragement in meeting the challenges of everyday living.
Selections from Paramahansa Yogananda's lectures, writings, and informal talks are arranged under more than 40 topics, including:
Friendship
Marriage
Creativity
Healing
Decision-making
Overcoming worry and fear
Understanding death
About the... |
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Paramahansa Yogananda |
The Law of Success |
$4.95 $3.47 |
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| For more than fifty years, this classic inspirational guide has helped hundreds of thousands of people to move through obstacles and invite all-round success fully into their lives.
If you measure success by the quality of your life, rather than just by material achievements, then the practical wisdom of this book will speak directly to your heart and soul.
Topics Include:
The secret of attaining your life's goals
Overcoming fear of failure
Recognizing obstacles to... |
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Sananda Lal Ghosh |
Mejda: The Family and Early Life of Paramahansa Yogananda |
$5.49 $3.84 |
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| A delightful biography of Paramahansa Yogananda's early years by his younger brother.
This biography paints a vivid portrait of Paramahansa Yogananda's early years, as seen from the author's unique perspective as his younger brother. The portrayal of other family members and friends and stories of Sri Yogananda's youthful spiritual adventures add to the appeal of this intimate account.
Also includes excerpts from family diaries and letters by Paramahansaji to his brother. |
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Shila Purkayastha |
Radha the Eternal Beauty of Indian Literature |
$30.90 $21.63 |
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| The present book entitled "Radha the Eternal Beauty of Indian Literature" is a detailed study of the Radha-legend and Radha-cult which remain extensively scattered over written and oral literature of India covering both Sanskrit, Prakrta and regional languages of the country. It deals with the colourful character of the most popular and famous lady of Indian tradition. The present work is presented in eleven chapters in which the Radha-legend with a special emphasis on the character of the... |
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T.D. Singh |
Thoughts on Synthesis of Science and Religion |
$63.99 $44.79 |
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| Thoughts on Synthesis of Science and Religion published by Bhaktivedanta Institute, Foreword by the Dalai Lama. Essays and thoughts from prominent thinkers, researchers, spiritual leaders, and scientists, including four Nobel Laureates, presented at the Second World Congress for the Synthesis of Science and Religion held in Calcutta in 1997.
Topics include the incompleteness of logic and empiricism, ethical challenges, spiritual viewpoints, consciousness-based science, future visions,... |
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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar |
An Intimate Note to the Sincere Seeker - Vol 6 |
$4.95 $3.47 |
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| This book is a collection of weekly talks, conversations, and messages that Sri Sri Ravi Shankar gave between July 27 2000 to July 8 2001. Shankar (not to be confused with the famous sitar player) is a saint from India, who's teachings give a wonderful, warm view of Hindu values and beliefs- a religion that is often misunderstood in the West. While these talks often discuss the state of the world at the time... |
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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar |
An Intimate Note to the Sincere Seeker - Vol 1 |
$4.95 $3.47 |
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| This book is a collection of weekly talks, conversations, and messages that Sri Sri Ravi Shankar gave between June 21 1995 to June 13 1996. Shankar (not to be confused with the famous sitar player) is a saint from India, who's teachings give a wonderful, warm view of Hindu values and beliefs- a religion that is often misunderstood in the West. While these talks often discuss the state of the world at the time they were... |
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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar |
An Intimate Note to the Sincere Seeker - Vol 2 |
$4.95 $3.47 |
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| This book is a collection of weekly talks, conversations, and messages that Sri Sri Ravi Shankar gave between June 19 1996 to June 11 1997. Shankar (not to be confused with the famous sitar player) is a saint from India, who's teachings give a wonderful, warm view of Hindu values and beliefs- a religion that is often misunderstood in the West. While these talks often discuss the state of the world at the time they were written, because they discuss... |
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Hazrat Inayat Khan |
The Sufi Message(Vol.XI) |
$10.95 $7.67 |
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| This is the eleventh volume of the Indian edition of all the works of Hazrat Inayat Khan, the great Sufi mystic who lectured and taught in the western world. This book and other volumes in this series contain his lectures, discourses and other teachings as taken down in shorthand. The complete series contains fourteen volumes. Each volume is complete in itself, and therefore may be read without any necessity to study following or... |
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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar |
An Intimate Note to the Sincere Seeker - Vol 3 |
$4.95 $3.47 |
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| This book is a collection of weekly talks, conversations, and messages that Sri Sri Ravi Shankar gave between June 18 1997 to July 23 1998. Shankar (not to be confused with the famous sitar player) is a saint from India, who's teachings give a wonderful, warm view of Hindu values and beliefs- a religion that is often misunderstood in the West. While these talks often discuss... |
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Hazrat Inayat Khan |
The Sufi Message(Vol-X) |
$10.99 $7.69 |
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| This is the tenth volume of the Indian edition of all the works of Hazrat Inayat Khan, the great Sufi mystic who lectured and taught in the western world. This book and other volumes in this series contain his lectures, discourses and other teachings as taken down in shorthand. The complete series contains fourteen volumes. Each volume is complete in itself, and therefore may be read without any necessity to study following or previous... |
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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar |
An Intimate Note to the Sincere Seeker - Vol 5 |
$4.95 $3.47 |
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| This book is a collection of weekly talks, conversations, and messages that Sri Sri Ravi Shankar gave between August 4 1999 to July 19 2000. Shankar (not to be confused with the famous sitar player) is a saint from India, who's teachings give a wonderful, warm view of Hindu values and beliefs- a religion that is often misunderstood in the West. While these talks often discuss the state of the world at the... |
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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar |
An Intimate Note to the Sincere Seeker - Vol 4 |
$4.95 $3.47 |
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| This book is a collection of weekly talks, conversations, and messages that Sri Sri Ravi Shankar gave between July 30 1998 to July 28 1999. Shankar (not to be confused with the famous sitar player) is a saint from India, who's teachings give a wonderful, warm view of Hindu values and beliefs- a religion that is often misunderstood in the West. While these talks often discuss the state of the world at... |
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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar |
An Intimate Note to the Sincere Seeker - Vol 7 |
$4.95 $3.47 |
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| This book is a collection of weekly talks, conversations, and messages that Sri Sri Ravi Shankar gave between July 12, 2001 to July 11, 2002. Shankar (not to be confused with the famous sitar player) is a saint from India, who's teachings give a wonderful, warm view of Hindu values and beliefs- a religion that is often misunderstood in the West. While these talks often discuss the state of the world at the... |
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Jyoti Prasad Jain |
Jaina Sources of the History of Ancient India |
$23.99 $16.79 |
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| The contribution of the Jaina sources to the making of the history of our great nation, during the epoch-making millennium of 100 BC to AD 900, is of vital importance. But it has only lacked proper research and application.
This book presents a brief survey of the more important sources, particularly literary ones, and a discussion of certain fundamental problems such as the dates of Mahavira and of the beginning of the Earlier Saka, Vikrama, and Saka eras, as well as the dates of important... |
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Acarya Dr. Sadhvi Sadhana |
Universe of Acharya Sushil Muni- The Philosophy of the World Religion |
$33.69 $23.58 |
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| Universe of Acharya Sushil Muni is an excellent study of the nature of spirituality, Indian religion. It is perceptive and challenging.
Acharya Sushil Muniji Maharaj gave spiritual guidance to the humanity at large and inspired them to realize peace through non-violence. He propagated religion for peace, fully conscious of the fact that peace and harmony were essential for the survival of mankind and its abode - the planet earth. The assiduous Saint Sushil Muni founded World Fellowship of... |
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Sri Sri Ravi Shanker |
Bang on the Door |
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| Only once in uncountable seasons does the Divine shine forth fully in one human being as in H. H. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. As a child he was often found in spontaneous meditation or recitation of scripture. He was soon recognized by the enlightened saints of his youth as crowned with Divinity. Today Guruji, as he is affectionately called, speaks almost daily and always extemporaneously to audiences large and small. Millions have been guided to their own inner freedom and joy by his deep, practical... |
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Acharya Ratnananda |
Tales for the Young and the Old |
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| All along the ramparts of time, our sages and seers have evolved noble guidelines in human relationships through tales and parables.
Stories have always attracted the young and the old and the reservoir of ancient Indian wisdom contains thousands of stories which offer solutions to most of the modern day problems.
From the Book:
Long, long ago and far away, there lived a great sage called Maharishi Chandilya. He had a large number of disciples. Every one of them was keen on... |
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Christopher Bird |
Secrets of the Soil |
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| This book, a fascinating companion to 'The Secret Life of Plants' by the same authors, tells the story of the innovative, nontraditional, often surprising things that certain scientists, farmers, and mystics are doing to prevent the slow degradation of our planet.
For example, using the techniques of Rudolf Steinera's biodynamic agriculture with its reliance on ethereal forces from the planets, Dan Carlsona's growth stimulating Sonic Bloom, and rock dust fertilizer to revitalize depleted... |
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Claude Bourguignon |
Regenerating the Soil |
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| The author in this treatise systematically shatters the modern farming's increasingly unnatural and unsustainable theories of agriculture which are rooted and reflective of industrially generated synthetic chemicals and pesticides. The author potently restores the ancient and primal truth that the soil is inherently alive and only living soils will support and agriculture of permanence.In this new and revolutionary book, Claude Bourguignon explains the natural basis of organic agriculture.... |
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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar |
The Way of Grace |
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| The Way of Grace chronicles Sri Sri's life and the history of the Art of Living Foundation.
Every page of this beautiful, full color book is breathtaking and covers a wide variety of topics including meditation, breathing techniques, yoga, wisdom, love, beauty, celebration, service, healing, and grace.
This book is also an excellent introduction for anyone wanting to know about the Art of Living, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, and the techniques offered in the Art of Living Courses.
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Sri Sri Ravi Shanker |
I Am the Sky |
$4.95 $3.47 |
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| Starting yoga when young gives children the best foundation in life. Children are naturally flexible, adventurous and enthusiastic and they will love learning yoga postures in a light, imaginative way. They can be fishes swimming in the sea, or a great eagle perched high on a branch, a cobra slinking through the grass.
Yoga is a beautiful way to give your child greater strength, awareness of body and breath, quietness of mind and above all, joy!
This book, with over 40 photographs of children... |
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Richard P. Brown |
The Rhodiola Revolution |
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| Drawing on more than thirty years of research, including top-secret studies from the former Soviet Union, this innovative study explores the health benefits and properties of Rhodiola, discussing the herb's ability to maximize energy, battle aging and stress, sharpen memory and concentration, enhance physical performance and sexual function, protect against heart disease and cancer, and promote weight control.
Readers are offered fascinating insight into Rhodiola rosea's rich and intriguing... |
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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar |
The Language of the Heart |
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| Sri Sri describes the silent language with which the master communicates with the entire creation.
He discusses love and gratitude, and tells us the secret place where God is hiding.
About the Author:
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, spiritual guru and founder of the Art of Living movement, believes in spreading the knowledge of living a healthier life through his message of compassion, commitment to society, and a cosmic understanding of life. Born on May 13, 1956 in the southern... |
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R. Balasubramaniam |
The World Heritage Complex of The Qutub |
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| The World Heritage Complex of the Qutub in New Delhi is home to several magnificent monuments that are classic examples of early Muslim architecture in India. The complete history and engineering of the archaeological structures at this site are explained in the present volume. The history of Delhi and the evolution of Indo-Islamic architecture is introduced briefly. The Quwwat-ul-Islam mosque, the famous 1600-year old Gupta-period corrosion resistant Iron Pillar located in its courtyard and... |
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Dr. Vijay Kumar Mathur |
Art and Culture Under the Sungas |
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| The Sunga rule marks an important epoch in the political, religious, social, economic and literary field in ancient India.
The author has presented in elaborate form a picture of the developments of the arts of sculpture, architecture and terracotta of this period. A detailed survey of the sources of the material, an exhaustive bibliography, an index and the plates make this book a rich contribution to the study of the art.
About the Author:Dr. Vijay Kumar Mathur is M.A., Ph.D. in... |
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Usha Venkateswaran |
The Life and Times of La Meri: The Queen of Ethnic Dance |
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| Russel Meriwether Hughes, born in Louisville, Kentucky, on 13th May, 1898, later came to be known as La Meri, the dancer, poet, writer, ethnic dance teacher and choreographer of repute. She traveled three times around the world and each time she diligently studied authentic dance forms and made they part of her repertoire.
She came to India, her dreamland, and managed to learn Bharatanatyam from Papanasam Vadivelu and Kathak from Ram Dutt Tiwari and held performances very creditably. She... |
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Ram Avtar |
Theory Of Indian Music |
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| This book provides a historical, cultural & technical overview of the evolution of Indian music. |
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Eliot Deutsch, Rohit Dalvi |
The Essential Vedanta |
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| The Essential Vedanta is a comprehensive introduction to the tradition of Advaita Vedanta based upon primary sources and makes possible a study of it in its classical form.
Translations from all major Sanskrit writings are included as well as selections from all of the most important representatives of this central philosophy of India
About the Editors:Eliot Deutsch, is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy, University of Hawaii. Author of several... |
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Ashok Bedi |
Path to the Soul |
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| What Dr. Bedi has done is unique. He has combined Jungian psychoanalytic insight with his own finely-honed clinical intuition. This book invites and facilities the kind of simple but profound clarity of thought that helps us cope. It is the path to an island of peace in the turbulent, chaotic ocean of life, as we know it today. Dr. Bedi, in a sensitive and compelling manner, provides the reader with a map to explore a journey toward psychological and spiritual individuation and the Path to the... |
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Margaret Stutley |
The Illustrated Dictionary of Hindu Iconography |
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| Indian art is becoming increasingly popular in the West, but it cannot be appreciated fully without some knowledge of the religious and philosophical background. Margaret Stutley covers all aspects of Hindu iconography, and explains that its roots lie far back in the style of prehistoric art which has remained part of a living tradition for 7, 000 years and which resembles the folk murals of many Indian houses today. The dictionary demonstrates the rich profusion of cults, divinities,... |
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Dr. B. Tirupati Rao |
Aesthetics: Modern and Postmodern |
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| Aesthetics: Modern and Postmodern is a steady study of philosophy and
aesthetics with critical debate. In this insightful social-political discussion on aesthetics, Dr. B. Tirupati Rao examines the aesthetic phenomenon from Plato to Derrida. Dr. Rao focuses on the difference, if not the clash between modern and postmodern aesthetics. Dr Rao gives new clues for a fuller understanding of the intricate epistemological roots of modern, postmodern and poststructuralist aesthetics. This... |
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Piyadassi Thera |
The Buddha's Ancient Path |
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| This is a book on basic Buddhism with a difference, for it is written by a monk who was native of Ceylon, a scholar and a well-known preacher and broadcaster in Ceylon. He had the Pali canon and the commentaries at his fingertips, so that his book is full of apposite stories and quotations of what the Buddha said- many of them appearing in English for the first time.
In recent years a number of expositions of the Buddha's teachings have been published in English, but most of them lack... |
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A. Foucher |
The Life of the Buddha |
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| Like many other great religions of the world, Buddhism arose from the teachings of one man: in this case, Prince Siddhartha of Kapilavastu, later called Sakyamuni or Gautama.
This book, turning to Buddhist scriptures and artistic monuments for its sources, presents the story of his life, so nearly as the facts can be determined, in a judicious, straightforward narrative designed for western readers. While it does not accept the pious myths and supernatural events as necessarily true, and does... |
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Heinz Werner Wessler |
The Avatars of Modernity |
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| Containing contributions by Indian and Western scholars side by side and covering the period from Vasco da Gama's arrival in India to the present day, this book attempts to explore the complicated processes of Indian identity formation from both an Indian and a Western perspective. Not only the history, language and literatures of India, but also more specific aspects of modern India are analyzed as markers of this process.
About the Authors:Dr. Heinz Werner Wessler, academic... |
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William Barr |
Journal of a March from Delhi to Peshawur and from thence to Cabul |
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| This is a reprint of the 1844 classic.
Originally published in 1844 contains an account of the operations undertaken in 1839 by Colonel Wade`s auxiliary army. Contains useful information of the areas concerned.
Contents:
From Delhi to Kurnal,
Kurnal to Lodianah,
Lodianah to Lahore,
Lahore,
Lahore to Rhotas,
Rhotas to Peshawur,
Camp at Peshawur (2 chapters),
Camp at Koulsir,
The Khyber Pass,
From Dhaka to Cabul,
From Cabul to Ferozepore.
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Patrick Olivelle |
The Asrama System |
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| The lesser known and explored of the two pillars of Hinduism- asrama and varna-asrama is the name given to a system of four distinct and legitimate ways of leading a religious life: as a celibate student, a married householder, a forest hermit, and a world renouncer. In this, the first full-length study of the asrama system, Olivelle uncovers its origin and traces its subsequent history. He examines in depth its relationship to other institutional and doctrinal aspects of the Brahmanical world... |
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S.M. Srinivasa Chari |
The Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita |
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| This scholarly work presents a comprehensive and authentic exposition of the philosophy of the Bhagavadgita as enshrined in the original text. This book is written in consideration of the commentaries of Samkara, Ramanuja and Madhva. In the first part of the book, Dr. Chari offers an indepth study of selected and critical verses from each adhyaya and discusses their philosophical implications with particular reference to the Vedanta doctrines and connected issues advanced by the... |
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James R. Ballantyne |
The Sankhya Aphorisms of Kapila |
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| Traditionally and historically it is affirmed that Kapila is the real founder of the philosophical school known as Sankhya, or enumeration. The school is so termed on account of it having given rise to twenty-four categories of existence or what may be called evolutes. Prior to Kapila, Indian philosophical scene was in a state of diffusion, in that the Sankhya elements of thought were scattered in various Upanisadic texts, which meant no systematic presentation existed insofar as philosophical... |
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Rama nath Sharma |
The Astadhyayi of Panini (Volume VI) |
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| This volume includes Sanskrit text of individual sutras with the transliteration, word-boundaries, indication of inflectional endings and formation of compounds.
Each sutra is also furnished with anuvrtti, vrtti, examples, detailed explanatory notes and complete derivational history of examples, cited by the Kasikavrtti. Explanatory notes are presented to facilitate proper understanding of individual sutras, especially in view of their formulation, interpretation, application and relative... |
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Harold Coward |
T.R.V. Murti - The Builders of Indian Philosophy Series |
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| T.R.V. Murti was an original and leading thinker among the Indian philosophers of the twentieth century. He had a brilliant philosophical mind, a love of analysis and argument, and a respect for texts, especially the ones with which he disagreed, as seen in his most important book, The Central Philosophy of Buddhism.
With both traditional "Shastri" training and a Western style Ph.D., Murti was able to bring both strengths to his writing and teaching. Murti knew everything by heart, all the... |
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Harold Harold Coward, R. Balasubramanian |
Kalidas Bhattacharyya - The Builders of Indian Philosophy Series |
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| Among the academic philosophers who built up the edifice of contemporary Indian philosophy, Kalidas Bhattacharyya holds a unique position in respect of originality as well as breadth of creative thinking.
Joining critical analysis and methodology with constructive insights, he introduced an indepth comparative approach in interpreting the Indian philosophical tradition, while offering a framework of metaphysics on fresh grounds.
About the Author:
Harold Coward is... |
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Harold Coward |
Rabindranath Tagore - The Builders of Indian Philosophy Series |
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| A renaissance figure and marvel that Rabindranath Tagore has been, an analytical predilection of philosophy is hardly enough for comprehending his phenomenal creativity and expression of the highest values of will and feeling.
Often the question whether Tagore is a philosopher is quite idle, as idle as whether Nietzsche is a philosopher, or the author of Philosophical Investigations is a philosopher. It is easier to deride the high and naked peaks of synoptic insight and opt for the worship... |
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Kolar Krishna Iyer and Chikkerur Dheerendra Acharya |
The Great Men and Women of Puranas |
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| The saints and sages in our Puranas have left a rich spiritual and moral legacy as to how to cultivate devotion, acquire spiritual knowledge and become true devotees of the Lord of the universe by self-sacrifice, adherence to truth, justice, equality, compassion and love towards all living beings irrespective of caste and creed and mild or wild animals. Why should we read books like The Great Men and Women of Puranas? because as Dr. S. Radhakrishnan, the great philosopher, statesman and the... |
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Swami Satyeswarananda Vidyaratna Maharaj |
The Epic Series of the Sanskrit Classics (6 Vol.) |
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| The Mahabharata (Stories of the Great Epic with Spiritual Commentaries in the Light of Kriya Pranayam)
This is a six volume series of the following:
Gita and Sangita
The Eternal Silence: Synthesis of all Dharma Paths
Original Kriya
The Chandi: Stories and Commentaries
The Mahabharta: Spiritual Characters and the Bhagavad Gita
Essence of Kriya
India's greatest Epic contains the holy book the Bhagavad Gita, which besides being a literary classic, is a supreme... |
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Swami Satyeswarananda Vidyaratna Babaji |
The Eternal Silence |
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| The Eternal Silence. Synthesis of all Dharma Paths Sarba Dharma Samanway
This landmark publication by the Sanskrit Classics is all you need to grasp the major religious faiths of the world.
The essence of all the major religious faiths is presented in the light of Breath: Kriya - Pranayam. Here lies the harmony or peace - Eternal Silence...
Eternal Silence includes the essence from the following books:
Atma Kriya - The Science of Breath
The Chandi - The Book of Divine... |
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Irfan habib |
India-Studies in the History of an Idea |
$27.99 $19.59 |
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| What India means may elicit different answers from people today. The answers that might have been given a thousand, two thousand or three thousand years ago would have been possibly quite different.
This volume explores how notions of India have grown: even as a geographical expression the notion (under whatever name) took time to form. Political factors and cultural diffusion both helped in the formation. Nor is the role of outsiders in looking at India as country with some identifiable... |
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Aniruddha Ray |
Merchant and the State : The French in India, 1666-1739 |
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| This brief survey of the activities of the French East Indian Company in India, based principally on the unpublished factory records of the French archives, deals with their problems, their linkages with the Mercantile groups and their relation with the local rulers.
Starting with their arrival at Surat in 1666, this study closes with the occupation of Delhi by Nadir Shah in 1739, which marks the changes of the attitude of the European powers including the French towards the Mughal Empire.... |
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John Butler |
Travels and Adventures in the province of Assam, During a Residence of Fourteen Years |
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| Originally published in 1855, this work is a sequel to A Sketch of Assam and describes the habits, customs and manners of the remaining wild tribes of the hills, viz. Angahmee, Nagahs, Kookies, Meekirs, and Rengma Nagahs, with whom a lengthened residence rendered the author intimately acquainted.
The adventures and travels will also illustrate the life of an officer in the employ of Assam. |
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Acharya S N Goenka |
Was The Buddha A Pessimist? |
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| This book addresses a misunderstanding from the philosophical point of view, that has arisen from time to time, about the First Noble Truth. In this succinct essay Vipassana Acharya S N Goenka both untangles this philosophical confusion and also explains that the teachings can only be appreciated at the direct experiential rather than the intellectual level. Understood in these lights the teachings of the Buddha shine out as teachings of real happiness.
Originally composed in Hindi to address... |
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Subhash Kak |
The Gods Within |
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| This book is a pioneering study that reconciles the traditional understanding of the Vedic Gods, taken as the constituents of the individual’s consciousness, with new discoveries of neuroscience.
Using a variety of sources, the book argues that the Gods may be seen as the cognitive centres in the brain or the archetypal projections of an objective consciousness on the subjective mind.
This book will be useful to scholars of religion, psychology and the emerging new science of... |
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David Gordon White |
The Alchemical Body: Siddha Traditions in Medieval India |
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| The Alchemical Body excavates and centers within its Indian context the lost tradition of the medieval Siddhas.
Working from a body of previously unexplored alchemical sources, David Gordon White demonstrates for the first time that the medieval disciplines of Hindu alchemy and Hatha Yoga were practiced by one and the same people, and that they can only be understood when viewed together.
White opens the way to a new and more comprehensive understanding of medieval Indian mysticism, within... |
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S. Kalyanaraman |
Indian Alchemy: Soma in the Veda |
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| The book is an epoch-making work-a paradigm-shift in Vedic studies-which identifies soma as electrum (god-silver metallic compound). Soma is referred to in the Rgveda as the should of the Yajna (atmayajnasya).
The path-breaking identification is based on textual evidence and a penetrating analysis of the Indian alchemical tradition, spanning nearly five millennia. The author is also the discoverer of the integrating role played by the mighty Sarasvati river adored in the Rgveda as the best of... |
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W.Wright |
A Grammar of the Arabic Language (2 Vols.) |
$128.49 $89.94 |
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| Dr. Wright’s translation of Caspari’s Arabic Grammar first appeared in 1859. Since that time it has been thoroughly revised and enlarged, and has become the standard authority.
'A Grammar of the Arabic Language Volume I,' contains sections on orthography and pronunciation, on the verb, the noun and adjective, on numerals, prepositions, adverbs and conjunctions. Volume II deals with syntax and prosody. |
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M.P. Singh |
Medicinal Herbs with their formulations |
$189.95 $132.97 |
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| The book on Medicinal Herbs has been compiled and written mainly for medical, pharmaceutical and research scientist who are today or many in future to be concerned with the identity, efficacy and safety of Indian Medicinal Plants as well as of other countries.
This book describes and illustrate more than 500 spices of the most important medicinal plants and provides information on their habitats and growing conditions. The author have tried to give as much as possible informations including... |
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Dr. T. D. Singh |
Vedanta and Science Series: Life and Origin of the Universe |
$6.49 $4.54 |
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| Since the dawn of civilization, all philosophical, scientific, religious and even artistic works, in principle, have centered around the study of life, its meaning and the origin of the universe. What is life? What is the origin of the universe?Is there any meaning and purpose behind the manifestation of life and the universe? What is the unseen cause behind the manifestation of the perceivable universe?
These questions have puzzled all the great thinkers around the world over the ages.... |
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Robin Sharma |
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari |
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| The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari is the story of Julian Mantle, a superstar lawyer whose out-of-balance lifestyle leads him to an almost fatal heart attack in a packed courtroom. His physical collapse brings on a spiritual crisis that forces him to confront the condition of his life and seek answers to life’s most important questions. Hoping to find happiness and fulfilment, he embarks upon an extraordinary odyssey to an ancient culture, where he discovers a powerful system to release the... |
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Bernard Jensen |
Dr. Jensen's Juicing Therapy : Nature's Way to better Health & A Longer Life |
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| Dr. Jensen's years of study have proved the juices - both fruit and vegetable - are the fastest method for getting nutrients into our bodies.
Dr. Jensen's Juicing Therapy offers more than 100 nourishing, easy-to-make juice combinations to enhance health and well-being. Also included are case histories demonstrating the extraordinary effects juices can have on rejuvenation and healing.
This update of a classic work is the culmination of Dr. Bernard Jensen's years of study on the health... |
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Cherie Calbom and Maureen Keane |
Juicing for Life: A Guide to the Health Benefits of Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Juicing |
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| Eating fresh fruits and vegetables can boost your energy level, supercharge your immune system, and maximize your body's healing power. Convenient and inexpensive, juicing allows you to obtain the most concentrated from of nutrition available from whole foods.
This A-Z guide shows you how to use nature's bounty in the prevention and treatment of our most common health disorders. This accessible book gives complete nutritional programs for over 75 health problems, telling you which fruits and... |
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Samten G. Karmay |
Arrow And The Spindle 2 Vols. |
$134.99 $94.49 |
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| Thirty two fascinating articles and translations dealing with myths and rituals, Dzogchen, Bon, the edicts of various kings and Tibet's historical unification, disintegration and reunification. Includes: Dzogchen manuscript from Dunhuang, Introduction to the History and Doctrines of Bon, The Doctrinal Position of Dzogchen from the 10th to 13th centuries, 3 Sacred Bon Dances, Early Evidence for the Existence of Bon, The Interview Between Phyva Kengtse Lanmed and... |
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Chogyal Namkhai Norbu |
Old Man Basking in the Sun: Longchenpa's Treasury of Natural Perfection |
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| Dzogchen is the apotheosis of Tibetan Buddhism and Longchenpa is the pre-eminent master of Dzogchen, and one of Tibets's greatest mystical poets. His Treasury of Natural Perfection encompasses and epitomizes the radical precepts of Dzogchen. Transcending the Tibetan context, Longchenpa delivers a manual of mystical wisdom for all people at all times, and shows why the western world has turned to Tibet for its mystical inspiration during the last half century. This transmission of timeless... |
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Maria Montessori |
Discovery of the child |
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| Maria Montessori describes the nature of the child and her method. She believes that once the general principles of her method have been grasped, its material application is very simple.
Gone are teachers who wear out their lungs maintaining discipline. Verbal instruction is replaced by "material for development," which affords children the opportunity of teaching themselves by their own efforts. The teacher thus becomes a director of the child's own spontaneous work.
About the... |
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Maria Montessori |
The Absorbent mind |
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| Based on lectures given by Dr. Montessori, The Absorbent Mind is an analysis of the physical and psychological aspects of a child's growth during the most significant period of life, birth to three years. During this period, the child learns motor coordination, language, and social skills, and establishes work habits and routines that set patterns for life. Dr. Montessori illustrates the mental powers of children that enable them to... |
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Dr. T. D. Singh |
Science, Spirituality and the Nature of Reality |
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| Since antiquity, many prominent thinkers of the world, from Plato to Tagore and from Newton to Einstein, have attempted to unveil the nature of reality. Butreality seems always deeper than our feeble minds can comprehend. Can a combined effort of science and spirituality, the two most dominant forces of humanity, help to delve deeper into the nature of reality? This unique dialogue between Dr. T. D. Singh and Sir Roger Penrose; like the well-known East-West dialogue between Tagore and... |
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M.J. Akbar |
Blood Brothers |
$21.99 $15.39 |
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| Blood Brothers is M.J. Akbar’s amazing story of three generations of a Muslim family – based on his own – and how they deal with the fluctuating contours of Hindu-Muslim relations. Blood Brothers is a chronicle of its age, its canvas as enchanting as its narrative, a personal journey through change as tensions build, stretching the bonds of a lifetime to breaking point and demanding, in the end, the greatest sacrifice. Its last chapters, written in a bare-bones, unemotional style, are the... |
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Echo Bodine |
Echoes of the Soul |
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| 'Echoes of the Soul' is heartwarming and enlightening. In simple prose, Echo Bodine gently leads readers through realms of existence we all have yet to experience. Her inspiring images leave us with a hopeful vision of life after death - or, as Echo calls it, graduation, when we go to our real home. This inspiring and positive vision of the afterlife leaves the reader filled with hope, and even awe.
Renowned psychic Echo Bodine speaks to the life and afterlife of the soul. In the beginning,... |
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Neesha Mirchandani |
Wisdom Song the life of Baba Amte |
$21.99 $15.39 |
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| The pioneering commune at Anandwan, where those affected by leprosy could live with dignity and pride; the Bharat Jodo marches across the length and breadth of India to promote national unity and harmony; the decade-long vigil by the Narmada river in solidarity with those at the receiving end of state-sponsored environmental devastation – Baba Amte did this and much more, coping the whole time with a crippling spinal degenerative disease.
The countless lives transformed by three generations... |
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Fredrick W. Bunce |
The Yantras of Deities and their Numerological Foundations |
$70.99 $49.69 |
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| Hinduism is known for the bewildering profusion of its deities, who are represented not only in two or three dimensional anthropomorphic images, but also in abstract configurations, known as yantras.
In yantras is, thus, seen almost a parallel with the surfeit of deities in Hindu tradition. Literally meaning an ‘instrument’, ‘apparatus’ or a ‘talisman’, yantra is a kind of mystical diagram used, in tantra, for both meditation and invoking a divinity, and is believed to possess/arouse occult... |
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Prashant Srivastava |
The Apracharajas: A History Based on Coins and Inscriptions |
$31.49 $22.04 |
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| The monograph aims at highlighting the significant role played by the family of the Apracha kings in ancient Indian history, and at connecting this family of the Apracha kings with the Asvaka tribe. The work is divided into six chapters. Chapter one deals with the history of the family of the Apracha kings. The members of this family acted as subordinate rulers and strategoi, first under the Indo Greeks and subsequently under the Saka-Pahlavas, till finally Sasan was able to establish himself... |
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Patrick Horay |
Hot Water Therapy |
$9.99 $6.99 |
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| How to save your back, neck and shoulders in 10 minutes a day of exercise in your shower, bath or hot tub.
This book will introduce you to simple, effective techniques you can use while relaxing in your shower, bath, or hot tub to relieve pain and strengthen aching muscles.
Do you suffer from:
Tension headaches from stress?
Chronic backache from hours of desk-work?
Sprains and strains from weekend sports?
Injuries from accidents?
Painful joints and muscles due to... |
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Arvind Sharma |
The World as Dream |
$22.49 $15.74 |
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| The entological status of the world has been a subject of much philosophical speculation despite the fact that the world is an existential given. According to some philosophersm, such existential givenness could turn out to be comparable to the earth's apparent flatness, with the actual truth turning out to be the very opposite of what it seems.
Philosophers often cite the experience of a dream to establish the plausibility of their position that the world might appear to be real... |
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Arvind Sharma |
The World as Image |
$11.49 $8.04 |
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| There is something profoundly counter-intuitive about Advaita Vedanta. Nothing is more obvious to both the philosophical as well as the non-philosophical observer than the fact that multiplicity constitutes the basic datum of our experience.
Variety is not only the spice of life-it is a cardinal fact of life. The doctrines of Advaita Vedanta shock us by flying in the face of this fact and by denying any ultimacy to that plurality and variety which we experience so intimately. This naturally... |
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Keith Dowman |
Eye of the Storm : Vairotsana's Five Original Transmissions |
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| The five texts translated from Tibetan into English in this book are considered the first transmission of Dzogchen Ati to Tibet. They constitute the root and essence of Dzogchen in Tibet - basic, raw Dzogchen precepts, appropriately styled 'radical Dzogchen'. This is the special, extraordinary teaching of our Nyingma lineage. The great masters have all attained realization through Dzogchen, contemporary masters all owe their status to Dzogchen, and any attainment in the... |
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Rashmila Shakya, Scott Berry |
From Goddess to Mortal : The True Life Story of a Former Royal Kumari |
$32.49 $22.74 |
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| Reading this book is like traveling into the realms of very loving, genuine and thrilling experience of a living goddess. This book is a bridge that links the world of innocence with the world of experience. It also shows a unique and rare combination of innocence and power as reflected through the narratives of Rashmila Shakya as told to Scott Berry. From Goddess to Mortal is a biography of Rashmila Shakya who was fortunate enough to live two different lives in one lifespan.... |
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Pamela Bloom |
Healing Power of Compassion : The Essence of Buddhist Acts |
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| Compassion arises through ceaseless manifestations, as the stories collected in this book demonstrate. Through their lucid and memorable insights, these stories lead us to one fundamental truth: Compassion is the essence of all authentic spirituality and transcends any definitions and differences of religions.
The Wonderful stories that Pamela Bloom has collected give us a precious glimpse into the heart of service the Buddha discovered more than 2,600 years ago. Poignant and... |
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Jethro kloss |
Back to Eden Cookbook : Original Recipes and Nutritional Information in the Imaginative use of Natural Foods |
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| This book is a summary of Jethro Kloss' half a century of experience in using natural remedies and natural foods for healing as well as for maintaining health. He had a firm and reverent belief in god and the Edenic plan that Man's food should consist of fruits, grains, nuts and vegetable products rather than animal products.
This book is a golden treasury of recipes and priceless information on natural foods for health and healing. Based on Jethro Kloss's 40 years of experience, his family... |
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Ralph Nataraj |
Himalayan Mysticism: Shiva's disc to cut asunder and open the mystic Heart |
$14.49 $10.14 |
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| This book is based on the philosophy of Kashmir Shaivism. the style of writing is cryptic and as such the author expects the readers to be quite alert and receptive. In a number of case, more than one reading may be necessary to understand the true import of some of the statments. Some changes may appear to be abrupt and unrelated to the context. However, at the end, a clear and deep pattern emerges and it transforms the reader
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Swami Satyeswarananda Vidyaratna Maharaj |
The Original Kriya |
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| Mahamuni Babaji's The Origianl Kriya
The revised and enlarged second edition of Kriya is published with a new title : The Original Kriya. The author hopes that the revised and enlarged edition will serve the seekers better.This is an encyclopedia of information on Kriya including:
Information on the birthplace of present-day Kriya.
The list of Kriyas originally taught by Babaji and Lahiri Mahasay, and their explanations.
A list of early Kriya masters in Bengal. The... |
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JP Vaswani |
The Magic of Forgiveness |
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| This book helps you to being inner well-being through the act of pardoning. What is forgiveness? Why should we forgive? How can forgiveness empower us, heal us?
J.P. Vaswani teaches us how to apologize with grace, forgive with generosity, restore damaged relationships, overcome resentment and bitterness and above all, how to forget after we have forgiven someone.
"To err is human, to forgive divine", goes the familiar saying. If you have ever aspired to realize the divine within you, you... |
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Raimon Panikkar |
Initiation to the Vedas |
$6.99 $4.89 |
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| This short book is just an invitation to read The Vedic Experience-Mantramanjari--an anthology of the Vedas for modern man and contemorary celebration by Raimon Panikkar. Such a book may not be easy reading, especially for those who are not familiar with Indic culture, which has so much to offer provided that one approaches its prodded not by mere curiosity, but urged by a genuine longing to discover in ourselves he morning light of humanity's primordial spiritual awareness.The Vedic experience... |
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Uma Chakravarty |
Indra and Other Vedic Deities |
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| In deities : whether in anthropomorphic or symbolic forms, the Vedic sages conceived a transcendent principle, which is far too subtle, far too abstract for the ordinary minds to grasp. And likewise, they concretized “as divinities” the various forces of nature — recognizing the indispensability of rain and thunder, of the sun and fire for human survival.
"Alongside the material representations of the cosmic order or of nature and nature-related phenomena, mankind has also mythologized some... |
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Osho |
Meditation : The first and last freedom |
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| Meditation: The First and Last Freedom is a practical step-by-step guide to 63 meditation techniques, selected and created by the great Indian mystic, Osho. The techniques range from the ancient Buddhist, Taoist, Sufi and Hindu practices to those techniques Osho has developed specifically for our needs today. Clear and scientific explanations of what meditation is and is not, a description of obstacles which present themselves along the way, and answers to meditators’ questions combine to... |
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Osho |
The Book of Wisdom - Discources on Atisha seven points of mind training |
$33.49 $23.44 |
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| Atisha is one of the rare masters, rare in the sense that he was taught by three enlightened masters. It has never happened before, and never since. To be a disciple of three enlightened masters is simply unbelievable -- because one enlightened master is enough. But this story, that he was taught by three enlightened masters, has a metaphorical significance also. And it is true, it is historical too.
Because Atisha learned under three enlightened masters, he is called Atisha the Thrice Great.... |
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Osho |
Meditation : The Art of Ecstacy |
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| Having explored the science of the inner, Osho says without a doubt what meditation is – playful, and what it is not – serious. He answers fundamental questions about meditation and gives a detailed description of each stage of his most revolutionary meditation technique, Dynamic Meditation. The appendix contains descriptions of many more techniques: traditional ones reinvented by Osho, as well as original Osho meditations that begin with activity and lead to the silence and... |
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JP Vaswani |
Snacks for the Soul |
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| Here are Snacks For Your Soul a collection of stories, one for each day of the year that offer you emotional, intellectual and spiritual nourishment. The 'snacks' come in a variety of flavors the sweet, the bitter, the sad, the joyous, the spicy and the pungent! There are tastes to suit every palate tastes that will linger long in your mind! Dada J.R Vaswani is not just a good storyteller; he is a great human being; his stories reach out to touch your life; they strike a chord that is rarely... |
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JP Vaswani |
More Snacks for the Soul |
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| More Snacks for The Soul is a heartwarming collection of stories narrated by Dada J.P. Vaswani. Drawn from a wide variety of sources, the stories tell us of the great and noble ones of humanity, as well as ordinary mortals who share our weaknesses and failings. Whatever be their sources, whomsoever they may feature, all the stories in this volume have this in common they talk to us of life, God's greatest gift to man.Dada J. P. Vaswani is indeed a gifted raconteur. His profound insight into... |
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JP Vaswani |
Daily Inspiration : A Thought for Every Day of the year |
$9.99 $6.99 |
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| This is a wonderful compilation of thoughts and prayers by Dada J. P. Vaswani - a mystic, saint and philosopher or our own times. Packed with practical wisdom and positive affirmation, this book will prove invaluable to one and all. Use it as a bedside companion, refer to it as the first things when you wake up in the morning; read the thought for the day at a pace you feel comfortable with; sow the seed-thought in your mind and reap the rich harvest of daily strength to face the challenges of... |
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Sudhir Kumar Saxena |
The Art of Tabla Rhythm |
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| This authoritative work deals comprehensively with tabla rhythm, focusing on the performed art with an eye to its history and aesthetics. It is aimed at the tabla student, the tabla performer, as well as the inquiring listener of Hindustani music, for whom it encapsulates a tabla practitioner's knowledge in these matters acquired over a lifetime of learning and teach.
Beginning with the evolution of the tabla, the book explains the technique of producing the basic bols. It further describes... |
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Paramahamsa Hariharananda |
Kriya Yoga: The Scientific process of soul culture and the Essence of all Religions |
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| No equivalent book on Kriya Yoga has yet been written. It is an in-depth study and exposition of the authentic Kriya Yoga by a master who had in his lifetime practiced it, mastered all of its highest techniques, and achieved the highest spirituality of nirvikalpa samadhi - the pulse less and breathless state. He learned Kriya Yoga from the great masters and authorities like Swami Shriyukteshwar, Bhupendranath Sanyal, Paramahamsa Yogananda, and Swami Satyananda. Paramahamsa... |
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satya P. Agarwal |
Apad-Dharma in the Mahabharata |
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| The historical background of the present study poses an important, academic question. How could the Indian society have protected itself against external attacks during the pre-modern period? Research-based answers to such India-related questions occupy the initial part of this book to which a global dimension has been added by digging deep into Mahabharata innumerable stories.
The results of innovative investigations into the general question - How to face calamities at personal, state, and... |
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Guru Nitya Chaitanya Yati |
Neither This Nor That But AUM |
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| A Modern day Panishad, Narayana Guru's unparalleled Hundred Verses of Self Instruction is a complete and intensive course for the intelligent seeker of wisdom. The title Neither This Nor That But Aum is taken from the conclusive hundredth verse.
The one hundred steps embrace the gamut of ancient and modern wisdom, synthesizing it into a unitive vision of exceptional power and profundity. Pitfalls of religious faith are avoided, and the aspirant's mind is... |
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Franz Benedikter |
The Secrets of Loving Touch |
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| The book shows how the loving touch releases hormones that benefit health, happiness, and beauty and are essential for complete physical and spiritual well-being. This is an unbelievably effective program in which certain skin zones are touched to release extremely relaxing, moodlifting or euphoretic hormones which make you balanced, healthy and happy.
By gently touching certain body zones, relaxing, activating and euphoric hormones are released. With a compact exercise program, Franz... |
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Christine Devin |
Shakuntala or The Ring of Remembrance |
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| This adaptation of the masterpiece by Kalidasa is told in simple language. It is a moving and poetic love story seen from the inner perspective of the protagonists themselves.
Notes on Kalidasa are provided, as well as a comparison with the Shakuntala of the Mahabharata. Important comments by Sri Aurobindo on Kalidasa have been reproduced. |
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Julie Friedeberger |
The Healing Power of Yoga |
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| This is a book about yoga, a holistic system for creating and sustaining balance and harmony on all the levels of our being: body, mind, emotions and spirit. It's about yoga's boundless potential for healing, for bringing about beneficial change on all these levels. The book, draws on the authors experience of Yoga, and on his work with others who are dealing with life-changing illness, to explore how the Yoga practices of body movement, breathing, relaxation and meditation... |
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Claude Apri |
And long and dark shall be the night |
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| This study tries to understand some of the events which occurred in Tibet during the first part of the 20th century. |
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Kireet Joshi |
The Good Teacher And The Good Pupil |
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| This book is a compilation of certain ideas and accounts from different epochs and different cultural backgrounds.
It has proved to be very instructive to some teachers and pupils, and also to some parents.
Some educational thinkers and philosophers may also find here some material that could stimulate their thoughts |
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Christine Devin |
The Descent of the Ganges |
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| Recounted by Valmiki, this is the wonderful story of how Ganga, Daughter of the Snows, descended on earth to purify mankind. The symbolism of the ancient myth is as powerful today as ever.
The book is illustrated with photos of famous rock carvings of Mahabalipuram. Notes on Valmiki are provided. |
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Translated by Rajendra Tandon |
Kalidasa The Meghadootam |
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| Kalidasa - Who some scholars believe wrote somewhere in the first century AD-wrote poems of epic proportions and is regarded as one of the most outstanding writers of classical Sanskrit.
Known to be an ardent worshipper of Lord Shiva, Kalidasa wrote his plays and poems largely based around Hindu mythology and philosophy. The Meghadootam (The Cloud Messenger) - in many ways the finest of all of Kalidasa's works and certainly one of the masterpieces of world literature - is, however, an... |
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Kireet Joshi |
Mystery and Excellence of the Human body |
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| A multi-dimensional approach of the human body. Startling anecdotes and descriptions enhance our knowledge and awareness of the human body. |
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Kireet Joshi |
The Siege of Troy |
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| An extract from the famous poem of Homer, the Iliad.
Through this epic, Homer presents the Greek world-view, a view of life where men are seen as a base metal beaten and shaped by the gods and fate until their inner golden nature is revealed.
He showed the Greeks more than just heroic deeds; his poetic genius drew aside the curtain of outer events and gave a vivid picture of the inner forces there at work.
Introduction, text and notes.
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Jayant Burde |
The Mystique of Om |
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| Om is the most sacred mantra in major Indic religions such as Hindusim, Buddhism and Jainism. It symbolises affirmation, benediction and peace. It is also a magical symbol beyond compare.
Using the Vedas, Upanishads, yoga, tantra and several religious texts as his sources, the author describes a plethora of interpretations of this mystical monosyllable which has since time immemorial captivated its worshippers, put yogis into trance, made tantra practitioners ecstatic, and sent its chanters... |
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Kireet Joshi |
Catherine the Great |
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| In the perspective of humanity's evolution, Sophia of Anhalt-Zerbst, who was born the elder daughter of an obscure, noble German family and who died as Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia, stands as an example of what one woman's unshakable faith, confidence in her destiny and own inner lights, can achieve over obstacles, failures and enemies.
Introduction, text and notes. |
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Ravindra Kumar |
The Kundalini Book of Living & Dying |
$13.99 $9.79 |
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| The Kundalini Book of Living and Dying shows how to awaken Kundalini and experience the power of spiritual rebirth.
It describes the seven divisions of the universe and details of the astral plane, the properties of the soul, scientific evidence of the soul's existence, and various methods of achieving higher consciousness through Kundalini awakening. |
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Alan Trevithick |
The Revival of Buddhist Pilgrimage at Bodh Gaya (1811-1949) |
$21.99 $15.39 |
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| Alan Trevithick spent three years researching primary documents in New Delhi, Sarnath, Colombo, and London, in order to present this history (1874-1949) of the Mahabodhi Temple at Bodh Gaya.
This is the first such account, and it details for the first time the administrative, legal and legislative activities which shaped the temple's current status as one of the world's most popular pilgrimage sites.
Also included is an innovative biographical essay on Anagarika Dharmapala, the... |
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Richard Webster |
Magical Power of The Pendulum |
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| This book teaches you how to use a pendulum to help you make choice, locate lost object, resolve health problems, communicate with spirits, explore past lives, identify self-imposed negativity, find a job, make decisions, set goals - and more. When you're ready for more advanced magic, in the twelfth chapter you will learn about Huna, the little-known methods practiced by the Hawaiian Kahunas to create magic and miracles. Table of Contents:Basic StuffHoning Your SkillsThe... |
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Scott Cunningham |
The Magical Power of Herbs |
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| This revised and updated fifteenth anniversay edition contains the folklore and magical properties of over 400 herbs.
Far from concentrating on esoteric, unobtainable plants, many of those mentioned within are old friends. The magical properties of onions, cashews, apples, rice, lettuce - as well as dill, basil, fennel, garlic, and parsley are described.
Extensive tables, a cross-reference of folk names, glossary, and annotated bibliography make this a comprehensive... |
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William J. Kirkpatrick |
An Account of the Kingdom of Nepaul |
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| The Account of the Kingdom of Nepaul by Colonel William J. Kirkpatrick is the original classic on Nepal and its people.
It contains the substance of observations made during a mission to that country in the year 1793 when the author was sent to Nepal by Lord Cornwallis to mediate in the dispute between China and Nepal. Originally written for the Government and Court of Directors of the East India Company, this work on Nepal was the first to be written in English and the only reference work on... |
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Koko Singh |
Driving holidays in the Himalayas Himachal |
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| The breezy style of Driving Holidays in the Himalayas, encompassing potted histories, insights into culture and customs, not to mention suggestions of where to take picnic breaks en route, makes for an enjoyable read.
This book includes:
• Detailed itineraries with costs • Driving maps for all sectors and a large state foldout map • Recommendations for accommodation and food • An expert’s guide to trekking • Discount coupons for meals at leading hotels and restaurants... |
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J.P. Vaswani |
The Little Book of Freedom from Stress |
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| In the hassled existence that modern life has become, stress, the killer syndrome, threatens rich and poor, old and young alike. it is said to cause very many ailments - starting with headache and ending in serious cardiac disorders.
In his inimitable style, Dada J. P. Vaswani tells us in this book that we do not have to be distressed by stress. He tells us how we can learn to beat stress effectively; the choice is ours - we can master stress or we can let stress master us!
Dada J. P. Vaswani... |
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Sri Aurobindo |
The True Destiny of India |
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| This book consists of Sri Aurobindo’s last two messages to his countrymen on August 15, 1947, the day India became independent, and in 1949, when the Indian constitution was being framed.
It also contains a biography of Sri Aurobindo. That India gained her freedom on 15 August, the birthday of Sri Aurobindo, was, as he says, the sanction and seal of the Divine on the work he has done for the liberation of India. |
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Sri Aurobindo |
Homer and the Iliad - Sri Aurobindo |
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| This monograph briefly introduces two major epic poems about the famous Trojan war.
The Iliad was written by Homer a few centuries after the siege of Troy. In the 20th century, more than two millenia later, Sri Aurobindo, the great seer and poet of modern India, wrote Ilion.
In both epics the main quality abundantly displayed is heroism but seeds of the other qualities can be seen. |
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Kireet Joshi |
Alexander the Great |
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| A few glimpses of Alexander’s life. It shows us what the life-force in man can achieve under favorable circumstances and yet what failures attend unbridled adventure.
The story of Alexander is also a pointer to the fact that the human personality has far richer potentials than is normally suspected.
Introduction, text and notes. |
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Christine Devin |
Hanuman or The Way of the Wind |
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| This marvellous story of the great leap of the monkey-god over the sea to Lanka is recounted by Valmiki, the famous author of the original Ramayana. This is followed by several episodes from the epic in which Hanuman plays a crucial role.
An extract from the Tulsidas’s Ramayana has also been added as well as notes on this poet. The introduction explores the symbolic meaning of Hanuman, a deity much alive in Indian minds even today. Notes are provided. |
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Arvind Sharma |
The Buddhism Omnibus Comprising Gautama Buddha, The Dhammapada, and The Philosophy of Religion |
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| The three works brought together in this collection explore Buddhism as a rich source of literary legend, an austere ethical guide, and a contemporary philosophy very relevant in the modern world in view of the resurgence of interest in the Buddha and his philosophy.
Matthew T. Kapstein in his introduction provides a concise historical overview of Buddhism in India and the renewal of interest in the Buddha s teachings and also situates the works in their proper contexts. Gautama Buddha by... |
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Claude B. Levenson |
The Dalai Lama: A Biography |
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| Based partly on personal interviews, this is the story of the Dalai Lama's prodigious life--of how a lively child from a modest peasant family came to be recognized as the fourteenth reincarnation of the Buddha of Infinite Compassion.
The book also portrays a vivid and important civilization based on an exuberant and sophisticated Buddhist tradition. |
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S. Radhakrishnan |
The Dhammapada With Introductory Essays, Pali Text, English Translation and Notes |
$14.49 $10.14 |
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| This is an internationally acclaimed translation of a classic Buddhist text, presented in both Pali and English by one of India's foremost philosophers and religious authorities. S. Radhakrishan provides full explanatory notes to the text, as well as an introductory essay about Gautama Buddha, who, from very early times, was believed to have uttered the verses of the Dhammapada. |
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Rajendra Prasad |
Dharmakirti's Theory of Inference: Revaluation and Reconstruction |
$34.99 $24.49 |
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| Dharmakirti was a Buddhist logician of 640CE.
In this book, Rajendra Prasad uses the method of contemporary logic to clarify Dharmakirti's system of inference. Despite not being organized along the lines of formal logic, Dharmakirti's inference emerges as a theory of deductive inference with an economy of formulation. |
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Sri Aurobindo |
The Genius of India |
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| This consists of a major extract from Sri Aurobindo's essay, The Renaissance in India.
In this text Sri Aurobindo gives us a masterly overview of India's culture through the ages. He evokes India’s essential spirit and her constant tendencies, her unique genius; in short, the qualities that have allowed her to survive for so long when many other ancient civilisations have disappeared. |
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Bharati Puri |
Engaged Buddhism The Dalai Lama's Worldview |
$27.99 $19.59 |
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| This volume elaborates on, examines, and understands the Dalai Lama's thought on various current issues such as non-violence, human rights, and the political issue of the autonomy of Tibet.
This is one of the first books in spite of the range of books on the Dalai Lama to actually seek out the conceptual foundations of his thought. The Dalai Lama's ethical teachings have gained worldwide recognition primarily because his actions and writings reflect a concern for combining ancient religious... |
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S. Sorensen |
An Index to the Names in the Mahabharata |
$83.49 $58.44 |
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| This unique work is the result of a sustained and patient endeavour of Professor S. Sorensen, for over two decades. It records almost all the available names of persons, places and episodes that occur in the Mahabharata.
The details of the exploits and episodes pertaining to particular persons are given as a summary with references to the exact location in the text. Summaries of Parvans, minor Parvans, Upakhyanas - like Anusasanika, Moksadharma, Narayaniya, Nalopakhyana etc.... |
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John Snelling |
The Sacred Mountain |
$55.49 $38.84 |
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| Mount Kailas - the most sacred mountain in the world. Uncannily symmetrical, this remote and remarkable peak located in the forbidden land of Tibet might have been built by superhuman hands. It stands out of a primordial landscape: a horizontally stratified plinth thousands of feet high, crowned with a perfect cone of pure snow.
The new edition of this acclaimed travel book is particularly indispensible for all those wishing to visit Mount Kailas, for it contains a... |
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Bertil Tikkanen |
Themes and Tasks in Old and Middle Indo-Aryan Linguistics |
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| The present volume contains twelve of the sixteen papers presented at the Linguistics Section of the 12th World Sanskrit Conference (Helsinki, Finland, 13-18 July, 2003) T
he papers span a wide range of topics and time depth, extending from Common Indo-Iranian all the way to Modern Indo-Aryan. The problems and tasks addressed in these contributions pertain to the historical phonology of Sanskrit, Vedic morphosyntax, the evolutionary morphosyntax of Indo-Aryan, the syntax of... |
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Arvind Sharma |
Essays on the Mahabharata |
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| This book is a classic study of a monumental work, the Mahabharata, perhaps the largest epic in world literature. It is an epic study of the epic on account of the voluminous size it has itself attained, the kaleidoscopic variety of the themes it covers, the great diversity of approaches it canvesses, the wide array of contributions it includes and the high standard of scholarship it achieves.
The essays of this book are on survey and discussion of manuscripts used in the... |
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Claude Arpi |
The Fate of Tibet |
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| This book is an in-depth study of the origins of the fate of a nation.
It begins from the time Buddhism was introduced in Tibet. It studies the evolution of the Priest-Patron Relationship with the Mongol Khans and later the Manchu Dynasty. It observes the effect of the appearance, in the eighteenth, of a new player on the stage: the British Empire with its 'large insect' expansionist policies and its rivalry with the Russian Empire.
It looks at the conservative attitude of the Tibetan... |
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R.C. Majumdar |
The Vakataka-Gupta Age |
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| The tile of the volume was selected for the sake of convenience only. It is not claimed that the political or cultural achievements of the Vakatakas were comparable to those of the Guptas and sufficiently important to justify their association with the name of the age.
Although this volume is intended to cover the period from 200 to 550 A.D., it has not always been possible to conform to these chronological limits. |
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Jitendranath Mohanty |
Gangesa's Theory of Truth |
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| The book is a study on Gangesa's Pramanyavada, and contains a free English
translation of the Sanskrit text.
The introduction discusses the concept of truth in Indian philosophy, chiefly
in the Nyaya and the Mimamsa Schools, and seeks to bring out Gangesa's
contributions to this topic. At the same time, it attempts a critical
assessment of the arguments and assumptions of the traditional
Pramanya-theories. |
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Claude Arpi |
Born in Sin: The Panchsheel Agreement |
$27.99 $19.59 |
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| The Sacrifice of Tibet: A hundred years ago a young British Colonel, Francis Younghusband entered the holy city of Lhasa and forced upon the Tibetans their first Agreement with the mighty British empire. In signing this treaty with the Crown, Tibet was acknowledged as a separate nation by the British. Ten years later, London called for a tripartite Conference in Simla to settle the issue: British India, Tibet and China sat together at a negotiation table for the first time.... |
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Claude Arpi |
The Dalai Lama in Auroville |
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| His Holiness the Dalai-Lama, spiritual and temporal leader of the Tibetan people visited the International Township of Auroville on 23rd and 24th December 1993. This was the Dalai Lama’s second visit to Auroville. He first came some twenty years ago, in January 1973, after having met the Mother in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry.
In January 1993, His Holiness the Dalai Lama has consented to be the Patron of the Pavilion of Tibetan Culture in Auroville.For five days before the... |
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Anand Mulloo |
Voices of the Indian Diaspora |
$21.99 $15.39 |
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| Written in an easy readable style and shorn of academic jargon, Voices of the Indian Diaspora is a contemporary effort at understanding overseas Indians. It is honest, compelling, thought provoking and substantial. |
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E.M. Hare |
The Book of The Gradual Sayings (5 Vols) |
$88.99 $62.29 |
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| The Book of the Gradual Sayings is a five volume work which presents the
Anguttara Nikaya or the More Numbered Suttas. The Anguttara Nikaya
consists of 9, 557 suttas in the collection of discourses of the Buddha.
The text runs in these five volumes:
Vol.I: Ones, Twos, Threes;
Vol.II: The Book of the Fours;
Vol.III: The Books of the Fives and Sixes;
Vol.IV: The Books of the Sevens, Eights and Nines;
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Vol.V: The Books of the Tens... |
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Thomas Weber |
Gandhi, Gandhism and the Gandhians |
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| Mahatma Gandhi and his philosophy of truth and nonviolence have intrigued the world for decades. Looking at the Western and Indian influences that had gone into making Gandhi the Mahatma, and the central importance of Gandhi to nonviolent activism, these essays reclaim the power of truth and nonviolence, which can still change the destinies of people and nations.
In this collection Thomas Weber discusses Gandhi, his ideology, and how India and the rest of the world is interpreting... |
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David Posen MD |
The Little Book of Stress Relief |
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| Stress has become an integral part of the way we live. In controlled doses, it helps us perform better. But, left unchecked, stress can leave us feeling fatigued and overwhelmed, and can lead to any number of health problems. In The Little Book of Stress Relief, stress expert Dr. David Posen teaches us how to take back control of our lives and regain a healthy work-life balance. Small in size, light in tone, and rich in content, The Little Book of Stress Relief offers 52 prescriptions to help... |
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Trutz Hardo |
The Karma Handbook |
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| Through numerous fascinating case histories, this book comprehensively explores the relationship between karma, disease and healing.
This book will help you to understand the Karmic law and its effect on your present life. By understanding karma you will be able to overcome it's after-effects and often even to experience an immediate release from its symptoms!
The fist part of the book introduce the reader to Indian thought on karma in general. The second part gives the reader a short... |
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Sogyal Rinpoche |
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying |
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| Widely regarded as one of the most complete and authoritative presentations of the Tibetan Buddhist teachings ever written, this spiritual masterpiece and manual provides an inspiring introduction to the practice of meditation, to karma and rebirth, to compassionate love and care for the dying, and to the trials and rewards of the spiritual path.
In this major and comprehensive work, Buddhist meditation master and international speaker Sogyal Rinpoche brings together the ancient wisdom of... |
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Dalai Lama |
The Path to freedom: Freedom in Exile and ancient wisdom |
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| The Path to Freedom is two books rolled into one.
The first book, Freedom in Exile, is the autobiography of the current Dalai Lama. Through this, we learn of how the Dalai Lama was selected as a small child as the reincarnation of his predecessor, how he was prepared for the responsibilities he had inherited and how, after being exiled to India in his teens he led his people through the impossibly difficult times under the control of communist China.
The second book, Ancient Wisdom, Modern... |
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Lama Doboom Tulku |
The Buddhist Path to Enlightenment |
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| In "The Buddhist Path to Enlightenment" Lama Doboom Tulku makes a gift of his
wide experience in traditional manastic scholarship and contemporary
engagement.
The result is a fascinating, diverse collection of essays and talks which
shows how a grounding in Buddhist theory can teach compassion. The book is
scholarly, yet very accessible. |
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Gottfried De Purucker |
Fundamentals of the Esoteric Philosophy |
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| A viewpoint of the Real, bringing a sense of the unbroken thread of ever-extending life..." magic casements" opening upon bright inner worlds of Reality stimulating one to daring flights of thought; Revealing passages about the Mystery Schools and their method of teaching, and glimpses of the mysterious parts played in the drama of evolution by Sun, Moon, the Zodiacal Constellations and the "Seven Sacred Planets" ...a further unveiling of the jewels of Esoteric Wisdom begun in H.P. Blavatsky's... |
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Siofra O'Donovan |
Pema and the Yak |
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| Pema and the Yak is the fascinating story of a journey through the
Himalaya along the Indo-Tibetan border into the heart of Tibet in Exile.
Encounters with oracels, lamas, ex-political prisoners, Tibetan doctors, DJs,
nomads, guerilla fighters, painters, poets, missionaries and Himalayan
royalty paint a vibrant picture of Tibetans living in exile today.
About the Author:
Siofra O'Donovan was born in Dublin and educated at University College... |
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G. de Purucker |
Wind of the Spirit |
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| From the Forward:
"'The Wind of the Spirit,' that is blowing over the
world, tumultuous, cold and biting as it seems to our sensitive lives, is
nevertheless the 'Wind of the Spirit'" -- this is the theme of an address given
by Gottfried de Purucker in 1940 and used as the title and opening chapter of
the present book. He urges us to penetrate appearances and discern the eternal
beyond the temporal, for... |
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Ryukan Kimura |
The Original and Developed Doctrines of Indian Buddhism in Charts |
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| These remarkable charts provide the reader with an indispensable genealogical
guide of the original Buddhist doctrines.
The nature of Buddhist doctrines, as promulgated by the different Buddhist
philosophers, is so very complex that it is impossible for beginners to
understand them easily without a clear and comprehensive manual.
The author created these charts as a convenient and effective method to teach
his students the history and philosophy of Buddhism.... |
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J.M. Macfie |
The Ramayan of Tulsidas |
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| The Ramayan, one of the most celebrated epics of the world, recounts the
story of Rama, son of the King of Ayodhya, and itrigues of his stepmother.
Prince Rama, with his brother and his devoted wife Sita, spends fourteen years
in exile. One day Sita disappears, abducted by awicked demon named
Ravana. Rama is despondent. After fruitless searching to find her
whereabouts, he turns to a tribe of monkeys for help. A brave... |
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Greta Rana |
A Place Beneath the Pipal Tree |
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| This novel was first published in German by Ehrenwirth verlag, Munich, and is distributed through Luebbe Books as 'Im Schatten des heiligen Baumes'.
It describes three generations of Sherpa women, the men in their lives, the times they lived in, and the dilemmas they faced.
While not over romanticising the past, when it was originally written it could almost have been prophetic in its misgivings about the future in an environment governed by status and taboo, in which women have to... |
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Sir Edwin Arnold |
The Song Celetial or Bhagavat-Gita |
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| The Bhagavad Gita is one of the many episodes from the great Hindu
epic, the Mahabharata written by Vyasa.
The Bhagavad Gita forms one of the most important written doctrines of the
Hindu religion. Whatever the origins of this story, all will agree that it
remains a classic work.
The story unfolds as the armies of the Kauravas and Pandavas are poised for
battle. The two armies are formed from the same warring family locked in a
battle of good over evil, but... |
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Sister Vajira |
The Dhamma-Cakka-Pavattana Sutta |
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| Buddhism is considered by many to be more than a religion. Its founder
and teacher, Siddhartha Gautama (later known as the Lord Buddha), was the
earthly saint who postualted the Buddhist ideas. The Dhamma-Chakka-Pavattana Sutta is a translation of Lord Buddha's original sermon spoken to a gathering at Sarnath just outside Varanasi. Devoid of superfluous issues, it gives the original Pali scriptures in parallel. |
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Greg Watts |
Mother Teresa: Faith in the Darkness |
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| Mother Teresa has symbolized human goodness, empathy and charity for decades and continues to do so after her death. But how did Agnes Bojaxhiu, a simple girl from an obscure corner of Eastern Europe, become such an international and influential figure?
This illustrated biography tells the story of her life, from being a determined young nun who went out into the streets of Calcutta to care for the diseased and the dying, to becoming the voice for the weak and the poor. Her vision led to the... |
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A.B. Gajendragadkar |
The Arthasamgraha of Laugaksi Bhaskara |
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| The present edition comprises the Sanskrit text in Devanagari script and translation into English with profuse notes, explanatory and critical, by Professor Gajendragadkar and Karmarkar, which has proved the best on account of its merits. A new and very useful feature of this reprint is the addition of a detailed and ver
y informative Introduction by Dr. Shiv Kumar. |
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T R Vishwanathan |
The Eternal Religion: Sanatana Dharma |
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| A book on Hinduism for the serious seeker and those interested in comparative religion. |
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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi |
His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Translation of the Bhagavad-Gita |
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| Maharishi calls the Bhagavad-Gita the essence of Vedic Literature and a complete guide to practical life. It provides “all that is needed to raise the consciousness of man to the highest possible level.” Maharishi reveals the deep, universal truths of life that speak to the needs and aspirations of everyone. |
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E.B. Havell |
A Handbook to Agra and The Taj |
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| This little book is not intended for a history or archaeological study, but to assist those who visit, or have visited, Agra, to an intelligent understanding of one of the greatest epochs of Indian Art. |
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Captan W. Hollings |
The Baital pachisi |
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| These immortal tales of chivalry and skullduggery, wisdom and foolishness, honesty and deceit, are about Baital, a mythical wraith like figure accrediated with supernatural powers, and King Vikramaditya whose wisdom is matched only by King Solomon of the Biblical fame. |
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Stephen W. Hawking |
The Theory Of Everything |
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| Stephen Hawking is widely believed to be one of the world’s greatest minds: a brilliant theoretical physicist whose work helped to reconfigure models of the universe and to redefine what’s in it. Imagine sitting in a room listening to Hawking discuss these achievements and place them in historical context. It would be like hearing Christopher Columbus on the New World. Hawking presents a series of seven lectures covering everything from big bang to black holes to string theory... |
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Swami Suddhananda |
'I' the Imperishable |
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| I am the ‘I’, the “Imperishable”- this is the magnificent declaration of Adisankara in his small work “ Brahmajnanavali mala” these verses are simple and easy to memorise. Thus these are highly suitable to be taken up for contemplation.
Talking on these verses, Swamiji elaborates bringing in just enough logic to reveal the Truth that is so grand and yet so simple. Going through this commentary, the seeker taking his first steps in this pilgrimage can get a... |
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Swami Suddhananda |
On the banks of the Ganga |
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| Swami Suddhananda founded the Samvit Sagar Trust, Foundation for Self Knowledge in 1983 in Chennai. This institution was established especially for the purpose of imparting knowledge of the Self. Swamiji’s teaching is based on Vedantic tradition which is relevent to todays’s man also in facing the challenges of life. In 1995 the Ashkara Educational Trust was formed to perpetuate this form of teaching in a series of schools to be established throughout India.
Swami Suddhananda is widely... |
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Swami Suddhananda |
Silence the first Word |
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| Cradle song for a crying baby by an enlightened mother. Commentary based on the madalasa Upanishad.
About the Author:
Swami Suddhananda founded the Samvit Sagar Trust, Foundation for Self Knowledge in 1983 in Chennai. This institution was established especially for the purpose of imparting knowledge of the Self. Swamiji’s teaching is based on Vedantic tradition which is relevent to todays’s man also in facing the challenges of life. In 1995 the Ashkara... |
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Swami Suddhananda |
The Fragrant Essence |
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| Swami Suddhananda founded the Samvit Sagar Trust, Foundation for Self Knowledge in 1983 in Chennai. This institution was established especially for the purpose of imparting knowledge of the Self. Swamiji’s teaching is based on Vedantic tradition which is relevent to todays’s man also in facing the challenges of life. In 1995 the Ashkara Educational Trust was formed to perpetuate this form of teaching in a series of schools to be established throughout India.
Swami Suddhananda is... |
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Dr. Biswanarayan shastri |
The Kalika Purana: Sanskrit text, introduction & translation in English (3 volumes) |
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Swami Suddhananda |
The Ultimate Repose |
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| “Ahameva param brahma vasudevskyam avyakyam” ( I am indeed the Supreme, Brahman, Imperishable, Vasudeva)- with this breathtaking declaration begins Brahmanucintanam, a work by Bhagavan Adisankara Swamiji gave a series of talks of this series in Hong King while he was there on a lecture tour in the year 1987.
These have been compiled and brought uout in this form the “ Ultimate Repose”. Swamiji, using these verses, brings up almost all the concepts of Vedanta and makes them easily... |
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Ramesh S. Balsekar |
The Only Way To Live |
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| Whatever I decide and do in any situation, depends on two factors: my genes and conditioning, which God has made. Whatever action I do will, of course, have its consequences – good, bad or indifferent – as judged by society, which I have to accept. The fact remains, however, that I cannot make a mistake. I cannot commit a sin. Therefore I live like God, not afraid of living and not afraid of dying.
About the Author:
Ramesh S. Balsekar is a disciple of the... |
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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi |
Maharishi University of Management: Wholeness on the Move |
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| The purpose of Maharishi University of Management is to create managers who will float in happiness, success, and fulfilment; who will command authority in the field of progress and dictate their terms to the environment. Such managers will raise management to a new, enlightened level of performance everywhere
Maharishi introduces the concept of automation in administration through the application of the organizing power of Natural Law to every area of management. Those managers who master the... |
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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi |
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi on the Bhagavad-Gita |
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| Maharishi calls the Bhagavad-Gita the essence of Vedic Literature and a complete guide to practical life. It provides “all that is needed to raise the consciousness of man to the highest possible level.” Maharishi reveals the deep, universal truths of life that speak to the needs and aspirations of everyone. |
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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi |
India to be the Supreme power in the world |
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| This book contains Maharishi’s address to political leaders of India (actually meant for political leaders of the world), on 26 May 1986, at Maharishi Nagar, India.
‘I have great joy to express my very strong desire to make India the supreme power in the world; and this desire has at its basis our ability to do so.’ - Maharishi |
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B.K.S. Iyengar |
The Light On Pranayama: The Yogic Art of Breathing |
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| One of the world's most beloved yogis, B.K.S Iyengar, writes a follow-up to his seminal doctrine LIGHT ON YOGA.
Many consider LIGHT ON PRANAYAMA a required supplement to the earlier work as it explores and illuminates the breath, essential to the overall practice of yoga. Iyengar briefly addresses the essentials of yoga as a starting point, but he quickly turns his attention to an informed dialogue about pranayama, theories about how the breath functions, and its documented effects on the... |
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Frits Stall |
Agni: The Vedic Ritual of the Fire Alter (2 Vols.) |
$222.22 $155.56 |
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| The first volume of Agni: The Vedic Ritual of the Fire Altar, contains a discussion of the place of the Agnicayana in the Vedic srauta tradition, its textual loci, traditional and modern interpretations of its origins and significance and an overview of the Nambudiri Vedic tradition.
The bulk of the volume, written in close collaboration with C.V. Somayajipad and M.Itti Ravi Nambudiri, is devoted to a detailed description of the 198\75 twelve-day performance, richly illustrated with tipped-in... |
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Daniel P. Sheridan |
The Advaitic Theism of the Bhagavata Purana |
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| Within a compass of eight chapters of this volume the author makes a close examination of the fundamental tenets of Bhagavata Purana. By penetrating analysis he shows how as a unified scripture Bhagavata Purana combines Vedantic non-dualism and Vaisnava devotionalism; and how the Bhagavata non-dualism accommodates the reality of the universe and of the individual selves in it within the all-encompassing reality of Brahman.
According to the author, this wonderful beldning the devotionalism and... |
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Vidhushekhara Bhattacharya |
The Agamasastra of Gaudapada |
$16.67 $11.67 |
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| Not being satisfied with the interpretation offered by Sankara and his followers, or some other teachers the author has attempted in the following pages to present to the readers his own interpretation of the work as hehas understood it. But in no way does he claim that his interpretation is the interpretation, i.e., the interpretation intended by Gaudapada himself.
In the present volume the author has given a new edition of the text of the Agamasastra based on a number of MSS and different... |
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A.A. Macdonell |
The Brhad-Devata (2 Vols.) |
$44.17 $30.92 |
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| Brhat-devata is an index of the `many gods', a much more extensive work than any of the other Anukramanis, as it contains about 1200 slokas interspersed with occasional tristubhs.
It is divided into eight adhyayas corresponding to the astakas of the Rg-veda. Following the order of the Rg-veda, its main object is to state the deity for each verse. But as it contains a large number of illustrative myths and legends, it is of great value as an early collection of stories.
A peculiarity of this... |
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Richard Salomon (Ed. & Tr.) |
The Bridge to the Three Holy Cities |
$22.22 $15.56 |
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| About the Author:
Richard Salomon is Associate Professor of Sanskrit in the Department of Asian Languages and Literature at the University of Washington. He is the author of numerous studies on Sanskrit and Prakrit language and literature, Indian epigraphy and paleography, and early Indian history. His publications include The Bridge to the Three Holy Cities (1984) and Early Buddhist Scrolls from Gandhara: The British Library Kharosthi Fragments (forthcoming, 1999). |
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Mahadeva Chakravarti |
Concept of Rudra-Siva Through the Ages |
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| The present book throws new light on the gradual development of the concept of Rudra-Siva in his animal, phallic and human forms, since the days of the Harappa Civilization. It examines how Siva, the composite Aryan-non-Aryan Divinity, was not only admitted but was ultimately crowned with an exalted position in the Brahmanical pantheon; how the bull once identified with the deity, was regulated to the position of a vahana; how phallism was related to Saivism and also how Siva, in his different... |
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D.K.R.R. Patil |
Cultural History from the Vayu Purana |
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| The present book attempts to supplement the work of Pargiter on the Cultural plane. Pargiter was concerned with the dynastic records of the Puranic texts while this book aims to interpret "cultural history" from the Vayu Purana.
The work is divided into ten chapters arranged systematically. The first five chapters contain facts of intellectual culture and the last five of material culture. The presentation of material has involved a great deal of translation and interpretation of the Puranic... |
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Hermann oldenberg |
The Doctrine of the Upanisads and the Early Buddhism |
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| Chapter I of this study, which discusses the older Upanisads, viz., the Brhad Aranyaka Upanisad and the Chandogya Upanisad, describes at the outset how the idea of the Supreme Being, the unique mystic power, was conceived in the words Brahman and Atman and how these two entities merged with each other and became identical. It then discusses the doctrine of metempsychosis as evolved from the relation between the Supreme Being and the world of plurality. In this period, the magician-priest begins... |
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Uma Marina Vesci |
Heat and Sacrifice in the Vedas |
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| In all religions of the world which maintain sacrificial rituals and in which the portion offered to Gods is given to fire, that portion is normally offered raw except in Vedic India, where its previous cooking is necessary.
About the Author:
Born in Roma (Italia), Uma Marina Vesci received her education in Roma itself, graduating in Ancient History and Archaeology with a thesis on: "The Use of Musical Instruments in the Religious Life of Ancient Greece." |
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David Knipe |
In the Image of Fire |
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| A penetratiting study of Vedic man's religious experience of fire and heat.
It is a portrayal of the profound and complex system of religious expressions that developed in ancient India from man's intimate relationship with the element fire, from his speculations upon the cosmogonic sacrifice and his intense desire to identify himself as a new being of cosmic heat and life. |
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W. Caland |
The Jaiminigrhyasutra |
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| The Grihya Sutras contain rules for customs, ceremonies and sacrifices through which the life of an Indian attains purification. They record a number of popular customs and manners connected with conception, birth, name-giving, first-outing, first-eating by the child. They include rules for tonsure, initiation, completion of studies, customs of courting, engagement, wedding, etc. They are important for the student of comparative history inasmuch as they contain parallels in the manners and... |
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Raghuvira (Ed.) |
Jaiminiya Brahmana of the Samaveda |
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| In his History of Indian Literature, 1.191 M. Winternitz wrote on the Jaiminiya-Brahmana:
"This work is of special interest for the history both of religion and legend, but unfortunately the manuscript material is so fragmentary that it cannot be edited."
Even such famous Vedic scholars, as W. Caland and H. Oertel, were not able to establish a satisfactory text form. The Jaiminiyas possess a vast literature, but unfortunately it presents a difficulty of language and technique which may... |
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Benjamin Preciado Solis |
The Krsna Cycle in the Puranas |
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| Krsna is one of the best loved figures in Indian religion and literature. The stories of his life and deeds occupy a central place in Indian literary traditions down to our day.
The present work deals with the main themes and motifs found in the Krsna legend up to the 10th century.In the first chapter the Vedic antecedents to the Krsna figure are examined, as well as some of the views that claim that Krsna is found in the Vedic hymns.
The second chapter deals with the first historical... |
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V.R. Ramachandra Dikshitar |
The Lalita Cult |
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| The Lalita Cult has figured and still figures prominently among the countless cults of ancient India. Lalita is looked upon by the Hindus as a divine manifestation of the goddess Durga. The cult of Lalita is intimately associated with the Sakti cult or the worship of the Divine as Energy in the feminine form.
The present book studies the cult of Lalita from a historical point of view. Though this study is mainly based on the Lalitopakhayana section of the Brahmanda Purana, an endeavour is made... |
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Rajeshwari Ghose |
The Lord of Arur, The Tyagaraja Cult in Tamil Nadu |
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| Tiruvarur in the Thanjavur district of Tamilnadu was the centre of Saiva and Sakta worship from very ancient times.
The Saiva cult revolved around the Tyagaraja icon enshrined in a temple bearing the name of the image. Interestingly, Tyagaraja is not the principle deity but a processional icon and is in fact an amalgam of three deities - Siva his consort Uma and their child Skanda.
Tyagaraja is a Somaskanda and the first visual representation of this composite deity can be traced to the... |
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Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan |
The Mahabharata (Narasimhan) |
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| The Mahabharata is the longest, and arguably one of the greatest, epic poems in any language. Intended to be a treatise on life itself, it embraces religion and ethics, polity and government, philosophy and the pursuit of salvation. With its central theme of universal destruction and the evils of war, the epic poem reveals not the exploits of heroes but the lives of ordinary people in search of the most fundamental of human desires: peace and reconciliation.
This collection of more than 4,000... |
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Lakshman Swarup (Ed. & Tr.) |
Nighantu and the Nirukta |
$33.06 $23.14 |
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| The Nighatus are the glossaries or lists or rare and obscure words occurring in the Vedic hymns.
According to Yaska they were collected and classified by the descendants of ancient sages for the easier understanding of the Vedic texts. The Nirukta is a famous work of Yaska. It is the oldest Indian Treatise on Etymology, Philology and Semantics.
This being a commentary on the Nighantus collection of obscure words which tradition ascribes also to Yaska, follows the three-fold division of the... |
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Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty |
The Origins of Evil in Hindu Mythology |
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| In this pertinent and valuable study O'Flaherty answers the crucial questions such as , what solutions did the Hindus offer to the problems of evil? How did these arise and develop historically? And, how if at all can these various solutions be subsumed under a unified world veiw?
The problem of evil, in particular the question of theodicy, has long been overlooked or misunderstood by Indologists, who have maintained that there is no problem of evil in Indian thought, or that it was "solved"... |
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R. Blake Michael |
The Origins of Virasaiva Sects |
$12.50 $8.75 |
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| A Typological Analysis of Ritual and Association Patterns in the Sunyasampadane.
Origins of the Virasaiva Sects in probably the most thorough exploration of Virasaivism availabel in any language except Kannada.
Already, the activities of founder/reformer Basava are well-known throughout India and world-wide. It explores a crucial text, the Sunyasampadane, from Virasaivism's third century of development. |
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Benoy Kumar Sarkar |
The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology |
$22.22 $15.56 |
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| The work is mainly an analytical study of Sukracharya`s code so that the data of Hindu Sociology collected here reflect generally those phases of Indian cultural evolution which have influenced the authors of the Sukra cycle.
This Positive Background of Hindu Sociology therefore is more or less a statical picture and represents chiefly such landmarks in the culture history of the Hindus as are embodied int he single document Sukraniti. |
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Jan E.B. Houben (Tr.) |
The Pravargya Brahmana of the Taittiriya Aranyaka |
$13.89 $9.72 |
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| Prapathaka 5 of the Taittiriya Aranyaka in the Andhra recension (Prapathaka 8 in the Dravida recension) is an ancient commentary on the Pravargya Brahmana, is here translated and annotated. The Introduction contains a study of the Pravargya ritual, which is One of the few rituals that has been explicitly referred to in the Rgveda (usually under the name Gharma). The abstract and spiritual nature of what is probably the main purpose of the ritual-the participants should... |
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A.B. Keith |
Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads (2 Vols.) |
$74.99 $52.49 |
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| The work presents to the student of religion, in objective form and with constant reference to the original sources and to modern discussions, a comprehensive but concise account of the whole of the religion and philosophy of the Vedic period in India.
The work comprises twentynine chapters grouped in five main parts:
(i) Sources,
(ii) God and demons of the Veda,
(iii) Vedic ritual,
(iv) Spirits of the dead,
(v) Philosophy of the Veda. It draws mainly from the original sources.
A... |
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H.D. Griswold |
Religion of the Rigveda |
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| The present work expounds substantially the value and significance of Indo-Aryan religious ideas as represented in the Rgveda.
The work is divided into three Sections arranged in thirteen chapters.
Section I deals with the origin of Indo-European and Indo-Iranian religion, its development into the concept of Godhood, Demonology and Priesthood. It describes Vedic tribes, their expansion, colonization, settlement, organization and culture.
Section II discusses the peculiar traits of major... |
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William P. Harman |
The Sacred Marriage of a Hindu Goddess |
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| For at least the past two hundred years, Hindus in southern India have celebrated the marriage of the goddess Minakshi to the Hindu god Siva. This annual ten-day celebration is among the largest and most famous Hindu festivals, attracting hundreds of thousands of the faithful each year.
William Harman's work examines this important ritual event from a variety of perspectives, including the history of religions, Sanskrit and Tamil textual traditions, and Hindu culture. Moving beyond... |
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Naama Drury |
The Sacrificial Ritual in the Satapatha Brahmana |
$10.83 $7.58 |
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| The Satpatha Brahman is revealed as a storehouse of rituals myths and symbols.
The author has presented three extraordinary rituals of the Satapatha Brahmana, viz., the Agnistoma, the Asvamedha and the Agnicayana.
This book also examines the profound religious experience, which were part of the ritual sacrificial system, the core of the Brahmanic system which when ritual lost its vitality, formed part of new developments in religious experience.
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Satyananda Saraswati (Tr.) |
Shree Maa the Guru and the Goddess |
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| She is the Guru. She is the Goddess. She is the inspiration for thousands of spiritual aspirants in many parts of the world.
Now here in one book are collected some of the most important teachings of that being known by devotees in many countries as Shree Maa, the Respected Holy Mother. She comes from the lineage of Ramakrsna. Her meditation is so still, her love is so pure, her giving is so profound that her presence makes an impact upon all who visit her. Her Philosophy exudes the clarity... |
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R.C. Prasad (Ed.) |
Sri Ramacharitamanasa: The Holy Lake of the Acts of Rama (Romanized Devnagari text & English Translation) |
$160.49 $112.34 |
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| Shri Rama Charitamanasa of Tulasidasa is the single most popular book of the Hindus, which, for over four centuries, has greatly appealed equally to the rich and the poor, the educated and the illiterate, the old and the young, and the scholar and the common man. Keeping in mind people`s ever-increasing quest for the epic, this unique edition of the Ramacharitamanasa with verse to verse Hindi and English translation along with Tulasidasa`s original text has been prepared. The translation... |
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Satya P. Agarwal |
The Social Message of the Gita Symbolized as Lokasamgraha |
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| This book is a landmark in the wide panorama of Gita Literature, the universal nature of which is reflected in the use, in the form of prose as well as poetry of an increasing number of the world`s languages.
As the first book to utilize original verses in modern Sanskrit to convey the social massage of the Gita, it not only fills a significant linguistic gap but also focuses attention on social issues which call for urgent action by karmayogins.
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Satya P. Agarwal |
The Social Role of the Gita |
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| The present work is a new perspective on the Bhagavad-Gita, supported by through research, for it focuses attention on the social relevance of this famous Hindu scripture.
Part 1 provides a penetrating analysis of how new interpretations of the Gita palyed a significant role in the social history of India during the ninteenth and twentieth centuries. The illustrative material consists of five case studies relating to : Raja Rammohun Roy, Swami Vivekananda, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Aurobindo Ghose... |
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John E. Mitchiner |
Traditions of the Seven Rsis |
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| Ascetics and mystics have played a prominent role in the development of nearly all religious traditions. The particular importance of such figures within Hinduism is especially evident in the traditions recounted of the Seven Rsis - the seven archetypal sages or seers who are depicted as being more important and powerful than even the gods themselves: indeed, through their asceticism the Rsis become the progenitors of the gods, as also of men, demons and all other orders of creation.... |
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James D. Redington |
Vallabhacarya on the Love Games of Krsna |
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| This volume presents, for the first time in a western language, a full translation from the Sanskrit of an important traditional commentary on the six chapters of Book Ten of the Bhagavata Purana (Chapters 29-33, and 35) which narrate Krsna's love-games with the Gopis.
The Commentary is the Subodhini of the Founder/ saint Vallabhacarya, (c. 1479-c. 1531). The extensively-footnoted translation is preceded by an introduction which endeavors to explain Vallabhacarya's fundamental viewpoint on... |
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Bhikkhu Pesala |
The Debate of King Milinda: An Abridgement of the Milinda Panha |
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| The Milinda Panha is, with good reason, a famous work of Buddhist literature, probably compiled in the first century B.C. It presents Buddhist doctrine in a very attractive and memorable form as a dialogue between a Bactrian Greek king, Milinda, who plays the `Devil`s Advocate` and a Buddhist sage, Nagasena. The topics covered include most of those questions commonly asked by Westerners such as "If there is no soul, what is it that is reborn?" and "If there is no soul, who is... |
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E.B. Cowell, Ed. |
The Jataka or Stories of the Buddha`s Formar Births (6 Vols. in 3 Pts.) |
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| In India recollection of previous lives is a common feature in the histories of the saints and heroes of sacred tradition. The doctrine of transmigration, since the later Vedic period, has played such an important part in the history of the national character and religious ideas that even Buddhist literature has included the ages of the past as an authentic background to the founder's historical life as Gautama. Jataka stories or birth legends were widely known in the third century B.C. The... |
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L.M. Joshi |
Studies in the Buddhistic Culture of India |
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| It is a pioneer attempt of its kind to study Indian Buddhism in its entirety as a system of rational philosophy, profound faith, and as a historical matrix of creative human culture and civilized institution during the 7th and 8th centuries the brilliant epoch of the University of Nalanda, the mere name of which spells the great wonder that was Buddhism in Ancient India.
A chapter on the contribution of Buddhism to Indian Civilization has also been added. The treatment of the subject is... |
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Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki |
Studies in the Lankavatara Sutra |
$38.49 $26.94 |
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| The title Lankavatara might mean entering Lanka (Perhaps referring to the temporary Mahayana period of Ceylon), suggesting that the doctrine of this scripture are possibly consistent with earlier Buddhism preserved in the Pali language.
Suzuki has greatly helped the reader of the basic scripture by discussing the main ideas. He tells how to study this scripture, compares it with the popular Zen Buddhism discusses such typical and important doctrines as Mind-only the Triple body of the Buddha... |
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Raimundo Panikkar (Ed.) |
The Vedic Experience |
$41.67 $29.17 |
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| One of the most stupendous manifestations of the Spirit is undoubtedly that which has been handed down to us under the generic name of the Vedas. The Vedas are still too much neglected not only in the world at large but also in their country of origin. this Vedic anthology will make direct and fruitful knowledge of the Vedas available to a wider range of people than the small elite of pandits and Indologists.
This anthology collects the most crucial texts of the Indian Sacred Scriptures--in... |
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I.S. Madugula |
The Acarya |
$14.49 $10.14 |
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| This latest addition to Sankara literature is totally different in concept. It`s based solidly in tradition, and it is at the same time just the kind of presentation that makes the postmodern reader sit up and take notice. It is philosophical, yet never forbiddingly so. It reads more like a story. The prose is simple, smooth, and meditative. Padmapada, Sankara`s senior disciple, narrates the story in very human terms. His intent is not to glorify his master`s life and work--for that is hardly... |
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Chandradhar Sharma |
The Advaita Tradition in Indian Philosophy |
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| The present work is a comparative and critical study of Shunyavada, Vijnanavada, Advaita Vedanta and Kashmira Shaivism, the four main systems of Advaitavada or spiritual non-dualism which has been the most celebrated tradition in Indian philosophy. It is based on the author`s study of original sources and when dealing with fundamental issues original texts are either quoted or referred to. The points of similarity and of difference among these systems are discussed in detail and with great... |
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Allen W. Thrasher |
The Advaita Vedanta of Brahmasiddhi |
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| The Brahma-siddhi, `The Demonstration of Brahman` is Mandana Misra`s largest work, his most important and the sole one dedicated as a whole to Vedanta.
The topics occurring in the doctrine of this work which the present author intends to study here in this book are inter-related; they all have to deal with the nature and functioning of error, whether every-day error or the transcendental error, avidya, which makes us see the multiplicity of phenomena where there is nothing but the utter... |
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G.P. Bhatt |
The Basic Ways of Knowing |
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| The book gives a penetrating and full-length study of epistemology in the school of Bhatta Mimamsa.
The work is based on an intensive and critical study of the Sanskrit texts which have not been utilized by any other Oriental scholar so far. It is very much different from other books on the subject because it not only discusses historically the epistemology of the Bhatta School but also discusses many really philosophical problems connected with epistemology in general and Indian... |
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M. Hiriyana |
The Essentials of Indian Philosophy |
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| The Essentials of Indian Philosophy provides a concise, connected account of Indian philosophy, and interpretation and criticism are provided within the limits of the volume.
An introductory chapter summarises Vedic religion and philosophy, and then Indian thought respectively with the early post-Vedic period and the age of the systems.
A brief historical survey accompanies each natural division of the subject, in addition to an exposition of its theory of knowledge, ontology and practical... |
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B.N.K. Sharma |
History of the Dvaita School of Vedanta and its Literature |
$49.72 $34.81 |
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| This study offers a panoramic view of the creative, expository, interpretive, dialectic, polemical, didactic and devotional phases of Dvaita philosophy, and its literature with a clear chronological setting of literary, historical and epigraphic materials.
Written in lucid style it presents a vigorous and sparkling historical exposition of the mighty currents of Realistic Theism, originating in the Vedic and post-Vedic sources of Madhva philosophy finding their culmination in the Dvaita... |
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Karl H. Potter |
The Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies (Vol. 1) |
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| This constitues the first volume of the series. It indicates the scope of the project and provides a list of sources which will be surveyed in the sebsequent volumes, as well as provide a guide to secondary literature for further study of Indian Philosophy. It lists in relative chronological order, Sanskrit and Tamil works. All known editions and translations into European languages are cited; where puplished versions of the text are not known a guide to the location of manuscripts of the work... |
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Karl H. Potter |
The Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies (Vol. 2) |
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| This volume provides a detailed resume of current knowledge about the classical Indian Philosophical systems of Nyaya and Vaisesika in their earlier stages, i.e. covering the literature from their inception in the sutras of Gautama and Kanada before the time of Gangesa (about A.D. 1350). The summaries are arranged in relative chronolo-gical order to assist the reader in tracing the development of the syncretic school,s thought. Scholars around the world, including: India, Japan... |
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Karl H. Potter |
The Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies (Vol. 4) |
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| The aim of this series is to present the contents of different streams of Indian Philosophical texts to make more and more people aware about Indian philosophical thought. Samkhya is one of India's oldest philosophical systems, and this volume of the 'Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies', coedited by Gerald James Larson and Ram Shankar Bhattacharya, and under the general editorship of Karl H. Potter, traces the history of the system from its beginnings in the third or fourth century B.C.E. up... |
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Karl H. Potter |
The Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies (Vol. 5) |
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| This volume of the Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies is devoted to the Philosophy of the Grammarians. The introductory essay summarizes the main philosophical ideas contained in the grammatical works. The summaries of the main sources that follow concentrate on the philosophical ideas contained therein, so that philosophers who are unable to read the original Sanskrit can get an idea of the positions taken and arguments offered. Covered in this text are chapters on Metaphysics, Epistemology,... |
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Karl H. Potter (Ed.) |
The Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies (Vol. 6) |
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| The present volume of the Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies takes up the history of Nyaya-Vaisesika where Volume Two left off, in the 14th century. It reconstructs the development of Nyaya-Vaisesika through the next two centuries. Some fifty author's names are known to us from this period, and 36 of their works are summarized. The volume closes its reconstruction of literary history into the early 16th century, with Raghunatha Siromani, the great commentator on Gangesa's seminal works and one... |
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Karl H. Potter (Ed.) |
The Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies (Vol. 7) |
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| Soon after the time of Gautama the Buddha a literature began to grow involving the reported words of Gautama, the rules and procedures governing the order of monks he founded, and attempts to set forth his philosophical teachings as understood and developed by his immediate pupils and the schools of Buddhist thought which grew in succeeding generations. The present volume undertakes to summarize the gist of these philosophical teachings, termed Abhidharma, from the first texts that developed... |
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W.D. O`Flaherty |
Karma and Rebirth in the Classical Indian Tradition |
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| Karma is perhaps the most famous concept in Indian philosophy, but there is no comprehensive study of its various meanings or philosophical implications. Under the sponsorship of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council, leading American Indologists met on several occasions to discuss their ideas about karma. The result is this volume. This book will have a considerable impact upon the teaching of Indian philosophy. At the very least, it demonstrates... |
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Michael Comans |
The Method of Early Advaita Vedanta |
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| This is a unique work discussing the teachings of four of the great Advaita Acaryas : Gaudapada, Sankara, and his two disciples, Suresvara and Padmapada.
The first three chapters are concerned with the teachings of Gaudapada. These chapters refer to most of the verses of the Gaudapadakarika and one chapter specifically deals with the influence of mahayaa Buddhism on the thought of Gaudapada. The following three chapters discuss the teachings of Sankara.
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Paul Deussen |
The Philosophy of the Upanishads |
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| Paul Deussen published his brilliant German work 'Die Philosophic der Upanishads' a century back in 1899, which was rendered into English by A.S. Geden in 1906. This rendering has been very much popular ever since the fact that the literature in English and other languages on the philosophy of the Upanishads has piled up considerably now.
The philosophy of the Upanishads, according to Paul Deussen, is the culminating point of the Indian doctrine of the universe and this point, he said, had... |
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Arthur L. Herman |
The Problem of Evil and Indian Thought |
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| Beginning with the problem of evil in the west professor A.L. Herman traces the history of one of the most fascinating of all perennial philosophical puzzles. The author identifies some twenty one historical solutions to the problem which are then reduced to eight quite distinct solutions. Prof. Herman then turns in the second part of the book to the history of the problem of evil in Indian thought.The author then joins the analysis of the problem of evil (taken from the first part of the book)... |
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Raja Ram Dravid |
The Problem of Universals in Indian Philosophy |
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| The author gives a critical and comprehensive study of the fundamental problem of universals in Indian Philosophy. The centre of the study is the controversy between the Nyaya-Vaisesika and the Mimamsa realists on the one hand and the Buddhist nominalists on the other.The author discusses not only the epistemological and metaphysical approach to the problem of universals but also the semantic approach made by the various systems of Indian Philosophy. In this context the view of the Grammarions... |
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Trevor Leggett |
Sankara on the Yoga Sutras |
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George C. Adams (Tr.) |
The Structure and Meaning of Badarayana`s Brahma Sutras |
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| In the Brahma Sutras of Badarayana, we find what is perhaps the most influential work in the history of Hindu Theology, given that the Brahma Sutras served as the basis for the theologies of all major Hindu theologians, including Sankara, Ramanuja, Nimbarka,Vallabha, and Madhva. In this work Dr. Adams examines the first of the Brahma Sutras four sections in an attempt to identify their original meaning and the theology that Badarayana attempted to express. About the author :George C. Adams ,... |
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N.C. Panda |
The Vibrating Universe |
$27.50 $19.25 |
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| The Vibrating Universe systhesizes the superstring theory of modern physics and the vibration concept of advaita vedanta and Kashmiri Saivism. The philosophical problem of monism versus pluralism as given in Indian philosophy, Western philosophy and classical as well as modern science has been analytically presented. In this attempt dualism and pluralism have been rejected and non dualism has been re-established.A vibration theory has been successfully brought out with a fusion of the doctrines... |
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Johannes Bronkhorst |
Word Index to the Prasastapadabhasya |
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| The Prasastapadabhasya whose real title is Padarthadharmasamgraha is the most important surviving work of classical Vaisesika. Its great popularity which continues today is witnessed by the fact that it exists in numerous editions. Access to and comparison of these different editons has always been hindered by the lack of a word index covering all the existing editions. This book provides such a tool. All readings in all editions are recorded with references to the page numbers in those... |
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Som Raj Gupta |
The Word Speaks to the Faustian Man (Vol. 1) |
$32.49 $22.74 |
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| The Chandogya Upanisad: The culture it reflects is remote and archaic, the texture of its ritualistic and contemplative symbolism thick and dense--virtually a closed book for us moderns. A sustained self-submitting attentiveness, however, discloses its language as resonating disturbingly modern notes, focusing our attention on many of our pathologies as well as our possibilities, pathologies and possibilities that have escaped the notice of us moderns. The spirit of quiet hermeneutics that... |
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Som Raj Gupta |
The Word Speaks to the Faustian Man (Vol. 2) |
$30.56 $21.39 |
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| The Chandogya Upanisad: The culture it reflects is remote and archaic, the texture of its ritualistic and contemplative symbolism thick and dense--virtually a closed book for us moderns. A sustained self-submitting attentiveness, however, discloses its language as resonating disturbingly modern notes, focusing our attention on many of our pathologies as well as our possibilities, pathologies and possibilities that have escaped the notice of us moderns. The spirit of quiet hermeneutics that... |
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Som Raj Gupta |
The Word Speaks to the Faustian Man (Vol. 3) |
$30.56 $21.39 |
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| The Chandogya Upanisad: The culture it reflects is remote and archaic, the texture of its ritualistic and contemplative symbolism thick and dense--virtually a closed book for us moderns. A sustained self-submitting attentiveness, however, discloses its language as resonating disturbingly modern notes, focusing our attention on many of our pathologies as well as our possibilities, pathologies and possibilities that have escaped the notice of us moderns. The spirit of quiet hermeneutics that... |
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Sitakant Mahapatra |
Beyond the Word |
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| The essays in this anthology seek to look at the multiple gestures of tradition in relation to our own times and in som doing they have a relevance for the continuing debate on modern and post modern era.
Sitakant Mahapatra 1937 is a major force in modern Indian poetry. A recipient of several honour he has been a member of the central selection board of Bharatiya Janapith and executive board of the Sahitya Akademi. Presently he is a member of the Indian National commission for copperation... |
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Raimon Panikkar |
The Cosmotheandric Experience |
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| The Cosmotheandric Experience is not a Christian, or an Indic, or a Buddhist study, but an interdisciplinary study with a firm foundation. It aims at an integration of the whole of reality: "We have to reconstruct the body of Prajapati, even if some of the parts feel unworthy, are shy or run away ... We have to think of all of the fragments of the present world in order to bring them together into a harmonious--though not monoliithic--whole." The Cosmotheandric principle, which the author... |
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Rohit Mehta |
The Dialogue with Death |
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| In the Dialouge with Death the author presents the superb mtsticism of Sri Aurobindo as he has expounded it in his own inimitable style in the exquisite poem Savitri.Savitri is a movemental work in which sri Aurodindo is seen as a yogi and a philosopher a mystic and an occultist a poet and a lover all at once. It contains the quintessence of Sri Aurobindo`s great spirtiual adventure which aimed at bridging the gulf between Heaven and Earth. |
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Joseph A. Bracken, S.J. |
The Divine Matrix |
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| The Divine Matrix represents a bold scholarly attempt to provide a framework for discussing these--and other--questions that will keep the interreligious dialogue project from grinding to a halt. In this book, philosopher and theologian Joseph Bracken first locates the Infinite as transcendent source and goal of human activity as the notion common to virtually all the major world religions. He suggests that the Infinite is prototypically experienced not as an entity but as an ongoing... |
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David Kinsley |
The Divine Player |
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| The divine player attempts to analyze the relationship between play and religion in the context of Hinduism. It focuses primarily on the youthful god Krsna. The first part part of the book surveys the role of play among the gods and concludes that play seems to be an intrinsic part of the divine in Hinduism. The second part of the book investigates the role of play in religious cult, again focusing on the various Krsna cults. This section concludes that, although playful themes pervade man`s... |
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Alain Renaut |
The Era of the Individual |
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| In The Era of the Individual, the author explores the most saliant feature of post-structuralism: the elimination of the human subject. At the root of this thinking lies the belief that humans cannot know or control their basic natures, a premise that led to Heidegger`s distrust of an individualistic, capitalist modern society and that allied him briefly with Hitler`s National Socialist Party. While acknowledging some of Heidegger`s misgivings toward modernity as legitimate, Renaut argues that... |
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G.C. Nayak |
Evil and the Retributive Hypothesis |
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| The book devotes itself mainly to critical examination of a system of belief, viz., the theistic belief. The problems of retributive justice, survival, personal identity, meaning of religious language, etc., come under the purview of discussion in course of this critical examination. The book, with its characteristically analytic and critical approach, raises certain interesting issues and tackles them with a freshness of insight, thus making significant contribution to the world of philosophy... |
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B.P. Bahirat |
The Philosophy of Jnanadeva |
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| The Present work is devoted to the philosophical teachings of Jnanadeva the well-known 13h century saint and genius of Maharashtra in whom we find a rare combination of poetry, philosophy and deep religious experience. The author has based his work mainly on Jnanadeva`s Amrtanabhava, but he has also taken into consideration other works of Jnanadeva.
Mr. B.P. Bahirat M.A. has tried to bring out a synthesis of the philosophical teachings of Shri Jnaneshwar the greatest saint of Maharashtra... |
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M.M. Agrawal |
The Philosophy of Non-Attachment |
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| This book attempts to explain in detail the notion of non-attachment which is claimed to be of central importance to the understanding of spiritual philosophy of the Hindus as expounded in the Upanishads. The author maintains that the philosophy of truly creative consciousness. This book will prove of equal interest to the students of philosophy and religion, as well as to all those who are seriously interested in Indian spiritualism. |
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G.A. Jacob (Ed.) |
Concordance to the Principal Upanisads and Bhagavadgita |
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| One of the major difficulties in appreciating the various commentaries on Vedanta Sutras and other ancient Indian philosophical texts is that numerous citations from the Upanishads and the Bhagavadgita are found in them without any exact authenticated reference to the original source. With a view to overcoming this difficulty by providing relevant cross-references, as also to furnishing useful material to students of philology and lexicography, Col. Jacob has compiled this book. This volume... |
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Kashi Nath Upadhyaya |
Early Buddhism and the Bhagavadgita |
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| This is a critical and philosophical analysis and assessment of the teachings of Buddha as Found in the Early Stratum of the Pali Canon and those of Lord Krsna as embodied in the Bhagvadgita. It is the first time that the foundational works of the two most important traditions of Indian thought have been brought together for comperative treatment.The Widely prevalent openion among scholars that Hindu thought did not have any significant contact with Pali Buddhism, might perhaps be one of the... |
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Zachary F. Lansdowne |
The Chakras and Esoteric Healing |
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| Many healers today are working with the chakras--subtle force centers that vitalize and control the physical body. This excellent sourcebook examines the relationships between the chakras, states of consciousness, and the following types of esoteric healing: Pranic healing, which can stimulate the vitality within the patient`s physical body; Telepathic healing, which can effect the patient`s mental attitudes and subconscious mind; and Radiatory healing, which can calm the patient`s emotions,... |
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F.D. Lessing |
Introduction to the Buddhist Tantric Systems |
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| The Survey of the Buddhist Tantras by Mkhas-grub-rje (1385-1438) is a sample of the rich literature on this topic in the Tibetan language. In accordance with Tsonkha-pa`s tantric reform after the theory about how Gautama Buddha became enlightened the author present the non-tantric materials stipulated as preliminary for tantric study and practice.The translation was collaborated in the 1950s between F.D. Lessing and Alex Wayman at Berkeley, California. After Lessing`s death, Wayman annotated... |
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Vandana Shiva |
Stolen Harvest : The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply |
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| In this book, the renowned environmentalist and activist charts how corporate control of food and the globalization of agriculture are robbing millions of their livelihoods and their right to food, and the related impact this has on the environment and the quality and healthfulness of the foods we eat. Topics covered include genetically engineered seeds, patents on life, mad cows and sacred cows and the debate on shrimp farming. This inspiring book will possibly lead the debate about genetic... |
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Sudhakar Chattopadhyaya |
Reflections on the Tantras |
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| The brochur touches upon all the principal precepts of Tantra, especially the esotric practices. an account of the Sakta pithas has also been given in the background of the ethnological divisions of India. New light has been thrown on the origin of bija, mantra and gayatrt occurring in Tantric works. The study may be regarded as a new one, since scientific discussion of Tantricism has not yet progressed so far satisfactorily, especially from the point of view of the Tantrics themselves. |
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Pierre-Sylvain Filliozat |
The Tantra of Svayambhu Vidyapada |
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| The Tantra of Svayambhu or Svayambhuvasutrasamgrah is the thirteenth in the traditional list of the 28 Agamas of Saivasiddhanta. One of the oldest Acaryas of this school of Saivism, Sadyojyoti has composed a commentary on its vidyapada section. The subjects dealt with are pasu, the bound soul; pasa, the bond;p anugraha, God`s grace and adhvan, the way to liberation. sadyojyoti has taken definite and extreme positions on the philosophical problems raised by these concepts. He emphasized their... |
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Konstanly Regamey |
The Bhadramayakara Vyakarana |
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| The Bhadramayakaravyakarana is part of the great collection entitled Ratnakuta, "Multitude of Jewels", a collection much revered in the Buddhist Mahayana traditions of Tibet and China. The work possesses rather a literary value than a doctrinal one. It is one of the texts, so rare in Mahayana, where the narrative and the doctrinal subjects contains the story of juggler Bhadrs who wanted to deceive the Buddha with magical tricks in order to prove that the claim of the Tathagata to omniscience... |
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G.N. Roerich |
The Blue Annals |
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| The Blue Annals is a landmark in the historical literature of Tibet composed by a well known scholar and translator Gos lo-tsa-ba-gZon-nu dpal (1392-1481 A.D.). It is the main source of information for all later historical compilations in the "Land of Snows". This work is invaluable inasmuch as it establishes a firm chronology of events of Tibetan history and works out in detail the list of the names of famous religious teachers and their spiritual lineage. The work is divided into... |
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Malvyn C. Goldstein (Ed.) |
Buddhism in Contemporary Tibet |
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| Following the upheavals of the Cultural Revolution, the People`s Republic of China gradually permitted the renewal of religious activity. Tibetans whose traditional religious and cultural institutions had been decimated during the preceding two decades, took advantage of the decisions of 1978 to begin a Buddhist renewal that is one of the most extensive and dramatic examples of religious revitalization in contemporary China. The nature of that revival is the focus of this book. The authors... |
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Swami Muni Narayana Prasad |
The Kena Upanisad |
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| Swami Muni Narayana Prasad renders a superbly novel analysis of this Upanisad in the backdrop of recent developments in various scientific disciplines and attempts to show that mysticism is a corollary to scientific investigation. |
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Priyadarshi Patnaik |
Rasa in Aesthetics |
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| Dr. Patnaik elucidates the fundamentals of the rasa theory and applies the canons of this theory to various modern Western literary works, Chinese love lyrics and the Japanese haiku poems. Its historical development and recognition are discussed. |
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Leona M. Anderson |
Vasantotsava-The Spring Festivals of India |
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| This study treats Vasantotsava as a thematically unified `generic` whole embracing a range of spring festivals, pansectarian in character and incorporating various rituals. It reassesses Sanskrit texts to explore the rituals, symbols and underlying motifs of the Vasantotsava. |
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Swami Muni Narayana Prasad |
The Vedanta Sutras of Narayana Guru |
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| The Vedanta Sutras of philosopher-poet Narayana Guru has 24 beautiful-fluent sutras revealing the essential message of the Vedanta. The highly-perceptive commentary by Seami Narayana Prasad elucidates the guru's interpretation of the Vedantic concept. |
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George D. Bond |
The Buddhist Revival in Sri Lanka |
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| In 1956, Theravada Buddhists in Sri Lanka and throughout Southeast Asia celebrated the 2500th anniversary of the Buddha`s entry into Nirvana and of the establishment of the Buddhist tradition. This book examines this revival of Theravada Buddhism among the laity of Sri Lanka, analysing its origins and its growth up to the present-day. Within the spectrum of reinterpretations that have comprised the revival, the book focuses on four important types or patterns of reinterpretation and response.... |
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Garma C.C. Chang |
The Buddhist Teaching of Totality |
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| The Hwa Yen School was established in the T`ang period, roughly in the 7th and 8th centuries A.D. by outstanding thinkers such as Tu Shun and Fa Tsang. The teaching of this School is based mainly upon the Gandavyuha or Avatamsaka Sutra and draws inspiration from it. Its messages are directed to those who appreciate the one inspiring Infinity of Buddhahood revealed in Buddha`s Enlightenment experience. Inspired by the revelation of the all-embracing Totality in this Sutra, the pioneer Hwa Yen... |
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Alex Wayman (Tr. with Annot. & Introd.) |
Chanting the Names of Manjusri |
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| This is the first English translation of one of the most revered and often-used tantric texts in Tibetan Buddhism--the Manjusri-namasamgiti. While consisting of only 160 verses and some mantra sentences, the work condenses an enormous tantric lore, so much that it garnered exalted mention in the Vimalaprabha--the great commentary on the Kalacakra--and is cited a number of times in the celebrated tantrist Naropa's Hevajratantra commentary. It is the complete original Sanskrit, with its Tibetan... |
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Mark Macdowell |
A Comparative Study of the Teachings of Don Juan and Madhyamaka Buddhism |
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| The publication of Carlos Castaneda`s works on the teachings of Don Juan, a yaqui Indian seer, was a momentous event in the history of esoteric literature. At the time of their publication, the author was engaged in the study of Indian philosophy, with special reference to the Madhyamaka Buddhism, as formulated and expounded by Nagarjuna. The author was struck by the profound similarities between the teachings of Don Juan and Nagarjuna--in particular concerning Samvrti and Paramartha of... |
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Theodore Stcherbatsky |
Conception of Buddhist Nirvana of Stcherbatsky |
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| The Conception of Buddhist Nirvana provides an English Translation of Nagarjuna`s chapters on Causality and Nirvana and Chandrakiriti`s comprehensive commentary on the Sanskrit Text and presents a rare exposition of the Madhyamaka Dialectic. The book is edited by Jaideva Singh with an exhaustive introduction, containing the historical background of the Madhyamaka philosophy, a lucid exposition of its merciless logic, an admirable presentation of its uncanny metaphysics and a systematic account... |
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K.N. Jayatilleke |
Early Buddhist Theory of Knowledge |
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| The book is based primarily on the source material available in the Pali Canon, studied historically and philosophically in the light of the contemporary, earlier and later literary evidence related to the subject. The antiquity and authenticity of the material is vouchsafed by the literary, linguistic, ideological, sociological and historical evidence existing in to Pali Canon itself. The book traces the origin of the theory of knowledge and its development in early Buddhism--the Hinayana... |
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M.L. Matics |
Entering the Path of Enlightenment |
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| Entering the Path of Enlightenment contains the first complete English translation of the Sanskrit Bodhicaryavatara of the Buddhist poet Santideva. In this beautiful and moving classic of Mahayana Buddhism, Santideva, a monk living in Nalanda in the early eighth century A.D., describes the Bodhisattva Vow, the promise of heroic beings to strive for Nirvana, but to postpone full entrance into the Realm of the Absolute until every other sentient creature also attains the bliss of Enlightenment.... |
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L.A. Wickremeratne |
The Genesis of an Orientalist |
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| It was left to Rhys Davids, virtually the first European scholar to devote himself exclusively to Pali and Buddhism, to unlock the key to Pali and point out to his contemporaries the rich vistas that lay beyond. In doing so he made it possible to begin the systematic study of Buddhism which had been undertaken sans consistency and method.The author has used Rhys Davids to investigate the nature of Western attempts--with implied Europocentric attitudes--to interpret characteristically Asian... |
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Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki |
The Lankavatara Sutra |
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| The little Lankavatara might mean entering Lanka suggesting that the doctrines of this scripture are possibly consistent with earlier Buddhism preserved in the Pali language.Suzuki`s pioneer translation of the Lankavatara Sutra was based on the sanskrit text edited by Bunyu Nanjo. It is a remarkable coverage of Mahayana Buddhist topics especially of the type often associated with the Yogacara school of Buddhism yet is of interest to everyone who desires an introduction to Mahayana... |
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John S. Strong |
The Legend of King Asoka |
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| This is the first English translation of the Asokavadana text, the Sanskrit version of the legend of King Asoka, first written in the second century A.D. Emperor of India during the second century B.C. and one of the most rulers in the history of Buddhism. Asoka has hithero been studied in the West primarily from his edicts and rock inscriptions in many parts of the Indian subcontinent. Through an extensive critical essay and a fluid translation, John Strong examines the importance of the Asoka... |
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Sara Boin Webb, Eng. Tr. |
The Literature of the Personalists of Early Buddhism |
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| Parsonalism was a remarkable and durable aspect of an important part of early Buddhism. For more than ten centuries it was taught and defended by several schools and had numerous followers but was strongly criticised by other Buddhist schools.The Literature of the Personalists of Early Buddhism attempts to present an historical overview of the personalist schools and studies on the formation and content of the doctrine (dharma) and monastic discipline of the Pudgalavadins in accordance with the... |
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Harsh Narain |
The Madhyamika Mind |
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| Madhyamikologists, the author essays in this work the task of demonstrating with a wealth of documentation that it is difficult to resist the conclusion that, far from being an absolutism or Absolutistic Monism as commonly heald in responsible circles today, Madhyamika philosophy, styled Sunyavada, is as heald by the classics, Universal, Total, or Absolute Nihilism/Illusionism, indeed so Aabsolute a Nihilism/Illusionism that it leaves absolutely no room for religion and mysticism to which the... |
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Eli Franco |
The Memorial Sylvain Levy (Franch) |
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| These fortythree papers of Sylvain Levi brought together by the good offices if Louis Renou, fall into two groups: in the one, essays, lectures, course resumes and travel reports which, though without doubt scholarly works, address an audience larger that that of the specialist; in the other, erudite articles in which palegraphy, epigraphy and philology directly contribute their methods and materials towards a history of the civilization and thought of the Indian world. This collection which... |
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Choong Mun-Keat |
The Notion of Emptiness in Early Buddhism |
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| This book investingates the teachings of emptiness in early Buddhism, as recorded in the Pali and Chinese version of the early Buddhist canon. In general, the findig is that these two version,although differently worded, record in common that the teaching of the historical Buddha as connected with emptiness. The general reader, with little or no prior knowledge of Buddhism, can discover in this book how early Buddhism provides a vision and a method to help in overcoming the ills of the... |
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Henepola Gunaratna |
The Path of Serenity and Insight |
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| In the oldest scriptures of Theravada Buddhism much attention is given to the jhanas, high levels of meditative attainment distinguished by powerful concentration and purity of mind. Ven. Dr. Gunaratana examines these jhanas within the context of Buddhist teaching as a whole and particularly within the meditation disciplines taught by the Buddha. Beginning with the ethical foundation for meditation, the role of the teacher, the classical subjects of meditation, and the appropriateness of... |
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Kenneth W. Morgan, Ed. |
The Path of the Buddha |
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| This book presents Buddhism from theBuddhist point of view. It is an earnest attempt of eleven devout Buddhist scholar s to describe the beliefs and practices of the Buddhist world twenty-five centuries after the Buddha. The need for such a book grewww out of conversations among fellows of the National Council of UAS on Religion in Higher Education. It was agreed that a fuller understanding of the leading non-Christian reiigions requires books written by men speaking from the point of view of... |
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Konstanty Regamsy |
Philosophy in the Samadhirajasutra |
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| The Samadhirajasutra is one of the essential canonical texts of the Mahayana Buddhism. Dating from perhaps the second century it presents and early form of the doctrine of the void (sunyavada) one of the principal philosophical doctrines of the Mahayana. In this respect the Sutra is of fundamental philosophical importance; it is notably of major auhtority for the Madhyamaka school which is sunyavada par excellence.
Konstanty Regamey (1907-1982) was born in Kiev of a Swisss family which had... |
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Ram Chandra Pandeya, Ed. |
The Pramanavarttikam of Acarya Dharmakirti |
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| Pramanavrttika is one rather the principal one of the seven celebrated works of the great Buddhist logician Dharmakirti. It consists of four chapters treating respectively of the validity of knowledge (Pramanasiddhi), perception (Pratyaksa), inference for oneself (Svarthanumana) and inference for others (Pararthanumana) according to the version followed in the present work, though in the traditional order Svarthanumana comes first.It is written in mnemonic verse and contains approximately 1500... |
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Pabongka Rinpoche, Trs. |
The Principal Teachings of Buddhism |
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| The spread of the teaching of Gautama Buddha began in India over two thousand years ago and reached perhaps its highest peak in the hidden mountain kingdom of Tibet, five centuries before our time. The great illuminary of his renaissance of the religion of total peace was Tsongkapa (1357 - 1419). He inspired a movement that by the timeTibet was lost in 1959 saw nearly a million monks living in thousands of monasteries around the country.
Tsongkapa was the greatest commentator in the history... |
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Paul Williams |
The Reflexive Nature of Awareness |
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| According to the Tibetan Tsong kha pa one of the eight difficult points in understanding Madhyamaka philosophy is the way in which Prasangika Madhyamaka does not accept even conventionally that reflexivity is an essential part of awareness----that in being aware there is also an awareness of being aware (rang rig). One of the most systematic and detailed refutations of Tsong kha pa`s approach to this issue can be found in the commentary to the ninth chapter of the Bodhicaryavatara by the rNying... |
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Samuel Beal |
The Romantic Legend of Sakya Buddha |
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| This work is a translation of the Chinese version of the "Abhinishkramana Sutra" done into that language by Djnanakuta a Buddhist priest from North India. It refers to Buddha`s leaving the palace for a religious life Buddha`s flight from his palace to become an ascetic. The legend also include Buddha`s previous and subsequent history. |
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N. Ross Reat |
The Salistamba Sutra |
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| The Salistamba Sutra a Mahayana text of great antiquity, has perished in its original Sanskrit form. It is however extensively quoted in Sanskrit commentarial literature which does survive in the original. Moreover the Salistamba survives in several Chinese versions and in Tibetan, includinga seventh century manuscript which represents one of the earliest extant examples of the Tibetan language.The resulting approximation of the Sanskrit text of the sutra is of considerable historical... |
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Paul Williams |
Studies in the Philosophy of the Bodhicaryavatara |
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| This volume brings together Paul Williams`s previously published papers on the Indian and Tibetan interpretations of selected verses from the eighth and ninth chapters of the Bodhicaryavatara. In addition there is a much longer version of the paper `Identifying the Object of Negation` and nearly half the book consists of a wholly new essay, "The Absence of self and the Removal of Pain`, subtitled `How Santideva Destroyed the Bodhisattva Path. Dr. Paul William is Reader in Indo-Tibetan... |
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G.C. Pandey |
Studies in the Origins of Buddhism |
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Alex Wayman |
Untying the Knots in Buddhism |
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| The field of non-Tantric Buddhism still has many problems and debated issues. The present volumes included numerous solutions of these problems by the senior author Alex Wayman. The categories of the Twenty-four essays are Heroes of the system, Theory of the Heroes, Buddhist Doctrine, Buddhist Practice and hindu Buddhist Studies. Among these essays are one of his earliest from the late 1950`s.
Alex Wayman became Professor of Sanskrit at Columbia University in 1967 and has the title Professor... |
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Kathryan R. Blackstone |
Women in the Footsteps of the Buddha |
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| Kathryn Blackstone coaxes the reader into a detailed exploration of the quest for liberation on the part of the early bhikkhunis. She considers this issue not only on the basic of previous historical studies, informed by the complicated symbolism of the text but also in order to unearth the attitudes and assumptions inherent in the text and to examine the terms, images, events, and situations insofar as they reveal the feminine perspective of the bhikkhunisangha.
Kathryn R. Blackstone is... |
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A.K. Chatterjee |
The Yogacara Idealism |
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| In this book an attempt has been made to expound the metaphysics of the Yogacara school of Buddhism in all its aspects and bearings.
Chapters are devoted to a critical and constructive discussion of its idealistic core as well as its spiritual discipline. According to Prof. T.R.V. Murti who occupied a conspicuous place in the galaxy of Indian philosophers, the author has utilised nearly all the sources available on the subject and has given a faithful and persuasive account of this system of... |
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Phyllis Granoff |
The Clever Adulteress and other stories |
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| The stories in this collection span almost one thousand years of story-telling in India. Most originate in North India and all were written by Jain monks for the edification and amusement of the faithful. The treasures of India`s heritage of story-telling are known to us today mainly from these Jain stories which have been carefully preserved through the years. The Stories in The Clever Adulteress have been translated by a renowned group of scholars from India, North America and Europe. Each... |
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Y.J. Padmarajiah |
A Comparative Study of the Jaina Theories of Relity and Knowledge |
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| An attempt to determine the meaning and contents of the notion of dravya and distinguish between the two concepts of guna and paryaya. Cursorily also discusses notions of realtivity, continuity, divisibilty and negation. It presents an analytical account and a critical estimation of the methods of knowledge with an investigation into the nature and the logical evolution of the theory of manifoldness (anekantavada). The work has aimed throughout at a comparative treatment of the problems. Effort... |
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Padamanabh S. Jaini |
The Jaina Path of Purification |
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| The religious tradition of the Jainas, unique in many respects, presents a fascinating array of doctrinal and social structures that stem from the anti-vedic movements of ancient times. Drawing extensively on primary sources, Professor Jaini provides a comprehensive introduction to the Jaina experience. Beginning with the Life of Mahavira the author elucidates the essentials of Jaina cosmology and philosophy as well as of the "path of purification" through which the soul may escape from its... |
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Hazrat Inayat Khan |
The Bowl of Saki |
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| This is a daily guide. This booklet contains wisdom and enlightenment for daily use. Open it and read the inspired words by Hazrat Inayat Khan. Moreover one may use it as a reminder of the birthdays of one`s relatives and friends. Request them to sign the book on the date of their birth, and it will be as a treasure house of your dear ones.
HAZRAT SUFI INAYAT KHAN was a famous musician who left for the West in order to spread the Sufi message of love, harmony, and beauty. He preached Sufism... |
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J.S. Hawley |
The Divine Consort |
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| India is one place where the feminine aspect of divinity has always been appreciated, and this book brings it to light for Western readers. The approach is at once deep and broad. The first part of the book presents a many-sided analysis of a single divinity, Radha, Krishna`s lover and consort. The essays in the second half of the book provide general perspectives on the feminine dimension in Indian religion, and a rich selection of illustrations has been drawn from the collections of the Fogg... |
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Rupert Snell |
The Eighty Four Hymns of Hita Harivamsa |
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| The CAurasi Pada (Eighty-four Hymns) is a sixteenth-century anthology of devotional Braj Bhasa verses ascribed to Hita Harivamsa, a devotee of Radha. With the delicacy of their language and the intensity of their sentiments, these poems recreate the bucolic world of Jayadeva; and their devotional content gives them an unrivalled place in the history of Vaisnava devotional literature. The text, which comprises the theological basis of the Radhavallabha sampradaya, appears here for the first time... |
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Yogi Mahajan |
The Face of God |
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| This book is not the story of creation, nor its a description of God Almighty; It is about an experience of love, devotion and sheer joy with the incarnation of the all pervading power of Divine Love, Shri Adi Shakti Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi. No mortal can possibly know Her multi-dimensional forms but what mortal does see is so breathtaking that his two eyes are not enough to see all Her marvels. |
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V. Balu |
The Glory of Puttaparthi |
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| The glory of Puttaparthi is the glory of Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba, who though unfathomable, gives immense joy to millions round the globe. Puttaparthi, a remote village in the Anantapur District of Andhra Pradesh in S. India, is not only the sacred place of birth of Sri Baba but also the centre of his spiritual work.In this book, the author has endeavoured to share with readers his discovery of several facets of Indian spirituality and religion, as expounded by Sri Baba; the myriad facets... |
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Charles R. Brooks |
The Hare Krishnas in India |
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| This entertaining and sensitive book deepens our knowledge by tracing the paths of those WEstern Hare Krishnas who eventually travelled to or lived in India. Charls Brooks describes in full detail the work of the `reverse missionaries` in the town of Vrindaban--which, since it is traditionally considered to be identical with Krishna`s spiritual world, is one of the holiest places in India and the site of some of its most engaging rituals.Have the Western Hare Krishnas really become part of... |
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C.R. Swaminathan, Ed. & Tr. |
The Krsnagiti of Manaveda |
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| The Krsnagiti is a lyrical and devotional poem composed by Manaveda, Zamorin of Kozhikode (17th cent. A.D.). the powm composed in Sanskrit celebrates the life of Krsna from his incarnation to his ascent to Heaven. Composed in eight parts and perhaps modelled on Jayadeva`s Gitagovinda and written in the form of a monologue addressed to Krsna the poem in suffused with the sentiment of spiritual devotion (bhakti). It enumerates the story of the Lord and eulogises His lilas on the earth.
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Lawrence A Babb, Eds. |
Media and the Transformation of Religion in South Asia |
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| This volume of provocative essays explores the effects of the religious transformation taking place in India as sacred symbols assume the shapes of media images. LIfted from their traditional forms and contexts many relgious symbols, beliefs and practices are increasingly refracted through such media as god posters, cosmic books audio recordings and programs of video cassette..
Lawrence A. Babb is professor of Anthropology at Amherst College. Susan S. Wadley is professor of Anthropology at... |
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Roger Hardham Hooker |
The Quest of Ajneya |
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| This book is about the three published novels of S H Vatsyayan `Ajneya` who dominated the Hindi literary scene for forty years until his death in 1987. Many Indian literary critics have written about his work but this is the first book about him by an english person and a Christian.The book begins by creating a theorlogical framework within which the novels can be studied with a critical openness to their contents.
Roger Hooker studied Modern History and then Theology at Oxford. After... |
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J.P. Schouten |
Revolution of the Mystics |
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| One of the most fascinating episode in the religious history of Southern India is the rise of the Virasaiva movement. These heroic followers of Siva----also called Lingayatas---are characterized by a unique combination of intense devotion and social reformation. The movement arose in the twelfth century under the charismatic leadership of Basava. Men and women from every backgroud, highcaste as well as untouchable, joined the experimental community of the Virasaivas. They has their own sacred... |
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A.E.I. Falconer |
Sufi Literaure and the Journey to Immortality |
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| Many Sufi books are written by academics from a technical standpoint; this one however is different. It is written by a mystic who has been inspired since a boy by his love of poetry which has made his life a search for beauty; this dearch culminating in his long study of Sufi Mysticism considered by him to be the acme of all mystic poetry. This book has in it many inspiring passages both poetry and prose. Short biographies are included with examples of the work of the main Sufi Mystics as well... |
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Hazrat Inayat Khan |
The Sufi Message Vol.III |
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| This is the third volume of the Sufi Message by Hazzrat Inayat Khan.In this volume a substantial part ofHazrat Inayat Khan`s writings and lectures on human relationship has been collected. There is his book education which contains a treasure of advice on the upbringing of children soundly practical and imbued with spirtiual ideals at the same time. Rasa Shastra is an exposition of Hazrat Inayat Khan`s views on sex life the problem of creation and of the relationship between man and... |
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Hansha V. Dehejia |
The Advaita of Art |
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| This inquiry is an undertaking to demonstrate that aesthetic experience in the classical Indian tradition, on its own merit, without being subordinated to rituals and practices commonly held under the rubric of religion, is capable of providing a transcendent experience to a prepared aesthete. Dr. Dehejia examines the dynamics of two aesthetics processes, that stemming from aesthetic emotion or rasa and from aesthetic form or rupa, and cogently underpins them within the advaitic epistemology of... |
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Om D. Upadhya |
The Art of Ajanta and Sopocani |
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| Pauranic Prana-aesthetics, a finer shade different from that of vitalistic aesthetics )the earlier having breathing-rhythm of "Ksaya-Vrddhi"--diminuation and augmentation--other than the latter`s emphasis only on the rhythm of augmentation), has been delineated in this study with examples from the world`s two of the best art-monuments: Ajanta (India), now not remaining unknown even to the most casual connoisseur, and Sopocani (Yugoslavia), the most significant and monumentally beautiful work of... |
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Carol Radcliffe Bolon |
Forms of the Goddess Lajja Gauri in Indian Art |
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| The artists creating images of Lajja Gauri drew on various ancient symbols of fortune, fertility, and life-force to communicate her power through their rich heritage of meanings. Because there are no texts to explain the figure, the study proceeds from the basis of the objects to derive their meaning. Carol Bolon charts the changes in the goddess`s form over a period of more than four centuries, including its possible adoption from tribal worship into Hindu temples, and brings a new... |
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Stella Kramrisch |
The Hindu Temple (2 Vols.) |
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| This two-volume work explains in detail the religious and spiritual significance of the temple by means of copious references to Sanskrit texts--both sacred and scientific. It depicts the Hindu Temple as not merely a heap of brick, stone or wood but a visible symbol of aspirations of pious men and women, the throbbings of their hearts in religious fervor and their endeavor for the attainment of salvation.The first four parts of the work are devoted to the philosophy of temple architecture. Part... |
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D.K. Chandra |
The Mystery of Art |
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| The Mystery of Art lets the forms of art tell their own tale. Instead of analyzing the art expressions this narrative work invites the reader to re-discover the functions of art. The observation of the art-scenes starts with the present and winds its way backward through time and history. In the course of this journey the different art-expressions reveal themselves in a novel light.
Born in Switzerland (1933) there when yet very young D.K. Chandra learnt to appreciate the beauty of nature.... |
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Ajay Mitra Shastri |
Inscriptions of the Sarabhapuriyas Panudvamsins and Somavamsins (2 Pts.) |
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| This work is a product of the Inscriptions of India Programme of the Indian Council of Historical Research undertaken with a view to making inscriptions dating from circa sixth to fourteenth century a.d. available in handy volumes. Part I studies the inscriptions of the Sarabhapuriyas, Panduvamsins and Somavamsins who played a major role in shaping the destinies of the Chhattisgarh region of Madhya Pradesh (Kosala) and the adjoining region of Orissa from about the sixth to the early twelfth... |
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K.A.N. Sastri |
Age of the Nandas and Mauryas |
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| The present work deals with the period c. 400-185 B.C. which saw grat changes in the political, economic and artistic life of India. Alexander, Chandragputa, Chanakya and Asoka dominate the period. We get vivid pictures of the outstanding events of the period--as of Alexander`s conquests and their influence on the cultural life of India, of the fusion of Brahma-Ksatra in the early Mauryan rule after the overthrow of the Nandas and of the rule of Asoka and his successors.The work consists of... |
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Stanley F. Stevens |
Claiming the High Ground |
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| Stanley Stevens brings new ecological and historical perspectives to his study of a subsistence society in ever-increasing contact with the outside world. The Sherpas of the Mount Everest region, famous for their mountaineering exploits, have frequently been depicted as victims of the world`s highest-altitude tourist boom. But have the Sherpas and their homeland been transformed by tourism? He is the first to analyze the complex interaction of local environmental knowledge, cultural beliefs,... |
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R.S. Tripathi |
History of Kanauj to the Moslem Conquest |
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| Kanauj is of high antiquity and renown. Founded long before the dawn of the Christian era, it first rose to importance in the sixth century a.d. when it became the capital of the Maukharis and when it grew rapidly in authority and influence till its conflict with later Guptas. This followed Harsa of Thaneswar assuming control of affairs in Kanauj. Harsa`s death plunged Kanauj into anarchy and darkness that lasted for about half a century. However, as a result of the protracted campaigns of the... |
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A.C. Das |
An Introduction to the Study of Society |
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| The present book is an attempt to analyse social concepts and trace their origin and development, with particular reference to man as a member of his family, caste-group, social institutions and organizations. In presenting this analysis the author has followed the latest method of philosophers who interpret philosophy by the help of history, including the study of society through all stages of its growth.The study fully documented with the critical apparatus--general index and foot nootes--is... |
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R.C.P. Singh |
Kingship in Northern India |
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| The present work relates to the political organization in Northern India during the period from 600 A.D. to 1200 A.D. It describes, in detail, how several Kingdoms emerged and how their rulers claimed divinity, possessed absolute powers over their subjects. The author discusses the culminative effects of the separatist tendencies of the monarchs on Indian Polity which ultimately resulted in their weak resistance to the Muslim invaders from the North-West.The work is based on literary,... |
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K.C. Jain |
Malwa Through the Ages (Hardback) |
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| The present book offers an exhaustive treatment of the political, social, economical and cultural history of Malwa from the earliest times to 1305 A.D. Herein for the very first time the author has arranged systematically and discussed and relevant historical material in the form of archaeological antiquities, inscriptions, coins and literature.
About the Author:
The author born on 21st April 1930 at Maroth in Nagaur District of Rajasthan Professor K.C. Jain got a merit scholarship a the... |
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Allan Dahlaquist |
Megasthenes and Indian Religion |
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| This work deals at length with various theories about relgion prevalent at the time when Megasthenes visited India very interesting and scholarly views have been put forth regarding investigations of Megasthenes their reliability and the reliability of his reporters.Undpubtedly Culture of India lacks historical aspect inasmuch-----as does not provide as to when an event took place or certain concept was first used |
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Swati Datta |
Migrant Brahmanas in Northern India |
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| Northern India experienced great crise in the years between C.A. D. 475 and 1030. Many a time this part of the world was the scene of foreign invasions----Empires arose and distintegrated: society and economy changed to a great extent; many Brahmanas of this period migrated.
Mrs. Swati Datta was born in Calcutta in 1951. She went to school and university in Patna from where she graduated with Honours in History gaining a first class first for which she was awarded the gold medal. |
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Ashvini Agrawal |
Rise and Fall of the Imperial Guptas |
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| Rise and Fall of the Imperial Guptas is based of the entire source material that has come to light since 1888 when Dr. H.F. Fleet`s epoch-making work was published as Vol. III of the Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum. Far reachinf changes in our knowledge of the history of the Guptas have been taking place in consequence of such discoveries as the Bhitari-Silver Copper Seal of Kumaragupta (1889) the Sarnath Inscriptions on Buddhs Images.
Dr. Ashvini Agrawal M.A., Ph.d. born in 1951 studied at... |
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Ali Akbar Dareini, Tr. & Annot. |
The Rise and Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty |
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| A country of extreme strategic importance, Iran has undergone profound, often dramatic, changes. Its geo-political importance and rich resources have always made Iran a prime target for the covetous eyes of mighty world powers. With its unique geographical position, Iran has been the main center for superpower rivalries with its rulers seeking protection from one power against the other.It also aims at providing a comprehensive and objective consideration of the major contemporary issues,... |
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D.C. Sircar |
Studies in the Political and Administrative Systems in Ancient and Medieval India |
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| The earlier chapters of the present volume deal with a large number of topics relating to kingship, landlordism (sometimes mistaken as feudalism), tenancy, royal, charter, Pancayat system etc. Some of the following chapters contain discussions on certain royal officers the functions of some of them or their departments a few aspects of the judicial system some land measures and taxes etc. The third group of topics mostly concerns the interpretation of technical expressions found in epigraphical... |
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V. Gautam |
Aspects of Indian Society and Economy in the 19th Century |
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| This study presents a valuable account of social and economic conditions in India in the ninteenth century. Drawing upon the material gathered from the reports preserved in the desoatches of the American Consuls in Calcutta and Bombay, the author has evaluated sources for the history of Modern India which had not been tapped before. He has examined the material critically and built up his thesis on firm grounds, carefully delineating the conditions under which the American consuls wrote their... |
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V.R. Ramachandra Dikshitar |
The Gupta Polity |
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| This book on Gupta Polity is a companion volume to the author`s earlier work The Mauryan Polity. The sources of information for a study of the subject are not as many as in the case of the later book. The author firmly believes that Kalidasa was not a protege of the Gupta Court but lived in second century b.c. and so his prolific works cannot be taken to throw any light on the Gupta empire. One has therefore to depend mainly on the Kamandakiya Nitisastra, the inscriptions and coins of the Gupta... |
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R.P. Kangle |
The Kautiliya Arthasastra (3 Pts.) |
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R.P. Kangle |
The Kautiliya Arthasastra Vol.I |
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R.P. Kangle |
The Kautiliya Arthasastra Vol.III |
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Ramashraya Sharma |
Socio-Political Study of the Valmiki Ramayana |
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| The work presents in a critical and analytical way a comprehensive picture of ancient Indian culture and civilization as reflected in the Ramayana of Valmiki.In forming an estimate of the social and political consciousness of the Ramayanic people the author has not been guided by the obiter dicta interspersed throughout the poem but by the actual behaviour of the various characters of the poem.In his treatment of every social and political institution the author has tried to give in the... |
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S.C. Vasu (Tr.) |
The Ashtadhyayi of Panini (2 Vols.) |
$204.99 $143.49 |
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| Panini`s Ashtadhyayi represents the first attempt in the history of the world to describe and analyse the components of a language on scientific lines. It has not only been universally acclaimed as the first and foremost specimen of Descriptive Grammar but has also been the chief source of inspiration for the linguist engaged in describing languages of different regions. To understand Sanskrit language, and especially that part of it which embodies the highest aspirations of ancient Aryan... |
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J. Bloch |
The Formation of the Marathi Language |
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| The present work is the english rendering of La formation de la Langue Marathe----a well-known work by Jules Bloch. The original French version was the first systematic undertaking to coordinate data on Marathi languages,--------tracing its evolution and development through various stages------from sanskrit Prakrit and Apabhramsa. Jules Bloch was expert in Dravidian languages, specially Tamil and had studied Indo-Aryan languages. He was therefore competant to undertake the study of Marathi... |
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M. Inhtiaq |
Language Shifts Among the Scheduled Tribes in India |
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| The present work attempts to identify spatial patterns fo the extent and nature of language shifts among the tribal population in India. It provides social, economic and political dimensions of changing linguistic identity. Based on both secondary and primary data, some of the socio-economic variables have been statistically tested through Correlation and Regression to determine the relationship with language shifts. The impact of urbanisation and regional development on the linguistic... |
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Malaya Gangopadhyay |
The Noun Phrase in Bengali |
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| The notions of Karaka and Vacya comprising a theory of co-reference in Syntactico Semantics is an established theory in Indian Grammar.In relation to the descriptive analysis of Bengali noun-phrase the complexity of Karaka-Vacya configuration has been discussed in this book. Also the notion of role and the notion of ergative have been dealt with.
Malaya Gangopadhyay holds an M.A. degree from Visva Bharati University a post-graduate degree in teaching from the University of Calcutta. She... |
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Srisa Chandra Vasu |
The Siddhanta Kaumadi of Bhattoji Diksita ( 2 Vols.) |
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| Siddhanta Kaumudi is a critical and scholarly commentary on the sutras of Panini by Bhattoji Dikshit a stalwart grammarian of the Panini system who flourished in the first half of the seventeenth century. The Sutras are arranged topic-wise and fully explained with examples and counter-examples. The work is exhaustive, yet not voluminous, difficult yet popular and critical yet lucid. The work is next in important to the Mahabhasya in the system of Panini and its study prepares the way for... |
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M.K. Verma |
Structure of the Noun Phrase in English and Hindi |
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| The development of the transformational approach to the theory of language structure in the past decade has stimulated new ways of looking at a number of linguistic questions. One such important area may be considered the comparative study of the surface structure behaviour of substantive universals. This book seeks to provide an account of the structure of the noun phrase in English and Hindi within such a framework. |
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Bh. Krishnamurti & Others |
Telugu Verbal Bases |
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| Bhadriraju Krishnamurti (1928) is Professor and Head of the department of Linguistics at Osmania University, Hyderabad. He received a B.A. (Hons.) Degree (1948) in Telugu language and literature at Andhra University Waltair and an M.A. (1955) and Ph.D. (1957) in linguistics from the university of Pennsylvania U.S.A. |
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K. A. Subramania Iyer |
The Vakyapadiya of Bhartrhari (Khand II) |
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| This book contains the text of Bhartrhari`s Vakyapadiya Kanda II the commentary of Punyaraja and as ancient Vrtti ascribed to Bhartrhari.The text of the Tika of Punyaraja has not been mixed up with the text of ancient Vrtti. For the text of Karikas followed by the Tika-kara differs widely from the text of Karikas followed by the Vrttikara. Hence the Karikas had to be repeated unavoidably.Among the other peculiarities of this Kanda mention may be made of an exhaustive foreword by Prof. Ashok... |
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R.L. Turner |
A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages (4 Vols.) |
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| Indo-Aryan is the term applied to that branch of the Indo-European languages which was brought into India by the Aryans and of which the oldest recorded form is to be found in the hymns of the Rgveda. From this there developed on the one hand a literary medium, called sanskrit which has been the vehicle down almost to the present day of a vast literature and on the other hand a great range of spoken forms which used by hundreds of millions have emerged as the chief language (excluding the... |
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V.S. Apte, Ed. |
The Concise Sanskrit-English Dictionary |
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| The Compiler in this handy work has kept out Sanskrit words which are less commonly used and has tried to avoid all technicalitieis as well as words which can easily be seen as simple derivatives of some given words. Thus he has been able to reduce the bulk of the dictionary without compromising its usefulness. |
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Mahes Raj Pant |
Jatarupa`s Commentary on the Amarakosa (2 Pts.) |
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| Jatarupa`s commentary is the oldest extant commentary on the Amarakosa. Author`s involvement with the present work began in 1976, when he discovered one of the two extant manuscripts of Jatarupa`s commentary on the Amarakosa. The actual work of editing the text did not get under way, until 1979, when the Nepal-German Manuscript Preservation Project (NGMPP) provided the author with the facilities and opportunity to engage in such work. In early stages, author did not do much beyond transcribing... |
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Diwakar Ojha |
Panchakarma Therapy in Ayurveda |
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| An in-depth treatise on the five basic therapies of Ayurveda. Recommended for those already familiar with the basics of Ayurveda who are seeking more detailed and compre-hensive knowledge of the subject. |
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A.V. Subramanian |
The Aesthetics of Wonder |
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| This little work has been done on the aesthetics of wonder; the writers on Sanskrit poetics have had little to say about this most attractive sensation. This work examines, in great depth, the excitants of the sense of wonder and the various purposes for which poets harness it and presents the concepts, for the first time in the history of Sanskrit aesthetics, embellished with ddlectable examples drawn from the whole of Sanskrit literature. The crowning achievement of the author is the... |
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Sivadatta, Eds. |
The Bharata-Manjari of Ksemendra |
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| The Bharata-Manjari of Ksemendra is a long poem based on the Mahabharata. The author has left out certain portions of the original epic and modified others. In place of about a lac of the original verses he has summed up the whole matter in 10,692 verses. The poet has rearranged the contents in certain cased. For example the episode of club-duel between Bhima and Duryodhana has been torn form the Salya Parvan of the original and described in what he calls Gada Parvan. |
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Ram Karan Sharma |
Elements of Poetry in the Mahabharata |
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| This book represents the first attempt of its kind to present a detailed, systematic analysis of the Upamana dharmas (Tertia Comparationis) of the various objects of comparison found in the Mahabharata. It also critically examines the position of the Great Epic as a fascinating specimen of Oral poetic composition abounding, as it does, in the repetitions of the poetic formulae of the various categories. A study of some of the major figures of speech also provides an authoritative material... |
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Franklin Edgerton |
The Elephant Lore of the Hindus |
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| This book is intended to serve as an introduction to the elephant-lore of Hindus. It consists primarily of a translation of the "Elephant-Sport" (Matanga-Lila) of Nilakantha, with notes, introduction, and glossary. The Matanga-Lila is without doubt the best available Sanskrit work on elephantology. It is a brief and succinct treatise in 263 stanzas, divided into twelve chapters of uneven length. Nothing is known of the Nilakantha who is mentioned as its author. According to the editor, Ganapati... |
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Barbara Stoler Miller |
The Gitagovinda of Jayadeva |
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| Jayadeva`s dramatic lyrical poem Gitagovinda is a unique work in Indian literature and a source of inspiration in both medieval and contemporary Vaisnavism. It describes Krsna`s love with the Cowherdess Radha in twelve cantos containing twenty-four songs. The songs are sung by Krsna or Radha or by Radha`s maid and are connected by brief narrative or descriptive passages. The appropriate musical mode and rhythm for each song are noted in the text. This poem is really a kind of drama, of the... |
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E. Washburn Hopkins |
The Great Epic of India |
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| Long age when this book first appeared in the opening year of the century the great Epic, Mahabharata had not been thoroughly examined to see what literature it reflected had not received a careful investigation from the metrical side its philosophy had been reviewed only in a most haphazard fashion and its relation to other epic poetry had been almost judgment on the question of the date and origin of the poem of which scholars knew as yet this poem of which scholars knew as yet scarcely more... |
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E.B. Cowell |
The Harsha Carita of Bana |
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| Bana holds an unrivalled position in the galaxy of India`s literary stars. He is a unique artist in the domain of Embellished Sanskrit prose. Bana`s Harsacarita is a historical romance which presents actual events of his sovereign--Harsavardhana of Thanesar and Kanauj who ruled over northern India in the first half of the seventh century A.D.The present work is an English translation of Harsacarita by two eminent scholars E.B. Cowell and F.W. Thomas. It is a faithful rendering of the original... |
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M.R. Kale, Ed. |
The Kiratarjuniyam of Bharavi |
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| The Kiratarjuniya is a Mahakavya and is named after its chief incident, viz. the fight between Siva under the guise of a Kirata (Mountaineer) and Arjuna. This metrical composition describes the journey of Arjuna to the mountain Indrakila, part of Himalayas, for the propitiation of the gods Indra and Siva and the final obtainment of the divine weapons Pasupata and others from the gods. |
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M.R. Kale |
The Niti and Vairagya Satakas of Bhartrhari |
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| This volume comprises two of the three famous Satakas (collection of one hundred stanzes) of the famous poet philosopher Bhartrhari. The first of them the Niti Sataka is proposed to guide people in their daily life and it lays emphasis on the moral virtues such as self-respect, perseverance, benevolence and moral courage etc. The second, Vairagya Sataka exhorts the readers to turn away from worldly pleasures and seek mental calm in the solitude of the forest. It is edited by M. R. Kale who has... |
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Hank Heifet |
Origin of the Young God |
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| The Kumarasambhava of Kalidasa probably composed about A.D. 400, is the greatest long poem in classical sanskrit. It is the love story of Siva and Parvati the God and the Goddess, who are viewed as lovers and as cosmic principles. The poem of their love is a paradigm of the inevitable union between male and female played out on the immense scale of supreme divinity. Beginning with a description of Himalaya and the birth of his daughter Parvati the poem proceeds in perfectly pitched sensuous... |
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Barbara Stoller Miller, Ed. |
The Plays of Kalidasa |
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| In this fine volume Miller and her co-translators David Gitomer and Edwin Gerow have succeeded not only in evoking for us the contexts and spirit of Kalidasa`s dramatic art but also in providing Indologists and the general public with excellent, contemporary translations of all three plays of the eminent sanskrit poet.........the editor and co-translators deserve congratulations and gratitude for their achievement in providing us with Kalidasa translations that are enjoyable as well as accurate... |
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J.R. Ballantyne, Trs. |
Sahitya Darpana of the Mirror of Commposition of Visvanatha |
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| The Sahitya Darpana or` Mirror of Composition` is a renowned Sanskrit work on poetics by Visvanatha of early fourteenth century. It is divided into ten sections. The first section deals with the nature and definition of poetry. The second treats of various powers of a word. The third treats of sentiments. The fourth treats of the divisions of poetry. The present work is an english translation of the sanskrit original first published in 1875 by J.r. Ballantyne who commenced the translation but... |
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C.M. Mayrhofer |
The Samdesarasaka of Abdul Rahman |
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| This is message poem (dutakavya) in the tradition set by Kalidsa`s famous Sanskrit poem Meghaduta, composed in Apabhramsa by a Muslim poet of the thirteenth century. the Nayaika here is a beautiful young woman of Vijayanagara whose beloved husband left her on business and has not returned, and the messenger is a teraveller on his way from Multan to Cambay, a place where coincidentally her lover has gone.
All we qbout the author is what he tell us in the poem: he was called Abdul Rahman, son... |
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A.B. Keith |
The Sanskrit Drama |
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G.W. Houston, Tr. |
Wings of the White Crane |
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| Wings of the White Crane is unquestionably the most unusual and sensational of all the books by or about Tibetan Buddhists yet to appear in English. Westerners previously baffled by the Tibetan mind will have no difficulty in finding sympathy with the sixth Dalai Lama, a spiritual "pope" to the Tibetan Buddhists of his time, who poured o0ut his very human heart into these simple, eloquent, often erotic songs of lovers lost and found, and of his inner conflicts as a monk. Most older Tibetans... |
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Robert E. Goodwin |
The Playworld of Sanskrit Drama |
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| The `Playworld of Sanskrit Drama` is the `poetic universe` (kavyasam) posited by Anandavardhana and other poeticians. Each of the seven plays studied here - works of Bhasa, Kalidasa, Sudraka, and Visakhadatta- provides us with a different angle of approach to the crucial issues of kavya, and their fundamental ambivalence, which cannot be understood or even delineated by the conventional approach to Indian aesthetics.
About the Author :Robert E. (Steve) Goodwin first studied Sanskrit as an... |
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Allyn Miner, Ed. & Tr. |
The Sangitopanisat Saroddharah of Vacanacarya Sri Sudhakalasa |
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| The Sangitopanisat-saroddhara is an important medieval text written in 1350. It is attributed to a Jaina scholar-Vacanarcarya Sri Sudakalasa and represents a distinctive western Indian and Jaina stream of musicology. Composed about one hundred years subsequent to the great compendium the Sangita-ratnakara there is significant difference in its approach and treatment of the subject.
Allyn Miner combines in herself the disciplines of sanskrit and musciology. Besides she is a distinguished... |
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William J. Jackson |
Tyagaraja and the Renewal of Tradition |
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| Tyagaraja 1767-1947 is the most celebrated of South Indian musician saints. This book explores some of the growth processes, the transmission patterns and the cultural creativity involved in South Indian bhakti traditions, using examples of Tyagaraja`s life story, songs and social signigicance as case studies.
William J. Jackson was born in 1943 in Rock Island, Illinois USA.He received his B.A. from Lyndon (Vermont) Statte College in 1975 and his M.T.S. 1975 his M.A. 1979 and Ph.D. 1984 from... |
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R. Sewell |
The Indian Calendar |
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| The present work consists of an analytical study and critique of certain aspects of Buddhist tradition as they bear upon some central problems of logic and ontology. The author examines the logical, epistemological and ontological doctrines of Dignaga, Dharmakirti and Ratnakirti on the one hand and of W.V. Quine on the other. She agrees with Quine that a sharp line of demarcation between analytic and synthetic statements is untenable and she argues that a position similar to Quine's obtains in... |
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B.S.I. |
Records of the Botanical Survey of India - 2 Volumes |
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James Glover |
Vedic Mathematics for Schools (Book I) |
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| Vedic Mathematics for School offers a fresh and easy approach to learning mathematics. The system was reconstructed from ancient Vedic sources by the late Bharati Krsna Tirthaji earlier this century and is based on a small collection of sutras. Each sutra briefly encapsulates a rule of mental working, a principle or guiding maxim. Through simple practice of these methods all may become adept and efficient at mathematics. Book I of the series is intended for primary schools in which many of the... |
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James Glover |
Vedic Mathematics for Schools (Book II) |
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| Vedic Mathematics for Schools, Book 2 is intended as a first year textbook for senior schools or for children aiming for examination at 11+. It is based on the fundamental principles of Vedic mathematics which were reconstructed earlier this century by Sri Sankaracarya Bharati Krsna Tirthaji. Although the sutras may well be very ancient, practice and experience have shown that they are highly relevant and useful to the modern-day teaching of mathematics. They are entirely applicable to modern... |
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Light Miller |
Ayurveda and Aromatheraphy |
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| This book is a collection of twenty-five years of healing experience using aromatherapy and Ayurveda. It includes a self-dianosis questionnaire to determine your metabolic type, descriptions of essential oils, and recipes for the use of essnetial oils for common problems. It contains detailed information on over 100 essential oils, as well as over 100 illustrations and photographs.
DRS. BRYAN and LIGHT MILLER travel extensively, teaching aromatherapy, Ayurveda, natural menopause, herbology,... |
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Shalila Sharamans |
The Chakra Hand-book |
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| "This book, the chakra handbook, is worth recommendation for study by every
yoga student and a necessity for every yoga school library."
--Pathway to God
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Arvind Sharma |
A Jaina Perspective on the Philosophy of Religion |
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| The philosophical significance of Jainism extends far beyond its statistical presence in India and the world, for it lies in the unique quality of its thought. This book is an attempt to take its insights into account for the light they shed on issues customarily debated in the Philosophy of Religion as it has evolved in the West.
ARVIND SHARMA, formerly of the Indian Administrative Service, is presently Birks Professor of Comparative Religion in the Faculty of Religious Studies at McGill... |
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Hermann Oldenberg |
Prolegomena on Metre and Textual History of the Rig Veda |
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| Oldenberg made a distinction between the original text of the Rgveda the form in which the rsis composed and recited their hymns and the `traditional text` which in a fixed form, has been handed down to us by the oral tradition. Oldenberg made a thorough critical study of all aspects of the traditional text in order to present to the world of scholars the original text in the form and arrangement discovered by him. The materials that are now being published in this volume were intended by... |
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Andre Van Lysebeth |
Tantra: (The Cult of the Feminine) |
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| Tantra: The Cult of the Feminine reveals a practical and balanced, modern view of the secret teachings of Tantric yoga. Van Lysebeth discloses the sexual techniques of Tantra that can be used by Western couples to enhance relationships and help open the door to a new kind of enlightenment. He also reveals the wisdom of tantra--the essential belief that our universe is a creation of the physical and spiritual union of the Mala and Female principles, manifested in the human plane as Love. He... |
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G.H.Johnston |
Buddhacarita or Acts of the Buddha by Asvaghosa (3 Pts. in One) |
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| The Buddhacarita is the most famous work of Asvaghosa, the well-known Buddhist poet-philosopher supposed to have been a contemporary of King Kaniska of the early 2nd century a.c. Of the twenty-eight cantos of the epic poem a little less than half is now available in the original, but complete translations in Chinese and Tibetan have been preserved.This edition consists of three parts. The first part contains the Sanskrit text and the second the translation of the first fourteen cantos, filling... |
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Eva M. Dargyay |
The Rise of Esoteric Buddhism in Tibet |
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| In most Asian countries esoteric buddhism (Tantrayana) declined in the past, while the Tibetans alone preserved the full richness of tantric traditions to our times. Thus this study is based on several Tibetan sources never presented in any modern language----some of them were translated, some were given as a summary.
The author Dr. (Mrs.) Eva Dargyay is Reader in Tibetology at the University of Munich (West Germany). Being a German studies she is married to a Tibetan Geshay. |
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Heinrich Zimmer |
The King and the Corpse |
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| Drawing from Eastern and Western literature, Heinrich Zimmer presents a selection of stories linked together by their common concern for the problem of our eternal conflict with the forces of evil. Beginning with a tale from the Arabian Nights, this theme unfolds in legends from Irish paganism, medieval Christianity, the Arthurian cycle, and early Hinduism. In the retelling of these tales, Zimmer discloses the meanings within their seemingly unrelated symbols and suggests the philosophical... |
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M.R. Kale |
The Vikramorvasiyam of Kalidasa (kale) |
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Vasant Lad |
Ayurveda (The Science of Self Healing) |
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| For the first time a book is available which clearly explains the principles and practical applications of Ayurveda, the oldest healing system in the world. The beautifully illustrated text thoroughly explains the following: History & Philosophy--Basic Principles Diagnostic Techniques--Treatment Diet--Medicinal Usage of Kitchen Herbs & Spices First Aid--Food Antidotes--And Much More. More than 50 concise charts, diagrams and tables are included, as well as a glossary and index in order to... |
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John Brough (Ed.) |
The Gandhari Dharmapada |
$49.72 $34.81 |
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| The famous brich-bark manuscript in the Kharosthi script, which contains a recension of the Dharmapada in a Prakrit dialect, has long been familiar to students of early Buddhist literature under the name of `Ms. Dutreuil de Rhins`. The manuscript, written in the first or second century A.D., is generally considered to be the oldest surviving manuscript of an Indian text. It was discovered near Khotan in Central Asia in 1892, and reached Europe in two parts, one of which went to Russia and the... |
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Gabriele Blackburn |
The Light of Krishnamurti |
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Vasudev Lakshman Panishkar |
The Smrtikaustubha of Anantadeva |
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Larry M. McDaniel |
The Art and Science of Psychic Healing |
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| This volume will illustrate in detail just how psychic power may be utilized for greater personal relationships and sexual harmony. Since so many divorces and relationship problems are due to sexual incompatibility, blockages, abnormalities, etc., it is imperative that some method be made available to discern these types or problems beforehand. If people could somehow "sense" or "know" in advance of possible relationship problems, much heartache and discord could be avoided. Many people are... |
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Daniel Santos |
Feng Shui For the Body |
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| This breakthrough book applies the principles of Feng Shui, the ancient Chinese art of energy flow, to the most intimate house we inhabit--the human body. Daniel Santos shows us how to use the "Four Motions"--body movement, breath, eye movement, and sound--to maximize the flow of healthful life energy. Postures, simple exercises, and innovative meditations, as well as a fascinating story of personal discovery, offer fresh insights into body-mind healing.About the... |
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Satya P. Agarwal |
The Gita and Tulasi-Ramayana |
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| This book has identified "the good of all" as the single most important criterion of excellence of any socio-spiritual approach to life`s problems--particularly in the context of the conflict-ridden society of today. The comprehensive coverage of this criterion, as presented in this study, has strong links with (like Ganga, Yamuna and Saraswati) three life-sustaining streams of thought. The first stream refers to the lokasamgraha-message of the Gita which has been formulated in that scripture... |
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K. Dhondup |
Songs of the Sixth Dalai Lama |
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| Born in a renowned Nyingma family and brought up at a late age in the Gelugpa tradition, Tsangyang Gyatso proved to be an uncomfortable blend of the two traditions. But leaving aside the unfortunate politics that surrounded his desolate life, Tsangyang Gyatso brought to holy Lhasa and Shol taverns some of the purest and most beautiful lyrics of all times.Extraordinary as a lover of wine and women, melodious as a singer of love songs and above all, tragic as a national hero of the status of a... |
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Coroline Latham |
The Heart of Healing: Body, Mind and Spirit |
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| It is full of practical help and inspiration to stay on the course. It is quite in the mind healing which may involve touching, or may not. Is there anyone who would not like to be able to heal themselves, their children or loved ones? Don't wait until you are perfect, or think you know enough. Everything you need to be a healer is already right there inside you, there are no secrets or mysteries to uncover. All you need is an open heart that allows the healing energies to flow through you. |
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Asko Parpola |
Deciphering the Indus Script |
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| Of the writing systems of the ancient world which still await deciphering, the Indus Script is the most important. It developed in the Indus or Harappan Civilization, which flourished c. 2500 -1900 bc. in and around modern Pakistan. Prof. Parpola outlines what is known about the Harappan culture and its script, presents a decipherment of a small number of interlocking Indus signs, and proposes a method which will permit further progress in decipherment. His fascinating study confirms that the... |
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Joel Tatelman |
The Glorious Deeds of Purna |
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| The avadana literature is the largess corpus of Sanskrit Buddhist texts available to us. By providing an annotated translation of, and applying the methods of literary criticism to, a first-century account of the life of the saint Purna, the present study introduces the reader to the richness and complexity of a genre which has played an essential role in Buddhist self-understanding for over two thousand years. Buddhist tradition identifies the monk Purna of Surparaka as the great evangelist... |
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Gay Watson |
The Resonance of Emptiness |
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| This book presents an exploration of Buddhist philosophy and practice as a potential resource for an approach to psycho-therapy which is responsive to the needs of its time and context, and attempts to open up a three-way dialogue between Buddhism, psychotherapy and contemporary discourse to reveal a meaningful theory and practive for a contemporary psychotherapy. This book raises the question of what it is in Buddhism itself that provides such a rich resource for psychotherapy. Gay Watson... |
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G.H. Tarlekar |
The Puspasutra (2 Vols.) |
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| The Puspasutra is one of the major ancillary works in the Saman technical literature attributed to the Kauthuma and Ranayaniya schools. It deals with the Saman melodies and their structure. The term Puspa, in the present context, means the syllabic expansion that takes place when a melody is formed out of a verse. The Puspasutra was written long after the Saman melodies had been developed. The present edition prepared by Prof. G.H. Tarlekar who is a living authority on the science of... |
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Somraj Gupta |
Word Speaks to the Faustian Man (Vol. 4) |
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| The Chandogya Upanisad: The culture it reflects is remote and archaic, the texture of its ritualistic and contemplative symbolism thick and dense--virtually a closed book for us moderns. A sustained self-submitting attentiveness, however, discloses its language as resonating disturbingly modern notes, focusing our attention on many of our pathologies as well as our possibilities, pathologies and possibilities that have escaped the notice of us moderns. The spirit of quiet hermeneutics that... |
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H.W. Schumann |
The Historical Buddha (Hard Cover) |
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| No man has had a greater inflience on the spiritual development of his people than Siddartha Gautama. Born in India in the sixth century BC into a nation hungry for spiritual experience, he developed a religious and moral teaching that, to this day, brings comfort and peace to all who practise it. This comprehensive biography examines the social, religious and political conditions that gave rise to Buddhism as we now know it.
About the Author :H.W.Schumann studied Indology, comparative... |
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Luis O. Gomez |
The Land of Bliss |
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| This is a free translation of two Buddhist texts on what is arguably the most popular of all Buddhist conceptions of an ideal world, the "Land of Bliss" of the Buddha Amitabha, the Buddha of Infinite Light. The two texts, known to Western students of Buddhism as the "Smaller" and "Larger" Sukhavatiyuha Sutra, explain the conditions that lead to rebirth in the Pure Land and the manner in which human beings are reborn there. The longer of the two texts also tells the story of how the Buddha of... |
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N. Heirn |
Rules for Nun According to the Dharamguptakavinaya (3 Vols) |
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| The present work provides the first complete annotated translation into English of the Chinese version of the bhiksunivibhanga of the Dharmaguptakavinaya. This vinaya laid the foundation of Chinese monastic life. As the Dharmaguptakavinaya came into being in symbiosis with other vinaya traditions, a comparison is made with these other traditions on important issues.The work is supplemented with indexes, glossaries and a concordance of the rules for nuns and monks of the Dharmaguptaka... |
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Juliane Schober |
Sacred Biography in the Buddhist Traditions of South and southeast Asia |
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| This interdisciplinary collection of essays explores the biographical genre of the Buddhist traditions of South and Southeast Asia. Scholars in the history of religions, anthropology, literature and art history present a broad range of explorations into sacred biography as an interpretive genre. Easch essay makes unique contributions and the collection as a whole engages methodological and interpretive approaches that are central to scholars of Buddhism and those specializing in the study of... |
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Ramesh S. Balsekar |
The Infamous Ego |
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| Ramesh S. Balsekar is one of the most profound spiritual Masters of this Age. He is both a brilliant writer and a captivating speaker. Shortly, after retiring as the President of the Bank of India, he met the sage Nisargadatta Maharaj and began translating for Maharaj’s daily morning talks. It was not long before Ramesh too experienced the Ultimate Understanding. He is therefore a wonderful blend of East and West, spiritual and material. His compassion and gently humor infuse the... |
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Ramesh S. Balsekar |
Meaningful Trivialities From the Source |
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| Ramesh S. Balsekar is one of the most profound spiritual Masters of this Age. He is both a brilliant writer and a captivating speaker.
Shortly, after retiring as the President of the Bank of India, he met the sage Nisargadatta Maharaj and began translating for Maharaj’s daily morning talks. It was not long before Ramesh too experienced the Ultimate Understanding. He is therefore a wonderful blend of East and West, spiritual and material. His compassion and gently humor infuse the Teaching... |
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Pratapaditya Pal |
Ganesh the Benevolent |
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| A familiar will loved figure in the art and religion of Asia, the elephant-headed Ganesh is universally revered as the god of auspicious beginings. Despite his populartity the jolly, potbellied deity has received far less attention in literature than he deserves.The present authoritatively researched volume attempts to collate existing reference material on the subject as also offer valuable original insights into various aspects of Ganesh.
Pratapaditya Pal the editor of this volume is also... |
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Parul Dave Mukherji |
Citrasutra of the Visnudharmottara Purana |
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James T. Glover |
Vedic Mathematics for Schools (Book III) |
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| In this book the Vedic techniques are applied to ordinary school mathematics for eleven and twelve years-old. the arithmatic introduced in books I and II is extended. The book also deals with the initial stages of solving equations, coordinate geometry, approximations, indices, parallels, triangles, ratio and proportion as well as other topics. Once a basic grounding has been established with the Vedic methods the next stage is the beginning of discrimination. A problem is set and, armed with... |
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Kenneth Matheny |
Prescription for Stress |
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| The book is based upon decades of innovative research with individuals facing distressing situations ranging from the hassling experiences of daily living to life-threatening events. Through it, learn how stress causes or worsens physical or mental illness, lowers defense against infectious disease and cancer, intensifies age-related memory loss, steals energy, and promotes depression besides recognize dimensions of your personality that may predispose you to unnecessary stress.
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Swami Chidananda |
The Philosophy, Psychology and Practice of Yoga |
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| This companion volume on Ashtanga Yoga (Raja Yoga) by Swami Chidanandaji contains the edited version of a series of lectures given by Sri Swamiji to the Third Batch of trainees who underwent the Three Months Course run by the Yoga-Vedanta Forest Academy of the Divine Life Society. In the hands of Swami Chidanandaji, the Yoga Darshana comes to new life as a vibrant, living guide to spiritual practice.
And Swamiji has delved deep into all the most essential aspects of yoga Sadhana, and in doing... |
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George Feuerstein |
The Yoga Tradition |
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| The Yoga Tradition-- Its History, Literature, Philosophy and Practice is an authoritative treatment of the subject. The author has dedicated his life for the understanding and practice of Yoga and successfully established that Yoga is a systematic science; its teachings are an integral part of most religions, but Yoga itself is not a religion. Most religions teach what to do, but Yoga teaches how to be. Yet Yoga practices described in symbolic language, may be found in the sacred scriptures of... |
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I. B. Horner |
Collection of the Middle Length Sayings (3 vols) |
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| Out of the collection of Discourses in the Suttapitaka the Majjhima Nikaya-- The Collection of Middle Length Sayings presents the work of 152 discourses in three volumes,vol 1 The first fifty discourses, vol 2 The Middle fifty discourses, vol 3 The Final Fifty Discourses.The Suttas of Majjhima Nikaya discuss almost all points of religion of the Buddha on the four noble truths on Karma on the futility of desires on reprehensibility of the belief in soul on Nirvana on the various kinds of... |
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Mukunda Stiles |
Structural Yoga Therapy: Adapting to the Individual |
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| Structural Yoga Therapy has been written for teachers and serious practitioners who want to use yoga to bring complete balance to the body. Mukunda Stiles begins by providing a comprehensive overview of the spiritual philosophy of yoga, and its many branches. He discusses everything that a beginning student needs to consider when choosing a practice, including how to find a yoga teacher. He also shares his solid understanding of anatomy and kinesiology (how specific muscles and bones react... |
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Arthur Osborne |
Be Still, It is The Wind That Sings |
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| This anthology of articles and poems form a powerful testament of the clarity and dedication he brought to bear upon his chosen task as a devotee of Sri Ramana Maharshi. Whether elucidating the subtleties of Bhagavan's life and teachings, bridging the apparent diversity of religious practice and belief, or simply surrendering to the exquisite inspirations of his Muse, Arthur Osborne's energetic writings from the last decade of his life continue to strike an inner chord at the turn of the... |
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R. Venu Gopalan |
Soul Searchers: The Hidden Mysteries of Kundalini |
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Venkatamakhin |
The Caturdandiprakasika of Venkatamakhin (2 Vols.) |
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| CATURDANDIPRAKASIKA of Venkatamakhin is a fundamental treatise of Karnataka music and marks the rearguard in the renaissance of Indian music. It has launched a crucial, conceptual revolution which has metamorphosed this musical system into an enduring and attractive PADDHATI. It has been profoundly influencng every musician, musicologist and composer of South India ever since it was written. This influence will remain undimmed in the foreseeable future.
PROF. R. SATHYANARAYANA is an... |
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G.V. Tagare |
The Pratyabhijna Philosophy |
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| This book presents the historical account of its teachers. To make the reading easy and intelligible its technical terms are explained. The book also explains how PRATYABHIJNA system was formulated and developed by the great teachers. It contain also essence of Ksemaraja`s book Pratyabhijna-hrdaya which explains both the philiosophy and ways of Siva realisation and even a layman can understand what Pratyabhijna is.The book also presents a brief survey of the argument and explains the relevance... |
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Raffaele Torella |
The Isvarapratyabhijnakarika of Utpaladeva |
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| The Isvarapratyabhijnakarika IPK of Utpaladeva is the foundation stone of the Pratyabhijna school and constitutes the main theoretical framework of the Trika. It is the most important philosophical work of non-dual tantric Shaivism as a whole. Utpaladeva devoted two commentaries to his IPK a vrtti and a tika . According to Abhinavagupta the IPK and the vrtti thereon were composed by Utpaladeva at the same time. This makes the vrtti and indispenable tool to grasp the original meaning of the... |
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Tenzzin Namdak (Edi. by) |
Mandalas of the Bon Religion |
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A.L.Basham |
History and Doctrines Of The Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion |
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| The book presents the history and the doctrines of the Ajivikas who formed a third heretical sect besides the sect of Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism and that of Mahavira Vardhamana, the twenty fourth Tirthankara of the Jainas. The three heterodox sects react against the ritualistic creed of the Verdicts. The cult of Ajivikas was founded by Makkhali Gosal, the contemporary of Mahavira Vardhamana, on the basis of strict determinism with a belief in the all-embracing rule of Niyati... |
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Kapila Vatsayan Ed. |
The Bhaktirasamrtasindhu Of Rupa Gosvamin (2 Pts. in one) |
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| Select Contents: Translation of the Bhaktirasamrtasindhu-Eastern Quadrant: The Categories of Devotion to the Lord-Southern Quadrant: Explanation of the General Characteristics of Devotional Rasa-Western Quadrant: Explanation of the Primary Devotional Rasas-Northern Quadrant: Explanation of the Secondary Devotional Rasas.
Dr. Haberman is currently on the faculty of college of Arts and Science department of religious studies Indiana University. His translation of the Bhaktirasamrtasindhu not... |
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Cyndi Dala |
The Magical Power Of Chakra Healing |
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| Magical Power of Chakra Healing explains how to access all the powerful forces of your full energy body. It is the first book to explain how to work with the energy of the back sides of the chakras, as well as 20 other spiritual energy points. This innovative book reveals the unique blend of psychological and spiritual healing techniques.The book further describes step-by-step methods for removing internal energy blocks. Through it you can overcome resistance to finding and expressing your... |
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Jiawen Miao |
The Chinese Way To Keep Fit Traditional Chinese Movements for Health & Rejuvenation |
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| This is a book of gentle, effective exercises designed to improve circulation, correct poor posture, and build muscle tone. The movements are based on traditional martial arts practices that not only offer physical benefits but also strengthen the mind-body connection.A series of photographs illustrates eachj set of exercises, which consist of dynamic sitting and standing poses that require slow transitional movements from one posture to another.
Jiawen Mioa has practiced Kung Fu, Qiqong and... |
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Khalil Gibran |
The Prophet |
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Ramesh S. Balsekar |
The Ultimate Understanding |
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| 'The Ultimate Understanding', is, according to Ramesh himself, "a book containing the full essentials of the philosophy of Advaita, or Non-duality (Unicity). It is perhaps the most explicitly expressed and exquisitely presented book on this complex subject. What is the ultimate understanding? That there is no one to understand anything." Recognized as one of the foremost contemporary sages, married and father of three, and a banker who retired from the top of his profession, Ramesh... |
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N.B.Patil |
The Variegated Plumage |
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| The Variegated Plumage Encounters with Indian Philosophy a commemorative volume dedicated to the memory of Pandit Jankinath Kaul "Kamal` is a collection of diverse scholarly articles and research papers contributed by the veterans who are specialists in their respective fields.The present volume adequately covers different aspects of Indian Philosophy and culture. The extensive section will provide impetus to further research in the subject. The second section is a collection of papers dealing... |
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H.W.Bodewitz |
The Daily Evening And Morning Offering(Agnihotra) According to The Brahmanas |
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| " An important work for Vedic studies.....Prof. Bodewitz has placed plenty of primary sources on a platter for the researcher....a spiritual legacy which we must not ignore. ----------Prabuddha Bharata Vol. 110, September 2005 |
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Trans. From Persian by Alexander Dow |
The History of Hindustan (3 Vols.) |
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| The book is meticulously edited by Dahiya whorendered the original Anglo-Nordic script in modern english without disturbing the original diction and structure and has relied upon the works of Charles Jonston`s the system of Vedanra and on Lawrence Dawson in The Nuttall Encyclopaedia for transliteration and standerdization of spelling of proper names. This book is a must for all Research Centers, Institutes, Universities and Libraries and gives a contemporary account of the Muslim period in... |
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Phyllis Krystal |
Cutting The Ties That Bind |
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Nagamani Purnaiya |
The Divine Leelas of Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba |
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Phyllis Krystal |
Cutting the Ties That Bind (Workbook) |
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| This easy-to -use guidebook provides exercise and visualization techniques that can be used to learn how to "cut the ties that bind" us to old ituations, old behavour patterns, old habits. when we learn to connect with the "High C" or the Real Self, we are able to let go of the past and allow ourselves a new and brighter future. Letting go of old habits can be fun! This workbook has been used by therapists, groups, and people who are working with the techniques outlined bby... |
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Evangelos Grammenos |
Krishnamurti and The Fouth Way |
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Phyllis Krystal |
Cutting The Ties of Karma |
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John Powers |
Hermeneutics and Tradition in the Samdhinirmocana-sutra |
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| Hermeneutics & tradition in the Samdhinirmocana-sutra deals with the complex interrelatioship between theories of scriptural interpretation and buddhist notions of tradition and authority with respect to the Samdhinirmocana-sutra, the main scriptural source of the yogacara school of Indian Buddhism.This study looks at the text from a number of perspectives including several current methodological models, philological analyses, and historical consideration. The purpose of this approach is to... |
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Luis S. R. Vas |
The Healing Breath |
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| Life force is contained in the breath that we breathe. Altered states of awareness and profound healing are possible with just using the breath. Scientists have found that just 15 minutes of deep breathing can give us all the energy we need for the day. The Healing Breath described the numerous benefits that simple breathing techniques can bring us, e.g., proper breathing, pranahyama, colour breathing, etc.
About the Author:
Luis S.R.Vas has had a decades-long career in free... |
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E.H. Whinfield (Tr.) |
The Mathnawi |
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| This great work by Rumi who has been called the greatest mystical poet of any Age, was forty-three years in the writing. During the past seven hundred years, this book called by Iranians the koran in Persian, a tribute paid to no other book has occupied a central place in Sufism. Rumi`s name is associated with the founding of the order known in Europe as the Whirling Dervishes, and in the east as the path of the master. |
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Eknath Easwaran |
The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living (In 3 Volumes) |
$59.95 $41.97 |
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| India's timeless and most practical scripture, set on a battlefield in mythic war between good and evil, has a practical appeal for modern times. It is a practical manual for everyone who aims at goodness in the world of conflict and change.
Ten years in the making, The Bhagavad Gita For Daily Living distills insight and understanding that have made Eknath Easwaran one of the best loved teachers in the world. This verse-by-verse translation and commentary illustrates Gita’s lofty insight with... |
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Steven Rosen |
The Reincarnation controversy |
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| This book is a thorough discourse on the science of reincarnation, and a most valuable book for any person who desires to know who they are why things happen to them and what they can do to ensurel a better life in the present and the future.As the embodied soul continually passes, in this body form childhood, to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. |
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Natubhai Shah |
Jainism The World of Conquerors (2 Vols.) |
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| In an integrated and comprehensive framework, Jainism: The World of Conquerors-II deals in depth with different dimensions of one of the most ancient surviving religions of the world. The book opens up a world of inner and outer space not to be overwhelmed by greed, malice, domination, violence and struggle but waiting to be conquered by peaceful revolution through principled living and respect for ideals of compassion, non-violence and equanimity.
Dr. Nathubhai Shah a medical graduate has a... |
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Pancham Sinh |
The Forceful Yoga: Being the Translation of Hathayoga-Pradipika, Gheranda-Samhita and Siva-Samhita |
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| This book, which is the collection of the three principal sources on the Hathayoga, namely the Hathayoga Pradipika, the Gheranda Samhita and the Siva Samhita, written in the medieval period, is rather the reproduction of the three Sanskrit texts and their revised English translations, originally published by Panini office, Allahabad (1914-15). The Hathayoga or 'Forceful Yoga', which was particularly popularized by Gorakhanatha, a noted thirteenth century yogi, still has many followers in... |
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A. K. Warder |
Indian Kavya Literature (Vol. VII in 2 pts.) The wheel of time |
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| This volume on the twelfth and thirteenth centuries starts with Vidyakara`s retrospect over anonymous poets (named ones having mostly found their places in earlier volumes). After some smaller anthologies a few novels and Mankhaka`s mythological epic we come to a historical epic. History is the most substantial source of matter for literature in the volume.That might seem to contrast with Vol. Vi, but as literature its aim is always are, not facts which narrows the gap.
Harihara survive... |
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Gabriele Feyerer |
Padma: The Jewel of Tibetan Medicine |
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| These and similar questions are frequently asked. The book answers these in a manner that is easily understood. Gabriele Feyerer reveals the principles of Tibetan medicine as well as how its natural herbal remedies work. At the center of these considerations are two substance mixtures, which are being produced for this first time under the name of Padma. However other Tibetan formulas also follow the principle of variety in their ingredients. Plant remedies with many substances represent as... |
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Danielle Feller |
The Sanskrit Epics Representation of Vedic Myths |
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Chang-Qing Shih |
The Two Truths in Chinese Buddhism |
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| This book originates from a thesis work whereby it is one of the first comprehensive study of Chi-Tsang`s treatment of The Two Truths in English. The work aims to build up a strong interest in readers, particularly, people in Western socities who are unfamiliar with Chinese tradition, culture and language. The topic is not only important in the theoritical approach but also critical to a practitioner to comprehend Chinese Buddhism for its ability to be a good reference work.
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Pradeep Kumar |
Vedic Mathematics |
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| Vedic Mathematics is a magical method of fast calculations. This wonderful tool has been developed on the basis of ancient Indian principles. This unique method of calculation is a book for students. It helps them to increase their speed of working with figures, independently of electronic computing machines. This book will give you the cutting edge in crucial competitive examinations, and help you steer your career towards the pinnacle of success. |
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Bridget Allchin |
The Rise of Civilization in India and Pakistan |
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| In the Rise of Civilization in India and Pakistan the authors have completely revised and rewriten their earlier work The Birth of India Civilization to present as integrated and dynamic account of human culture in South Asia.The authors have made every attempt to incorporate the results of the most recent research and their book is illustrated throughout with photographs maps and line diagrams. |
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P. Lakshmi Narasu |
The Essence of Buddhism |
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Norman Shine |
Divinity of Numbers the Salence of numerology |
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W. Douglas P. Hill |
The Bhagavad Gita |
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Nitin Trasi |
The Science of Enlightenment |
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| This book answers these and kindred questions convincingly in a way that should appeal to a scientist a spiritualist and a lay person alike. Uncommonly combining in him the rationality of a medical scientist and the profundity phenomena of enlightenment and Liberation do have an eminently satisfactory scientific explantion an explanation which he also reconciles with conventional spiritual teachings.About the Author:-Dr. Nitin Trasi is a practising gynaecologist with a post graduate degree in... |
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Ashok Sarma |
Folk Culture of the Misings of Assam |
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| -The book is an in depth study of the socio cultural life of the mising tribe of Assam the second largest among the plain tribes of Assam. Studying their oral narratives it deals with the factors that influence the material culture of the tribe and delve broadly into their folk art craft, architaecture, costumes and ornaments and food. The work will interest students and scholars of Indian anthropology sociology and specifically of folk cultures and traditions. General readers will also find... |
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Malcolm Tillis |
New Lives 50 Westerners Search For Themselves in Sacred India |
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| In the pages of this book we are taken on a profound pilgrimage of spiritual discovery. With our guide Malcolm Tillis we wander the length and breadth of India in search of other Westerners who like him have forsaken their old lives in the west for totally new dramatically more meaningful ones in the East. By seeing Indian spirituality through the eyes of outsiders who were not born into the ancient culture but found tremendous personal meaning therein we discover it new and fresh with each... |
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Melvyn C. Goldstein |
The New Tibetan English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan |
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Mary Latimer |
The Essence of Living |
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| :-Mary studied Iridology with the British School of Iridology in London and Cambridge where she became a member of their register. She was also a member of the International Association of colour therapy both of which she practised for several years before retiring to further her interest in spiritual matters; especially in her own spiritual growth.She has a keen interest in eastern philosophy and has travelled to the east on many occasions with much having been learned, although believes that... |
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Paramahamsa Prajnanananda |
The Universe Within |
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| The main aim of this book is to stress the pracatical benefits one may derive from developing one`s chakras through spiritual endeavors and explain how one may gain wealth fame emotiinal fulfillment creative inspiration and finally spiritual realization by understanding and energizing the chakras.Each chakra is a storehouse of immense potential which can fulfill our deepest desires or plunge us into the deepest despair. Once we learn the art of controlling these chakras through the process of... |
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Anthony Emmett |
Love is the Way |
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Howard Murphet |
The Way to Love Divine |
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Sudha Aditya |
The Inner Journery |
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| -Written under the Divine inspiration and guidance of Sadguru Sri Sathya Sai Baba this book traces the journey of young man`s quest for peace and happiness. A chance encounter with an enlightened Swamiji sets sukesh thinking and questioning the truth of Life. Thus begins his Innder journey and the search unto himself for life`s true meaning and purpose. Seamiji`s wisdom and spiritual instruction unfold whole new vistas and visions. Ultimately Sukesh finds what he and perhaps what each one of us... |
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Dinah Van Swal Jarves |
The Soul Purpose |
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| -Trauma is passed on from generation to generation. Perhaps the deepest wound experienced by victims of trauma is disconnection from the benevolence and protection of the higher consciousness. This book traces the journey of a child of survivors of the Holocaust towards wellness. It carries a message of hope for all struggling with the after effects of trauma be it war related a result of an accident serious illness or abuse. It is possible to rise above the limitations of victimhood. |
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Sandra Heber Pecy |
Sai Kriya and the Enlightened Masters |
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Jennifer Gaze |
The Ultimate High |
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| -These remarkable stories tell of sixteen people who struggled with various addictions and triumphes. They are moving and inspiring tales of transformation. Whether the substance was heroin or alcohol or food the results were devastating in their lives. When they reached a point where they called out in anguish to a `Higher Power` a turning point came even though they were not religious. All are from the west where alienation from God, stress and loneliness are commonplace.There are many paths... |
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Paramahamsa Prajnananda |
The Body`s Dance the Soul`s Play |
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| -We see the puppets dance but often forget that the string puller orchestrates the movements. It is the body`s dance we see but the soul is at play within. Casual observers often ignore this truth and consider the body as the ultimate manifestation of reality. Such gross misunderstanding is the cause of all suffering. A spiritual seeker through the step by step teaching and gradual unveiling from a divine guide realizes that and individual is not the body but the soul free from all boundaries... |
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Arthur Osborne |
The Mind of Ramana Maharshi |
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| -Sri Ramana Maharshi was born in 1879. In his seventeenth year he attained enlightenment through a remarkable experience as if undergoing death of the physical body while remaining in full consciousness. Following this transformation he left his home and was drawn irresistibly to the sacred hill of Arunachala. He never left it. In the ashram which was formed around him he taught the purest form of Advaita Vedanta through the supremely simple discipline of self-enquiry. |
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Retold by Vernon Thomas |
The Story of Lord Mahavira |
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Ch. Willemen |
The Chinese Hevajratantra |
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| The Hevajrantra, the well-known Anuttarayogatantra, about `unsurpassed yoga`, is a direct successor of the Tattvasamgraha, a yogatantra. It was translated from Sanskrit into Chinese in the 11th century. The Chinese translators offer a text which remains true to its contents, but which is at the same time acceptable to the Chinese milieu of the 11th century. This diplomatic effort explains many discrepancies, which were no problem to the initiate.
Charles Willemen, M.A. in Classics (Latin and... |
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W. Y. Evans Wentz |
The Tibetan Book of the Dead |
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| The Tibetan Book of Dead,has taken it to be a very free translation of Bardo Thodol (Liberation by Hearing on the after Death Plane) is among the sacred book of the world. The book is pre-eminent insight into interpretations of higher `lamaic` teachings and of the subtle esortericism underlying the Bardo Thodol. In this Oriental ideas have been put forward in a form which is intelligible to the European mind. The Occidental parallels of various mystic or occult doctrines current in Orient are... |
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W. Y. Evans Wentz |
The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation |
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| The paramount teachings of the most illustrious teachers of Tibet and India who have transmitted their teachings to the peoples of Occident are the base of this book. In the general introduction and the textual annotations there have been incorporated commentary complementary teachings which were orally transmitted through a long line of Gurus of the Kargyutpa school to author`s own Tibetan Guru the late Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup. |
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Petteri Koskikallio |
Origin and Growth of the Puranic Text Corpus |
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| The papers collected in this volume are the outcome of the Purana panel of the 12th world sanskrit conference held in Helsinki in July 2003 envisaged to explore departures from the original Purana texts. They mainly focus on the original Skandapurana which lends itself well to a study of the origins and growth of the Purana texts and the religious developments that they reflect.The sequence of the articles of this book has a purpose although each one of them can be read in itself also. The... |
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M. R. Kale |
The Mrichchhakatika of Sudraka |
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| Among the known dramatic composition of ancient India, the Mrichchhakatika occupies a very high and distinguished position. It is a creation of outstanding brilliance. The Mrichchhatika is a drama in ten Acts based on the story of the love of Charudatta, a prominent but poor inhabitant of Ujjayini, and Vasantasena, an exquisitely beautiful but pure-minded courtesan of the city. By virtue of its high dramatic charm and its great literary excellence it has endeared itself to generations of... |
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Rabindranath Tagore |
The Wreck |
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| -The Wreck (1921) translation by Tagore of his Bengali novel Naukadubi (1906) is based on the dilemma of mistaken identity resulting in an exchange of wives. Delightfully told and interspersed with descriptions of nature of extraodinary loveliness it is full of action and powerful human interest. Through this novel Tagore suggests the rift between the reformist and progressive Brahmosamaj and traditional conservatism of Hinduism. Its popularity can be gauged from the fact that after Gitanjali... |
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Dr. P. Priyadarshi |
India`s Contribtions to the West |
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| India was the mother of all civilization’ is often said by many. But little significant research or reliable writing has ever been done to substantiate this fact. “India’s Contributions to the West” primarily discusses how India has been a source of knowledge to the West over ages. Even the growth of modern sciences in the West, called the ‘Renaissance’ was a direct result of flow of Indian knowledge to the West.
Kanaka, an Indian scientist from the Sind province of India landed in the court... |
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Manohar R. Puthraan |
Time the Cycle of Seven |
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C. R. Jain |
Comparative Study of the Religious |
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| -Comparative Study of the Religions under is the fruit of many years of patient and painstaking work. The author has tried to bring out the unity in all religions. The book is a valuable contribution religion and represents a noteworthy attempt at a study of all religions in a sympathetic spirit.The Jaina Gazette:- The author has never throughout the book for a moment wavered in his fidelity to reason. The book is indicative of the spirit which is animating all great minds of the world today.... |
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B. P. Singh |
Bahudha and the Post-9/11 World |
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Naval Krishna |
The Ananda-Vana of Indian Art |
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Naraeyana Yatheendra |
Kaalajnaana and Nada Brahmananda Narayana Kavi Shatakam |
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T.M.P. Mahadevan |
The Upanishads (T.M.P. Mahadeven) |
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| -The Upanishads are the sources of the Vedanta philosophy a system in which human speculation seems to me to have reached its very acme.I Spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning like the pure air of the mountains so simple so true if once understood. |
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Govinda Krishna Pillai |
The Hindu Architecture |
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| -In Manasara Silpa-Sastra certain discrepancies in the book made me to investigate. This book is the result to investigate. This book is the result of author investigation lasting over a period of several years. This book deals with fourteen chapters like.First chapter is introductory second chapter is determination of the Cardinal points third chapter is Hindu system of surveying, fourth chapter is hindu measurements, fifth chapter is hindu proportions or the relation between length and... |
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J. Barthelemy Saint -Hilaire |
Hiouen- Thsang in India |
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Yogacharya Sundaram |
Sundara Yogic Therapy or Marvels of Yogic Cure |
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N. H. Samtani |
Gathering the Meanings |
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| Gathering the Meanings presents a consice summary of essential Abhidharma doctrines. It fills a major gap in the West`s slowly growing knowledge of Buddhist teachings.Abhidharma teachings analyse the factors that make up the realm of human experience and set out the foundation for traveling the Buddhist path. Abhidharma analysis can cut the roots of suffering, increase mental clarity and encourage appreciation for the qualities of the Buddha and the path he made available to the world. |
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Yogacharya Sundaram |
The Secret of Happiness of Yogic Physical Culture |
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Eng. Manmatha Nath Dutt |
The Markandeya Mahapuranam |
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| -The different works known by the name of Puranas are evidently derived from the mythoheroic stage of Hindu belief. The Puranas are commonly stated to be eighteen in number. It is said there are also eighteen Upa or Minor Puranas but the names of all these are not found. The principal eighteen Puranas are Brahma, Padma, Visnu, Saiva, Bhagavata, Naradiya, Markandeya, Agni, Bhavisya, Brahma Vaivarta, Linga, Varaha, Skanda, Vamana, Kurma, Matsya, Garuda and Brahmanda.All these Puranas are classed... |
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Eng. Tr. Manmatha Nath Dutt |
The Visnu Mahapuranam |
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| -The different works known by the name of Puranas are evidently derived from the mythoheroic stage of hindu belief. The Puranas are commonly stated to be eighteen in number. It is said there are also eighteen Upa or Minor Puranas but the names of all these are not found. The principal eighteen Puranas are Brahma, Padma, visnu, Saiva, Bhagavata, Naradiya and Brahmanda.All these Puranas are classed into there groups according to the qualities which prevail in them. The Matsya Purana remarks that... |
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M. N. Dvivedi |
The Imitation of Sankara |
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| -In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of te Upanisads. The collection here is not entirely from the works of Sankara but from all works bearing on the Philosophy taught by Sankara and his followers. The whole collection is divided into chapters and sections with a view to exhaust the main topics of the Absolute Philosophy. Texts from the Upanisads and other works are often referred to in vedanta writings. That almost every important reference of this kind... |
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Gyanendra Pandey |
Wound Healing Drug Theropy |
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Bhikkhu Duc Truong |
Humanism in the Nikaya Literature |
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| -Over 2500 years ago when the world overwhelming in the dark times of mystery and the wrong view on man Buddhist humanism emerged and brought the light of enlightenment to humankind. It emancipated man from the concept of great Brahma the Supreme the Omnipotent the Creator God, and the view that all beings are his creation at his will all beings come into existence or man is their production.As a humanist the Buddha revolutionized thoughts and traditions of ancient India. He looked upon man`s... |
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SWami Brahmananda |
Revelation of the Ever Revealed |
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Jean Deloche |
Origins of the Urban Development of Pondicherry according to Seventeenth Century Dutch Plans |
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The Wisdom of the Prophet |
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Prithwindra Mukherjee |
The Scales of Indian Music |
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| This book is about a delicate and complex subject-a comparative study of the structure of ragas (modal scales intemately connected with musical forms) in the North and South India, and the modes of classifying them. The thats (Present Scales) of Hindustani Music and seventy-two Carnatic Melakartas have been carefully dealt with. The author has studied the pitch value of each note and has also tried in a logical format, to ascribe about four thousand plus raga scales,under the fitting mela... |
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Robert Caesar Childers |
A Dictionary of the Pali Language |
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| The Pali language is one of the Pralrits, or Aryan vernaculars of ancient India.It was spoken in the sixth century before Christ, and has therefore been a dead language for considerable over two years. A language is generally what its literature makes it. The existing Pali literature is of great extent and importance ; it is valuable alike to the philologist, the historian, the student of folklore and the student of comparative religion.
IWent to Ceylon as a member of the Civil Service at... |
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Filippo De Filippi |
The Italian Expedition to the Himalaya, Karakoram and Easteran Turkestan (1913-14) |
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| First edition in English, with revisions and anadditional chapters in which are summed up the general results of the expidition in the various fields of research. The expidition crossed India,Baltistan, Ladakh,and Russian Turkestan. There are still a Number of remote ranges which have never been traversed since expedition. |
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Arvind Sharma |
A New Curve In The Ganges Mahatma Gandhi`s Interpretation of Hinduism |
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| This book would be a worthy addition to any collection and is highly recommended for the scholars of Indology and Religious Studies.The book also contains various extracts from Gandhi`s autobiography that not only make this study realistic but also acquaint us with many hardships suffered by him.It analyses Gandhi`s relationship to the various sources of Dharma and the primacy that he accord to conscience; his reversal of the caste hiererchy by upholding the rights of the sudras his emphasis on... |
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K.Narain |
The Philosophy of the Vallbha School of Vedanta |
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| Vallabhism as a philosophico-religious creed of vaisnavism has the distinction of putting forward a novel creed and theory of Bhakti known as Pusti-Bhakti which aquires a central place in the Suddhadavita system. The author has therefore, discussed it, at length, to distinguished it from other forms of Bhakti propagated in other sahools of Vaisnavism.The author has, in this study, based himself only on Samskrta sources Providing the reader with an outline of the basic philosophical and... |
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Pabitrakumar Roy |
Kant`s Concept of the Sublime |
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| The aesthetic experience of the sublime provides an experience that helps fill this gap. There is a moral feeling that precedes the Categorical Imperative in spite of the second Critique`s argument that the feeling of respect follows from awareness of the moral Law.The publication of this book coincides with the commemoration of 200 years of Kant`s death.
Pabitrakumar Roy, presently Fellow of Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, was till recently senior fellow of Indian Council of... |
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Ramnath Tripathi |
The Rama Saga |
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| This Novel covers all important events of his life and presents them in a lively readable manner. What is special is the human treatement of the God. A rewarding work of fiction, delightful and instructive. The appendices clarify some of the controversial issues in the Rama Saga. The book will ennoble and at palces move the reader to tears.
Prof. Rama Nath Tripathi has devoted his life to the study of the Ram Saga. He has made a comperative study of the Saga found in different Indian... |
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Pushkar Bhatnagar |
Dating The Era of Lord Ram |
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| Sage Valmiki, a contemporary of Lord Ram, mentioned in his magnum opus Ramayana that when Lord Ram was born, the sun was located in Aries,Saturn was in libra, Jupiter and the moon were shining in Cancer, Venus was seen in Pisces while Mars was in Capricorn. Moreover, It was the ninth day of the increasing phase of the moon in the lunar month of Chaitra.
The two illustrations on the cover display, with the help of a powerful software, that these unique astral conditions were present in the sky... |
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Sudhakar Sharma |
The Heritage of Buddhist Pala Art |
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| Buddhist art was not created primarily for aesthetic considerations. Most of the works of art were devoted to the revealing of the divine personality of the Gods and Godesses. The book is an attempt to explore new images, new forms and new icons and also understand them in their proper time and space contexts - pan-Indian and regional as well as pre-pala scenario.
Dr Sudhakar Sharma is currently Secretary in the Lalit Kala Akademi, a premier institution of the government of India, concerned... |
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Jose Pereira |
The Sacred Architecture of Islam |
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| The Sacred Architecture of Islam is the work of one who was professionally trained in the history of Indian art and architecture. He has also had the good fortune to travel much of the Muhammadan World on both sides of the Hindu Kush, and thus has been able to appreciate the major monuments of that world at first hand,and to express that appreciation in th present work.
Joes Pereira was born in Bombay in 1931. He Recieved his doctorate in Ancient Indian History and Culture in 1959, and has... |
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M.Sivaramkrishna |
The Sterling Book of Ma Sarada |
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| Here are some glimpsis of the unique life of Sri Sarada Devi, the divine consort of Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa, combining her human and divine roles. The life of Sri Sarada Devi, known to devotees also as the Holy Mothe or Sri Sri Ma, had been a mixture of the Mundane and the profoundly spiritual. She effortlesslymoved from the grossly external to the supremely internal levels of existence all through her life. She faced tremendous hardships with a serenity that is almost impossible to... |
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Ed. with Introd by Malchandra Tulsidas Teliwala, With a New |
Anubhasya on the Brahmasutra |
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| Acarya Vallabha has written a commentary on the Brahmasutra, known as Anubhasya which is available only in the summary form upto III. 2.33, the remaining part was supplemented by his second son Sri Vitthalanatha. the present commentaries of Anubhasya known as Prakasa written by Sri Purusottama Carana, a descendent of Sri Vallabhacarya and another on the same known as Rasmi by Sri Yogi Gopesvara, of the smae lineage, provide excellent and appropriate interpreation of the tradition. |
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Dr.Sir Ganganatha Jha |
The Chandogyopanishad |
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Ed. Sukalyan Sengupta |
The Cyclonic Swami |
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Bimla Charan Law |
The Life & Works Of Buddhaghosha |
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Mohan Makkar |
The Chakras Megic |
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Gudrun Buhnemann |
The Worship of Mahaganpati According to the Nityotsava |
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| The present study contributes to an understanding of the aim of Tantric Puja, which is intentionally hidden from the common man,and about which many strange notions prevails both in India and the west. As an example of regular Tantric puja practice it presents, with an elaborate introduction and commentary, the Sanskrit text and English Translation of the second chapter of the Nityotsava. Itis one of the best Known and most respected works of the Srividya school of Hindu Tantrism, a school... |
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M.A.Dhaky |
The Indian Temple Traceries |
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| About the Book ;The present monograph is unique in that it, for the first time, extensivelytreats the subject of Indian Temple Jalas or grills together with an in depth discussion in the light of relevant medieval vastusastra passages in sanskrit on Indian architecture. While maintaining the trust of writing towards the ancient and medievalIndian Grilles, it brings within its purview the Islamic Screen and the gothictraceries for comparing and contrasting their characteristics with the earlier... |
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Robert caesar Childers |
A Dictionary of the Pali Language |
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History of Indian Theatre |
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| Here is a ingeniously written story of Indian classical Sanskrit theatre covering the span of several centuries. product of world`s one of the most ancient and vibrant civilisation dramatic literature in Sanskrit reflects the exuberance of human emotions.Here is a landmark survey of Sanskrit dramatic literature in the overall context of Indian history, culture and art. |
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Fred W.Clothey |
The Many Faces of Murukan |
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| This book os a study of one of the most persistent and popular gods in South India and traces the History of the God, dwelling especially on four periods : The earliest known Tamil civilization as portrayed in classical Tamil Literature and archaeology; As one of the most popular dieties in Tamil India today, Murukan is a perticularly apt portrait of how a contemporary people in Asia find identity and meaning through traditional symbols. The people of different walks of life have percieved him... |
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S.Nageswara Rao |
The Temples of Bikkavolu |
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| This book is a pioneering study on the contribution of Eastern Chalukyas to the art and architecture of Andhrapradesha. The three temples located on the outskirts of the Bikkavolu village from the early group, with cognate architectural features and the other temples located with in the village belong to a later group. On a comparison of the art and architectural features the early Chalukya and Rastrakuta temples the early group of temples is dated to late ninth century AD.The work is fully... |
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Nitin Trasi |
The Scienceof Enlightenment |
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| What is the precise nature of reality or God? This book Answers these and Kindered questions convincingly: in a way that should appeal to a scientist, a spiritualist and a lay person alike. The author demonstrateshow the spiritual phenomena of Enlightenment and Liberation do have an eminently satisfactory scientific explanation - an expaltion which he also reconciles with conventional spiritual teachings. Finally, flitting adroitly from advaita to Tao, Zen to Sufism, Buddhism to Christianity,... |
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Laurent Pordie |
The Expression of Religion in Tibetan medicine |
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| Issuing from an original synthesis including and particularizing certain aspects of the Buddhist doctrines, Tibetian medicine has spread in similar cultural contexts, as is the case in Ladakh, north-western Indioan Himalayas. This medicine is independent of religion but borrows from it elements to serve its medical and social, collective and individual interests. This is, science, in its role as medical legitimation, is a central componant in the political rendition of medicine and, in this... |
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Dietrich Seckel |
Before and Beyond the Image |
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A.L.Basham |
The wounder that was India |
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| A.L.Basham`s The wounder that was Indian is a brilliant early history of one of the oldest civilasations. When it was first published in the unioted kingdom in 1954, it became an instant hit, as it would in United States a few years later. Since that it has consistantly found an avid readership all over the world. The wounder that was India is a classic that anybody with an interest in the civilisational begnings of india must read. It is a work of uncompromising scholarship and a labour of... |
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Dilip K.Chakrabarti |
The Archaeology routes from the Gganga plain to the Deccan |
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| This book sets out to trace the routs which linked the Ganga-Yamuna plain between Rajgriha and Mathura with Andhra and Maharashtra in the ancient period. What has emerged is the essential framework of a complex network of route still traceable on the ground. This network has also been compared with the corresponding evidence in the mediaeval and later historic records, and it has been argued that, although the routes of these later periods hyad partly changed their alignments with the rise of... |
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Osho |
The Book of Secrets |
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Temporarily Out of Stock |
| The secrets of the ancient science of Tantra beome available to a contemporary audience for the first time. Confined to small, hidden mystery schools for centuries, and often misunderstood and misinterpreted today, Tantra is not just a collection of techniques to enhencesexual experience. These techniques will not mention any religious ritual. No temple is needed, you are quite enough of a temple yourself. if you feel any affinity with it, play with it for three days. |
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Comp. mahendra & P. Mittal |
Buddha and the Spread of Buddhism in India and Abroad (Vol 2) |
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| The origin and a landmark in the history of Greater India the boundreis of which covered a large part of Asia. the Buddha had an open and assimilative mind and acommodated all those noble and sublime ideas available in the intellectual and meditational environment of his time which were agreeable to his experiences. there are many references to this effect in the pali canons which contains Buddha-vacana and in the biographical accounts of the Buddha. The basic teachings of the Buddha can be... |
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Herma Brockmann & Renato Pichler |
Paving the way for Peace |
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| Mahatma Gandhi said "The greatness of a society is shown by the way it treats its animals". Compassion not excluding animals can lead to more peace because someone protecting animals will also respect the lives of fellow humans. This book has been written with the aim of showing that a life without meat is not only possible but brings about considerable benefits for humans, animals and nature alike: Every person stemming the meattide is giving precious support to a better and more peaceful... |
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Malvika Karlekar |
Re-visioning the Past |
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| This book, based on photographs taken in bengal during the period 1857-1951, aim to introduce a new dimention to the experience of colonolism and reconstruction a history of growing urban bengali middle-class society.The camera recorded a changing Bengal in the ninteenth century, where there has hitherto been little critical analysis of the relationship between the colonizer and the colonized. Bengali enterpreneurial tradition in photography was established, and the contributions of three... |
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Brajakishore Swain |
The Dharamsastra |
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| This book contains thirty-one learned articles on different subjects of Dharamsastra to give a meaningful introduction to Dharmasastra literature of India. Although subject matter of Dharmasastra is Traditionally arranged in three sections; namely acara,vyavahara and prayascitta relating to custom,behavior and ethics respectively, articles included in this book have been designed in a very modern way of postulation. Dharmasashtra has been successfully dealt with in it at last.
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Sri Aurobindo |
Isha Upnishad ( The Upanishads-I) |
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Roger Calverley |
The Primal Runes |
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| Thousands of years before the Aryan invasion of Europe, in forested planes and valleys to the north of modern Greece, a civilization centered on the Great Mother came into existence. The people of old Europe created sacred signs, based on the phases of the Moon, They tell of the birth of time, an era when magic was still alive in moonlit forests, dark caves and hidden pools. These are the acrane powers of light and dark that inscribe the divine plane on the tables of human destiny.
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Ed. with elaborate notes in Tamil T.V.Gopal Iyer |
The Maran Akapporul and the Tiruppatikkovai of Tirukkurukaipperumal Kavirayar |
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| This book containes the first complete edition of a sixteenth-century Tamil treatese in 364 sutras about Tamil Love-Poetry, The poem illustrates the rule of the treatese, for it contrives to string together into a single narrative the various situations envisaged in the shorter love poems of classical Tamil literature of the Cankam age. It culminates in the amorous couple living as pious devotees of the devotees of Nammalvar, the poet-devotee of Vishnu.
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Treva Mclean |
The Basic Humanity Handbooks (3 level) |
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| The Basic Humanity Handbooks offers manifold tools of spirit that can halp you reclaim joy, abundance, and harmony by remembering who you are.Wha a significant work of spirit ! |
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Treva Mclean |
The Basic Humanity Handbooks |
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Champa - R.C.Majumdar,Lahore, Punjab |
Ancient Indian Colonies in the far East (Vol 1) |
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Ashoke Kumar Majumdar, |
Ancient Indian Colonies in the far East. Vol II |
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R.D.Banerji |
Age of the Imperial Guptas |
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Address of the General President Prof Sushil kumar De. |
All India Conference,Fifteenth Session |
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Ramkrishna Gopal Bhandarkar |
Amarkosa with the Commentary of Mahesvara |
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James Hornell |
Boats of the Ganges ; Fishing Methods of the Ganges |
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Brahma-Sutras |
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G T Garratt |
The Legacy of India |
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| The Legacy of India provides insights into the vast diversity of India. It contains brilliant essays by both foreign and Indian thinkers like H G Rawlinson Dr S Radhakrishnan and Minoo Masani on Indian language and literature art architecture and archaeology music science and philosophy and religion. It also contains an illuminating essay on Indo British civilization.
Geoffrey Theodore Garratt was a distinguished British civil servant. Apart form editing this volume he authored rise and... |
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Yogi Harinam Baba Prem Tom Beal |
Understanding the Kundalini |
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Dr, B. Tirupati Rao |
Aesthetics modern and postmodern |
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| In this insighful social political discussion on aesthetics Dr. B Tirupati Rao examines the aesthetic phenomenon from plato to Derrida.Dr. Rao focuses on the difference if not the clash between modern and postmodern aesthetics. He gives new clues for a fuller understanding of the intricate epistemological roots of modern postmodern and poststructuralist aesthetics.
Dr. B. Tirupati Rao a liberated Marxist and a free thinker teaches english a P. B. Siddhartha college Vijayawada A. P.He has... |
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Dr. J. Burgess |
Notes on the Amaravati Stupa |
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| Amaravati Stupa deals with the detailed description of the stones. stone excavated by Mr. Sewell stones at Bezzwada additon notes on amaravati stupa and lastly jaggayyapeta stupa. The rev\cent excavations have converted the site of the tope into a large pit roughly circular about 75 yards in diameter but with extensions outside the circulference at the four cardinal points which render the area somewhat of a square with very irregular sides. |
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Penumala Pratap Kumar |
Methods and Theories in the Study of Religions |
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| Do the categories such as God and religion as used in english and in the Western discourse capture the meaning and intent in Indian relgions in order for them to be used effectively in the context of Indian relgions. The book attempts to interrogate the categories used in western discourse in the study of religion. In doing so the book outlines a broad overview of the discussions on issues relating to the methods and theories in the study of religion with a special focus on the study of Indian... |
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Bibek Debroy |
The History of Puranas (3 vols) set |
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| The Puranas are texts sacred to Hinduism. We must have heard of the two great epics the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. The Mahabharata states that there are eighteen Puranas and also names three of them the Markandeya Purana the Vayu Purana and the Matsya Purana. Although the Ramayana does not mention any puranas by name the word Puranas is mentioned several times. This means that the composers of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata were familiar with the Puranas.
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The Mahabharata |
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| The Mahabharata is an Itihasa which holds fascination for scholars of different disciplines. There is material here in this vast text for anthroploogists, sociologists, philosophers, scholars of religious studies, astrophysicists ans many more. While earlier scholarship has mainly been in the fields of religion and philosophy and in the dating of the Itihasa since the publication of the critical edition scholars have been engaged in researching its contents both critically and comparatively in... |
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Lake Singh |
The Joys of Death |
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| Death is viewed with much skepticism and distastefulness. Its often associated with excruciating pains and suffering a bad and frightening act that is mechanical and dehumanizing. Sanctioned from scientific and scriptural viewpoint this book will change your perceptions totally.
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Surindar Singh Kohli |
The Dasam Granth |
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| The Dasam Granth Connotes The book of the tenth guru of the sikhs Sri Guru Govind Singh a great reformer litterateur spiritual leader and unparalled warrior who traced his lineage to lord Rama.After the compilation of the Dasam Granth by the tenth guru it was called Chhotta Granth as compared to the Adi Granth which was called Wadda Granth.
Dr. Surindar Singh Kohli was the very first professor of Punjabi literature in the world. He became professor and head of the department of Punjabi at... |
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John Allen Paulos |
I Think Therefore I Laugh |
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Swami Muktananda Paramhamsa |
Secret of the Siddhas |
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| For Thousands of years the teachings of the spiritual Masters known as siddhas have been handed down form guru to disciple. Swami Muktananda one of the great siddhas of the twentieth century writes movingly in this book of the extraordinary ways of the siddhas he himself knew and introduces us to the philosophy Kashmir Shaivism that describes their experience. |
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Swami Muktananda |
The Perfect Relationship |
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| In the Perfect Relationship Swami Muktananda draws upon his own experience on the spiritual path and the great scriptures to demonstrate that inner freedom is attained through the profound relationship between spiritual master and student. For this reason Swami Muktananda explains it is in the enlightened being the God realized saint that we find our true friend at last. |
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Swami Kripananda |
The Sacred Power |
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S. N. Dasgupta |
Yoga Philosophy (In relation to other systems of Indian thought) |
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| Yoga is one of the most ancient and strikign products of the Hindu mind and character. It has claims both as a system of practical discipline and a system of philosophical thought.Though much has been written on the practical side of the yoga very little has come up of it in relation to other systems of Indian thought. The present book fulfils long-felt desideratum. It compares and contrasts some of the central concepts of yoga with similar concepts of other systems of Indian philosophical... |
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Kaviraj Nagendra Nath Sen Gupta |
The Ayurvedic System of Indian Medicine (3 vols) |
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Kapil Kapoor |
Text and Interpretation The Indian Tradition |
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| Linguistic communities are interpretative they have shared frameworks and strategies ot fix the meaning of what is experienced through senses or communicated through language. Indian presents one such interpretative community in which the three major contending schools of thought the Brahmins the Buddhsits and the Jains flourished and fought. The presence of a strong interpretative tradition suggests the existence of texts and issues that are perennially important and also a certain freedom of... |
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The Shoe Flower Plant |
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V.V.S. Saibaba |
Theravada Buddhist Devotionalism |
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| The monograph consists of two parts of which the first examines the buddhsit devotional practices from the historical and canonical perspectives of the evolution of the worship of caitya, stupa, relics, symbols and images. It provides a multi dimensional account of caitya, thupa, relica symbol and image worship in Theravada Buddhist tradition in the Sinhalese Vamsa literature and as depicted in the records of the prominent chinese travellers to India. It throws light on the Buddhist stupa the... |
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Susunaga Weeraperuma |
The First and Best Buddhist Teachings |
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| Extraordinarily profound is the Sutta Nipatta, which is the oldest sacred book is Buddhist Literature. It is a particularly authentic version of the Buddha`s discourses beacuse of its antiquity, Language and contents. Susunga Weeraperuma`s faithful and masterly rendering of the Sutta Nipata deepens our understanding of the teachings. An eminemt writer in the field of Buddhism, he has lucidly expressed the ancient wisdom in the idiom of our time. Great philosophical and psychological insights... |
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Susunaga Weeraperuma |
Nirvana: The Highest Happiness |
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| Nirvana is the extinction of all illusion from consciousness especially the deep-rooted delusion of `I`. It has been described as that which is Unborn, Unoriginated and Unformed. This well researched and clear-sighted collection of essays is the work of an eminent writer in the field of Indology. Though written from the standpoint of Theravada, the author occasionally expresses views that life outside the mainstream of current Theravada.A collection of refreshingly original essays offer enquiry... |
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Champat Rai Jain |
Selections from the Jaina Law |
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Alan Jacobs |
The Bhagavad Gita (Alan) |
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| The Bhagavad Gita is one of the world`s greatest scriptures, the key sacred text of Hinduism. It means the `Song of God` and is often called the `Song Celestial`. Alan Jacobs has succeeded in revitalizing the ancient text into a form which reveals the full majesty of the magnificent scriptures as well as its practical message for today`s seekers. The outdated English of Sir Edwin Arnold`s fine poetic translation in 1885 has been trasnsformed and given clear meaning. It has also been expanded to... |
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Linnart Mall |
Studies in the Astasahasrika Prajnaparamita and other essays |
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| A considerable part of the book is devoted to the study of the Astasaharika Prajnaparamita one of the most important scriptures of Mahayana Buddhism. This text marks a breakthrough in Buddhism since it provides an explanation for the emergence of written texts, which gradually replaced the previously predominant oral tradition. The analysis of the text is based on the key terms of the sutra: dharma, bodhisattva and prajnaparamita.Also some non-Buddhist texts are treated in the book the... |
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James Haughton Woods |
The Yoga System of Patanjali |
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| Three works in one pair of covers. The sutras are a set of mental pegs on which to hang the principles and precepts of a system which you must learn from a living teacher of your school. The bhasya of Vyasa is a reinvestiture of the skeleton of the sutras with the flesh and blood of comprehensible details. And the Tika of Vacaspati is of course a commentary on the Bhasya. The Bhasya is the oldest written systematic exposition of Yoga-doctrine in sanskrit that we posses.When one considers the... |
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Haiyan Shen |
The Profound Meaning of the lotus Sutra (2 Vols.) |
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| This book makes an intial investigation into Tien -Tai Chih-is masterpiece The Profound Meaning of the Lotus Sutra in an endeavor to unravel his systematic approach to elaborating Buddhism and his Buddhist philosophy in relgious salvation.
She is presently teaching in Dept. of philosophy Shanghai University Shanghai China. She obtained Ph.D. degree in oriental Languages and Cultures Ghent University Belgium M.S. degree in Asain Studies University of California Santa Barbara U.S.A. and B.A.... |
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Joseph Vrinte |
The Perennial Quest for a Psychology with a Soul |
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a final solution to a set of ideasas comprehensive as these worldwiews. The
author is aware that the contents of this comperative study may appear offensive
to the followersof Sri Aurobindo. He tries to stimulate a fruitful dialogue and
evaluates this dialogue in a sympathic manner when he refers to the intentions
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Ed.Amrita Grover & others |
Land Rights Landed Hierarchy and Village Community During The Mughal Age (Vol-1) |
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| Mughal hsitory is a field that has facinated scholars and students of history for at least four hundred years. In particular, the study of the argarian set up has attracted many a scholar. In analysing the land rights of various classes in the Mughal age, the concept of village community, land revenue administration, the nature of zamindari and evolution of Taaluqdari system during the Mughal age, among other things, Prof. Grover examined the original contemporary source material in Persian,... |
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Comlpete Chinese Text translated into Eng Li-Yung-hsi |
The Life of Hsuan-Tsang by his Personal Disciples Hui-LI and Yen-ts`ung |
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| Aabout the Book :Hsuan-Tsang stands out as a pilgrim scholar, master-translator, epic hero of Chinese narrative literature, and as the history and outstanding source for the history and archaeology, philosophy and geography, of India, Central Asia and China. European writer have said about him is taken, directly or indirectly, from an incomplete or very imperfect French translation of his biography by Stanislas Julien. This translation is a valuable sddition to literature on Buddhism,... |
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Amartya Sen |
The Argumentative Indian |
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| India is a very diverse country with many distinct pursuits, vastly differing convictions, widely divergent customs, and a vertible feast of view points. The Argumentative Indian brings Together an Illuminating selection of writings from Noble Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen that outline the need to understand contemporary India, including its thriving democracy, in the light of its long argumentative tradition. The understanding and the use of its India`s rich argumentative tradition are... |
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Ed. Kamalakanta Sukla |
Jaiminisutram of Mararsi Jamini with the Sanskrit & Hindi Commentaries |
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S. Gulzar Ahmed |
The Freedom for Human Kingdom |
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Laxmi Chandra Jain |
The Exact Sciences in the Karma Autiquity (3 vols.) |
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| He was born at Saugar M.P. on 1st July 1926. He passed the M.Sc. examination in applied mathematics from the universtiy of Saugar in 1949. Interestingly he also holds a diploma in Homoeopathy and Biochemistry 1971. He joined the Madhya Pradesh State Educational service in 1951 and served various Government Colleges in various capacities till his retirement in 1984 as Principal of the Govt. P.G. College Chhindwara. |
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O.P. Verma |
The Principles of Palmistry |
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| Man is the most complete creation of God on our planet Earth has been blessed by the discriminating curious mind so he developed various methods of delineating the future. Some men adopt the astrological methods while others study the hands for the purpose. Human hand is the most natural gift having direct link with the human subconscious mind the store house that ocntrols and delineates the past present and future of a man. |
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Nicholas Vreeland |
An Open Heart The Dalai Lama |
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M.D. Sampath & others |
Ancient Sciences and Archaeology (Vol. 1) |
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Tr. David Smith |
The Birth of Kumara By Kalidasa |
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Ed. & Tr. R.C. C. Fynes |
The Epitome of Queen Lilavati (Vol 1) |
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Joel Tatelman |
The Heavenly Exploits Buddhist Biographies from the Divyavadana (Vol 1) |
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Haresh |
Thoughts from the Cosmic Field in the life of a Thinking Insect |
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Tr. W.J. Johnson |
Mahabharata (Book 3, The Forest Vol. 4) |
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| The Forest" is Book Three of the Maha·bhárata, "The Great Book of India." This final quarter of the account of the Pándavas' twelve-year exile in the forest contains four stirring stories that are among the best known in Indian literature. From a hero overcoming great odds, to a virtuous wife who rescues her family, and Indra tricking Karna, and Yudhi·shthira's victory in the verbal contest with the tree spirit, these stories speak to common human concerns across cultures and centuries. |
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V.P. Bhatta |
Word The Sabdakhanda of the Tattvacintamani (2 Vols.) |
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Justice R. B. Dixit |
The Divine Marriage |
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Bettina Baumer |
Void and Fullness in the Buddhist Hindu and Christian Traditions |
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S. B. Singh |
Sculptural Art of Northern India |
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| The present book is an attempt at a related history of North Indian Sculpture setting forth the characteristic idioms and stylistic traditions in the Early-Medieval period.Sculptural art divided into five chapters deals with the plastic art of North India particularly Gujarat, Rajasthan, Haryana, Utteranchal, Uttar Pradesh, in the historical sequence.
Professor S. B. Singh is an erudite scholar and a prolific writer. Among his numerous publications including sixty research papers in... |
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Navjivan Rastogi |
The Karma Tantricism of Kashmir (Vol. 1) |
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| The Karma Tantricism of Kashmir is intended as a ground work of the Karma system, an almost neglected area of Kashmir Saivism. The author has very ably reconstructed the history and metaphysics of the system after rummaging through relevant literature, both in print and manuscript form. The krama philosophy, Sakta esotricism and the Tantric synoptic view are seen. In this first of the two volumes, the author has given a general and historical survey in seven chapters-Karma as a distinct system,... |
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Edward Conze |
The Buddha`s Law Among the Birds |
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| In the Buddhist religion, the Dharma concept of the Buddha is not confined to men, but is taught to all kinds of beings, including ghosts and animals. According to a legend Avalokitesvara, the Bodhisattva of mercy, had taken among the birds the form of a cuckoo- an animal which recommends itself to the Buddhist mind by its attitude to family life. The present book constitutes an English translation of the Tibetan original. In his introduction, Dr. Conze not only sketches the background of the... |
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B. Alan Wallace |
Balancing the Mind |
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| For centuries Tibetan Buddhsit contemplatives have directly explored consciousness through carefully honed rigorous techniques of meditions.Balancing the Mind includes a translation of a classic discussion by the fifteenth-century Tibetan contemplative Tsongkhapa of methods for developing exceptionally high degrees of attentional stability and clarity.
B. Alan Wallace trained for many years as a monk in Buddhsit monasteries in India and Switzerland. He has taught Buddhist theory and practice... |
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Swami Venkatesananda |
The Supreme Yoga (2 Vols.) |
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| The Yoga Vasistha is a unique work of Indian philosophy and is highly respected for its practical mysticism. These teachings of Sage Vasistha imparted to Lord Rama, contain the true understanding about the creation of the world. The supreme Yoga with Romanised text is a translation into English of this complete work and is accompanied by brief expositions by Swami Venkatesananda. Swami Venkatesananda has been working untiringly for decades to spread life-giving message of Yoga and vedanta in... |
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Bronwen |
The Reiki Sourcebook |
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| The most comprehensive book on the system of Reiki ever published, this book will become an invaluable asset for Reiki learners, students and teachers alike. Bringing together every important piece of information that has been taught, discussed or written about Reiki since its development in the early 1990s. It includes information from sources such as living students of the masters Mikao Usui, Chujiro Hayashi and Hawayo Takata.
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T.N. Dhar |
Exploring the Mysterious |
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| Mysterious in this universe and mysterious is the source from which it emanates. Mysterious are the manifestations before us. the creator is a mystery of the cosmos. Yet humankind is engaged in exploring these mysteries from time immemorial. This has given rise to various thoughts, philosophies, sciences, disciplines of knowledge and religious beliefs.
T.N. Dhar (b. 1934) is a well known poet of Kashmiri language. He writes in English, Urdu and Hindi besides his mother tongue. He hails from... |
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M. Venkata Reddy & others |
Yogic Therapy |
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Chandra Mauli Mani |
The Evolution of Ideals of Womenhood in Indian Society |
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| The present work is English Translation of an award winning Hindi book-Bharatiya Samaja Mein Nari Adarshon ka Vikasa written by late Pt. Chandra Bali Tripathi.
Late Pt.Chandra Bali Tripathi had taken prominent part in India`s Freedom struggle in close association with Madan Mohan Malaviya and others. Through he took up legal profession for a living his abiding interest lay in serious literary pursuits. |
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Theodor Goldstucker |
Panini |
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| Still a provocation of this kind alone would have as little induced me to take up my pen now as it did heretofore; but when I see the public told authoritatively, yet without any proof, that Sayana teaches that understanding of the Veda which was current in India no londer that a few centuries ago;-------when I see that the most distinguished and the most learned Hindu scholars and divines. |
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Edouard Schure |
The Secret History of World Religious (2Vol) |
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| The two volumes give, in an inspiring language, the march of true religion as conceived and propounded by sages and seers of all countries and climes in their search for truth and reality about the divinity, origin and true purpose of life. It paints o0n a vast canvas the story of the concept of soul, its spiritual content and ultimate Reality. The sages and theosophists chosen for comprehensive discussion inthis book are:Krishna, Bouddha, Zororaster, Hermes, Moses, Pythagoras and Jesus.Volume... |
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Romila Thapar |
The Penguin History of Early India From The Origins to AB1300 |
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| Dynastic history provides a chronoligical frame but the essential thrust of this book is the explanation of the changes in society and economy. Its opening chapters explain how the interpretations of early Indian history have changed. Further, although the diversity of sources and their readings are well known, nevertheless, this narrative provides fresh readings and raises new questions.
Romila thapar is the most eminent Indian historian. This superb book is not only the basic history of... |
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Edward Sell |
The Faith of Islam |
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| Islam or the religion of the flowers of prophet Muhammad is one of the living faiths of the world. It is held by the Muslims that their Prophet did not propound the religion what he recieved through revelations from God, which are now recorded in the Quran. The adherents of Islam also believe that their religion is not merely a creed or a mode of worship, but the way to a fullfledged ideal life. The author has dealt with, in well organized chapters topics like the foundations of the faith, the... |
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Ramesh S. Balsekar |
The Divine Dankar |
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| The Divine Banker contains a series of abhangas written by Shirish S. Murthy a devotee of Shri Ramesh S. Balsekar.The devotee just couldn`t help not writing them down.The works contained in this book expound the simple understanding hidden in Advaita Philosophy.
About the Author:
Ramesh S. Balsekar is a disciple of the late Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, a renowned Advaita master. From early childhood, Balsekar was drawn to Advaita, a nondual teaching, particularly the teachings... |
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Ramesh S. Balsekar |
The Essence of the Bhagavad Gita |
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| Ramesh S. Balsekar is one of the most profound spiritual Masters of this Age. He is both a brilliant writer and a captivating speaker. Shortly, after retiring as the President of the Bank of India, he met the sage Nisargadatta Maharaj and began translating for Maharaj’s daily morning talks. It was not long before Ramesh too experienced the Ultimate Understanding. He is therefore a wonderful blend of East and West, spiritual and material. His compassion and gently humor infuse the... |
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Ramesh s. Balsekar |
For the Spiritual Seeking Confusion No More |
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| Many spiritual seekers today are confused. They imagine enlightenment as a state of perfect peace entirely detached from worldly things, and feel disappointed or inadequate when they don’t attain that ideal.
Ramesh S. Balsekar, a self-realized sage whose teachings have reached thousands, offers a down-to-earth message that corrects this misunderstanding. With eloquence and humor, he shows how spirituality and daily life can exist in harmony. We conquer our confusion when we accept that... |
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H.P. Blavatsky |
Encyclopadia of The Synthesis of Science, Philosophy and Religion (5 vols) |
$444.44 $311.11 |
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Swami Shankarananda |
The Yoga of Kashmir Shaivism |
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| Consciousness is the most intimate experience of life the essence of life itself. among the many spiritual traditions born and developed in India one ancient philosophy--------Kashmir Shaivism----has explored it completely.The Yoga of Kashmir Shaivism is a book that will transform you. It is a resource and guide towards investigating and deepening your own consciousness.
Swami Shankaranands grew up in Brooklyn New York, and as a greduate of both Columbia and New York Universities began a... |
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Sunyata Saraswati |
The Tantric Path to Higher Consciousness |
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These twelve lessons will guide you to new levels of mastery:
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Indrani Kaar |
Sayana`s methodology in Interpreting the Rgveda |
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A.K. Tripathy |
The Gita Govinda of Sri Jayadev |
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| The widely accalimed lyrical compostition of Gita Govinda of Sri Jayadev the 12th centuy A.D. saint poet has been a powerful influence on several genres of creative and performing arts in various parts of India. It is perhaps the most lyrical Sanskrit compostition of the medieval era.This book is authored by two known researchers of Orissa Shri A.K. Tripathy and Shri P.C. Tripathy. Shri A. K. Tripathy is a senior bureaucrat, columnist and author of several books in Oriya. |
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V.P. Sharma |
The Rupa English Hindi Dictionary |
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Sunita Dwivedi |
Buddhist Heritage Sites of India |
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Madhavacharya Shastri |
The Secrets of Different Ramayanas |
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Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak |
Orion : A Search into the Ancientness of Aryan-Vedic Culture (An Ignored Historical Research) |
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| That the sacred thread – Yajnopavita among the Hindus and Kushti among the Parsis – is the sign of the constellation Orion’s belt, underlines its supreme significance among ancient and modern Aryans. Its mention in Vedic literature inspired the Sanskrit scholar Lokmanya Tilak to use it to fix the date of that early period of history – a task neither Yaska nor Sayana could think of.
A unique and definitive study of the subject, it casts interesting new light on obscure Aryan-Vedic culture. It... |
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Romesh C. Dutt |
The Valmiki Ramayana |
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Tr. A.A. Macdonell, H. Oldenberg |
The Golden Book of the holy Vedas |
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Edwin Arnold |
The Bhagavadgita |
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Lokmanya Bla Gangadhar Tilak |
Arctic Home in the Vedas |
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| The Vedas are the oldest in world literature and have been preserve letter for letter and accent for accent despite the non-development of the art of writing till long years. The Aryan race who produced them are spread all over Europe and Western Asia-where was their original home and what made them disperse from there? |
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Romain Rolland |
The World Religion of Vivekananda |
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Pushpendra Kumar |
The Garuda Mahapuranam (2 Volumes.) |
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| The different works known by the name of Puranas (old) are evidently derived from the myth-heroic stage of Hindu belief. The Puranas are commonly stated to be eighteen in number. It is said there are also eighteen Upa-Puranas or Minor Puranas-but the names of all these are not found. The principal eighteen Puranas are Brahma, Padma, Visnu, Siva, Bhagvata, Naradiya, Markandeya, Agni, Bhavisya, Brahma Vaivarta, Linga, Varaha, Skanda, Vamana, Kurma, Matsya, Garuda and Brahmanda. All these Puranas... |
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| The Essence of Scholasticism is a meditation manual leading to arhatship. It is the central text of the westernmost part of the Gandharan cultural area, e.e. Bactria. Probably composed in the first century BCE, it was commented on and elaborated in several sastras the best known being the Abhidharmakosabhasya of the fifth century. The Essence and the Astagrantha are the basic treatises of the non-Vaibhasika sarvastivadins, i.e. of the sautrantikas of the Gandharan cultural area.
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| The book comprises two parts part I deals with the socio-historical aspects of family of the Vedic Seer Bharadvaja and Part II discusses the significant contribution the family has made to the various fields of Indian culture.Part I is divided into five chapters each comprising more than one section. The first chapter considers the textual evidences of the Vedic Samhitas the Brahmanas the Upanisads and the Ramayana in regard to the Bharadvajas. the second chapter traces the birth and parentage... |
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| A therapy traditionally used in China, Egypt and India, reflexology today is now widely used as an effective, holistic treatment for disease and relief from stress. Using pressure and massage techniques on reflex points of the feet and hands, reflexology alleviates energy blocks that can cause pain, disability or tension, encouraging the body to return to optimum health. Clear illustrations show how all internal body structures and organs are mirrored- reflected- in- the reflex points and a... |
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| Lakshmi Bandlamudi’s description of her journey to Kailash and Manasarover, representing as they do Purusha and Prakriti, the masculine and the feminine nature of existence, is deeply moving because she connects it to her own inner spiritual quest. Replete with mythical stories regarding Shiva and Parvati, and written with a special emphasis on the feminine, this book is a moving testament of a living faith which has persisted for thousands of years.
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The History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization Vol IX Part 4 |
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| This is also an anthology based book on Hanuman. It conyains Tulsidas` works on hanuman(Bajarng baan, Hanuman Bahuk, Astak and Chalisa), Magnificent Sanskrit Slokas (text and translation), extracts from Vedas, Upanishads, Vinai Patrika etc. This book also highlights significance of Hanuman`s Name, tail, burning of Lanka etc. |
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| Is there any such thing as free will? Is everything in life predetermined? Does God play dice with the universe? Questions that intrigue seekers of the truth, are answered with great insight, sincere earnestness and absolute clarity in Ramesh's typical free-flowing dialogues, spiced with his delightful good humor, during the morning 'satsangs' or meetings with visitors from all over the world.
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| Ramesh Balsekar's teaching is simple to grasp. He shows us the way to peace and harmony in daily living, while facing life from moment to moment. Accepting the words of the Buddha that "Events happen, deeds are done, but there is no individual doer of any deed," is a gateway to this peace. All actions are happenings which could not have happened unless they were ordained by the Source, which some identify as God. In this book, Balsekar gives the essence of his teaching in short,... |
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Indian Contemporary Art Post Independence |
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| India through the ages is a book that takes the reader on an unforgettable journey, exploring a fascinating country. The book brings India's growth from an ancient to a modern, strong democracy in a vivid and detailed manner.
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The Epitome of Queen Lilavati by Jinaratna (Vol. II) |
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The Five Discourses on Worldly Wisdom by Visnusarman |
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The Sri- Radhika--Sahasra-- Stotram |
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| The Vedic tradition of India is not simply a spiritual path but a way of life. It includes many avenues of learning that an increasing number of people from the West are investigating and using. This book provides a new view of what the Vedic culture has to offer from those who discovered it and practice it themselves, and how it has affected and benefited their own lives. This type of presentation is rarely found in books that are available today on eastern traditions.
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| This book is a magical, unexpurgated life of Krishna, told in a spirit of bhakti for the modern reader.
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The exposition between two teeming armies is the Bhagavad-Gita, the Song of God. The story quickly shifts back to... |
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