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Michael C. Shapriro |
A Primer of Modern Standard Hindi |
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| This primer presents a systematic introduction to the structure of Modern Standard Hindi. It is intended to provide the student with a thorough foundation in the grammatical structure of the variety of Hindi that is commonly taught in Indian schools and that is the common vehicle of publication in Hindi. Although much emphasis is placed on the written language, discussion is also provided of aspects of conversational Hindi.
The core of the work contains thirty-one chapters. The first four... |
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Michael L. Emmons |
Meditative Therapy |
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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... |
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Michael A. Cremo |
Divine Nature |
$4.99 $3.49 |
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| What are the root causes of the environmental crisis? What can we do about them?
"Does a highly spiritual tradition like Krishna consciousness concern itself with concrete problems of this world? Do the teachings have a significant environmental impact?
"Divine Nature is a clear, even eloquent ‘yes' answer to both questions. The chapter on ‘Meat and the Environment' is the best succinct statement I have read on the environmental impact of meat consumption. But Divine Nature deftly... |
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Michael Coulson |
Teach Yourself Sanskrit |
$21.49 $15.04 |
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| Do you want to read Indian classics in the original? Do you want to progress
quickly beyond the basics? Do you want to reach a high standard? "Teach Yourself
Sanskrit" is not only a primer, but also a work of scholarship, for the book
contains much original material on Sanskrit syntax and usage. The carefully
graded chapters explain Sanskrit grammar and style with exceptional clarity. The
text includes an introduction to the n gar script, a useful explanation of how
to use Sanskrit... |
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R. Blake Michael |
The Origins of Virasaiva Sects |
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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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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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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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Michael C. Shapiro |
Language and Society in South Asia |
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| During the past two decades there has been a significant amount of research and publication concerning the sociolinguistics of South Asian languages. Language and Society in South Asia is the first major attempt to assess the impact of this new literature. It exposits the methodological and theoretical assumptions of sociolinguistic descriptions of south Asian languages, and contrasts them with the assumptions of earlier characterizations of these languages. An important feature of this book is... |
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Michael James Hutt, Tr. & Ed. |
Himalayan Voices |
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| Himalayan Voices provides admirers of Nepal and lovers of literature with their first glimpse of the vibrant literary scene in Nepal today.
An introduction to the two most developed genres of modern Nepali literature-poetry and the short story-this work profiles eleven of Nepal`s most distinguished poets and offers translations of more than eighty poems written from 1916 to 1986. Twenty of the most interesting and best-known examples of the Nepali short story are translated into English for... |
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Axel Michaels |
Hinduism |
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Michael Comans |
Extracting the Essence of the Sruti |
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| The Srutisarasamuddharanam (Extracting the Essence of the Sruti) is the major work of Totakacarya who is regarded by tradition as one of the four-principle disciples of Adi Sankara. Composed in Sanskrit, the work consists of one hundred and seventy-nine verses. The aim of these verses is to bring out the essential meaning of the Upanisads. Through an analysis of various Upanisad statements, as well by compatible reasoning, Sri Totaka shows that the Upanisads teach that Brahman is real, the... |
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Michael Allen |
The Cult of Kumari |
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Michael C. Van Watt Van Pragg |
The Status of Tibet |
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Michael Lockwood |
Metatheater and Sanskrit Drama |
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Michael Armstrong |
A Handbook of Management Techniques |
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Carl Brockelmann |
History of the Islamic Peoples |
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Sharpa Tulku (Tr.) |
A Manual of Ritual Fire Offerings |
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| This manual contains translations of texts required to perform the Ritual Fire Offering for Peace associated with six meditational deities: Thirteen Deity Vajrabhairava, Solitary Hero Vajrabhairava, Guhyasamaja, Heruka, Vajra Yogini, and Cittamani Tara, according to the Gelugpa tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. It further includes a description of the changes required to convert the ritual for peace to the ritual for increase in association with Guhyasamaja. The texts have been clearly presented... |
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Michael Harris Goodman |
The Last Dalai Lama |
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Michael Comans (Tr. & Comm.) |
Advaitamoda |
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Michael Hahn |
The Recensions of the Nagananda by Harsadeva (Vol. I) |
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Gauri Shankar (Ed.) |
Sivaswamin's Kapphinabhyudaya or Exaltation of King Kapphina |
$22.22 $15.55 |
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Michael Reed Gach |
Acu-Yoga |
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Michael Bradford |
Hands-On Spiritual Healing |
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Michael Blate |
Acupressure (2 Vols.) Vol. I:(G-Jo Fingertip Technique) Vol. II:(Hand Reflexology) |
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Michael Brecher |
Nehru--Rajneetik Jeevan Charitra |
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Vera Michaels Deen |
Bharat Mein Janatantra ke Naveen Aadarsha |
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Michael Allen |
Ritual, Power and Gender |
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| In this collection of papers, spanning the years between 1972 and 1999, Michael Allen explores some of the complex ways in which ritual, power and gender intersect with and influence one another. In reading this book one not only discovers the different cultural worlds of Vanuatu, Nepal and Ireland, but also a history of anthropological theory that ends with a powerful vision of the relation between the individual and society.About the Author:
MICHAEL ALLEN was Professor of... |
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Michael W. Meister |
Encyclopaedia of Indian Temple Architecture (2 Vols.in 12 Pa rts) |
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| The aim of the Encyclopaedia, sponsored by the American Institute of Indian Studies, is to survey and organise by style, with technical descriptions, the vast body of monuments constructed between c. AD 400 and 18th centuries in India to serve India's symbolic and religious needs. Each volume is divided into Parts delineating different regions, stylistic evolutions or periods. Each part has two different sections (books) devoted to text and illustrations. The detail of six parts are as... |
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Axel Michaels |
The Pandit |
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| The present volume contains the learned papers of the conference which cover a wide range of topics e.g. the pandit as a private scholar, university teacher, public intellectual or legal adviser; traditional ways of Sanskrit teaching and learning, especially the methods of memorization and transferof traditional knowledge; the relevance of traditional Sanskrit grammar for the learning of Sanskrit; the prestige of Sanskrit and the social standing of pandits; the special... |
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Hans Eysenck |
Mind Watching |
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| All of us like to think we understand other people to some extent, at least, from every day observation and the business of living. But what more can we learn about our fellow humans from the work of professional psychologists who have conducted massive experiments on groups and individuals to determine scientifically why we behave the way we do? In what circumstances will we go to someone's help? Are we all capable of great cruelty? Does fear always engender total obedience? These and many... |
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Michael D.Rabe |
The Great Penance At Mamallapuram |
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| It is a work of such inspiration that it cannot be compared in its power to anything less than the Last Judgement of Michelangelo. It has also remained an intricate mystery with respect to its subject matter, date and authorship.About the Author:
Besides articles on dance and sculpture of India published in International referral journals including Princeton Readings in Religion Series, Dr.Rabe has contributed nine entries on the sculpture and architecture of Tamilnadu to the... |
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Michael D.Rabe |
Great Penance At Mamallapuram |
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| Mamallapuram is a supreme cultural monument of Tamil Nadu and the world. It presents the finest flower of the indigenous sculptural accomplishment of the Tamil mind. It has attracted the best of scholars in the field of marvel at its multifaceted artistic splendour and to examine its structural excellence. |
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Moksha |
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Michael Van Laanen |
Encounters With Infinity |
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| Like a collection of poems with an underlying mystical theme, this dissertation is a kaleidoscope puzzle of images and thoughts and concepts and ideas taken from mysticism, science, logic and mathematics. The end result, as the puzzle pieces are linked together, is a new portrait of number. The reader is challenged to solve a conceptual picture puzzle using the chaotic scattering of puzzle pieces set forth in the thesis. This treatise on infinity is the result of two mysterious experiences of... |
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Vishakhadatta |
Rakshasa`s Ring |
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Michael Miovic |
Initiation: Spiritual Insights on Life, Art, and Psychology |
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| Initiation: Spiritual Insights into Life, Art, and Psychology is a compilation of essays, travelogues, short stories, art criticism, and poems that revolve around the theme of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother's vision.
The author gives personal reflections on his spiritual quest, impressions of travels in India and Greece, and critical reviews of the emerging field of spiritual/transpersonal psychology and consciousness studies. He also applies Sri Aurobindo's model of social evolution to... |
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Michael Collopy |
Architects of Peace: Visions of Hope in Word and Images |
$75.49 $52.84 |
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| The visions of seventy-five of the world's greatest peacemakers — spiritual leaders, politicians, artists, and activists — testify to humanity's diversity and its potential. Featuring sixteen Nobel Peace Prize laureates and such visionaries as Nelson Mandela, Cesar Chavez, and Mother Teresa, the reader hears from figures often working at the very nucleus of bitter conflicts. Here are voices of peace and progress that dare to speak and act on behalf of a better planet.
An elegant tribute to the... |
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Tara Michaël |
Sivayogaratna de Jñanaprakasa. Le joyau du Siva-Yoga |
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| This book presents an edition and French translation of the Sanskrit ?ivayogaratna. Its author, a ?udra born in Shalivati (Sri Lanka) in the 16th century, first travelled to Cidambaram, then to Bengal where he took lessons from a Brahmin teaching Ved?nta. Put to the test by his guru, he surprised the latter by his intelligence and became his disciple. Returning to the South, he was initiated into the ?gamas and became a sanny?sin. He is the author of one of the six old Tamil commentaries on the... |
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Andrew Cohen |
Living Enlightenment |
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| A spiritual handbook for an evolutionary transformation that redefines the purpose of spiritual life for the modern Western seeker.
The purpose of enlightenment is for us to become so conscious that, through our wholehearted participation, we actually begin to actively guide the evolutionary process itself.
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"Living Enlightenment demonstrates a creative spiritual intelligence that breaks new ground in applying the spiritual wisdom of the East to the contemporary... |
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Thomas Richard Joiner |
Chinese Herbal Medicine Made Easy |
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| Chinese herbal medicine is an ancient medical and healing tradition for maintaining health and prolonging life. As more people turn to herbal cures for common ailments, the need for accurate-and accessible-information is greater than ever. Chinese Herbal Medicine Made Easy demystifies the principles of herbal treatment. It offers simple explanations of Chinese medical theories, describes medical terms in layperson's language, and lists multiple sources for obtaining herbal formulas.... |
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Shyamal Banerjee |
Divine Songs of Sage Poet Ramprasad |
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| Ramprasad Sen was born in the second decade of the eighteenth century in Halishahar in (then) Bengal. He was a great saint in Shakta cult. But, he was too a natural poet and composer.
The songs are hymns to Goddess Mother Kali couched in rustic words and symbols of everyday life. Yet, most of this symbolism is a rare mosaic of the occult mystery of Tantrashastra and carry a double meaning. Thus, flying kites, the blind ox trudging routine endless circles of the village oil-machine (ghaani),... |
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D.C. Sircar |
Sakta Pithas |
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| The holy places associated with the Mother Goddess and spread over various parts of the indian subcontinent have been popular pilgrim spots for a long time. According to some late Tantric texts ascribable to Eastern India, the number of such Sakta-Tirthas is fifty-one and the present monograph is a dissertation on the origin and development of this conception.Thus it is at the same time the study of a number of Tantric and other texts as well as of certain problems of Tantric religion and of... |
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F.R. Allchin (Ed.) |
A Source-Book of Indian Archaeology (Vol. 2) |
$66.67 $46.67 |
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| Table of Contents:
Preface
Settlements
Introduction
Memoir of a map of Hindoostan/James Rennell
Memoir of a map of Hindoostan/James Rennell
The tenth anniversary discourse, delivered 28 February 1793 on Asiatic history, civil and natural/William Jones
Inquiry concerning the site of ancient Palibothra/William Francklin
Sravasti\A. Cunningham
Kausambi and Sravasti/Vincent A. Smith
The Acheulian succession at Bhimbetka, Central India/V.N. Misra
The Acheulian culture... |
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Candis Cantin Packard |
Pocket Guide to Ayurvedic Healing |
$3.89 $2.72 |
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| Widely practiced in India, Ayurveda (the "science of life") combines physical, psychological, and spiritual therapies in a holistic approach to health. It utilizes herbs, proper nutrition, and, above all, an affirmative way to treat not just ailments but the whole person, with emphasis on disease prevention. Pocket Guide to Ayurvedic Healing is a concise guide to this ancient healing art and includes an overview of Ayurvedic principles, Self-diagnostic tests for determining basic constitution... |
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Tr.P.Pandian |
Culamani (2.Vols) |
$38.89 $27.22 |
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| AuthorDr.P.Pandian L.A.S.(Retd) alias Kaviyogi is a born poet.He hails from a family devoted to vegetarianism with lineage to siddars.Tagore of Tamilnadu,Gnana Kavikuyil,Kavitha Ratha,Michael Madhusudan Academy Award are some of the title conferred on him.He is the founder of the Universal Kundalini Yoga Research Foundation.Writing daily without a break,he has so far penned more than 1.75 lakh verses. |
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Lesley Tierra |
Herbs of Life : Health and Healing Using Western and Chinese Techniques |
$28.49 $19.94 |
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| Contents:
Introduction
I. How to Use Herbs for Health and Healing:
The nature of herbal healing
The energy of herbs
The energy of illness
Herbal properties, constituents, families and formulas
Knowing the herbs
II. How to Regain and Maintain Health:
The energy of food
The process of health and healing
Living with the seasons
Home remedies
Home Therapies
III. How to Obtain and Make your own Healing Tools:
Harvesting, preparing and storing herbs... |
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P.H. Kulkarni |
Ayurveda Vistas |
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| Contents:
The antiviral effect of the Ayurvedic preparation Sookshma Triphala on different Coxsackie viruses and rotavirus SA11 and the influence of this preparation on GMK and MA-104 cell lines/S. Bopegamage and A. Petrovicova.
Samskaras as potentiating procedures in medicinal preparations/M. Junius
Gold compound (Suvarna Kalpa) – a valuable drug in Ayurveda – case histories/Horst Poeblmann
Eating habits of Australians/Joanne Keith
Clinical assessment of efficacy of... |
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K.V. Raghupathi |
Yoga and Zen: A Monograph |
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| India is a home of rich spiritual traditions and philosophies. Yoga and Buddhism are the two greatest systems of philosophies given to humanity. The former expounded by Patanjali remained and lasted as pure tradition, while the latter when it was split into several schools.
Zen was born from one such school called Madhyamika as it traveled to the far east. Though originated in India, the two are diametrically opposed in respect of theology, cosmology, methodology and... |
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