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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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Holger Kersten |
Jesus Lived in India - His Unknown Life Before and After the Crucifixion |
$25.99 $18.19 |
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| This compelling book presents irrefutable evidence that Jesus did indeed live in India, dying there in old age. The result of many years of investigative research, this study takes the reader to all the historical sites connected with Jesus in Israel, the Middle East, Afghanistan and India. Why has Christianity chosen to ignore its connections with the religions of the East, and to dismiss repeatedly the numerous claims that Jesus spent a large part of his life in India? This compelling book... |
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Prem P. Bhalla |
Hindu Rites, Rituals, Customs and Traditions |
$16.49 $11.54 |
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| Rites, rituals and customs play a major role in the life of every person, irrespective of religious affiliations. However,this is more prominent in the case of Hindus. Right from the time of conception and birth, up to a person`s passing away and even after it, rites and rituals follow a Hindu at all times, much like a shadow. Indeed, there is one or the other rite, ritual or custom that comes into play for Hindus 365 days of the year. However, unlike other religions where many customs are... |
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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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Swami Vimalananda |
In Indian Culture: Why do we |
$4.95 $3.47 |
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| Indian culture is admired and respected all over the world for its beauty and depth. This book features in simple terms, the various aspects of both beauty and depth in this culture. Almost every Indian custom and tradition has either a scientific, logical, historical, social or spiritual significance.
Understanding this lends meaning to an otherwise mechanical following of the customs which are often misunderstood to be mere superstitions that fade away in time. |
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Dr. N.N. Bhattacharyya |
History of the Tantric Religion |
$28.99 $20.29 |
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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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Adrian Snodgrass |
The Matrix and Diamond World Mandalas in Shingon Buddhism (2 Vol) |
$109.95 $76.97 |
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| The Matrix and Diamond World Mandalas in Singon Buddhism surveys and re-interprets the vast work of traditional and modern Japanese scholarship on the twin Mandalas. Adrian Snodgrass of the University of Sydney (Australia) has spent several years of detail the iconography of each and every deity of these two Mandalas as well as to bring out their traditional symbolism that reflects the Tantric thought in its earliest phases. Tantrism or Mantrayana reached China and Japan earlier than it did in... |
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Tapasi De |
Hanuman |
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| Hanuman is one of the most important characters of the great Indian epic-The Ramayana. He is a Monkey God, remembered and worshipped for his remarkable strength and loyalty towards Lord Rama. The stories of Hanuman are like a treasure house of extraordinary events, which will certainly evoke a lot of amusement among the young readers. |
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Edward C. Sachau |
Alberuni's India |
$20.99 $14.69 |
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| It was in 1017 AD, at the behest of Sultan Muhmud of Persia, Alberuni, aka A1-Biruni, travelled to India to learn about the Hindus, and to discuss with them questions of religion, science, and literature, and the very basis of their civilisation. He remained in India for thirteen years, studying and exploring. Alberuni's scholarly work has not been given the due recognition it deserves. Not for nearly eight hundred years would any other writer match Alberuni's profound understanding of almost... |
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Hermann oldenberg |
The Doctrine of the Upanisads and the Early Buddhism |
$15.28 $10.69 |
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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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H.D. Griswold |
Religion of the Rigveda |
$21.94 $15.36 |
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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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Nalinksha Dutt |
Buddhist Sects in India |
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| This extraordinary book is the only authentic document of its kind.
Beginning with a detailed and lucid exposition of the political background of
India from Ajatasatru to Mahapadma nanda, it goes on to trace the sources of the
Second Buddhist Council, to locate with unerring exactitude the disruptive
forces in the Sangha and, in the fourth chapter, to classify the Sects. In the
chapters that follow, the learned author deals with the Mahasanghikas, doctrines
of Group II-V Schools. In... |
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V.R. Ramachandra Dikshitar |
The Lalita Cult |
$6.94 $4.86 |
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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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Mahadeva Chakravarti |
Concept of Rudra-Siva Through the Ages |
$21.94 $15.36 |
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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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Sengaku Mayeda |
Sankara's Upadesasahasri (2 Volumes) - Introduction, Text & Indices |
$49.99 $34.99 |
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| Sankara, the eighth-century Indian philosopher, is generally regarded as the greatest thinker in the long history of Indian philosophy as well as in the metaphysical tradition known as Vedanta. Advaita Vedanta, the school or system founded by him, stresses the Advaita or non-dualist approach to the problem of existence and ultimate reality, and has been the main current of thought in India for hundreds of years.
Most of Sankara's works are commentaries on other classics of Indian thought,... |
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P.D. Mehta |
Early Indian Religious Thought |
$43.99 $30.79 |
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| This book is divided into two parts.
The part deals with the pre-vedic thought which contain proto-australoid beliefs, Mediterranean, Indus Valley Culture, Mother-Goddess figurine, Tree worship, the Siva armlet, etc. The Vedas, Aryan entry, Brahma, Linga, Brahmanas, Aranyakas, India, Upanisads, Buddha, his teachings, Bhagavat Gita, Yoga teachigs, Samkhyan viewer, etc. are some of topics discussed in the first part of the book.
The second part is about Hinduism, caste,... |
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Tapasi De |
Krishna |
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| Lord Krishna is believed to be the eighth incarnation of Lord Vishnu. He is usually depicted as a young and naughty cowherd boy, playing the flute and stealing butter and milk from the villagers' houses. The stories of Krishna are interesting and delightful as well. |
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O.N Bimali (Ed.) |
Vamana Purana: Sanskrit Text with English Translation |
$41.99 $29.39 |
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| According to Manu- ‘‘Vedas are primary source of religion’’, the Puranas, however, are the essence of the religion of Hindu society. Puranas are also regarded as the chief source for the detailed explanation of the Vedas. They, therefore, occupy a significant place in the ancient literature of India. The Puranas have obtained the name of Panchalakshana because their contents generally embrace five topics namely (1) Primary creation or cosmogony, (2) secondary creation, (3) genealogy of gods and... |
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Ananda K. Coomaraswamy |
A New Approach to the Vedas |
$16.49 $11.54 |
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| From the pen of Ananda K. Coomaraswamy this small but wonderful volume is an essay in translation and exegesis in relation to the Vedas in which passages from the Rgveda and the Brhadaranyaka and Maitri Upanishads, dealing with cosmogony, ontology and teleology, have been interpreted in a new perception of the quite extraordinary depth of those ideas and their amazing psychological accuracy. According to Coomaraswamy no great extension of our present measure of understanding of the Vedas can be... |
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A.K. Warder |
Indian Buddhism |
$50.99 $35.69 |
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| This book describes the Buddhism of India on the basis of the comparison f all the available original sources in various languages. It falls into three approximately equal parts. The first is a reconstruction of the original Buddhism presupposed by the traditions of the different schools known to us. it uses primarily the established methods of textual criticism, drawing out of the oldest extant texts of the different schools their common kernel. The kernel of doctrine is presumbly common... |
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Bu Ston |
The History of Buddhism in India and Tibet (Vol 1) |
$19.49 $13.64 |
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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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Motilal Pandit |
Encounter with buddhism |
$30.99 $21.69 |
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| The main purpose of writing this book is not only to explain, but also to interpret, the three phases of development of Buddhist thought in India, and how and in what manner it spread out to countries as far away from the land of its origin as Japan. Though the subject may be vast, a conscious effort has been made to explain the complexity of Buddhist philosophical thought in as concise terms as possible.The first five hundred years, which constitute the initial phase of development, is that of... |
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David Burton |
Emptiness Appraised |
$25.49 $17.84 |
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| Emptiness (sunyata) is a religious/ philosophical concept which is central to much of Buddhist thought. It is employed in numerous contexts by different thinkers and schools, with a variety of meanings.
A thorough comparative study of the uses and meanings of the notion of emptiness throughout the history of Buddhism was certainly a desideratum, which this present work fulfils. It is an investigation into the philosophy of emptiness as expressed by the second century Indian Buddhist thinker... |
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Koichi Shinohara and Phyllis Granoff |
Speaking of Monks: from Benares to Beijing |
$21.99 $15.39 |
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| This book contains one long, very interesting and informative essay on biographical writings in the Jain tradition. The author translates and discusses biographies and autobiographies of two Jain monks who lived in the 11th and 14th centuries respectively.
The book also brings together twelve essays by leading scholars of Chinee and Indian civilizations from Europe, North America and Asia. The essays cover a wide range of topics in Indian and Chinese religions and cultures and offer fresh... |
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W. Caland (Ed.)(Tr.) |
The Jaiminigrhyasutra Belonging to the Samaveda |
$8.49 $5.94 |
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| The Grhya 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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