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Dr. Sashi Prabha Kumar (Ed.) |
Relevance of Indian Philosophy in Modern Context |
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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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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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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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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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Nipun Shukla |
Hindu Histories: The Beginnings |
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| When journeying back into the past, from recent times to the ancient, one would find history gradually transform into legend, and legend into myth. This is especially true for a country as complicated and diverse as India. Thus, the ancient histories of its people, the Hindus (a broad term that includes all the people of the Indus River, the Sindhu), are also shrouded in myth and legend.Hindu Histories, a fictional narrative complete with dates, those remote period of the past. The basis of the... |
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Bu Ston |
Jewellery of Scripture (translated from Tibetan) |
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| Bu-Ton Rinpoche was a native of Central Tibet and lived in the years 1290 to 1364, he thus belongs to the old school of Tibetan learning.
The History of Buddhism in India and Tibet by the great scholar Buston Rinchen grub-pa, also called Budon Rinpoche, is held in great esteem by Tibetan and Mongolian learned lamas. It is distinguished from the work of Taranatha by the plan of its composition.
It consists of three parts. The... |
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Ramesh Chandra Shah |
Ancestral Voices |
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| This is an extraordinary attempt to record and recover the long-neglected 'ancestral voices' of Indian civilisation.
The publication and subsequent reprinting of our civilisation ally significant lectures that Shah delivered at Temenos Academy, London in 1998, in the form of the book, is a welcome addition to the short-list of titles that sincerely explore the meaning of India. |
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Capt. W F O'Connor |
Folk Tales from Tibet |
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| Folk Tales from Tibet is a collection of some of the most exquisite stories from Tibet recorded by Captan W F O'Connor.
These tales were collected during his tenure as secretary and interpreter with the Lhasa Mission of 1904. They were compiled at a time when the western world knew little or nothing about this mystical and exotic country. |
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P.Arundhati |
Annapurna |
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| Annapurna is a bunch of flowers that bloomed in the course of quarter century of research with a fragrance of Indian thought on different branches of knowledge like nourishment, medicine, ecology, psychology, chemistry, petrology and like, spreading the aroma of Indian culture to the length and breadth of the world. The articles reflect the strength, vitality and vigour of Indian culture as known even in the times of hoary antiquity. Annapurna is a valuable contribution to Indological studies.... |
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John C. Plott |
Global History of Philosophy (Vol. 1) |
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| This is the first in a series of five volumes on the global history of philosophy. In this and subsequent volumes instead of the traditional division of western and non western philosophies each philosophy is seen in relation to global contemoraries.throughout Eurasia. Scholasticism should not be taken in the pejorative sense as the juggling of arguments by straw men, but in the sense of a challenge even in our own era to work for consistent and comprehensive systematic synthesis. All the... |
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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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Richard Bach |
Messiah’s Handbook |
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| In Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, Richard Bach met Donald Shimoda, a fellow pilot with the keys to the universe who barnstormed the Midwest in a Travel Air biplane. Part of Shimoda’s secret was a small book, bound in what looked like suede: Messiah’s Handbook, Reminders for the Advanced Soul. “Open it,” he said, “and whatever you need to know is there.” Lost for decades and rediscovered, here it is in print at last—reminders for those who have outgrown cynicism... |
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Sangharakshita |
Tibetan Buddhism: An Introduction |
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| A glorious past, a traumatic present, an uncertain future. What are we to make of Tibetan Buddhism? In the West it has an exotic, even glamorous image: there are books about secret teachings, and films about mysterious lamas. But if Western Buddhists are to learn anything of real value from Tibet, we must look beyond the merely exotic. Tibetan Buddhism, as Sangharakshita makes it clear, is a practical tradition with much to teach us.
Table of Contents:
Editor’s Preface
How Buddhism came... |
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Rene Guenon |
The Crisis of the Modern World |
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| In The Crisis of the Modern World, published for the first time in 1927, Guenon writes a relentless and radical criticism of the modern world, revealing its shallowness and its spiritual destitution when confronted with the traditional civilizations. 80 years later, his words are still amazingly present and fully valid, but there is something that has definitely changed: the traditional East that Guenon sets against the modern West has disappeared in a great measure as Asia has taken, by its... |
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Peter Heehs |
Nationalism, Terrorism, Communalism: Essays in Modern Indian History |
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| During his political career, Sri Aurobindo was one of the leading exponents of anti-British nationalism in India. At the same time he was the inspiration behind a clandestine group that planned to overthrow the colonial government by force. The sort of violent acts that this group carried out are regarded by social scientists as "terrorism", using that word in a technical sense that was current before recent events altered its meaning.
Sri Aurobindo's writings have sometimes been regarded as... |
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Susan L. Schwartz |
Rasa: Performing the Divine in India |
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| While many people outside India find the images, sounds, and practices of Indian performing arts compelling and endeavor to incorporate them into the "global" repertoire, few are aware of the central role of religious belief and practice in Indian aesthetics. Completing the trilogy that includes Darsan: Seeing the Divine in India and Mantra: Hearing the Divine in India and America, this volume focuses on how rasa has been applied in a range of Indian performance traditions. "Rasa" is taste,... |
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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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Arthur Lillie |
The Popular Life of Buddha |
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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 growth of religion, particularly of the place of Buddhism in the development of religious... |
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Hans Raj Agarwal |
A Short History of Sanskrit Literature |
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P.N. Oak |
Agra Red Fort is a Hindu Building |
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| We are proud to present to the Indian people, to students of Indian history the world over and to the tourist who loves to visit Indian historical sites this unique book revealing the hoary and glorious history of the majestic Red Fort in Agra.
In the present volume we have exposed one glaring mis-concept of mediaeval historical texts and tourist guide books. Visitors to the Red Fort in Agra and students and scholars of history are being made to believe and propagate that the Red Fort in Agra... |
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Amita Sarin |
Akbar and Birbal |
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| The friendship between Emperor Akbar and his minister Birbal created history-and some delightful stories! The tales of Akbar and Birbal have been passed on from generation to generation, enthralling young and old listeners alike. This book brings together a selection of these stories, along with fascinating historical details about the Mughal court, the emperor and his witty courtier.
From the time that a chance meeting in the forest brought Akbar and Birbal face-to-face, the emperor... |
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Raymond Buckland |
An Illustrated Guide To Magical & Spiritual Symbolism |
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| In an illustrated guide to Magical & Spiritual Symbolism, leading occult authority Raymond Buckland describes the form and meaning of over 800 symbols from ancient and modern religious, magical traditional, and indigenous cultures around the world. Understand the symbols used throughout human history and gain a deeper appreciation for the depth of the human experience and the vast uncharted realm of the collective unconscious. Raymond Buckland introduced Gardnerian Wicca to the United... |
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Kedar Nath Tiwari |
Classical Indian Ethical Thought |
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| The book is a philosophical treatise on the Hindu, Bauddha and Jaina morals meant for the University students of Indian Ethics as well as for the general readers interested in the subject. Books on the subject are generally written in a historical perspective. On the contrary, the present work is philosophical and critical which takes full cognisance of the recent developments in Western ethical thought and its likely impact on the understanding of the traditional Indian ethics. Attempt has... |
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S.N. Dasgupta |
Hindu Mysticism |
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| This book is a systematic introduction to Hindu mysticism as it evolved in India through the ages.
Mysticism is not an intellectual theory, It is fundamentally an active, formative, creative, elevating and ennobling principle of life. According to the author, mysticism means a spiritual grasp of the aims and problems of life in a much more real and ultimate manner than is possible to mere reason.
This small book gives a brief general outline of some of the most important types of mysticism,... |
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