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  • Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the other Indo-Aryan Languages (South Asia Research)

    • ASIN: 0195099842
    • ISBN: 0195099842
    • Brand: Brand: Oxford University Press, USA
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

    This book provides a general survey of all the inscriptional material in the Sanskrit, Prakrit, and modern Indo-Aryan languages, including donative, dedicatory, panegyric, ritual, and literary texts carved on stone, metal, and other materials. This material comprises many thousands of documents dating from a range of more than two millennia, found ... [Read More]

  • The Cambridge Introduction to Sanskrit

    • ASIN: B0746MLP8P
    • Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press

    Ideal for courses in beginning Sanskrit or self-study, this textbook employs modern, tried-and-tested pedagogical methods and tools, but requires no prior knowledge of ancient languages or linguistics. Devanāgarī script is introduced over several chapters and used in parallel with transliteration for several chapters more, allowing students to pr... [Read More]

  • Yoga and Psychology: Language, Memory, and Mysticism (SUNY Series in Religious Studies)

    • ASIN: 0791455009
    • ISBN: 0791455009
    • Brand: Brand: State University of New York Press
    • Manufacturer: SUNY Press

    Explores the influence of yoga in the seminal Indian philosophy of Bhartrhari and in the Western psychology of Freud, Jung, and the transpersonalists, providing unique insights into the differences between Eastern and Western concepts of human nature.Harold Coward explores how the psychological aspects of Yoga philosophy have been important to inte... [Read More]

  • Zen Buddhist Landscape Arts of Early Muromachi Japan (1336-1573) (SUNY Series in Buddhist Studies)

    • ASIN: 0791439100
    • ISBN: 0791439100
    • Brand: Brand: State University of New York Press
    • Manufacturer: SUNY Press

    Explores Japanese literary Zen through the landscape arts of poetry, prose, painting, and gardens expressed in the writings of Japan's Five Mountain monks.Examining inscriptions on landscape paintings and related documents, this book explores the views of the "two jewels" of Japanese Zen literature, Gido Shushin (1325-1388) and Zekkai Chushin (1336... [Read More]

  • The Origins of Yoga and Tantra: Indic Religions to the Thirteenth Century

    • UPC: 000521695341
    • ASIN: 0521695341
    • ISBN: 0521695341
    • Brand: Brand: Cambridge University Press
    • Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press

    Yoga, tantra and other forms of Asian meditation are practised in modernized forms throughout the world today, but most introductions to Hinduism or Buddhism tell only part of the story of how they developed. This book is an interpretation of the history of Indic religions up to around 1200 CE, with particular focus on the development of yogic and ... [Read More]

  • The Doctrine of Recognition: A Translation of the Pratyabhijnahrdayam with an Introduction and Notes, by Ksemaraja (SUNY series in Tantric Studies)

    • ASIN: 0791401510
    • ISBN: 0791401510
    • Manufacturer: SUNY Press

    "In this world there are some devoted people who are undeveloped in reflection and have not taken pains in studying difficult works, but who nevertheless aspire after the enlightenment that blossoms forth with the descent of Sakti. For their sake the doctrine of recognition is being explained briefly."--KsemarajaThe word pratyabhijna means recognit... [Read More]

  • John E. Fetzer and the Quest for the New Age (Great Lakes Books Series)

    • ASIN: B079SWBKQP
    • Manufacturer: Wayne State University Press

    John E. Fetzer and the Quest for the New Age follows the spiritual sojourn of John E. Fetzer, a Michigan business tycoon. Born in 1901 and living most of his life in Kalamazoo, Fetzer parlayed his first radio station into extensive holdings in broadcasting and other enterprises, leading to his sole ownership of the Detroit Tigers in 1961. By the ti... [Read More]

  • An Introduction to Buddhism: Teachings, History and Practices (Introduction to Religion)

    • ASIN: B00A8GYQZ6
    • Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press

    In this second edition of the best-selling Introduction to Buddhism, Peter Harvey provides a comprehensive introduction to the development of the Buddhist tradition in both Asia and the West. Extensively revised and fully updated, this edition draws on recent scholarship in the field, exploring the tensions and continuities between the different fo... [Read More]

  • The Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment: Korean Buddhism's Guide to Meditation (with Commentary by the Son Monk Kihwa) (SUNY series in Korean Studies)

    • ASIN: 0791441024
    • ISBN: 0791441024
    • Brand: Brand: State University of New York Press
    • Manufacturer: SUNY Press

    A concise guide to the key practice systems of the East Asian Meditational schools Ch'an, Son, and Zen.The Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment, used in monastic education for more than a millennium, is a concise guide to the key paradigms of the practice systems of the East Asian meditational schools (Ch’an, Soán, and Zen). Contained in its twelve ch... [Read More]

  • Coffee Shop University: A book about cross-cultural differences

    • ASIN: B075GXYRQC

    A book about cross-cultural differences... The place Bailey’s Gym, Los Angeles, California—6am—the fall of 1999… From a bourgeois neighborhood in Beirut to the schools of the streets of Europe and the United States, the story takes you on a journey of self-exploration and transformation that goes through weight rooms, boxing rings, librarie... [Read More]

  • Temple to Love: Architecture and Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Bengal (Contemporary Indian Studies)

    • ASIN: 0253344875
    • ISBN: 0253344875
    • Manufacturer: Indiana University Press

    [A]n excellent analytical study of a sensationally beautiful type of temple.... This work is not just art historical but embraces... religious studies, anthropology, history, and literature." ―Catherine B. Asher[A]dvances our knowledge of... Bengali temple building practices, the complex inter-reliance between religion, state power, and art, and ... [Read More]

  • Making Virtuous Daughters and Wives: An Introduction to Women's Brata Rituals in Bengali Folk Religion

    • ASIN: 0791455661
    • ISBN: 0791455661
    • Brand: Brand: State University of New York Press
    • Manufacturer: SUNY Press

    An exploration of Hindu women’s folk religion focusing on goddess worship and women’s rituals.Exploring the folk religion of India and the role of girls and women within it, author June McDaniel focuses on the brata (vrata) ritual in which moral lessons are taught and goddesses are revealed. Bratas are performed to gain such goals as a healthy ... [Read More]

  • Selling Yoga: From Counterculture To Pop Culture

    • ASIN: 019939024X
    • ISBN: 019939024X
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

    Premodern and early modern yoga comprise techniques with a wide range of aims, from turning inward in quest of the true self, to turning outward for divine union, to channeling bodily energy in pursuit of sexual pleasure. Early modern yoga also encompassed countercultural beliefs and practices. In contrast, today, modern yoga aims at the enhancemen... [Read More]

  • Early Tamil Epigraphy from the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. (Harvard Oriental Series)

    • ASIN: 0674012275
    • ISBN: 0674012275
    • Manufacturer: Harvard University Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies

    This book presents the earliest South Indian inscriptions (ca. second century B.C. to sixth century A.D.), written in Tamil in local derivations of the Ashokan Brahmi script. They are the earliest known Dravidian documents available and show some overlap with the early Cera and Pandya dynasties. Their language is Archaic Tamil, with a few borrowing... [Read More]

  • Religious Therapeutics: Body and Health in Yoga, Ayurveda, and Tantra (SUNY Series in Religious Studies)

    • ASIN: 0791449165
    • ISBN: 0791449165
    • Brand: Brand: State University of New York Press
    • Manufacturer: SUNY Press

    Explores the relationship between health and religion based on the model offered by the Hindu traditions of Yoga, Ayurveda, and Tantra.Religious Therapeutics explores the relationship between psychophysical health and spiritual health and presents a model for interpreting connections between religion and medicine in world traditions. This model eme... [Read More]

  • The Ways of Religion: An Introduction to the Major Traditions

    • ASIN: 0195118359
    • ISBN: 0195118359
    • Brand: Oxford University Press, USA
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

    Revised and updated, the third edition of this highly acclaimed anthology surveys all the major religious traditions--Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and African religions--and also covers Zen Buddhism, Shinto, and the religious experience in America. Ideal for courses in world religions and comparative relig... [Read More]

  • The Yoga of Vibration and Divine Pulsation: A Translation of the Spanda Karika with Ksemaraja's Commentary, the Spanda Nirnaya (SUNY series in Tantric Studies)

    • ASIN: 079141180X
    • ISBN: 079141180X
    • Brand: Brand: State University of New York Press
    • Manufacturer: SUNY Press

    Spanda is the vibratory dynamism of the absolute consciousness. In the first section of his commentary, Ksja presents spanda as identical with the essential self of each person. The second section presents a methodology that allows access to the world of spanda yoga. The third section describes the spiritual powers attained by the realization of sp... [Read More]

  • Emptiness and Omnipresence: An Essential Introduction to Tiantai Buddhism (World Philosophies)

    • ASIN: 025302112X
    • ISBN: 025302112X
    • Manufacturer: Indiana University Press

    Tiantai Buddhism emerged from an idiosyncratic and innovative interpretation of the Lotus Sutra to become one of the most complete, systematic, and influential schools of philosophical thought developed in East Asia. Brook A. Ziporyn puts Tiantai into dialogue with modern philosophical concerns to draw out its implications for ethics, epistemology,... [Read More]

  • Gandhi's Pilgrimage of Faith: From Darkness to Light

    • ASIN: 0791464067
    • ISBN: 0791464067
    • Brand: Brand: State University of New York Press
    • Manufacturer: SUNY Press

    Documents the lifelong journey of faith―full of challenges along the way―that made Gandhi the enlightened spiritual leader we revere.Millions around the world revere Mahatma Gandhi, yet only a few know the man Mohandas Gandhi and the internal journey of his soul. This pioneering book fills the spiritual void in Gandhian literature by focusing o... [Read More]

  • Beyond Sacred Violence: A Comparative Study of Sacrifice

    • ASIN: 0801887763
    • ISBN: 9780801887765
    • Brand: Brand: Johns Hopkins University Press
    • Manufacturer: Johns Hopkins University Press

    Winner, 2009 Georgia Author of the Year Award for Creative NonfictionFor many Westerners, the term sacrifice is associated with ancient, often primitive ritual practices. It suggests the death―frequently violent, often bloody―of an animal victim, usually with the aim of atoning for human guilt. Sacrifice is a serious ritual, culminating in a dr... [Read More]

  • Hinduism - Full 4.5 hrs session - PT's Knowledge Booster series - by Sandeep Manudhane sir

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