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  • Hideout Planet Earth Hideout Planet Earth
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    Hideout Planet Earth

    Why are we here on planet earth? It is the destiny of all creation to reach a condition of universal oneness with the creator continually growing toward that common ideal. The cycle of change every where about him and he turns to evolution, but while he...
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  • Studying Hinduism Studying Hinduism
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    Studying Hinduism

    This book is an indispensable resource for students and researchers wishing to develop a deeper understanding of one of the world's oldest and most multifaceted religious traditions.
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  • Imagining Hinduism Imagining Hinduism
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    Imagining Hinduism

    Imagining Hinduism is an indispensable guide to an immensely significant new understanding of the Hindu faith - that it exists largely as a construct of the Western imagination.
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  • Light on Pranayama Revised Edition
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    Light on Pranayama Revised Edition

    The definitive guide to yogic breathing from B.K.S. Iyengar, the world’s most respected yoga teacher. B.K.S. Iyengar has devoted his life to the practice and study of yoga. It was B.K.S. Iyengar’s unique teaching style, bringing precision and clarity to...
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    Pilgrimage in the Hindu Tradition

    Salvific space is one of the central ideas in the Hindu traditions of pilgrimage, and concerns the ability of space, especially sites associated with bodies of water such as rivers and lakes, to grant salvific rewards. Focusing on religious, historical...
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  • Interpreting Devotion Interpreting Devotion
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    Interpreting Devotion

    Devotion is a category of expression in many of the world's religious traditions. This book looks at issues involved in academically interpreting religious devotion, as well as exploring the interpretations of religious devotion made by a sixth century...
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  • The Upanisads The Upanisads
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    The Upanisads

    The Upaniṣads are among the most sacred foundational scriptures in the Hindu religion. Composed from 800 BCE onwards and making up part of the larger Vedic corpus, they offer the reader "knowledge lessons" on life, death, and immortality. While they are...
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  • Consciousness in Jung and Patañjali Consciousness in Jung and Patañjali
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    Consciousness in Jung and Patañjali

    The East-West dialogue increasingly seeks to compare and clarify contrasting views on the nature of consciousness. For the Eastern liberatory models, where a nondual view of consciousness is primary, the challenge lies in articulating how consciousness...
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  • Yoga in the Modern World Yoga in the Modern World
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    Yoga in the Modern World

    Today yoga is a thoroughly globalised phenomenon. Yoga has taken the world by storm and is even seeing renewed popularity in India. Both in India and abroad, adults, children and teenagers are practicing yoga in diverse settings; gyms, schools, home,...
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  • Consciousness in Indian Philosophy Consciousness in Indian Philosophy
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    Consciousness in Indian Philosophy

    This book focuses on the analysis of pure consciousness as found in Advaita Vedanta, one of the main schools of Indian philosophy. According to this tradition, reality is identified as Brahman, the world is considered illusory, and the individual self is...
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  • Self-Surrender (prapatti) to God in Shrivaishnavism Self-Surrender (prapatti) to God in Shrivaishnavism
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    Self-Surrender (prapatti) to God in Shrivaishnavism

    Filling the most glaring gap in Shrivaishnava scholarship, this book deals with the history of interpretation of a theological concept of self-surrender-prapatti in late twelfth and thirteenth century religious texts of the Shrivaishnava community of...
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  • PIERCING HUMAN EXPERIENCE PIERCING HUMAN EXPERIENCE
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    PIERCING HUMAN EXPERIENCE

    Winner of the 15th Annual National Indie Excellence® Awards (NIEA)Understanding the human experience is about finding its essence. The true identity of a human being is concealed as the very basis of the states of waking, dreaming, and deep sleep of...
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  • The Chaitanya Vaishnava Vedanta of Jiva Gosvami The Chaitanya Vaishnava Vedanta of Jiva Gosvami
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    The Chaitanya Vaishnava Vedanta of Jiva Gosvami

    The Chaitanya Vaishnava tradition is famous for its depth of devotion to Krishna, the blue-hued Deity. Chaitanya Vaishnavas are known for having refined the practice and aesthetics of devotion into a sophisticated science. This imposing devotional...
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  • The Archaeology of Sacred Spaces The Archaeology of Sacred Spaces
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    The Archaeology of Sacred Spaces

    This volume focuses on the religious shrine in western India as an institution of cultural integration in the period spanning 200 BCE to 800 CE. It presents an analysis of religious architecture at multiple levels, both temporal and spatial, and...
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  • Routledge Handbook of South Asian Religions Routledge Handbook of South Asian Religions
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    Routledge Handbook of South Asian Religions

    The Routledge Handbook of South Asian Religions presents critical research, overviews and case studies on religion in historical South Asia and in the seven nation states of contemporary South Asia: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka,...
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  • In Days of Great Peace In Days of Great Peace
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    In Days of Great Peace

    For several years Mouni Sadhu steeped himself in the teachings of the foremost Hindu ascetic, Sri Ramana Maharshi. This book, first published in 1957, is the best attempt by a European to describe without technicalities what such teachings entail, what...
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  • Hindu Pilgrimage Hindu Pilgrimage
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    Hindu Pilgrimage

    This book analyses the phenomenon of pilgrimage as a religious practice and experience and examines Shrî Shailam, a renowned south Indian pilgrimage site of Shiva and Goddess Durga. In doing so, it investigates two dimensions: the worldview of a place...
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  • Hindi Poetry in a Musical Genre Hindi Poetry in a Musical Genre
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    Hindi Poetry in a Musical Genre

    Indian classical music has long been fascinating to Western audiences, most prominently since the Beatles' sessions with Ravi Shankar in the 1960s. This fascination with the musical genre still prevails in the twenty-first century. Hindi Poetry in a...
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  • Genealogy of the South Indian Deities Genealogy of the South Indian Deities
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    Genealogy of the South Indian Deities

    For the first time Genealogy of the South Indian Deities, the work of Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg (1682-1719), the first Protestant missionary in India, is made accessible to an English readership. Originally published in 1713, the text reveals Ziegenbalg's...
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  • Modern Transnational Yoga Modern Transnational Yoga
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    Modern Transnational Yoga

    This is the first book to address the social organisation of modern yoga practice as a primary focus of investigation and to undertake a comparative analysis to explore why certain styles of yoga have successfully transcended geographical boundaries and...
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  • Wake Up and Roar (16pt Large Print Edition) Wake Up and Roar (16pt Large Print Edition)
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    Wake Up and Roar (16pt Large Print Edition)

    H.W.L. Poonja - affectionately known as Papaji - was only nine years old when he experienced his first samadhi, an altered state of consciousness where observer and object merge. As an adult, he sat in devotion with Sri Ramana Maharshi, and went on to...
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  • In Dialogue with the Mahābhārata In Dialogue with the Mahābhārata
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    In Dialogue with the Mahābhārata

    The Mahābhārata has been explored extensively as a work of mythology, epic poetry, and religious literature, but the text's philosophical dimensions have largely been under-appreciated by Western scholars. This book explores the philosophical...
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  • Vedantic Hinduism in Colonial Bengal Vedantic Hinduism in Colonial Bengal
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    Vedantic Hinduism in Colonial Bengal

    This book explores the ways in which modern Hindu identities were constructed in the early nineteenth century. It draws parallels between sixteenth and eventeenth Cecntury Protestantism and the rise of modernity in the West, and the Hindu reformation in...
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  • The Future of Hindu-Christian Studies The Future of Hindu-Christian Studies
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    The Future of Hindu-Christian Studies

    The field of Hindu-Christian studies revives theology as a particularly useful interreligious discipline. Though a sub-division of the broader Hindu-Christian dialogue, it is also a distinct field of study, proper to a smaller group of religious...
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  • Vedanta for the West Vedanta for the West
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    Vedanta for the West

    An important history of the Ramakrishna movement, the very first and in many ways the most important Asian religious group to appear in the United States.
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  • The Advancement Of Industry The Advancement Of Industry
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    The Advancement Of Industry

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
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  • Old Chipped Stones Of India (1906) Old Chipped Stones Of India (1906)
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    Old Chipped Stones Of India (1906)

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
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  • The Namalinganus'asana, Amarakosh Of Amarasimha The Namalinganus'asana, Amarakosh Of Amarasimha
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    The Namalinganus'asana, Amarakosh Of Amarasimha

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
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  • Indian Moral Instruction And Caste Problems Indian Moral Instruction And Caste Problems
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    Indian Moral Instruction And Caste Problems

    Indian Moral Instruction And Caste Problems: Solutions is a book written by Alexander Hay Benton and published in 1917. The book explores the issues of moral instruction and caste problems in India during the early 20th century. Benton, who was a...
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  • Christian and Hindu Ethics Christian and Hindu Ethics
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    Christian and Hindu Ethics

    Hinduism and Christianity are different in structure and approach - but have a great deal in common in matters relating to ethics. This book, first published in 1969, is the first systematic and detailed work which attempts to bring out both the...
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  • Samkara's Advaita Vedanta Samkara's Advaita Vedanta
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    Samkara's Advaita Vedanta

    Samkara (c.700 CE) has been regarded by many as the most authoritative Hindu thinker of all time. A great Indian Vedantin brahmin, Samkara was primarily a commentator on the sacred texts of the Vedas and a teacher in the Advaitin teaching line. This...
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  • The Vedanta-Sutras V1 The Vedanta-Sutras V1
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    The Vedanta-Sutras V1

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
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  • The Manitous The Manitous
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    The Manitous

    These are the stories of the manitous--the spirits who inhabit the supernatural world of the Ojibway (the Native American tribe of the Great Lakes and central Canada region). Harvested by an eminent expert from an ancient oral tradition, these sacred...
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  • South Asian Religions on Display South Asian Religions on Display
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    South Asian Religions on Display

    Religious procession is a significant dimension of religion in South Asia. Processions are central not only in Hinduism, but also Islam, Christianity, Jainism and Sikhism, which have large procession rituals. The last years have seen an increase in...
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  • Theories of the Gift in South Asia Theories of the Gift in South Asia
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    Theories of the Gift in South Asia

    This book explores the ethical and social implications of unilateral gifts of esteem, offering a perceptive guide to the uniquely South Asian contributors to theoretical work on the gift.
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  • Religion and Commodification Religion and Commodification
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    Religion and Commodification

    Sustaining a Hindu universe at an everyday life level requires an extraordinary range of religious specialists and ritual paraphernalia. At the level of practice, devotional Hinduism is an embodied religion and grounded in a materiality, that makes the...
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  • A Hindu Critique of Buddhist Epistemology A Hindu Critique of Buddhist Epistemology
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    A Hindu Critique of Buddhist Epistemology

    This is a translation of the chapter on perception of Kumarilabhatta's magnum opus, the Slokavarttika, one of the central texts of the Hindu response to the criticism of the logical-epistemological school of Buddhist thought. In an extensive commentary,...
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  • Pointless Pointless
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    Pointless

    This book examines how major interpretations of quantum theory are progressing toward a more unified understanding and experience of nature. It offers subtle insights to address core issues of wave-particle duality, the measurement problem, the mind/body...
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  • From Temple to Museum From Temple to Museum
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    From Temple to Museum

    This book traces the lives of religious sculptures beyond its creation. It highlights contentious issues in Indian archaeology such as: renegotiating identities of religious images, reuse and sharing of sacred space by adherents of different faiths,...
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