East Asian religions Books

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Poetry and Reflection is a collection of poems written by Roger Neumaier in the years following his retirement. His intention was to write one poem a month into a poetry journal. The poems would reflect changes in the world around him. However, the...

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (1910-1991) was one of the greatest Tibetan Buddhist teachers of the 20th century. While a practitioner in the Nyingma lineage, he held empowerments and teachings from many traditions and was a strong supporter of the Rimey...

Supplicatory Canon and Akathist to Saint John the Russian.

Traditionally known as The Hundred Tales of Wisdom, this collection comprises excerpts from the life, teachings and miracles of the Sufi teacher Jalaluddin Rumi, together with certain important stories from his works.As well as being part of the bedrock...

Small in size, but with a powerful punch, Idries Shah’sReflections is a collection of fables, aphorisms, and statements that challenge the conditioned mind. The book confronts the reader with unaccustomed perspectives and ideas, in an attempt to...

El camino del Sufi presenta una incomparable variedad de materiales enseñantes y escritos clásicos provenientes de las principales Órdenes Sufis, los cuales conforman un curso básico de estudio Sufi.El autor comienza con los...

Traditionally known as The Hundred Tales of Wisdom, this collection comprises excerpts from the life, teachings and miracles of the Sufi teacher Jalaluddin Rumi, together with certain important stories from his works.As well as being part of the...

Confucius (also known as Kong Qiu, , and Kong Zhong Ni, , 551 - 479 BC) was a prominent, if not the most influential, philosopher of China. His teachings have been fundamental to the Chinese civilization and culture for over two and half millennia. The...

The present treatise has two objects. It is intended, primarily and chiefly, as a repertory of the more significant facts of Shinto for the use of scientific students of religion. It also comprises an outline theory of the origin and earlier stages of...

Examines the intersections between forgetting and remembering in classical Chinese civilization.The Craft of Oblivion is an innovative and groundbreaking volume that aims to study, for the first time, the intersections between forgetting and remembering...

Reevaluates Western and Chinese philosophical traditions to question the boundaries of entrenched conceptual frameworks.

Explores the role of meditation on the five elements in the practice of Yoga.

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts -...

Originally published in 1935, this a translation of the original Chinese text. The book follows Ch'ang-Ch'un through the crowded Chinese plains, through Mongolia, Samarkand and Afghanistan. It is a fascianting travelogue and an intriguing insight in to...

"Confucianism and Its Rivals" by Herbert A. Giles offers a comprehensive exploration of the rich tapestry of Chinese religions, spanning the dominance of Confucianism and Taoism to the historical role of Northern Buddhism. As China's state religion,...

Travel back in time to explore the ancient Vedic religion and its practice among the Indo-Aryans three thousand years ago. Kenneth Somerled MacDonald presents a detailed study of this long-forgotten creed, shedding light on its rituals, beliefs, and...

Sragdhara-Stotram is a rare and fascinating glimpse into the esoteric world of Hindu and Buddhist Tantric practices. This book presents a Sanskrit hymn to the goddess Tara, with a detailed commentary by the Kashmiri scholar Jina Raksita, as well as two...

Chinese Spiritual Thoughts  is a direct translation of the Tao Te Ching, the second most translated book in the world next to the bible. This solid Englsh Version comes from the foundation thought behind Taoism, Chinese religion, and Chinese...

Explores the lived experience of Christianity in India.

In the Wings of Sivananda-Valentina, our Holy Mother shares Her Heart and Wisdom with devotees and students who seek to expand their consciousness through the practice of Yogic spiritual disciplines at Her Retreat, The Light of Sivananda-Valentina.This...

The book Tao Te Ching isavailable almost everywhere, it hadbeen translated into more than 140languages and the publication of it was just next to The Bible during the past 2,700 years, thousands ofcurrent publications could be foundin the major book...

Is it true, as they say, the virtues of wisdom, bravery, honor, loyalty, compassion and purity enshrined in the Japanese soul have become lost in the rush of modern civilization? Has the power divine, the spirit of infinite light, love, tears and...

This book offers a contemporary approach to the study of religion in modern South Asia. It explores the development of religious ideas and practices in the region, giving students a clear and critical understanding of social, political and historical...

For more than a millennium, the fox has been a ubiquitous figure at the margins of the Japanese collective imagination. In the writings of the nobility and the motifs of popular literature, the fox is known as a shapeshifter, able to assume various forms...

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. There exists a natural ebb and flow in everything you do. By aligning yourself with this innate rhythm, you effortlessly get things done with ease and calm.This is precisely what the practice of wu...

"Il Cielo sopra, la Terra sotto" è un affascinante viaggio nelle antiche arti cinesi del Tai Ji e della Calligrafia. Il libro offre una panoramica completa sui sottili e profondi legami esistenti tra la filosofia del Tao, la pratica del Tai Ji e i...

Die Studie befragt das Hiobbuch und die babylonische Dichtung Ludlul bēl nēmeqi nach Antworten auf die Leidensfrage. Dabei werden die Antworten des Hiobbuches auch im gesamtbiblischen Horizont reflektiert.

The author examines contemporary exegesis/hermeneutics by three 20th century Muslim intellectuals. Their ideas on a reformed Islam consider sharia, education, ethos, democracy, society, pluralism, state. Scriptural interpretations address meaning,...

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Warning: when you pop, you can’t stop!Like a famous brand of crisps, these stories are addictive.Read one, the saying goes, and you’ll be stuck reading seven.In fact, Mulla Nasrudin jokes function like memes – working their way into the...

 Although enormously attractive as sheer entertainment, Dervish tales were never presented merely on the level of a fable, legend or folklore. They stand comparison in wit, construction and piquancy with the finest stories of any culture, yet their...

Special Illumination is a term used by the great poet and mystic Jalaluddin Rumi to stress the importance of humor in metaphysical experience.Of it, Idries Shah says, "Rumi directly contradicts such numerous sour-faced religionists as, in all...

The Way of the Sufi presents an unparalleled cross-section of material from Sufi schools, teachings and classical writings, as a basic course of Sufi study. The author begins with the outward aspects of the teaching most likely to puzzle the student...

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