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Sound of Vultures' Wings
The Tibetan Buddhist Chöd Ritual Practice of the Female Buddha Machik Labdrön
Inbunden, 2024
1286 kr
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Explores the music of the Tibetan Chöd tradition.The Sound of Vultures' Wings offers the first in-depth exploration of the music of the Tibetan Chöd tradition, which is based on the liturgical song-poems of the twelfth-century Tibetan female ascetic Machik Labdrön (1055–1153). Chöd is a …
Perspectives on the New Age
Av James R. Lewis, J. Gordon Melton
Häftad, 1992
487 kr
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This book begins with a comprehensive historical section that places the New Age within the context of its predecessor movements. It then focuses on specialized aspects of this subculture, from essays on the convergence of New Age spirituality with women's spirituality, to an essay on how …
Religious Dimensions of Confucianism
Häftad, 1990
365 kr
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The role of Confucianism in the development of East Asian Cultures has only recently begun to be fully appreciated. Even with this recognition, there is still little understanding of the tradition as a religious tradition. This book presents Confucianism as a religious tradition. In no other book …
Spirituality, Diversion, and Decadence
The Contemporary Predicament
Häftad, 1992
487 kr
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This book presents a philosophical rethinking of the meaning and nature of spiritual discipline. It offers a new way of describing and justifying practices like praying, meditating, fasting, and yoga, and it provides an innovative case for their contemporary importance.Spiritual discipline is …
Life And Teachings Of Sai Baba Of Shirdi
Häftad, 1993
535 kr
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A vast and diversified religious movement originating from Sai Baba of Shirdi, is often referred to as "the Sai Baba movement." Through the chronological presentation of Sai Baba's life, light is shed on the various ways in which the important guru figures in this movement came to be linked to the …
Nonviolence to Animals, Earth, and Self in Asian Traditions
Häftad, 1993
455 kr
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This book probes the origins of the practice of nonviolence in early India and traces its path within the Jaina, Hindu, and Buddhist traditions, including its impact on East Asian Cultures. It then turns to a variety of contemporary issues relating to this topic such as: vegetarianism, animal and …
Need for a Sacred Science
Häftad, 1993
619 kr
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This book deals with the meaning of a science rooted in the sacred, the metaphysical foundation of such science, its contrast to modern science and its pertinence to some of the major issues facing humanity today. In the first part, the author turns to the fundamental question of the multiplicity …
Eternity and Time's Flow
Häftad, 1993
371 kr
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Neville returns eternity to the center of consideration by analyzing the obsessive culture that attempts to get along denying it; and he analyzes the nature of time's flow itself, the nature of divine eternity, and the subtle problems of personal immortality. He argues that time and eternity …
Religious Pluralism and Truth
Essays on Cross-Cultural Philosophy of Religion
Av Thomas Dean
Häftad, 1994
463 kr
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This book is an introduction to cross-cultural philosophy of religion. It presents an alternative to Western-oriented philosophy of religion by focusing on questions of truth in the context of religious pluralism, including the criteria, models, and hermeneutics of cross-cultural truth in religion. …
America's Alternative Religions
Häftad, 1995
504 kr
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A source of reliable information on the most important new and alternative religions covering history, theology, impact on the culture, and current status. It includes a chapter on the Branch DavidiansThis is a single-volume source of reliable information on the most important alternative …
India's Agony Over Religion
Häftad, 1995
504 kr
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Presents the contemporary religious crisis in India, providing historical perspective and focusing on the crises in Punjab, Kashmir, and Ayodhya.Many of ancient India's religious traditions are alive in modern India, and many of these religious traditions are in conflict with one another regarding …
Ganapati
Song of the Self
Häftad, 1995
463 kr
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Presents a wide range of information about Ganapati or Ganesh, the Hindu Lord of Beginnings, the Remover of Obstacles, the Keeper of the Threshold, and the Master of the Mind. He is elephant-headed, plump, and loveable, but who is he really?Ganapati is the Hindu Lord of Beginnings, the Keeper of …
From Early Vedanta to Kashmir Shaivism
Gaudapada, Bhartrhari, and Abhinavagupta
Häftad, 1995
455 kr
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Clarifies the relationship between God and the creation for Gaudapada, Bhartrhari, and Shankara, and by doing so, demonstrates a major continuity of thought from Gaudapada through Bhartrhari to Abhinavagupta and Kashmir Shaivism.This book deals with one of the most interesting periods in the …
Truth of Broken Symbols
Häftad, 1995
487 kr
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Provides a cross-cultural analysis of how religious symbols function from a theological and philosophical perspective.This book provides a cross-cultural analysis of how religious symbols function from a theological and philosophical perspective. Showing how religious symbols can be true in various …
Ethics for a Small Planet
New Horizons on Population, Consumption, and Ecology
Av Daniel C. Maguire, Larry L. Rasmussen
Häftad, 1998
455 kr
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A radical new look at the religious, economic, and political roots of terracide and how things can change for the better.This book offers an original assessment of the crisis caused by the combined impact of overpopulation, overconsumption, and economic and political injustice. It summons religious …
Dattātreya: The Immortal Guru, Yogin, and Avatāra
A Study of the Transformative and Inclusive Character of a Multi-faceted Hindu Deity
Häftad, 1998
487 kr
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Presents the multi-faceted Hindu deity Dattatreya from his Puranic emergence to modern times.This book presents the multi-faceted Hindu deity Dattatreya from his Puranic emergence up to modern times. Dattatreya's Brahmanical portrayal, as well as his even more archaic characterization as a Tantric …
Integrity of the Yoga Darśana
A Reconsideration of Classical Yoga
Av Ian Whicher
Häftad, 1998
504 kr
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Maintains that the Yoga-Sutras do not advocate abandonment of the world, but rather support a stance that enables one to live more fully in the world without being enslaved by worldly identification.The Integrity of the Yoga Darśana centers on the thought of Patañjali, the great exponent of the …
South Asian Religious Diaspora in Britain, Canada, and the United States
Av Harold Coward, John R. Hinnells m. fl.
Häftad, 2000
391 kr
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Explores religious experience in the South Asian immigrant communities of Britain, Canada, and the United States.This book explores the experience of religious communities that have migrated from South Asia (India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh) to live in Britain, Canada, and the United States, three …
Spiritual Roots of Restorative Justice
Häftad, 2001
463 kr
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Explores the concept of Restorative Justice in diverse spiritual traditions.This interdisciplinary study explores what major spiritual traditions say in text, tradition, and current practice about criminal justice in general and Restorative Justice in particular. It reflects the close collaboration …
Buddhist History of the West
Studies in Lack
Av David R. Loy
Häftad, 2002
463 kr
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A Buddhist interpretation of Western history that shows civilization shaped by the self's desire for groundedness.Buddhism teaches that to become happy, greed, ill-will, and delusion must be transformed into their positive counterparts: generosity, compassion, and wisdom. The history of the West, …
Yoga and Psychology
Language, Memory, and Mysticism
Inbunden, 2002
1286 kr
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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 …
Yoga and Psychology
Language, Memory, and Mysticism
Häftad, 2002
374 kr
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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 …
Hindu Bioethics for the Twenty-first Century
Häftad, 2003
463 kr
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Explores contemporary controversies in bioethics from a Hindu perspective.S. Cromwell Crawford breaks new ground in this provocative study of Hindu bioethics in a Western setting. He provides a new moral and philosophical perspective on fascinating and controversial bioethical issues that are …
Indian Critiques of Gandhi
Häftad, 2003
394 kr
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Through examinations of Gandhi's critics, both individuals and groups, this book shows the complexity of Indian society and opinion at the time of the Indian Independence Movement.Although Gandhi has been the subject of hundreds of books and an Oscar-winning film, there has been no sustained study …
Make Me a Man!
Masculinity, Hinduism, and Nationalism in India
Häftad, 2005
357 kr
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Looks at the ideals of masculine Hinduism—and the corresponding feminine ideals—that have built the Indian nation, and explores their consequences.Make Me a Man! argues that ideas about manhood play a key role in building and sustaining the modern nation. It examines a particular expression of …
Samādhi
The Numinous and Cessative in Indo-Tibetan Yoga
Inbunden, 2005
1018 kr
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Explores yoga and meditation in Eastern religions, incorporating psychological and social aspects of these practices.A historical and comparative study grounded in close readings of important works, this book explores the dynamics of the theory and practice of yoga in Hindu and Buddhist contexts. …
Samādhi
The Numinous and Cessative in Indo-Tibetan Yoga
Häftad, 2006
563 kr
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Explores yoga and meditation in Eastern religions, incorporating psychological and social aspects of these practices.A historical and comparative study grounded in close readings of important works, this book explores the dynamics of the theory and practice of yoga in Hindu and Buddhist contexts. …
Advaita Worldview
God, World, and Humanity
Häftad, 2006
357 kr
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A new interpretation of Hindu tradition focusing on the nature of God, the value of the world, and the meaning of liberation.2007 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title In this book, Anantanand Rambachan offers a fresh and detailed perspective on Advaita Vedanta, Hinduism's most influential and revered …
Perfectibility of Human Nature in Eastern and Western Thought
Inbunden, 2008
1018 kr
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Explores the issue of the perfectibility of nature in philosophy, psychology, and a variety of world religions.How perfectible is human nature as understood in Eastern and Western philosophy, psychology, and religion? Harold Coward examines some of the very different answers to this question. He …
Perfectibility of Human Nature in Eastern and Western Thought
Häftad, 2008
463 kr
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Explores the issue of the perfectibility of nature in philosophy, psychology, and a variety of world religions.How perfectible is human nature as understood in Eastern and Western philosophy, psychology, and religion? Harold Coward examines some of the very different answers to this question. He …
