Teachings of Lord Caitanya: The Golden Avatara
This is the first in-depth study of the interaction between the cultural traditions of Britain's ethnic minorities and English law. It explores the policies and principles that should govern legal...
Hagiographies of Hindu saints.
Beginning in the late '60s, hundreds of thousands of Westerners descended upon India, disciples of a cultural revolution that proclaimed that the magic and mystery missing from their lives was...
Approximately two thousand years old, The Yoga-Sutra of Patañjali is the landmark scripture on classical yoga. The translation and commentary provided here by Georg Feuerstein are outstanding for their accessibility...
Handbook of Hindu Gods, Goddesses, and Saints: Popular in Contemporary South India
清海無上師於1993年,為了給世上渴望解脫的人帶來 真理的訊息,不辭辛勞地展開一次由東方到西方再回到東 方,為期長達三個半月,十六個國家的全球巡迴講經。此六 冊經書收錄行程中的各場開示、討論會,並有師父回答世 界各地求道者所提出無數的問題。
"Sacred Sacrifice" examines how analogous mythological ideas and the experience of sacred presence during the ritual act created similar ritual paradigms in two non-contiguous cultures. Vedic fire sacrifice, the Horse...
When ex-Krishna Steve Bryant launched a one-man holy war against the Hare Krishna cult, his body was found murdered. It was the Krishnas' response to make Bryant a monkey on...
Viktor Frankl, bestselling author of Man's Search for Meaning, explains the psychological tools that enabled him to survive the HolocaustViktor Frankl is known to millions as the author of Man's...
Stories about Posts is the magnum opus of Madeleine Biardeau, one of the most influential Indologists of the twentieth century. Nearly twenty years in the making, it connects her varied...
On life and teachings of Mahātmā Trailiṅgasvāmī, b. 1607.
After a brief introduction on the idea of culture, enculturation and acculturation in social anthropology, a theology of culture, symbol and language is treated in order to lead to the central subject-matter of the Christian theology of ...
This fourth volume in the series exploring religions and the environment investigates the role of the multifaceted Hindu tradition in the development of greater ecological awareness in India. The twenty-two...
A new vision is needed in the world - a new vision which will be as scientific as possible and as religious as possible. That I call revolution. The world...
Each society has a corpus of images and models to which individuals aspire. These role models explicitly and implicitly shape people's understanding of their own roles, identities, relationships, and have...
This volume contains The Adamantine Pinnacle Sutra and The Susiddhikara Sutra, two important texts in the corpus of Buddhist Tantric literature. These texts include a general introduction in the conventional...
India, once a major civilizational and economic power that suffered centuries of decline, is now newly resurgent in business, geopolitics and culture. However, a powerful counterforce within the American academy...
This volume analyzes the development of the unique and complex nexus of values, beliefs and laws that comprise the Indian legal system, from ancient times, through the period of British...
The book will explore contemporary manifestations of the worship of Siva that have transmigrated to the West. It explores Hindu vernacular traditions or 'village Hinduism' especially in the context of...