Speaking of Siva
10 best books like Speaking of Siva (A.K. Ramanujan): Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women, The Norton Anthology of Modern & Contemporary Poetry, Vol 1: Modern Poetry, The Bijak of Kabir, Fireflies: a collection of proverbs, aphorisms and maxims, Shiva: The Wild God of Power and Ecstasy, Poems of Arab Andalusia, 1000 Poems from the Manyōshū, Bodhisattva of Compassion: The Mystical Tradition of Kuan Yin (Shambhala Dragon Editions), Darsan: Seeing the Divine Image in India, The Mahabharata: An English Version Based on Selected Verses
| Author | Jane Hirshfield |
| ISBN | 0060925760 |
A combination of spiritual poetry and history of the poets. Really expansive, beautiful, informative collection.
My favorites were:
p 21, Zi Ye
All night I could not sleep / because of the moonlight on my bed. / I kept on hearing a voice calling: / Out of Nowhere, Nothing answered...
| Author | Jahan Ramazani |
| ISBN | 0393977919 |
Thirty years later, this innovative, cover-to-cover revision renders with fresh eyes and meticulous care the remarkable range of styles, subjects, and voices in English-language poetry. The newly titled Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry now available in two paperback volumes...
"First the pain of separation, then the thirst for Love"
says Kabir, "only then will you know Joy of the Union".
Bijak: means a document containing sacred texts. And it is one of the earliest of the major texts in modern Hindi. Kabir suggested that True God is with the person who is on the...
| Author | Rabindranath Tagore |
| ISBN | 1559213159 |
FIREFLIES were proverbs, aphorisms and maxims originated in China and Japan and were often written on pieces of silk. Tagore visited Japan and collected them in his notebooks. Each firefly, rarely more than a sentence long, represents a luminous thought on love, life, beauty or God. Each page of this...
An extensive look at all the aspects of multi-natured Shiva
• Explores the shamanic roots of world spirituality as exemplified by this Hindu god who shares many of the attributes of the Norse Odin and the Celtic Cernunnos
• Looks at Shiva’s relation to contemporary culture,...
| Author | Cola Franzen |
| ISBN | 0872862429 |
These poems, from the astonishing 10th- through 13th-century civilization in Andalusia, are based on the codex of Ibn Sa'id, who wanted poems "whose idea is more subtle than the West Wind, and whose language is more beautiful than a fair face." Spanish readers have long been enchanted by their enduring...
| Author | Ōtomo no Yakamochi |
| ISBN | 0486439593 |
Dating from the 8th century and earlier, the Manyoshu is the oldest Japanese poetry anthology; it is also widely considered to be the best. The 1,000 poems (out of a total of more than 4,500) in this famous selection were chosen by a distinguished scholarly committee based on their poetic excellence,...
Bodhisattva of Compassion: The Mystical Tradition of Kuan Yin (Shambhala Dragon Editions)
| Author | John Blofeld |
| ISBN | 0877731268 |
She is the embodiment of selfless love, the supreme symbol of radical compassion, and, for more than a millennium throughout Asia, she has been revered as “The One Who Hearkens to the Cries of the World.” Kuan Yin is both a Buddhist symbol and a beloved deity of Chinese folk religion. John Blofeld’s...
| Author | Diana L. Eck |
| ISBN | 0231112653 |
This book was OK. I picked it up to understand the etymology behind my name that I share with the book's title.
It highlights how important visuals are in Hindu culture along with emphasizing how the worship of these images transcend exclusively visual boundaries in the mind of a Hindu worshipper....
| Author | Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan |
| ISBN | 0231110553 |
"Shorn of anger and jealousy, and purged of every sin, the heroes met with each other. All of them were happy of heart."
A beautiful text just as rife with the deeds of noble men and the expectations placed upon them as any other epic. Incredible that it manages to retain such sublime finesse and...
| Author | Wendy Doniger |
| ISBN | 0195202503 |
Originally published under the title Asceticism and Eroticism in the Mythology of Siva, this book traces the development of an Indian approach to an enduring human dilemma: the conflict between spiritual aspirations and human desires. The work examines hundreds of related myths and a wide range...
| Author | Línjì Yìxuán |
| ISBN | 0231114850 |
Among the most important texts of Zen literature, the "Lin-Chi lu" details the insights and exploits of the great ninth century Chinese Zen master Lin-chi, one of the most highly regarded of the T'ang period masters. PEN Translation Prize-winner Burton Watson presents here an eloquent translation...
Kumarasambhava of Kalidasa
The Kumarasambhava of Kalidasa varies from the loveliness of spring and the delights of married love to the utter desolation induced by the death of beloved. The subject is unquestionably a daring one: the events which bring about the marriage of Lord Siva to Uma and the birth of Skanda. The prose order...
| Author | Anonymous |
| ISBN | 0140449906 |
Recorded in sacred Sanskrit texts, including the Rig Veda and the Mahabharata, Hindu Myths are thought to date back as far as the tenth century BCE. Here in these seventy-five seminal myths are the many incarnations of Vishnu, who saves mankind from destruction, and the mischievous child Krishna,...
| Author | Surendranath Dasgupta |
| ISBN | 8120804120 |
The work appears in five volumes. The volumes elaborate Buddhist and Jaina Philosophy and the six systems of Hindu thought; Samkara School of Vedanta besides the philosophy of the Yoga-vasistha and the Bhagavadgita; detailed account of the principal dualistic and pluralistic system; the Bhagavata...
| Author | Eleanor Nesbitt |
| ISBN | 0192806017 |
The Sikh religion has a following of over 20 million people worldwide and is ranked as the world's fifth largest religion. However, events such as the verbal and physical attacks on Sikhs just after September 11 indicated that they were being mistaken for Muslims, and suggests that the raising of sufficient...
Translated with extracts from seven commentaries. The Sacred Books of the East series, comprising 50 volumes, has translations of key sacred texts of Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Zoroastrianism, Jainism & Islam. The series was edited by the famous linguist Max Muller, who also...
| Author | Mahatma Gandhi |
| ISBN | 0521574315 |
Hind Swaraj is Mahatma Gandhi's fundamental work, and a key to the understanding both of his life and thought, and South Asian politics in the twentieth century. This volume presents for the first time the original 1910 edition of this work, including Gandhi's Preface and Foreword, not found in other...
| Author | Ramana Maharshi |
| ISBN | 1597310042 |
This work contains almost everything written by Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi, his inspired compositions, and a number of translations from ancient Advaitic texts, representing the essence of his teachings. They fall into two categories-those which exemplify the path of surrender through love...
Dada and Surrealism: A Very Short Introduction
| Author | David Hopkins |
| ISBN | 0192802542 |
The avant-garde movements of Dada and Surrealism continue to have a huge influence on cultural practice, especially in contemporary art, with its obsession with sexuality, fetishism, and shock tactics. In this new treatment of the subject, Hopkins focuses on the many debates surrounding these...
