The Bhagavad-Gita: Krishna's Counsel in Time of War
10 best books like The Bhagavad-Gita: Krishna's Counsel in Time of War (Barbara Stoler Miller): Life of the Buddha, No Nature: New and Selected Poems, Ancient Egyptian Myths and Legends, Call Me by My True Names: The Collected Poems, گلشن راز, The Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali: A New Edition, Translation, and Commentary, A Simple Path: Basic Buddhist Teachings by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Love Letters from Cell 92, Lewis resa, The Reign of Mary Tudor
| Author | Aśvaghoṣa |
| ISBN | 0814762166 |
The Buddhist monk Ashva.ghosha composed Life of the Buddha in the first or second century CE probably in Ayodhya. This is the earliest surviving text of the Sanskrit literary genre called kavya and probably provided models for Kali.dasa's more famous works. The most poignant scenes on the path to his...
| Author | Gary Snyder |
| ISBN | 0679742522 |
Snyder is great, and this represents him quite well. However, I think his body of work will remain just a hair's breadth away from full illumination until a devoted editor annotates many of his very particular regional, botanical, anthropological and non-English references. It's somewhat astounding...
| Author | Lewis Spence |
| ISBN | 0486265250 |
"Let us walk in the gloom of the pyramids, in the cool shadows of ruined temples, aye, through the tortuous labyrinth of the Egyptian mind itself, trusting that by virtue of the light we carry we shall succeed in unravelling to some extent the age-long enigma of this mystic land." — from Chapter One.
In...
| Author | Thich Nhat Hanh |
| ISBN | 1888375167 |
Here is the impermanent
and yet continuously flowing world.
And, complicated. . . don't forget complicated world.
These poems, written by Thich Nhat Hanh, are divided up into two sections in this collection: Historical Dimension (written primarily during the '60s, during...
کتاب گلشن راز اثر مشهور سعدالدّین محمودبن امینالدّین عبدالکریمبن یحیی شبستری، معروف به شیخ محمود شبستری، کتابی است عرفانی که در سال 717 هجری قمری به نظم...
| Author | Patañjali |
| ISBN | 0865477361 |
A landmark new translation and edition
Written almost two millennia ago, Pata�jali's work focuses on how to attain the direct experience and realization of the purusa the innermost individual self, or soul. As the classical treatise on the Hindu understanding of mind and consciousness...
| Author | Dalai Lama XIV |
| ISBN | 0007138873 |
A four-colour, fully illustrated book by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, author of two recent well-received books. It offers an introduction to Buddhism and to the landscape and culture of Tibet. The text, based on lectures on the four noble truths given in London, lays out the fundamentals of the Buddhist...
| Author | Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
| ISBN | 0687010985 |
A brilliant theologian hanged by the Nazis in 1945 for taking part in a plot to kill Hitler, Dietrich Bonhoeffer lived out his Christian commitment to the very end of his life. This collection of correspondence between Bonhoeffer and von Wedemeyer--long anticipated but never before published--offers...
| Author | Per Olov Enquist |
| ISBN | 9113009672 |
Två stora folkrörelser präglade 1900-talet, arbetarrörelsen och den kristna väckelsen. Per Olov Enquist har skrivit om arbetarrörelsen i Musikanternas uttåg (1978); nu skriver han om väckelserörelsen i sin stora roman om Lewi Pethrus, den svenska Pingströrelsens skapare och den...
| Author | James Anthony Froude |
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references,...
Summa Contra Gentiles: Book One: God
The Summa Contra Gentiles is not merely the only complete summary of Christian doctrine that St. Thomas has written, but also a creative and even revolutionary work of Christian apologetics composed at the precise moment when Christian thought needed to be intellectually creative in order to master...
| Author | Miguel de Unamuno |
| ISBN | 0895267071 |
Delve into three of Spanish philosopher Miguel de Unamuno's most haunting parables. This essential Unamuno reader begins with the full-length novel Abel Sanchez, a modern retelling of the story of Cain and Abel. Also included are two remarkable short stories, The Madness of Doctor Montarco and San...
| Author | Gudo Wafu Nishijima |
| ISBN | 1419638203 |
This translation, supported by the Japan Foundation, makes a strong claim to be the definitive translation of the 95 chapter edition of Shobogenzo, the essential Japanese Buddhist text, written in the 13th century by Zen Master Dogen. The translation adheres closely to the original Japanese, with...
| 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 | Gavin D. Flood |
| ISBN | 0521438780 |
In attempts to figure out my research interests for graduate school I took on this book upon the recommendation of a friend. Nonetheless, it was incredibly insightful with a few chapters needing to be read twice due to the book's dryness and the confusing way it is structured.
I'll begin by noting...
| 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 | Anonymous |
| ISBN | 0140440887 |
A volume of key writings on the Buddha, collected from a variety of languages and traditions
While Buddhism has no central text comparable to the Bible or Koran, there is a powerful body of scripture from across Asia that encompasses the dharma, or the teachings of the Buddha. In this rich anthology,...
| Author | Pierre Clastres |
| ISBN | 0936756950 |
Pierre Clastres broke up with his mentor Claude Levi-Strauss to collaborate with Gilles Deleuze and Felix Gattari on their "Anti-Oedipus." He is the rare breed of political anthropologist--a Nietzschean--and his work presents us with a generalogy of power in a native state. For him, tribal societies...
| Author | John Dominic Crossan |
| ISBN | 0060616628 |
Crossan does a textual analysis of canonical gospels, non canonical gospels and other extrabiblical texts using fields of study such as medical anthropology, cultural anthropology, and biblical archaeology to create a reconstruction of the historical Jesus. What i appreciate most about this...
| Author | James Wasserman |
| ISBN | 0811864898 |
For millennia, the culture and philosophy of the ancient Egyptians have fascinated artists, historians, and spiritual seekers throughout the world. Now, this reissue of a Chronicle Books classic brings to light once more the legendary 3,500-year-old Papyrus of Ani—the most beautiful of the...
The Dictionary of Mythology: An A-Z of Themes, Legends and Heroes
| Author | J.A. Coleman |
| ISBN | 0572032226 |
HUGE and very useful to have in the reference library. Set out as if a dictionary e.g.:
Erinna Greek
a 3rd C BC poetess
She was the author of Distaff and died
at the age of nineteen.
Misenus Greek
a Trojan, trumpeter to Aeneas
He was a companion of Hector who
escaped...
The Rebel's Silhouette: Selected Poems
| Author | Faiz Ahmad Faiz |
| ISBN | 0870239759 |
The Rebel's Silhouette is a collection of poems by Faiz Ahmed Faiz, one of the most famous Urdu poets, translated by Agha Shahid Ali, many of them written while Mr. Faiz was in prison.
The word "Beloved" is often used in poetry and ghazals to refer to either a lover or to God. What the brilliant Mr....
| Author | Kathryn Tucker Windham |
| ISBN | 0817303766 |
Jeffrey is the mischievous "something" that has headquarters in the Windham home in Selma, Alabama. He first made his presence known in October 1966, and since then he has continued, at irregular and infrequent intervals, to clump down the hall, slam doors, rock in a chair, frighten the family cat (now...
| Author | Edgar Allan Poe |
| ISBN | 1557133298 |
Years ago - 8, to be precise - I took a field trip with my honors American Literature class to a house Edgar Allan Poe lived in in Philadelphia. After the guided tour finished, we were led to the inevitable gift shop. There were copies of Poe's famous works everywhere, from the Rue Morgue to the Red death....
