The Bijak of Kabir
10 best books like The Bijak of Kabir (Kabir): Bhimayana, The Hand of Poetry: Five Mystic Poets of Persia: Translations from the Poems of Sanai, Attar, Rumi, Saadi and Hafiz, Songs of Milarepa, The Wisdom of China and India, Islamic Mystical Poetry: Sufi Verse from the early Mystics to Rumi, Speaking of Siva, Hindu Goddesses: Visions of the Divine Feminine in the Hindu Religious Tradition, Kali: The Feminine Force, Bodhisattva of Compassion: The Mystical Tradition of Kuan Yin (Shambhala Dragon Editions), The Drunken Universe: An Anthology of Persian Sufi Poetry
| Author | Srividya Natarajan |
| ISBN | 8189059173 |
What does it mean to be an untouchable in India? Why do some Indians despise the touch of others? Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891–1956), one of India's foremost revolutionaries, recounts his experiences of growing up untouchable and being routinely discriminated against: in school at the age of 10,...
| Author | Coleman Barks |
| ISBN | 0930872479 |
The book offer entrance into a world and beauty and truth. Its method is two-fold. First it presents five important lectures on Persian poetry given by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan, who brought Sufis to the West. Then it offers fresh translations by the poet Coleman Barks of some of the poetry Inayat Khan...
| Author | Milarepa |
| ISBN | 0486428141 |
A Buddhist holy man whose songs have been sung and studied since the twelfth century, Milarepa exchanged a life of sin and maliciousness for one of contemplation and love, eventually reaching—according to his disciples—the ultimate state of enlightenment. His thousands of extemporaneously...
"IT'S GOOD TO BE HEADLESS" (From Luyichi, Ninth Century)
In the time of Han Wuti (B.C. 140-87), Chia Yung of Ts'angwu was serving as magistrate of Yuchang. One day he went out to fight bandits. He was wounded and lost his head. Yung mounted his horse and returned to the camp. The soldiers and people...
| Author | Mahmood Jamal |
| ISBN | 0140424733 |
Written from the ninth to the twentieth century, these poems represent the peak of Islamic Mystical writing, from Rabia Basri to Mian Mohammad Baksh. Reflecting both private devotional love and the attempt to attain union with God and become absorbed into the Divine, many poems in this edition are...
| Author | A.K. Ramanujan |
| ISBN | 0140442707 |
Speaking of Siva is a selection of vacanas or free-verse sayings from the Virasaiva religious movement, dedicated to Siva as the supreme god. Written by four major saints, the greatest exponents of this poetic form, between the tenth and twelfth centuries, they are passionate lyrical expressions...
| Author | David R. Kinsley |
| ISBN | 0520063392 |
As a Hindu, I'm always on the lookout for books explaining the complexities of the world's oldest religion. Usually, I've been disappointed, as most of the material I find consist either of children's picture books or essays dry enough to cure insomnia.
But Kinsley's book was a delight, even...
| Author | Ajit Mookerjee |
| ISBN | 0892812125 |
If you know absolutely nothing about female deities in Hinduism, this might be useful to read. But the focus remains much more on the images than the actual text and there is much less emphasis on Kali herself than the title would suggest. For both of these reasons, I will be seeking out another book on the...
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...
The Drunken Universe: An Anthology of Persian Sufi Poetry
| Author | Peter Lamborn Wilson |
| ISBN | 0930872657 |
Sufism can be seen to have functioned as a positive and healthy reaction to the overly rational activity of the philosophers and theologians. For the Sufis, the road to spiritual knowledge could never be confined to the process of purely intellectual activity, without the direct, immediate experience...
| 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....
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....
Bulleh Shah The Love-intoxicated Iconoclast
Bulleh Shah, the 18th century mystic poet from the Punjab, was the most popular Sufi saint of his times. In fact, some eminent writers have called him "the greatest Sufi poet of the Punjab." His admirers have even compared his writings and philosophy to those of Rumi. At present he is held in equally great...
The Lightning Should Have Fallen on Ghalib: Selected Poems
| Author | Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib |
| ISBN | 0880016868 |
Ghalib is an astonishing poet from India, perhaps the most important poet since Kabir. In The Lightning Should Have Fallen on Ghalib: Selected Poems of Ghalib, poet Robert Bly and Urdu scholar Sunil Dutta collaborate to bring the delicacy and intensity of Ghalib's poetry to readers of English. This...
Somanatha: The Many Voices of a History
| Author | Romila Thapar |
| ISBN | 1844670201 |
In 1026, Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni raided the Hindu temple of Somanatha (Somnath in textbooks of the colonial period). The story of the raid has reverberated in Indian history, but largely during the raj. It was first depicted as a trauma for the Hindu population not in India, but in the House of Commons....
| Author | Kancha Ilaiah |
| ISBN | 8185604827 |
The following is indisputable: 1) Caste oppression is ubiquitous in South Asia and concentrated against SCs and STs; 2) The form of this oppression is both material and cultural, with the latter forms being found in virtually all intellectual and literary creations; 3) South Asia has remarkably local...
Geo Milev fue asesinado por el contenido de este poemario.
habla de gente hambrienta en una revuelta.
habla del pueblo bùlgaro, el pueblo compuesto por campesinos revelàndose ante el gobierno fascista bùlgaro de 1923.
relata una tragedia.
la enumera.
comenta la èpica...
| Author | Tomoko Masuzawa |
| ISBN | 0226509893 |
The idea of "world religions" expresses a vague commitment to multiculturalism. Not merely a descriptive concept, "world religions" is actually a particular ethos, a pluralist ideology, a logic of classification, and a form of knowledge that has shaped the study of religion and infiltrated ordinary...
The Myths and Gods of India: The Classic Work on Hindu Polytheism from the Princeton Bollingen Series
| Author | Alain Daniélou |
| ISBN | 0892813547 |
The study of Hindu mythology explores the significance of the most prominent Hindu dieties as they are envisioned by the Hindus themselves. Referred to by its adherents as the "eternal religion," Hinduism recognizes for each age and each country a new form of revelation--and for each person, according...
| Author | Stephen Levine |
| ISBN | 1578635551 |
In his long career as a poet, Buddhist teacher, spiritual advisor, and writer, Stephen Levine has changed our understanding of death and dying. In Becoming Kuan Yin, Levine's first new book in many years, he turns to the legend of Kuan Yin, the Bbodhistitva venerated by East Asian Buddhists for her compassion....
Ivan Minchov Vazov was a Bulgarian poet, novelist and playwright, often referred to as "the Patriarch of Bulgarian literature". He was born in Sopot, a town in the Rose Valley of Bulgaria (then part of the Ottoman Empire). The works of Ivan Vazov reveal two historical epochs - the Bulgarian Renaissance...
| Author | Nirmal Verma |
| ISBN | 9788126340 |
Collection of 7 stories.
Not my first time, but first extensive reading of Nirmal Verma.
One of the writers who have looked captivating and mysterious to me from times unknown, the introduction was a pleasant one. He is all the things I expected him to be. The amazing fluidity of his language,...
| Author | Graham M. Schweig |
| ISBN | 0061997307 |
The Bhagavad Gita is often regarded as the Bible of India. With a gripping story and deeply compelling message, it is unquestionably one of the most popular sacred texts of Asia and, along with the Bible and the Qur'an, one of the most important holy scriptures in the world.
Part of an ancient...
| Author | Elizabeth U. Harding |
| ISBN | 0892540257 |
Mahakali.
She is as dark as our ego, as black basalt as our desires. She stands on her husband Bhairav's chest, as Bhairavi. She wears a garland of severed heads. Her one hand blesses and offers boons to devotees. Her other hand holds another severed head, probably rakthabija's.
She emphasizes...
