Hinduism Books
Red Wheel/Weiser TANTRIC YOGA The Royal Path to Raising Kundalini
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£15.19
Lotus Press Gods Sages and Kings Revised and Enlarged Edition
Book SynopsisAn expert on Eastern philosophy and Eastern medicine, the author presents a spiritual vision of who we are and where we come from. In so doing, he seeks to fill a void in our understanding of human history, revealing secrets of Vedic and ancient civilization.
£18.99
Integral Yoga Publications Inside Patanjalis Words Explore the Heart of Yoga
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£18.90
Integral Yoga Publications meditation
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£7.81
Integral Yoga Publications Masters Touch True Stories From Students of Sri
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£8.95
Integral Yoga Publications Gems of Wisdom
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£7.67
Integral Yoga Publications Pathways to Peace
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£7.71
Integral Yoga Publications Enlightening Tales
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£17.09
LOTUS BRANDS INC The Life Divine
Book Synopsis"The Life Divine" explores for the modern mind the great streams of Indian metaphysical thought, reconciling the truths behind each, and, from this synthesis, extends in terms of consciousness the concept of evolution.
£27.55
North Atlantic Books,U.S. The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi
Book SynopsisRegarded in India as one of the most important books of the 20th century, Gandhi’s commentary on this classic Hindu text addresses the issues he felt most directly affected the spiritual lives of common people. The Bhagavad Gita, also called The Song of the Lord, is a 700-line section of a much longer Sanskrit war epic, the Mahabharata, about the legendary conflict between two branches of an Indian ruling family. Framed as a conversation between Krishna, an incarnation of the god Vishnu, and a general of one of the armies, the Gita is written in powerful poetic language meant to be chanted. Equally treasured as a guide to action, a devotional scripture, a philosophical text, and inspirational reading, it remains one of the world’s most influential, widely read spiritual books. The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi is based on talks given by Gandhi between February and November 1926 at the Satyagraha Ashram in Ahmedabad, India. During this time—a period when Gandhi had withdrawn from mass political activity—he devoted much of his time and energy to translating the Gita from Sanskrit into his native Gujarati. As a result, he met with his followers almost daily, after morning prayer sessions, to discuss the Gita’s contents and meaning as it unfolded before him. This book is the transcription of those daily sessions.
£12.34
Paragon House Publishers Kundalini, Evolution and Enlightenment
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£20.09
Georgetown University Press Key Words in Hinduism Key Words Guides
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£20.44
Inner Traditions Bear and Company Shakti: Realm of the Divine Mother
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£18.04
Sounds True Inc The Bhakti Coloring Book: Deities, Mandalas, and
Book SynopsisIn the yoga tradition, bhakti is the path of the heart. This devotional branch of yoga is growing in popularity as increasing numbers of practitioners seek greater peace and more heartfelt connections in their personal and professional lives. Artist and scholar Ekabhumi Charles Ellik invites us to cultivate these feelings of love and connection through coloring, meditation, and art in The Bhakti Coloring Book. Following on the success of The Shakti Coloring Book, Ekabhumi has created 40 brand-new, easy-to-color images from the bhakti tradition. Mandalas, deities, and symbols adorn the pages of this heart-centered book along with guidance for using the images both in spiritual practice and for simple pleasure. Devotional art is an important part of the bhakti tradition, as sacred imagery can shift our consciousness into a naturally meditative state. For experienced artists and novices alike, this book offers an enjoyable entry into this powerful practice.
£17.23
Self-Realization Fellowship,U.S. The Spiritual Expression of Friendship
£15.19
Equinox Publishing Ltd Exploring Hindu Philosophy
Book SynopsisThis introductory text points to some of the diverse tapestries of Hindu worldviews where scriptural revelation, logical argumentation, embodied affectivity, moral reasoning, and aesthetic cultivation constitute densely interwoven conceptual threads. It begins with an exploration of some classical iterations of the quest for a fundamental ontology amidst the diversities of the everyday world. This quest is often embedded in both a diagnosis of the human condition as structured by suffering and a therapy for recovery from worldly fragmentation. A crucial aspect of this therapeutic structure is the analysis of the means of knowledge and the categories of reality, since in order to know the nature of the world one must proceed along truth-tracking routes. Such dynamic mind-world encounters are mediated through language, and Hindu philosophical texts extensively discuss the motif of whether or not deep reality can be comprehended through linguistic structures. These philosophical exercises also shape reflections on themes such as aesthetics, social organization, the meaning of life, and so on. As Hinduism increasingly migrates to western locations through practices of yoga, meditation, and mindfulness, and along with sensibilities relating to vegetarianism, ecology, and pacifism, we encounter multiple translations of these classical motifs relating to the self, language, and consciousness.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: Conceptual Constellations Chapter 1: Unity and its Concrete Multitudes Chapter 2: Knowing the Roots of Reality Chapter 3: Therapies for Liberation Chapter 4: Finding a Home in the World Chapter 5: Multiple Modes of Morality Conclusion: Reorienting the Mind’s Compass
£91.59
Archaeopress South Asian Goddesses and the Natural Environment
Book SynopsisSouth Asian Goddesses and the Natural Environment is a multidisciplinary collection of 11 essays ranging from the pre-Vedic to the modern era and incorporating research on Hindu, Buddhist and tribal cultures. The authors ask whether the worship of goddesses, strongly linked to fertility rituals, might have mitigated the ecological decline of South Asia in the pre-British and post-colonial eras.The manifold powers of the Devi, whether nurturing or destructive, could be constructed as companions to the unstoppable forces of Nature. This binary paradigm, however, is misleading. For millions of South Asian people, the Devi is Nature and Nature is She. Amongst scholars, the connections between the South Asian Goddesses and the natural environment have been debated and contested for centuries. This collection of essays, the last of a trilogy on the Devi or iconic female by Australian scholars and their collaborators, interrogates the paradoxes of worshipping the feminine divine and yet ignoring the natural environment that validates Her existence. Historical and cultural sources, many of them in Sanskrit, point to the Devi-Nature complex but in ignoring the role of human agency, appear to exonerate society from taking responsibility for the ecological devastation manifested throughout the South Asian region. The Devi is omnipotent but in the role of the nurturing Mother she will not intervene if we remain passive. South Asian deities teach us to respect the environment, a necessary but insufficient condition for compelling us to behave in a manner that respects the wonders of the universe.
£62.68
Hohm Press,U.S. In Praise of Adya Kali: Approaching the
Book SynopsisThis book details the goddess Kali and the culture of devotion to her in West Bengal and South Asia. The term Adya means primal, original or archean. Adya Kali is the primordial energy, the shakti, that creates, preserves, and transforms/dissolves all existence. She is the womb that births all, and the tomb that swallows all.In Praise of Adya Kali is different from most contemporary books about Kali because it offers a liturgy of worship, a type of spiritual practice (sadhana) that the reader (both male and female) can use over the course of days, weeks, or months, to cultivate a direct devotional relationship to Kali. But, beyond that, In Praise of Adya Kali is a context-setting guide. Rather than simply recommending that we recite these sacred names, each one a prayer, the author establishes this practice as a general orientation to life. Furthermore, and most compelling, the text and Commentaries on this liturgy contain an intimate revelation of how the goddess establishes herself in her devotees'' bodies and thus intervenes, by unconditional love and acceptance, in their lives. A lengthy Introduction, both scholarly and personal, describes the goddess and the possibilities that these prayers will offer. Aditi Devi guides us in how to build a shrine to Kali, various types of offerings to make to her, and suggests a schedule for how to use this liturgy with a long-term commitment over the course of 108 nights. This book presents a serious practice, not for the faint-hearted. It requires courage, strength and joy to permit the goddess''s energy to slowly, sensuously and irrevocably be invoked-conceived, allowed to gestate, birthed according to her will. And while the orientation here is toward realizing her sacred presence in the womb of the devotee, the practice can be undertaken by anyone. The physical form of the body is not a limitation, as the author notes: In this lineage we practice into the depths of whatever form we have, & arise from within that, knowing that we are her, male or female. This Song of the Hundred Names is a powerful teaching that all forms are her forms. Male, female or other gendered, we are presented with the possibility to experience the depths of our own internal feminine energies & thereby come into greater healing & wholeness, more readily able to express this often neglected part of ourselves. Aditi Devi''s long study & spiritual practice within living tantric lineages in South Asia has made this book possible.
£28.05
JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Der Buddhismus in Japan: Geschichte, Lehre,
Book SynopsisAls erster Autor überhaupt erörtert Christoph Kleine in einer Gesamtschau die Besonderheiten der japanischen Religionsgeschichte kritisch unter systematisch religionswissenschaftlichen Gesichtspunkten, indem er die historischen Fakten mit Fragestellungen und Theorien der allgemeinen Religionswissenschaft verknüpft.
£75.39
Harrassowitz Growing Up Hindu and Buddhist Initiation Rituals
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£77.90
Harrassowitz Of Death and Birth: Icakkiyamman, a Tamil
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£118.75
Harrassowitz Reflexion Und Ritual in Der Purvamimamsa
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£40.00
Harrassowitz Sivaismus Im Wandel: Der Tamilische Saiva
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£33.00
Harrassowitz The Goddess's Embrace: Multifaceted Relations at
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£65.55
Harrassowitz Verlag Tamil Temples
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£91.50
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Die Tradition Des Pancaratra Im Spiegel Der
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£58.90
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Studies in Hinduism IV: On the Mutual Influences
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£62.70
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Wiener Zeitschrift Fur Die Kunde Sudasiens Band
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£69.35
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Tantrikabhidhanakosa III: Dictionnaire Des Termes
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£83.60
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press The Philosophical and Theological Teachings of
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£48.45
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Reading Bhatta Jayanta on Buddhist Nominalism
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£53.20
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Visnu-Narayana: Changing Forms and the Becoming
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£105.00
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Gayatri: Mantra and Mother of the Vedas
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£152.00
Schwabe Verlagsgruppe AG Grundsatze Des Philosophierens
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£209.00
Jan Thorbecke Verlag Dialog Der Welten: Christliche Begegnung Mit Den
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£35.00
Logos Verlag Berlin Die Debatte Zwischen Rammohan Roy Und Joshua
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£97.89
Herder & Herder La Tradicion del Yoga
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£58.81
Editorial Trotta, S.A. Upanisad con los comentarios advaita de Sankara
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£21.84
Gregorian & Biblical Press Enlightenment and Tantra: Hindus and Christians
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£26.60
Brill Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Volume Seven:
Book SynopsisKnut A. Jacobsen (Editor-in-Chief), University of Bergen, and Helene Basu, University of Münster, Angelika Malinar, University of Zürich, Vasudha Narayanan, University of Florida (Associate Editors) Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism is part of the Handbook of Oriental Studies, Section 2: South Asia (HO2), which publishes scholarly reference works, bibliographies, and research tools pertaining to the political, economic, social, linguistic, and religious history of the Indian subcontinent. The six-volume Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism -with first volume published in 2009 and to be completed in 2014 with Vol. 6- is a thematic encyclopedia, presenting the latest research on all the main aspects of the Hindu traditions in original essays written by the world’s foremost scholars on Hinduism. The Encyclopedia explicitly adopts an interdisciplinary and pluralistic approach, and in it, the term “Hinduism” is used critically in the knowledge that most of the traditions that today make up Hinduism are much older than the term itself. The Encyclopedia aims at a balanced and even-handed view of Hinduism, recognizing the tensions inherent in the academic examination of Hinduism. It emphasizes that Hinduism is a conglomerate of regional religious traditions and at the same time a global world religion. Hinduism is also both an ancient historical tradition and a living tradition flourishing in the contemporary world. It is an oral tradition, yet one with a huge number of sacred texts at its basis. Hinduism is both a religious identity and an object of academic scholarship. Illustrated with maps and photographs, Brill’s Encyclopedia presents the learned philosophical and theological traditions of Hinduism as well as its many folk traditions. Covering the spread of Hinduism over the last two hundred years to all the continents as well as the interaction of Hinduism with other religions, it also portrays the various responses of Hindu traditions to a number of contemporary issues of great relevance today, such as feminism, human rights, egalitarianism, bioethics, and so on. Volume I: Regions, Pilgrimage, Deities ISBN 978 90 04 17641 6 (Available) Volume II: Sacred Texts, Ritual Traditions, Arts, Concepts iSBN 978 90 04 17893 9 (Available) Volume III: Society, Religious Specialists, Religious Traditions, Philosophy ISBN 978 90 04 17894 6 (Available) Volume IV: Historical Perspectives, Poets/Teachers/Saints, Relation to Other Religions and Traditions, Hinduism and Contemporary Issues ISBN 978 90 04 17895 3 (Available) Volume V: Religious Symbols, Hinduism and Migration, Some Modern Religious Groups and Teachers ISBN 978 90 04 17896 0 (Available) Volume VI: Indices ISBN 978 90 04 26555 4 (Available) Please see Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism (6 vols set) ISBN 978 90 04 27128 9 (Available) for the complete set information.Trade Review'it is not an empty claim in the Preface that _the depth and breadth of information provided are unmatched by any reference work on Hinduism_(...) On the whole, the editors and the competent project team at Brill have coped admirably with the challenges, preparing an impressive list of entries, enlisting a competent team of (as many as 155) accomplished scholars, applying a uniform style to the encyclopedia, achieving consistency in the use of diacritics and weaving the diverse contributions into a coherent whole.' Jan Filipský, Oriental Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Oriental Archive 81 (2013) 'As a product of in-depth and critical scholarship, Brill's Encyclopedia of HInduism is unparalleled in its breadth, depth and reliability. As in every scholarly undertaking, especially an interdisciplinary one touching upon Indology, religious studies, history, anthropology, sociology, art history, and other academic disciplines, there is always ample scope for improvement and further research. But suffice it to say that, as of now, together with the last two substantial volumes already in print, the present compendium may be taken as a dernier cri in critical scholarship, a veritable jñānavāpi (well of knowledge) for future generations to replenish.' Jan Filipský, Czeck Academy of Sciences, Archiv Orientální , 84/3 (2016)
£378.10
Peeters Publishers Dying Death and Bereavement in a British
Book SynopsisThis study is an exploration of the religious beliefs, attitudes, traditions and rituals of a British hindu community, with respect to dying, death and bereavement. The observations of this community are compared with material obtained during three months of fieldwork in India and ethnographic sources. The primary focus of this study is on individual Hindus, seen in the context of their family and community: their beliefs, experiences and perceptions about death, and their reactions to the changes that take place. It also examines the process of adaptation and change in the death rituals and the role of the pandits in maintaining continuity. The first part of this study sets the context, introducing the issues confronting Hindus facing death and bereavement in Britain. It discusses theoretical issues in a multicultural study as well as beliefs about death and life after death. In the second part, Hindu ritual practices around death are explored, using a model of nine stages from preparation for death to the final post-mortem and annual ancestral rituals. The third part explores the social and psychological dimensions of death, grief and mourning, the implications of death in hospital and the professional and bureaucratic issues which affect Hindu deaths in Britain. The social aspects of mourning are discussed, with reference to pollution, the role of the family and community, young people and widows. Finally, the author examines the implications of social changes for British Hindus and for those who are involved with them in the caring professions.
£35.15
HarperCollins India Shiva to Shankara: Giving Form to the Formless
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£13.09
HarperCollins India Dwapar Katha: The Stories of the Mahabharata
£16.99
Anjana Publishing Amma Tell Me about Durga Puja 11
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£14.88
