Lilile's Madame Blavatsky and "Theosophy" is a biography of one of the most famous women of the 19th century: Helena Petrovna (H.P.) Blavatsky. Blavatsky is best known for founding Theosophy, which in her own words was "the archaic Wisdom-Religion, the esoteric doctrine once known in every ancient country having claims to civilization." Blavatsky started the religion after traveling around the world and seeing the religious beliefs and practices of various peoples across the globe.
This book also looks at the religious underpinnings of theosophy itself, explaining its origins and...

In the West, Buddhism is a religion that everyone has heard of but one that few truly understand aside from Buddhists themselves. For almost 2,500 years, Buddhism has been dominant on the Indian subcontinent, based on the traditions, beliefs, and practices that came about from the teachings of the Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama), the Sansrkit word for "the awakened one." Today, three distinct branches of Buddhism have mostly fanned out across Asia, and it's believed that upwards of half a billion people practice Buddhism today, and some of the traditional practices and principles of the religion,...