The description for this book, Philosophies of India, will be forthcoming.

Foreword by Peter Machinist
Hermann Gunkel's groundbreaking Schopfung und Chaos, originally published in German in 1895, is here translated in its entirety into English for the first time. Even though available only in German, this work by Gunkel has had a profound influence on modern biblical scholarship.
Discovering a number of parallels between the biblical creation accounts and a Babylonian creation account, the Enuma Elish, Gunkel argues that ancient Babylonian traditions shaped the Hebrew people's perceptions both of God's creative activity at the beginning of...

Places the position of the Buddhist Tantras within Mahayana Buddhism and recalls their early literary history, especially the Guhyasamahatantra. This title also covers Buddhist Genesis and the Tantric tradition. It explores the Tantric teachings of the inn

In seinen Keltischen Studien" setzt sich Heinrich Zimmer sehr ausfuhrlich mit den von K. Windisch herausgegebenen irischen Texten zuzuglich Worterbuch auseinander. Zimmer diskutiert die Darstellung und Herangehensweise von K. Windisch und setzt diese in Verbindung zu Sekundarliteratur. Sorgfaltig bearbeiteter Nachdruck der Originalausgabe von 1881.

A landmark work that demystifies the rich tradition of Indian art, Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization analyzes key motifs found in legend, myth, and folklore taken directly from the Sanskrit. It provides a comprehensive introduction to visual thinking and picture reading in Indian art and thought. Ultimately, the book shows that profound Hindu and Buddhist intuitions on the riddles of life and death are universally recognizable.