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The First and Last Freedom
ISBN: 9780060648312 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Krishnamurti is a leading spiritual teacher of our century. In The First and Last Freedom he cuts away symbols and false associations in the search for pure truth and perfect freedom. Through discussions on suffering, fear, gossip, sex and other topics, Krishnamurti's quest becomes the readers, an undertaking of tremendous significance.
Krishnamurti is a leading spiritual teacher of our century. In The First and Last Freedom he cuts away symbols and false associations in the search fo...
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67,95 zł |
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Think on These Things
ISBN: 9780060916091 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 'The material contained in this volume was originally presented in the form of talks to students, teachers and parents in India, but its keen penetration and lucid simplicity will be deeply meaningful to thoughtful people everywhere, of all ages, and in every walk of life. Krishnamurti examines with characteristic objectivity and insight the expressions of what we are pleased to call our culture, our education, religion, politics and tradition; and he throws much light on such basic emotions as ambition, greed and envy, the desire for security and the lust for power - all of which he shows to...
'The material contained in this volume was originally presented in the form of talks to students, teachers and parents in India, but its keen penetrat...
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67,95 zł |
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Meeting Life: Writings and Talks on Finding Your Path Without Retreating from Society
ISBN: 9780062505262 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this fascinating collection culled from teachings never before brought together in book form, Krishnamurti offers wise reflections and fresh perceptions on love, politics, society, death, self-censorship, relationships, solitude, meditation, spiritual growth, and much more.Through provocative meditations and in-depth answers, Krishnamurti answers such timeless questions as:
In this fascinating collection culled from teachings never before brought together in book form, Krishnamurti offers wise reflections and fresh percep...
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60,07 zł |
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Mircea Eliade's Vision for a New Humanism
ISBN: 9780195074345 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The influential scholar of religion Mircea Eliade envisioned a spiritually destitute modern culture coming into renewed meaning through the recovery of archetypal myths and symbols. Eliade defined this restoration of meaning as a "new humanism" of existential meaning and cultural-religious unity. Through a biographical exegesis of Eliade's life and writings from his earliest years in Romania to his final ones as professor of the history of religions at the University of Chicago, Cave sets forward a structural description of what this "new humanism" might have meant for Eliade, and what it...
The influential scholar of religion Mircea Eliade envisioned a spiritually destitute modern culture coming into renewed meaning through the recovery o...
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916,91 zł |
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Chinese Religion: An Anthology of Sources
ISBN: 9780195088953 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. For centuries, westerners have referred to China's numerous traditions of spiritual expression as "religious"--a word born of western thought that cannot completely characterize the passionate writing that fills the pages of this pathbreaking anthology.
The first of its kind in well over thirty years, this text offers the student of Chinese ritual and cosmology the broadest range of primary sources from antiquity to the modern era. Readings are arranged chronologically and cover such concepts as Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, and even communism. A large number of the selections concern... For centuries, westerners have referred to China's numerous traditions of spiritual expression as "religious"--a word born of western thought that can...
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431,54 zł |
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Seeing Krishna: The Religious World of a Brahman Family in Vrindaban
ISBN: 9780195130119 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book offers a close-up view of the religious world of one of the most influential families in Vrinbadan, India's premier place of pilgrimage for worshipers of Krishna. This priestly family has arguably been the most creative force in this important town. Their influence also radiates well beyond India's borders both because of their tireless work in fostering scholarship and performance about Krishna and because the scion of the family, Shrivatsa Goswami, has become an international spokesman for Hindu ways and concerns. Case, who has been an occasional resident in the family ashram,...
This book offers a close-up view of the religious world of one of the most influential families in Vrinbadan, India's premier place of pilgrimage for ...
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238,60 zł |
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The Religion of Java
ISBN: 9780226285108 / Angielski / Miękka / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-12 dni roboczych. Written with a rare combination of analysis and speculation, this comprehensive study of Javanese religion is one of the few books on the religion of a non-Western people which emphasizes variation and conflict in belief as well as similarity and harmony. The reader becomes aware of the intricacy and depth of Javanese spiritual life and the problems of political and social integration reflected in the religion.
"The Religion of Java" will interest specialists in Southeast Asia, anthropologists and sociologists concerned with the social analysis of religious belief and ideology, students... Written with a rare combination of analysis and speculation, this comprehensive study of Javanese religion is one of the few books on the religion of ...
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145,77 zł |
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Kali's Child: The Mystical and the Erotic in the Life and Teachings of Ramakrishna
ISBN: 9780226453774 / Angielski / Miękka / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-12 dni roboczych. In a book now marked by both critical acclaim and cross-cultural controversy, Jeffrey J. Kripal explores the life and teachings of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, a nineteenth-century Bengali saint who played a major role in the creation of modern Hinduism. Through extended textual and symbolic analyses of Ramakrishna's censored "secret talk," Kripal demonstrates that the saint's famous ecstatic and visionary experiences were driven by mystico-erotic energies that he neither fully accepted nor understood. The result is a striking new vision of Ramakrishna as a conflicted, homoerotic Tantric mystic...
In a book now marked by both critical acclaim and cross-cultural controversy, Jeffrey J. Kripal explores the life and teachings of Ramakrishna Paramah...
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145,77 zł |
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Religion in Japanese History
ISBN: 9780231028349 / Angielski / Twarda / 475 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Tracing Japan's religions from the Hein Period through the middle ages and into modernity, this book explores the unique establishment of Shinto, Buddhism, and Confucianism in Japan, as well as the later influence of Roman Catholicism, and the problem of Restoration--both spiritual and material--following World War II.
Tracing Japan's religions from the Hein Period through the middle ages and into modernity, this book explores the unique establishment of Shinto, Budd...
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723,98 zł |
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The Original Analects: Sayings of Confucius and His Successors
ISBN: 9780231104302 / Angielski / Twarda / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This new translation presents the Analects in a revolutionary new format that, for the first time in any language, distinguishes the original words of the Master from the later sayings of his disciples and their followers, enabling readers to experience China's most influential philosophical work in its true historical, social, and political context.
This new translation presents the Analects in a revolutionary new format that, for the first time in any language, distinguishes the original w...
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668,85 zł |
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The Original Analects: Sayings of Confucius and His Successors
ISBN: 9780231104319 / Angielski / Miękka / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-12 dni roboczych. This new translation presents the Analects in a revolutionary new format that, for the first time in any language, distinguishes the original words of the Master from the later sayings of his disciples and their followers, enabling readers to experience China's most influential philosophical work in its true historical, social, and political context.
This new translation presents the Analects in a revolutionary new format that, for the first time in any language, distinguishes the original w...
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150,43 zł |
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The Vimalakirti Sutra
ISBN: 9780231106573 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-12 dni roboczych. One of the most popular Asian classics for roughly two thousand years, the Vimalakirti Sutra stands out among the sacred texts of Mahayana Buddhism for its conciseness, its vivid and humorous episodes, its dramatic narratives, and its eloquent exposition of the key doctrine of emptiness or nondualism. Unlike most sutras, its central figure is not a Buddha but a wealthy townsman, who, in his mastery of doctrine and religious practice, epitomizes the ideal lay believer. For this reason, the sutra has held particular significance for men and women of the laity in Buddhist countries of Asia,...
One of the most popular Asian classics for roughly two thousand years, the Vimalakirti Sutra stands out among the sacred texts of Mahayana Buddhism fo...
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117,76 zł |
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The Weaving of Mantra: The Young Pioneers, Radical Summer Camps, and Communist Political Culture in the United States
ISBN: 9780231112871 / Angielski / Miękka / 620 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The great Buddhist priest Kukai (774-835) is credited with the introduction and establishment of tantric -or esoteric -Buddhism in early ninth-century Japan. In Ryuichi Abe examines this important religious figure -neglected in modern academic literature -and his profound influence on Japanese culture. Offering a radically new approach to the study of early religious history -combining historical research, discourse analysis, literary criticism, and semiology -Abe contends that the importance of Kukais transmission of esoteric Buddhism to Japan lay not in the foundation of a new sect but in...
The great Buddhist priest Kukai (774-835) is credited with the introduction and establishment of tantric -or esoteric -Buddhism in early ninth-century...
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310,54 zł |
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Mantra: Hearing the Divine in India and America
ISBN: 9780231129602 / Angielski / Twarda / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The experience of the divine in India has three components, sight, performance, and sound. One in a trilogy of books that include Diana Eck's Darsan: Seeing the Divine in India, and Susan L. Schwartz's Rasa: Performing the Divine in India, Mantra presents an introduction to the use of sound--mantra--in the practice of Indian religion. Mantra--in the form of prayers, rituals, and chants--permeate the practice of Indian religion in both temple and home settings. This book investigates the power of mantra to transform consciousness. It examines the use and theory of mantra...
The experience of the divine in India has three components, sight, performance, and sound. One in a trilogy of books that include Diana Eck's Darsa...
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384,89 zł |
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Mantra: Hearing the Divine in India and America
ISBN: 9780231129619 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-12 dni roboczych. The experience of the divine in India has three components, sight, performance, and sound. One in a trilogy of books that include Diana Eck's Darsan: Seeing the Divine in India, and Susan L. Schwartz's Rasa: Performing the Divine in India, Mantra presents an introduction to the use of sound--mantra--in the practice of Indian religion. Mantra--in the form of prayers, rituals, and chants--permeate the practice of Indian religion in both temple and home settings. This book investigates the power of mantra to transform consciousness. It examines the use and theory of mantra...
The experience of the divine in India has three components, sight, performance, and sound. One in a trilogy of books that include Diana Eck's Darsa...
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117,76 zł |
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Rasa: Performing the Divine in India
ISBN: 9780231131452 / Angielski / Miękka / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-12 dni roboczych. While many people outside India find the images, sounds, and practices of Indian performing arts compelling and endeavor to incorporate them into the "global" repertoire, few are aware of the central role of religious belief and practice in Indian aesthetics. Completing the trilogy that includes Darsan: Seeing the Divine and Mantra: Hearing the Divine in India and America, this volume focuses on how rasa has been applied in a range of Indian performance traditions. "Rasa" is taste, essence, flavor. How is it possible that a word used to describe a delicious...
While many people outside India find the images, sounds, and practices of Indian performing arts compelling and endeavor to incorporate them into the ...
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103,75 zł |
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How Can I Help?
ISBN: 9780394729473 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Not a day goes by without our being called upon to help one another--at home, at work, on the street, on the phone. . . . We do what we can. Yet so much comes up to complicate this natural response: "Will I have what it takes?" "How much is enough?" "How can I deal with suffering?" "And what really helps, anyway?"
In this practical helper's companion, the authors explore a path through these confusions, and provide support and inspiration fo us in our efforts as members of the helping professions, as volunteers, as community activists, or simply as friends and family trying to meet each... Not a day goes by without our being called upon to help one another--at home, at work, on the street, on the phone. . . . We do what we can. Yet so mu...
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64,05 zł |
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Religion and Ecology in India and Southeast Asia
ISBN: 9780415240314 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18 dni roboczych. This work examines the part that Hindu and Buddhist traditions could play in resolving the ecological problems facing the Indian sub-continent and South East Asia. The study is of global significance - the creation of more sustainable relationships between people and the natural world is one of the most urgent social and environmental problems of the new millennium. David Gosling bases his arguments on extensive fieldwork, framed by the socio-political context of religious change in the regions. He looks at the religions both historically and from a contemporary perspective.
This work examines the part that Hindu and Buddhist traditions could play in resolving the ecological problems facing the Indian sub-continent and Sou...
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158,69 zł |
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The Divine and the Demonic
ISBN: 9780415297493 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18 dni roboczych. Based on fieldwork in the north Indian state of Rajasthan, this book focuses on supernatural affliction - illness and misfortune ascribed to demonic spirits or ghosts and to other mystical agents, such as sorcerers and witches. The study augments and extends the existing scholarship on a range of issues, including inter alia beliefs about spirit possession, sorcery, witchcraft and the evil eye. The themes of ritual practice, especially exorcism or healing ceremonies, Hindu priests and curers, popular Hinduism and pilgrimage are discussed, and the anthropology of South Asia is explored with an...
Based on fieldwork in the north Indian state of Rajasthan, this book focuses on supernatural affliction - illness and misfortune ascribed to demonic s...
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592,37 zł |
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The Culture of Secrecy in Japanese Religion
ISBN: 9780415387132 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18 dni roboczych. The Japanese Middle Ages were a period when secrecy dominated many forms of religious practice. This fascinating collection traces the secret characteristics and practices in Japanese religion, while analyzing the rise and decline of religious esotericism in Japan. The Japanese Middle Ages were a period when secrecy dominated many forms of religious practice. This fascinating collection traces the secret chara... |
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617,01 zł |
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