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Gotama Buddha's influence after the lapse of 26 centuries is still a mighty force in the world. The modern world, with its passionate belief in organization and in wealth, may learn much from Gotama. According to the author, "Here was a man who, without setting up an elaborate organization, despising wealth and trusting only the contagion of great ideas, exerted an influence which is still potent in the heart of half the human race.
In this biography of ...
The dictionary includes brief description of medicinal herbs used in alternative systems of healing. The plants have been arranged alphabetically and families, names, parts used, chemistry and medicinal use discussed. Formulations prepared from medicinal plants used in Indian system of medicine have been included. The salient feature of the dictionary is a brief account of pharmacological studies on plants extracts and constituents isolated from them. At the end ...
An Essential Guide to Sanskrit provides a two-level introduction to the Sanskrit language. Level one introduces the transliterated (Anglicised) alphabets used by books and the Internet for reproducing Sanskrit. Level two teaches the Devanagari script used for the true language and describes the main rules for combining letters and words. Correct pronunciation and writing are explained. A number of examples from Hindu scriptures are used to illustrate simple ...
Do the categories such as ‘God’ and ‘religion’ as used in English and in the Western discourse capture the meaning and intent in Indian religions in order for them to be used effectively in the context of Indian religions? The book attempts to interrogate the categories used in Western discourse in the study of religion. In doing so, the book outlines a broad overview of the discussions on issues relating to the methods and theories in the study of ...
Understanding the Kundalini is an important work on demystifying the Kundalini energy. It is designed for students and provides a quality introduction to the kundalini energy, its role, and function from the traditional view. This book will dispel some common myths regarding the kundalini and provide a foundation for the aspiring student of spirituality. In addition, Ayurveda will be introduced and its importance touched upon as part of the spiritual path. Yogi ...
This book was conceived at very crucial moment in the post 9/11 period and therefore it takes into account a wide range of themes cutting across time periods and regions that reflect the dynamism and diversity of Islam. Essays on aspects of universalism in Islam followed by an essay on the question of sectarianism read like a debate espousing two different viewpoints. Issues that are part of the current engagements at the scholarly and popular level are Radical ...
This book tells the mystical adventure of a Westerner, its adventurous hero Roman West who seriously took to the Spiritual quest and entered into the depth of the Eastern culture of India where no other Westerner has been able to penetrate. Hidden deep within the religious practices of India exist doors that lead to various levels of reality. Few people outside these mystical circles have been able to access these layers. Roman West probes the deep secrets of ...
This Dictionary targets terms used in classica Ayurvedic texts. The words have been arranged alphabetically and definitions discussed on modern parameters. Sanskrit/Ayurvedic names of the medicinal plants used in Ayurveda along with botanical names and pharmacological role have been dealt with. Keeping in mind the importance of mineral and metallic preparations, they have been discussed along with therapeutics. Drugs derived from animal source have been included. ...
Inscriptions have been discovered from Indus culture areas, belonging to the intervening centuries between the eclipse of this culture and the appearance of Asokan edicts. The author analyses them and shows a distinct continuity of evolution of the characters from Indus to Brahmi script in the lapse of 2000 BC to 500 BC. Phonetics of Brahmi characters have been successfully used by Professor B.B. Chakravorty as bridges to decipher Indus legends. Similarly, Dr. ...
The Legacy of India provides insights into the vast diversity of India. It contains brilliant essays by both foreign and Indian thinkers like H G Rawlinson, Dr S Radha Krishnan and Minoo Masani on Indian language and literature, art, architecture and archaeology, music, science and philosophy and religion. It also contains an illuminating essay on Indo-British civilization. The contribution made to the legacy of India by the British people may prove to be ...
Hinduism is the only major world religion where the philosophy came first and the religion developed from the philosophy. Consequently everything in it is related in some way or the other to the basic philosophy. The temples are the most visible aspect of the religion and the Supreme Reality God is worshipped through the images enshrined in them. The forms of the images are diverse and the worship rituals are elaborate but they all lead to the One who is without ...
The Vedic tradition of India is not simply a spiritual path but a way of life. It includes many avenues of learning that an increasing number of people from the West are investigating and using. This book provides a new view of what the Vedic culture has to offer from those who discovered it and practice it themselves, and how it has affected and benefited their own lives. This type of presentation is rarely found in books that are available today on eastern ...
The topics range widely over questions concerning creativity, aesthetic communication, and freedom. In dealing with these topics the book also brings out in lucid and clear terms the distinctive Indian perspective on art and aesthetics as exemplified in the writings of thinkers, such as, A.K. Coomaraswamy, Sri Aurobindo, M. Hiriyanna, K.C. Bhattacharyya, and Rabindranath Tagore. The author argues that Indian mind on the question of art develops a viewpoint that ...
In keeping with the diverse trends and thematic orientations, this volume has been designed to give space to the faculty and scholars working on new areas and themes where there is an abundance of source material that is only now beginning to be tapped. Migration, popular culture, ethno-medicine, historical geography, craft production, miniature paintings are some of the themes that are part of the contents of this work. Though the volume at a first glance would ...