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Ask any man what he most desires; he will tel you "health". The necessity man should have the knowledge to mainatain the essentials of physical life-perfect health. To avoid to visit hospitals which are usually full, the sales of harmful drugs is on the peak and worst of al the effect on the peak and today nearly all have there tonsils, weak eyes sites or are treated for acidos; and yet health, and not disease is our natural heritage of modern habits. ...
The Sixth Dalai Lama, Rigdzin Tsangyang Gyatso, born in 1683, was a rebel in his own times. His death has remained a mystery and we are unsure of whether it took place in 1706 or 1746. A much loved poet and tantric master he lived beyond his contemporaries' concept of identity. Shrouded in legend, he turned out to be a unique sort of holy man. He seems to have officially given back the ascetic pledge he took and lived in the Potala dressed as a layman. He ...
These immortal tales of chivalry and skullduggery, wisdom and foolishness, honesty and deceit, are about Baital, a mythical wraith-like figure, credited with supernatural powers, and King Vikramaditya whose wisdom is matched only by King Solomon of the Biblical fame. This wise yet evil spirit which hangs upside down in a tree, challenges Vikramaditya to hold his silence while he narrates his tales and then asks for the king's opinion as to the morality of the ...
Indian Fairy Tales is an exciting and entertaining collection of stories, full of the colour and enchantment of India, written for the amusement of children everywhere. Its universal appeal lies in the striking similarities between Indian tales and those of European myth and legend, characters often having counterparts in Western tradition. Especially selected and retold to offer the best of India, these stories in Indian Fairy Tales speak of snow-capped ...
The Buddha is the central figure in a religion that advocates liberation from the transient material world. The Buddha was not only the Teacher of the Way and the producer of the unproduced path, he was the actuality of the teachings that he preached, the one who had lived them and had reached the goal. Buddha, His Life, His Doctrine, His Order offers a unique insight into the richness and abundance of human idealism and aspiration. It also provides a ...
Tara is one of the chief Vajrayana deities worshipped as the female aspect of the Buddha. The practice of Red Tara is a supreme vehicle for arousing both intellectual understanding and meditative realization of non-dual awareness. These practices include an extensive cycle of preliminary observances, dream yoga, healing practices, and yoga of the subtle energies. This book leads the practitioner through the Red Tara practice step-by-step, explaining its meaning ...
The bulk of this work is a compilation of talks given by Swami Kripalu throughout North America. Bapuji, or "dear father," as we lovingly called him, taught at the Kripalu Ashrams in Pennsylvania while visiting the United States between 1977 and 1981. Along with speeches in North America, this work also includes excerpts from speeches he gave in India for visiting residents and disciples, plus portions of his letters to Yogi Amrit Desai, Dinesh ...
First published in 1800, this volume gives us a well- documented insight into all aspects of both Bhutan and Tibet at that time. From our modern perspective, we are in a position to reflect on the nature of current life in both Bhutan and Tibet. It is the changes over the last two hundred years that make this book so interesting today. In some respects, life in modern Bhutan is not so different from that described in this early transcript. In fact it is ...
It is fortunate that mainstream culture is beginning, at last, to accept some of the wonderful ideas found in traditional methods of healing. This change of heart is hopeful for many reasons. Paramount is the fact that traditional healing offers us something we lack-specifically, a sane perspective on caring for our health. This situation is filled with irony since health care is what we in the West do best. We do it so well that it has become more than just a ...
"Here is a comprehensive account of the life of the Buddha and a history of the early Buddhist order as they are depicted in Tibetan sources--something rarely seen in modern translations and courses. The book is divided into six chapters: The history of the world from the time of its renovation up until the reign of Suddhodana, the Buddha's father. The reign of Suddhodana until the start of Buddha's ministry. The life of the Buddha from the start of his ...
The Tibetan Book of the Dead contains a detailed portrayal of the teachings that play a major role in the Tibetan understanding of death and dying. It is basically a collection of Buddhist scriptures that offer significant insights into the psychology of death and dying and suggests the importance of meditative practice and knowledge as tools for self-understanding. This book offers interpretations of the higher 'Lamaic' teachings. It also deals with the ...
An American Passion play is a satirical representation of a culture that has been very much in existence since the early sixties in the United States of America. It is in truth the expression of those who wanted a freedom of expression as guaranteed in the American Constitution. This freedom includes the practice of the religion of ones choice and the practice of the rituals therein. It reflects upon the use of certain substances that have been in use for ...
The Bhagavad-Gita forms a small part-seven hundred stanzas--of the epic of the Mahabharata. Contained in the Gita's pages are the mysteries of life. The narrative uses an event, a war, as a setting to exemplify fundamental human conflict--understanding action and non-action, how to live in society, how to understand your place in the universal scheme, as well as explaining the secrets of meditation. The Bhagvad-Gita is as applicable today as when it first ...
Hinduism has often puzzled Westerners with its plethora of Gods and Goddesses, intricate philosophies and an overpowering mythological content. John Dowson's work fulfils the long-felt demand for an all-inclusive lexicon of Hinduism. It contains both religion and mythology, which are so closely linked in the Hindu perspective. The author has condensed and brought together the information that lies scattered in multifarious volumes. This dictionary is designed to ...
Dharma : Survey of Indian Cultural Religion and Spirituality Seen Through Brahmanic Eyes by Uma Marina Vesci is an in depth study of the development of Vedic religion and spirituality in the sub-continent. The author has attempted to condense into a nutshell all the poignant features of a cultural world so dispersed in thousands or millions of rivulets that it can seldom be grasped in its totality. To this end the author has attempted with the purpose of still ...
