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Popular Religious Movements and Heterodox Sects in Chinese History (China Studies, 3)

Popular Religious Movements and Heterodox Sects in Chinese History (China Studies, 3)


Hubert Michael Seiwert, Ma Xisha



About the Author Hubert Seiwert, Dr.phil. (1978), Bonn University, is Professor of Comparative Religion at Leipzig Univer...
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Unbounded Wholeness: Dzogchen, Bon, and the Logic of the Nonconceptual

Unbounded Wholeness: Dzogchen, Bon, and the Logic of the Nonconceptual


Anne Carolyn Klein, Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche



Review "This volume is a major contribution to our understanding of the Tibetan philosophical and religious tradition. Th...
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Facing a World in Crisis: What Life Teaches Us in Challenging Times

Facing a World in Crisis: What Life Teaches Us in Challenging Times


Jiddu Krishnamurti



Review "Krishnamurti is one of the greatest philosophers of our age."—the Dalai Lama "Few modern thinkers have in...
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The Center of the Sunlit Sky: Madhyamaka in the Kagyu Tradition (Nitartha Institute Series)

The Center of the Sunlit Sky: Madhyamaka in the Kagyu Tradition (Nitartha Institute Series)


Karl Brunnholzl



Review A "must-have" for anyone seeking to better understand the Madhyamaka Buddhism as has been practiced in Tibet for c...
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Guru Rinpoche: His Life and Times (Tsadra Foundation Series)

Guru Rinpoche: His Life and Times (Tsadra Foundation Series)


Ngawang Zangpo



From Library Journal A selection of translations and commentary by Zangpo (the Tibetan name of Hugh Leslie Thompson), th...
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Readings in Eastern Religions: 2nd edition

Readings in Eastern Religions: 2nd edition


Harold Coward, Eva K. Neumaier, Ronald Neufeldt



About the Author Harold Coward is Professor Emeritus and the past director of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Soci...
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Renouncing the World Yet Leading the Church: The Monk-Bishop in Late Antiquity

Renouncing the World Yet Leading the Church: The Monk-Bishop in Late Antiquity


Andrea Sterk



Review Sterk offers a study of bishops of the early Christian period and their pursuit of the 'mixed life.' Bishops lived...
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Buddhism in America (Columbia Contemporary American Religion Series)

Buddhism in America (Columbia Contemporary American Religion Series)


Richard Hughes Seager



Review This book cries out for use as a textbook for classes on Buddhism in America. (Franz Aubrey Metcalf The Journal of R...
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Singing Krishna: Sound Becomes Sight in Paramanand's Poetry

Singing Krishna: Sound Becomes Sight in Paramanand's Poetry


A. Whitney Sanford



From the Back Cover Singing Krishna introduces Paramânand, one of north India's greatest medieval poet-saints, whose...
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The Wholeness of Life

The Wholeness of Life


J. Krishnamurti



From the Publisher This series of discussions held by Krishnamurti with physicist David Bohm and with psychiatrist Davi...
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Yoga and Psychology: Language, Memory, and Mysticism (Suny Series in Religious Studies)

Yoga and Psychology: Language, Memory, and Mysticism (Suny Series in Religious Studies)


Harold G. Coward



From the Back Cover Harold Coward explores how the psychological aspects of Yoga philosophy have been important to intell...
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Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization

Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization


Heinrich Robert Zimmer



Review Zimmer moves among [the myths of India] unhurriedly, with a respect that amounts to devotion. Gradually his commen...
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Echoes from an Empty Sky: the Origins of the Buddhist Doctrine of the Two Truths

Echoes from an Empty Sky: the Origins of the Buddhist Doctrine of the Two Truths


John B. Buescher



Review An illuminating study. -- Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly From the Publisher The doctrine of th...
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Makers of Modern Indian Religion in the Late Nineteenth Century (Oxford Oriental Monographs)

Makers of Modern Indian Religion in the Late Nineteenth Century (Oxford Oriental Monographs)


Torkel Brekke



About the Author Torkel Brekke is Research Fellow in the Department of Cultural Studies, University of Oslo ...
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Dealing With Deities: The Ritual Vow in South Asia

Dealing With Deities: The Ritual Vow in South Asia


Selva J. Raj, William P. Harman



From the Back Cover Drawing on original field research, Dealing with Deities explores the practice of taking ritual vows ...
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Historical Dictionary of the Druzes (Historical Dictionaries of Peoples and Cultures)

Historical Dictionary of the Druzes (Historical Dictionaries of Peoples and Cultures)


Samy S. Swayd



Review This book is on an interesting topic, and there is not much else available on the subject, so libraries catering f...
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Sleep As a State of Consciousness in Advaita Vedanta

Sleep As a State of Consciousness in Advaita Vedanta


Arvind Sharma



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The Masnavi, Book Two (Oxford World's Classics)

The Masnavi, Book Two (Oxford World's Classics)




About the Author Dr. Jawid Mojaddedi is Assistant Professor of Religion, Rutgers University. ...
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Taiwanese Pilgrimage to China: Ritual, Complicity, Community

Taiwanese Pilgrimage to China: Ritual, Complicity, Community


Dj W. Hatfield



Review “Taiwanese Pilgrimage in China is symphonic. Its prevailing topic is that of cultural invention. Its leitmo...
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Alternative Krishnas: Regional And Vernacular Variations On A Hindu Deity

Alternative Krishnas: Regional And Vernacular Variations On A Hindu Deity


Guy L. Beck



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Miraculous Response: Doing Popular Religion in Contemporary China

Miraculous Response: Doing Popular Religion in Contemporary China


Adam Chau



Review "Adam Yuet Chau's book provides an engaging and accessible account of Chinese popular religion in Longwanggou, a c...
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A New History of Shinto (Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion)

A New History of Shinto (Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion)


John Breen, Mark Teeuwen



Review "Breen and Teeuwen offer a postmodern, historical exposition of Shinto. In addition to independent research, they ...
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Spirit-mediums, Sacred Mountains and Related Bon Textual Traditions in Upper Tibet: Calling Down the Gods (Brill's Tibetan Studies Library 8)

Spirit-mediums, Sacred Mountains and Related Bon Textual Traditions in Upper Tibet: Calling Down the Gods (Brill's Tibetan Studies Library 8)


John Vincent Bellezza



About the Author John Vincent Bellezza, Visiting Scholar, University of Virginia, has spent over two decades researching ...
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Kuan-yin: The Chinese Transformation of Avalokitesvara (Institute for Advanced Study of World Religions)

Kuan-yin: The Chinese Transformation of Avalokitesvara (Institute for Advanced Study of World Religions)




Review "A major case study of the Mahayana concept of upaya... excellent and comprehensive." -- Journal of Religion ...
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Vajrayogini: Her Visualizations, Rituals, and Forms (Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism)

Vajrayogini: Her Visualizations, Rituals, and Forms (Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism)


Elizabeth English



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