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From the Margins of Hindu Marriage: Essays on Gender, Religion, and
Providing a unique and intimate view of Hindu marriage, the essays in this collection explore points at which the margins of marriage are traversed or transgressed. Rather than focus on...
Mahavira: Prince of Peace
Mahavira is known as the founder of the Jain religion. His life was strikingly similar to the life of his contemporary, Gautama Buddha. Like him, Mahavira renounced his throne to...
The Yoga-Sutra of Patanjali: A New Translation with Commentary
A classic work of Indian philosophy that succinctly spells out how the mind works and what is needed to attain liberation Compiled in the second or third century CE, the...
Hinduism
Hinduism is both a way of life and a highly organized social and religious system, but in the modern world its essentials, perhaps more than those of any other major...
Colonial Hinduism: An Introduction
In a tightly woven narrative, historian of modern India Amiya P. Sen traces the shifting self-understanding of Hindus in the light of the many challenges posed by the British colonial...
The Book of the Vedas: Timeless Wisdom from Indian Tradition
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Readers seeking spiritual enlightenment, as well as those interested in comparative religion, will find a concise, clearly written introduction to one of the world's great and ancient faiths in this...
A Thousand Suns Rising
Notable and inspirational verses from the ancient and beautiful Hindu epic, newly presented in a gorgeous and giftable pocket-sized treasury. For thousands of years, readers and seekers have turned to...
Essential Vaishnava Teachings
Find new meaning and understanding in the teachings of Gaudiya Vaishnavism with Swami B. B. Bodhayan's Essential Vaishnava Teachings . Who am I? Who is God? What is Guru? How...
Swami in a Strange Land: How Krishna Came to the West
Discover the man behind the movement in this intimate biography of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder of the International Society of Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON). In 1965, a seventy-year-old man-soon...
Life of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu,The: Sri Chaitanya Lilamrita
The Life of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu offers a brief history of the 15th-century Vedic spiritual revolutionary, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, who expounded Bhakti yoga, popularized the chanting of Hare Krishna, and is an...
Sages, Saints & Kings of Ancient India
The people of ancient times were inclined to give their attention not only to the external world of inert matter, but also to the world within, the vital world of...
Ka
A remarkable retelling of Hindu mythology, from one of Europe's greatest literary figures In Ka, Roberto Calasso delves into the corpus of classical Sanskrit literature recreating and re-imagining the enchanting...
Hinduism: with a New Foreword by Amartya Sen
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Hinduism provides an invaluable introduction to its schools of thought and the very different ways in which it is practised and interpreted. K. M. Sen discusses the evolution of Hinduism's...
The Rig Veda
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Wendy Doniger's translation conveys all the vitality and force of the original works The earliest of the four Hindu religious scriptures known as the Vedas, and the first extensive composition...
The Upanishads
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The sacred texts of the Hindu faith The Upanishads, the earliest of which were composed in Sanskrit between 800 and 400 bce by sages and poets, form part of the...
Bourgeouis Hinduism, or Faith of the Modern Vedantists: Rare
In 1839 a diverse group of Hindu leaders began gathering in Calcutta to share and propagate their faith in a non-idolatrous form of worship. The group, known as the Tattvabodhini...
Pluralism and Democracy in India: Debating the Hindu Right
Author: Wendy Doniger (Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions, Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions, University of Chicago)Format: Paperback, 155mm x 234mm,...
Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Author: B. K. S. Iyengar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 BKS Iyengar's translation and commentary on these ancient yoga sutras has been described as the "bible" of yoga. This...
Harvard Oriental Series 66: An Updated Vedic Concordance
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Climbing Chamundi Hill
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Ardor
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Author: Roberto Calasso Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 In a meditation on the wisdom of the Vedas, Roberto Calasso brings ritual and sacrifice to bear on the...