Buddhism India

Presents guidance and techniques for Buddhists who wish to incorporate psychedelics into their practice as well as for psychonauts who are interested in the maps of inner space provided by Buddhism Explores the use of psychedelics in Buddhist practice, sharing the kind of spiritual...

Bloomsbury presents The Golden Road, written and read by William Dalrymple. The internationally bestselling author of The Anarchy returns with a sparkling, soaring history of ideas, tracing South Asia’s under-recognized role in producing the world as we know it. For a millennium and a half...

Academic Links “Quick Read” series is a history collection designed to introduce readers to important topics from the past and spark an interest to learn more. These books contain short, easy to read articles that relate to the main topic and make each subject engaging and accessible. The series encourages curiosity, helps readers explore new ideas, and opens the door to deeper learning about history and the world. Each book introduces different time periods, events, and topics in history while helping readers build a stronger understanding of the past and how it connects to today. ...

“Ram Dass lived a full life and then some. His final statement is thorough and, yes, enlightening.” —Kirkus Reviews Perhaps no other teacher has sparked the fires of as many spiritual seekers in the West as Ram Dass. If you’ve ever embraced the phrase “be here now,” practiced...

One emperor conquered a kingdom, killed a hundred thousand people, and then did something no ruler before him had ever done—he carved his own war crime into stone and told everyone he regretted it. In the chaos that followed Alexander the Great's retreat from India, a low-born adventurer named Chandragupta Maurya seized a throne and built the first empire the subcontinent had ever known. Guided by Chanakya—the ruthless strategist whose Arthashastra reads like a manual for total power—Chandragupta forced the Greek general Seleucus to surrender the eastern provinces of Persia. The price...

This is the first of eight books designed to teach a thorough understanding of Buddhism and how to use it in one's life. Everyone should know and use the four noble truths to be happier, healthier, and more successful.

For seven hundred years, this was the book Buddhist Southeast-Asia grew up with. This is its first complete English translation. In the villages of Sri Lanka they still know them by heart: the deer who died listening to a sermon, the crow who paid his debts, the girl who crossed the sea on faith alone, the old woman whose ladleful of gruel outlasted a kingdom. From Anurādhapura's temple schools to the palm-leaf libraries of the Mekong, the Rasavāhinī - the Stream of Delights - shaped generations of children, preachers, and kings. Composed in the thirteenth century by the forest-monk ...

From adventure to indenture, martyrs to merchants, Partition to plantation, from Kashmir to Kerala, Japan to Jamaica and beyond, the many facets of the great migrations of India and the world are mapped in India Moving, the first book of its kind. To understand how millions of people...

A rare, intimate account of a world-renowned Buddhist monk’s near-death experience and the life-changing wisdom he gained from it “One of the most inspiring books I have ever read.”—Pema Chödrön, author of When Things Fall Apart “This book has the potential to change the reader’s...

What was Jesus doing during the eighteen years the Bible does not describe? The New Testament tells us about the birth of Jesus. It records a remarkable episode when He was twelve years old in the Temple of Jerusalem. Then the record falls silent. For nearly eighteen years, one of history's most influential figures disappears from the historical narrative. Where was He? What was He doing? Did He remain in Nazareth working as a carpenter? Did He study among the Essenes near the Dead Sea? Did He travel to Egypt, the intellectual center of the ancient world? Or did He journey to India, where ...

Discover ancient spiritual history and practical mindfulness to conquer stress in today's demanding, fast-paced world. Whether you are navigating personal uncertainty or seeking a calming escape from daily anxiety, this grounded exploration traces Eastern philosophy from its earliest roots...

Six hundred years before Oxford existed, a university in northern India was turning away most of the people who applied. The examination was oral, conducted at the gate by scholars stationed there for the purpose, and it did not test recall. It tested whether you could hold a position under hostile questioning — the same skill the whole curriculum existed to produce. Those who passed joined a residential campus of roughly ten thousand people, with a fixed syllabus, a resident faculty, an endowment drawn from the tax revenue of villages assigned by kings, and a library housed in three ...

For readers of Caste and Radical Dharma, an urgent call to action to end caste apartheid, grounded in Dalit feminist abolition and engaged Buddhism. “Dalit” is the name that we chose for ourselves when Brahminism declared us “untouchable.” Dalit means broken. Broken by suffering. Broken...

A book that brings to light the true essence of Buddhism as a religion that inspires in each one of us a yearning for a higher and better life, one full of virtue, spiritual joy, and service to fellow human beings. A book that firmly reminds us that every man must be a fabricator of his own salvation, that The Buddha does not proclaim himself to be a savior but only professes to teach us the way we can liberate ourselves as he has liberated himself.

India's Struggle For Independence presents a detailed outlook on the struggle for Indian Independence in a new analytical framework. Designed for ardent history enthusiasts, India's Struggle For Independence is one of the most exhaustive and precise account of the struggle of Indian Independence...

What if the most influential spiritual teacher in history spent his formative years studying with Buddhist masters in ancient India? Based on recently discovered manuscripts from a monastery on the Greek island of Patmos, The Compassionate Teacher reveals the extraordinary journey of Jesus Christ during the "lost years" between his childhood and the beginning of his ministry. This remarkable account, preserved by the Apostle John and his community, follows a young Jewish seeker as he travels the ancient Silk Road to the great Buddhist universities of northern India, where he encounters ...

For readers of Caste, the coming-of-age story of a Dalit individual that illuminates systemic injustice in India and its growing impact on US society “A moving personal story and a useful educational examination of persistent discrimination”—Kirkus Reviews Winner of the Sahitya Akademi...

Think you know Jesus? Think again.Before Christianity transformed his message into religious doctrine, Jesus taught something far more revolutionary - a practical path of spiritual evolution available to every human soul. He wasn't starting a religion; he was showing humanity the profound purpose of human existence and how to develop our divine nature through direct spiritual experience. Discover: - The real purpose of human life - why we're here and where we're going - Why Jesus spent decades teaching in Egypt, Parthia, and India - How his message of spiritual evolution became a Jewish ...

Female Kundalini is first and foremost the true story of my spiritual journey, my Alpha to Omega. I have striven to make it as authentic and true as possible. It’s entitled Female Kundalini because Shakti is female, and even though Shakti is female, each of us – male or female – share this energy. I am a female and have experienced Kundalini as a woman, so “Female Kundalini” is an appropriate title. The book describes my experiences, and it is only through experiences that I am able to summon the authority to speak on this topic. I don’t offer techniques or methods to awaken ...

The Buddha and the Sahibs: The Men Who Discovered India’s Lost Religion by Charles Allen. For nearly 1,000 years, from the destruction of temples and monasteries by Muslim invaders in the 11th and 12th centuries, followed by Hinduism’s increasing power, Buddhism vanished from the country of...