Download or read book The Yogavacara s Manual of Indian Mysticism as Practised by Buddhists written by Thomas William Rhys Davids and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Yoga written by Mircea Eliade and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1958 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this landmark book the renowned scholar of religion Mircea Eliade lays the groundwork for a Western understanding of Yoga, exploring how its guiding principle, that of freedom, involves remaining in the world without letting oneself be exhausted by such "conditionings" as time and history. Drawing on years of study and experience in India, Eliade provides a comprehensive survey of Yoga in theory and practice from its earliest foreshadowings in the Vedas through the twentieth century. The subjects discussed include Patañjali, author of the Yoga-sutras; yogic techniques, such as concentration "on a Single Point," postures, and respiratory discipline; and Yoga in relation to Brahmanism, Buddhism, Tantrism, Oriental alchemy, mystical erotism, and shamanism.
Download or read book Meditations of the Pali Tradition written by L. S. Cousins and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking and detailed presentation of the rich system of meditation traditions that have come to us through the Pali tradition of Buddhism. Meditations of the Pali Tradition, from consummate scholar of Pali Buddhism L. S. Cousins, explores the history of meditation practice in early or Pali Buddhism, which was established in various parts of South and Central Asia from the time of the Buddha and developed until at least the fourteenth century CE. Ranging in discussion of jhana (absorption) meditation in ancient India to the Buddhist practice centers of the Silk Road to the vipassana (insight) practices of our modern world, this rigorous and insightful work of scholarship sheds new light on our understanding of the practices that are today associated with the Theravada school of Buddhism and the insight meditation movement. Cousins demonstrates that there is much more to Buddhist meditation than mindfulness alone—concentration and joy, for example, are equally important.
Download or read book The Yog vacara s manual of indian mysticism as practised by Buddhists written by T. W. Rhys Davids and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of Printed Books Published Before 1932 written by Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Library and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Consciousness Studies written by K. Ramakrishna Rao and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-09-17 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consciousness is perplexing: too familiar and intimate to ignore, too complex and elusive to understand. Although consciousness is embedded in all our experience and is considered basic to all our knowing, no one seems to know what exactly it is, and the concept is both widely used and much abused. For the better part of the twentieth century, the study of consciousness was viewed as unworthy of scholarly and scientific pursuit. Research has consequently suffered. This cross-cultural examination first explores the varieties of conscious experience and reflects on the attempts to understand and explain consciousness in the Western scholarly and scientific tradition. The next section deals with Eastern spiritual traditions and how they differ with and complement the Western viewpoints. In the final chapters the author reconciles the two traditions for a comprehensive understanding of what consciousness is, and considers how such an understanding may be helpful for a cross-cultural assessment of behavior, as well as for enhancing human abilities and wellness.
Download or read book A Buddhist Manual of Psychological Ethics written by Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Manual of a Mystic written by Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys Davids and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The original manuscript bears no title either at the beginning or end. The text was published for the Pali Text Society by T.W. Rhys Davids with title "The Yogāvacara's manual of Indian mysticism as practised by Buddhists", London, 1896.
Download or read book A Buddhist Manual of Psychological Ethics written by Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys Davids and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Buddhist manual of psychologial ethics of the fourth century B C a tr of the Dhamma Sang i with intr essay and notes by C A F Rhys Davids written by Abhidhammapiṭaka Dhammasaṅgaṇi and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Doctrine of the Upani ads and the Early Buddhism written by Hermann Oldenberg and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1991 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapter I of this study, which discusses the older Upanisads, viz., the Brhad Aranyaka Upanisad and the Chandogya Upanisad, describes at the outset how the idea of the Supreme Being, the unique mystic power, was conceived in the words Brahman and Atman and how these two entities merged with each other and became identical. It then discusses the doctrine of metempsychosis as evolved from the relation between the Supreme Being and the world of plurality. In this period, the magician-priest begins to become a philosopher. Chapter II deals with later Upanisads like Kathaka Upanisad, Maitrayana Upanisad and Svetasvatara Upanisad. This period clearly reveals beginnings of the formulation of a system in the form of Samkhya Doctrine and the Yoga. Here the ultimate goal of human yearning, the salvation from suffering, becomes visible. In short, we perceive the development of thought of the Indian Philosophy from an impersonal god (of impersonal powers) to a personal god. But interestingly, a system strongly enforcing the elements of Yoga decisively rejected theism and adhered to the pessimistic thought of Indian mysticism: the Doctrine of Buddhism. This is described in Chapter III.
Download or read book Buddhist Dictionary written by Nyanatiloka Thera and published by Buddhist Publication Society. This book was released on 2004-12-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its first publication in 1952, Buddhist Dictionary has been a trusted companion and helper in the study of Buddhist literature. The author, Nyanatiloka Thera, was qualified as few others have ever been to serve as a reliable guide through the field of Theravada Buddhist terminology and doctrine. In this book he offers authentic and lucid explanations of Pali Buddhist terms, with cross-references in English and source references as well. Amidst the welter of modern works on Buddhism, and translations differing one from the other, this book will help in identifying the doctrinal terms and in correcting misleading renderings. Not a mere word dictionary but an aid to the terminology of Theravada Buddhism. Buddhist Dictionary will be as helpful to the serious lay student as to the professional scholar.
Download or read book Bombay University Handbook written by University of Bombay and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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