Vallabhacarya, the founder to Suddhadvaita Vedanta, is less known outside of India than founders of other Indian philosophical schools.  He is among the latest (1473-1532) to found a well-known Vedanta school. Although devotion (bhakti) is of central importance in his...

Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophy: Visistadvaita Vedanta - Vol. 20 - By Stephen H. Phillips, Karl H. Potter (Author) - MLBD Publications. The most famous name associated with the Visistadvaita philosophy of the Srivaisnavas is Ramanuja (1017-1137). The present volume of...

In the Moksopaya (also known as the Yogavasistha), an eleventh-century Sanskrit poetic text, the great Vedic philosopher Vasistha counsels his young protégé Lord Rama about the ways of the world through sixty-four stories designed to bring Rama from ignorance to...

Here is a reprint of the English-Pali Dictionary by A.P. Buddhadatta Mahathera published long ago by the Pali Text Society in Roman script. This publication was then considered a notable event in the life of the Society for it was...

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Environmental Identity Towards Sustainable Development with Indigenous Australians (PB) | By Nakanishi, Nao (Author) | White Lotus. The book examines the different concepts of a unified environment including living things as well as the natural surroundings like forests, rivers, rocks,...

This volume strikes a new note in the study of Indian epics-the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. In it, for the first time, mythology is dissociated from the running threads of both the epic texts. The mythology of the two epics...

The book focuses on the comparative understanding of the formation of meaning in a textual strucutre with special reference to Indian as well as Western traditions of knowledge, whre finally, arriving at a resolution, the affinity between the two is...

Abhinavagupta, a leading figure in Kashmir Saivism is increasingly being recognised as one of the chief contributors to the evolution of Indian thought. In his encyclopaedic work the Tantraloka 'Light on the Tantras' he describes the various tantras of his...

Buddhism does not recognize a concept of the existence of God (theos) such as found in Christianity, but here theos is not used to refer only to an absolute deity like the Christian god. By "theology" the author means the...

The present collection of Essays in Jain Philosophy and Religion contains contributions of world acclaimed scholars in jain studies. As a through and critical research work in the field of Jaina exploration of the history and background of the exchange...

Zen Buddhism is a unique school of spiritual development using many systems of philosophy, psychology and ethics in the course of its own technique of ‘Sudden Enlightenment’. In this first volume of Essays in Zen Buddhism, the opening chapters are...