Zen Buddhism is a unique school of spiritual development which uses many systems of philosophy, psychology, and ethics in the course of its own technique of Sudden Enlightenment. This volume contains the Second Series of the author’s famous Essays in...

In this Third Series of Zen Essays have tried to trace the relationship which exists between Zen and the two chief Mahayana sutras, the Gandavyuha and the prajnaparamita, and then the transformation through which Indian Buddhism had to go while...

This volume on Christian-Hindu Dialogue outlines the basic parameters of a dialogue that arise out of the study of Indian texts and the enormous possibilities of prayer and study together in order to face the challenges of diversity through pilgrimage,...

This book offers a fresh interpretation of Patanjali's Yoga-Sutra, challenging the common view that Classical Yoga advocates world-renunciation and extreme dualism. Through five scholarly essays, it argues that Yoga promotes an integrated life where spiritual awareness, ethical action, and material...

The Essence of Scholasticism is a meditation manual leading to arhatship. It is the central text of the western most part of the Gandharan cultural. Probably composed in the first century BCE, it was commented on and elaborated in several...

Sometimes one just needs a bit of inspiration or motivation to get the day going. Such inspiration can come from anywhere, colleagues, parents, friends or even strangers! That is why those who can inspire or motivate people are always looked...

True wisdom is expressible as words are seldom sufficient . The vast experience before the wisdom dawns cannot be expressed in a few words. However, some masters have succeeded to some extent in doing so, resulting in quotations which capture...

Simple routine based on the age-old secrets of India's revered sages will bring you home to your body. Ayurveda can help you re-awaken your body's powers to create balance, energy, vitality and beauty from the inside out. Peppered with healthful...

The present publication, 'Essentials of Ayurveda', is significant in the sense that it contains the essence of all the sixteen specialities of Ayurveda by which one could get working knowledge of Ayurveda as a whole. The book, in a sense,...

Time and eternal wisdom is described in the spiritual Upanishads. Eternal Stories from the Upanishads - By Thomas Egenes (Author), Kumuda Reddy (Author) - MLBD Publications

The present work addresses itself to one of the most hotly debated issues in contemporary ethics-relativism. Relativism has become a formidable argument in Western socio-moral thought under the impact of postmodern writings. The author presents a detailed critique of various...

Ethics and the History of Indian Philosophy, by Shyam Ranganathan, presents a compelling, systematic explication of the moral philosophical content of history of Indian philosophy in contrast to the received wisdom in Indology and comparative philosophy that Indian philosophers were...