The Eastern Aspirant renounces sexuality, while Western Religion severely limits its expression. While not condoning Hedonism, Tantra introduces a middle path, extending the delights of male-female coupling into rarely attained Bliss, as Man approaches ever closer to that Ultimate Union...

Becoming the Buddha is the first booklength study of a key ritual of Buddhist practice in Asia: The consecration of a Buddha image or "new Buddha" a ceremony by which the Buddha becomes present or alive. Through a richly detailed,...

Being and Meaning' is a comparative study of the concepts of being and language in Bhartrhari and Martin Heidegger, emphasising the universality of their thinking. Language in Bhartrhari's vision is the medium of the self-expression for the ultimate reality (Sabdatattva)....

This work is intended to the study of the yogachara Buddhist philosophy together with its commentaries and notes for better comprehensibility of the contents of three edited and translated texts, namely, Alambanapariksavrtti of Dignaga, the Vimsatika Vijnaptimatratasiddhih of Vasubandhu and...

Betel and Miang (PB) | By Reichart, P. A. (Author) | White Lotus The chewing of betel and of miang (fermented tea leaves) is peculiar to Thailand. These habits and the paraphernalia associated with them have fascinated western observers since...

What are "meditations"? Numerous meditations are possible and helpful but there is only one of supreme importance, it is the meditation on the theme "Who am I?" This leads eventually to the recognition that one is the Unicity, the totality...

Beyond the Beach: An Ethnography of Modern Travellers in Asia (PB) | By Westerhausen, Klaus (Author) | White Lotus. This work examines drifter-style tourism, a sanitized and institutionalized tourism alternative, in Asia. Over the last thirty years drifter tourism has...

Who were the untouchables in India? and why and when did they become so? are some of the questions the present study attempts to answer. As the sage proceeds, from the Rgveda onward, it unfolds various facets of the problem...

About The Book: Indian mythology talks about the Trans presence. There are numerous instances and tales of various characters in our epics who are known for their diverse sexual orientations and gender identities. What could be a better example than...

The Bhagavad Gita has the original Sanskrit text with Roman transliteration and a lucid English rendition. Concise and to the point commentaries on two hundred twenty seven selected key verses are provided. One hundred thirty three verses are printed in...

This contemporary companion to the Bhagavad Gita addresses the heart of human yearning. It offers the possibility of transforming the battle of life into a path to Truth, a living process. Each chapter presents a road toward our inner, universal...

Fraught with feelings of self-doubt and hopelessness, a great warrior collapses in self-defeat, posing questions for his charioteer, just before the immense battle begins on the plain of Kuruksetra. It is as if there was an interruption of the epic...