All too frequently the term Vedanta is used when what is meant, whether recognized or not, is Advaita Vedanta and more specifically, the philosophical system associated with Sankaracarya. Yet in fact Vedanta, literally meaning "the concluding portions of the Veda",...

Confronted with a series of volumes called the Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies, one is likely to ask, what constitutes philosophy in the relevant sense? Introduction to understood as investigation of the nature of and path to liberation from rebirth (moksa;nirvana),...

The Symbolism of the Stupa | By Adrian Snodgrass (author) | MLBD Publications \n \nThe Symbolism of the Stupa , Prof. Craig Reynolds writes "The stupa is a symbolic form that populates throughout South Southeast and East Asia. In its...

Cicadas of Thailand Vol. 1: General and Particular Characteristics (PB) | By Boulard, Michel (Author) | White Lotus. \n \nThe first of two volumes on Thai cicadas, the most fascinating and also least known representatives of a family of sonorous...

Chilli and Cheese Food and Society in Bhutan (PB) | By Choden, Kunzang (Author) | White Lotus. This is a pioneering book offering insight into Bhutanese food culture within its historical and geographical context, as well as looking at food-related...

Cambodia Silenced (PB) | By Mehta, Harish C (Author) | White Lotus. This is the first book on the history of the Khmer press and its struggle for existence under six regimes since the 1930s. \n \nThe press survived colonial...

Buddhist Temples of Thailand: An Architectonic Introduction (PB) | By Doehring, Karl (Author) | White Lotus \n \nThis is the first English translation of Karl Döhring’s seminal three-volume photographic study Buddhistische Tempelanlagen in Siam, published in German in 1920. This...

Buddhist Stupa (Phra Chedi) Architecture of Thailand (PB) | By Doehring, Karl (Author) | White Lotus \n \nKarl Döhring has carried out the most exhaustive study ever done by a Western researcher on the Buddhist edifices known in Thailand as...

Betel and Miang (PB) | By Reichart, P. A. (Author) | White Lotus \n \nThe 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...

Public Eating, Gender Relations, and Urban Change (PB) | By Yasmeen, Gisele (Author) | White Lotus. This book provides an overview and analysis of the habit of “public eating” in Thai society with specific attention paid to the case study...

The present volume of the Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies takes up the history of Nyaya-Vaisesika where Volume Two left off, in the 14th century. With Gangesa we enter the literature that has come to be known as Navyanyaya, i.e., 'new...