Research on the ayurvedic materia medica, in particular its drugs of plant origin, is a venture bristling with pitfalls despite the apparent confidence displayed in the lists of botanical identifications of medicinal plants in numerous publications on the subject. This...

Yoga beyond Fitness offers a bridge to yoga's serious meaning for the millions who use it for exercise but want more. It traces America's love affair with yoga while offering an overview of diverse teachings. Through its colorful stories of...

The Treasure tradition of the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism is richly permeated with wonder and controversy. This unique, mysterious tradition embraces revelation as the primary path to spiritual awakening. Over the course of Tibetan history, revelations-known as Treasures have...

The teachings of the late Lama Kazi Dawa Samdup, the Tibetan guru, have been culled and presented for Western world. It also aims at fostering greater understanding for further study on certain aspects of Higher or Transcendental Mahayanic teachings. The...

Topics In Pali Historical Phonology

The Paribhasendusekhara by Nagesa is the most widely studied text in the field of grammatical Paribhasas. Numerous commentaries have been written on it including one by Nagesa's Pupil, Vaidyanatha Payagunda. In addition an excellent english translation was published more than...

A Tibetan-English Dictionary (Compact Edition): with Special Reference to the Prevailing Dialects, To which is added An English-Tibetan Vocabulary

In the Tibetan tradition the ability to dream lucidly is not and end in itself rather it provides as additonal context in which one can engage in advanced and effective practices to achieve liberation. Dream yoga is followed by sleep...

Tibetan medicine was probably the first truly integrated system of ancient healing science. Tibetan Ayurveda provides a comprehensive guide to the four levels of traditional Tibetan medicine with a wealth of traditional health practices and teachings. Much of the contemporary...

Book Summary of Tibetan Renaissance ? How did a society on the edge of collapse and dominated by wandering bands of armed men give way to? a vibrant Buddhist culture, led by yogins and scholars?? Ronald M. Davidson explores how...

This is the story of every Rajput feudal family in Rajasthan through Indian History. This is a tale of extraordinary survival of a clan over a millennium. The chronicles of the Mertia Jagmalots trace their origins to their progenitor Rao...

Three Mountains and the Seven Rivers is a collection of 56 essays to felicitate the sixtieth birthday of Doctor Musashi Techikawa, Professor at Aichi gakuin University in Nagoya. This volume consist of thirteen Sections: Ancient Geography, Buddhism, Madhyamika, Iconography, Jainism,...