Until the late twentieth century, scholars of Indian Buddhism focused almost exclusively on Buddhist scriptural and commentarial sources that depict Buddhism in an idealized and prescriptive fashion. Accordingly, Buddhist monks and nuns were imagined as celibate renunciants engaged in sophisticated...

This book interprets for the Western mind the key motifs of India'a legends myth and folklore, taken directly from the sanskrit and illustrated with seventy plates of Indian art. It is primarily an introduction to image thinking and picture reading...

This is a comprehensive, intelligible and interesting portrait of Ancient Indian History and Civilization from a national historical point of view. The work is divided into three broad divisions of the natural course of cultural development in Ancient India: (1)...

Ancient India (PB) - By R. C. Majumdar (Author) - MLBD Publications \n \nThis is a comprehensive, intelligible and interesting portrait of Ancient Indian History and Civilization from a national historical point of view. The work is divided into three...

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...

Wisdom of the Ancient Seers | MLBD Publications \n \nIn the words of  Georg Feuerstein - \n \nThe Rig Veda is not only one of the oldest sacred scriptures of the world, but also one of the most misunderstood. Past...

About Sadhus, Sannyasis and Gurus (HB) | By Swami Jayramdas (Author) | MLBD Publications <br /> \nThis young man is "an Indian Yogi in a French Body". Such were the very words pronounced by Shri Dhyanyogi Madhusudandasji Maharaj, the first...

Ethnic Groups of Thailand (PB) | By Schliesinger, Joachim (Author) | White Lotus. \n \nThe book examines the different concepts of a unified environment including living things as well as the natural surroundings like forests, rivers, rocks, etc. \n \nWesterners...

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...