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...

Ancient India (PB) - By R. C. Majumdar (Author) - MLBD Publications 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...

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

Wisdom of the Ancient Seers | MLBD Publications In the words of Georg Feuerstein - The Rig Veda is not only one of the oldest sacred scriptures of the world, but also one of the most misunderstood. Past scholarship has...

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

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

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

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. The press survived colonial rule,...

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

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

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...