Sometimes one just needs a bit of inspiration or motivation to get the day going. Such inspiration can come from anywhere, colleagues, parents, friends or even strangers! That is why those who can inspire or motivate people are always looked...

The Essence of Scholasticism is a meditation manual leading to arhatship. It is the central text of the western most part of the Gandharan cultural. Probably composed in the first century BCE, it was commented on and elaborated in several...

This book offers a fresh interpretation of Patanjali's Yoga-Sutra, challenging the common view that Classical Yoga advocates world-renunciation and extreme dualism. Through five scholarly essays, it argues that Yoga promotes an integrated life where spiritual awareness, ethical action, and material...

In this Third Series of Zen Essays have tried to trace the relationship which exists between Zen and the two chief Mahayana sutras, the Gandavyuha and the prajnaparamita, and then the transformation through which Indian Buddhism had to go while...

Zen Buddhism is a unique school of spiritual development which uses many systems of philosophy, psychology, and ethics in the course of its own technique of Sudden Enlightenment. This volume contains the Second Series of the author’s famous Essays in...

Zen Buddhism is a unique school of spiritual development using many systems of philosophy, psychology and ethics in the course of its own technique of ‘Sudden Enlightenment’. In this first volume of Essays in Zen Buddhism, the opening chapters are...

The present collection of Essays in Jain Philosophy and Religion contains contributions of world acclaimed scholars in jain studies. As a through and critical research work in the field of Jaina exploration of the history and background of the exchange...

The book focuses on the comparative understanding of the formation of meaning in a textual strucutre with special reference to Indian as well as Western traditions of knowledge, whre finally, arriving at a resolution, the affinity between the two is...

Here is a reprint of the English-Pali Dictionary by A.P. Buddhadatta Mahathera published long ago by the Pali Text Society in Roman script. This publication was then considered a notable event in the life of the Society for it was...

In the Moksopaya (also known as the Yogavasistha), an eleventh-century Sanskrit poetic text, the great Vedic philosopher Vasistha counsels his young protégé Lord Rama about the ways of the world through sixty-four stories designed to bring Rama from ignorance to...

Vallabhacarya, the founder to Suddhadvaita Vedanta, is less known outside of India than founders of other Indian philosophical schools.  He is among the latest (1473-1532) to found a well-known Vedanta school. Although devotion (bhakti) is of central importance in his...

Samkhya is one of India's oldest philosophical systems and this volume of the Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies, coedited by Gernald James Larson and Ram Shankar Bhattacharya and under the general editorship of Karl H. Potter, traces the history of the...