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  • Making a Canon

    Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Sri Lanka, and the Place of Buddhist Art

    by Janice Leoshko ...
    The story of how one scholar's experiences in Sri Lanka shaped the contours of the Buddhist visual canon.An early interpreter of Buddhist art to the West, Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy laid the foundation of what would become the South Asian visual canon, particularly through his efforts to understand how Buddhist art emerged and developed. In Making a Canon, Janice Leoshko examines how Coomaraswamy ... Read more

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    A Very Short Introduction

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    Hinduism is practised by nearly eighty per cent of India's population, and by some seventy million people outside India. In this Very Short Introduction, Kim Knott offers a succinct and authoritative overview of this major religion, and analyses the challenges facing it in the twenty-first century. She discusses key preoccupations of Hinduism such as the centrality of the Veda as religious texts, ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

  • The Environmental Vision of Thomas Merton

    by Monica Weis ...
    "Delightful . . . a superb guide to the ecological themes of Merton's life and writings." ? The Christian CenturyNature was always vital in Thomas Merton's life, from the long hours he spent as a child watching his father paint landscapes in the fresh air, to his final years of solitude in the hermitage at Our Lady of Gethsemani, where he contemplated and wrote about the beauty of his surroundings ... Read more

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  • Japanese Culture

    The Religious and Philosophical Foundations

    by Roger J. Davies ...
    Japanese Culture: The Religious and Philosophical Foundations takes readers on a thoroughly researched and extremely readable journey through Japan's cultural history.This much-anticipated sequel to Roger Davies's best-selling The Japanese Mind provides a comprehensive overview of the religion and philosophy of Japan. This cultural history of Japan explains the diverse cultural traditions that ... Read more

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  • The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton

    by Thomas Merton, Amiya Chakravarty ...
    "This is quintessential Merton."—The Catholic Review."The moment of takeoff was ecstatic...joy. We left the ground—I with Christian mantras and a great sense of destiny, of being at last on my true way after years of waiting and wondering..." With these words, dated October 15. 1968, the late Father Thomas Merton recorded the beginning of his fateful journey to the Orient. His travels led him from ... Read more

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  • Japanese Design

    Art, Aesthetics & Culture

    by Patricia Graham ...
    **Winner, Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title 2015**This Japanese design book presents the arts, aesthetics and culture of Japan with over 160 stunning color photos and extensive historical and cultural commentary .The Japanese sensibility often possesses an intuitive, emotional appeal, whether it's a silk kimono, a carefully raked garden path, an architectural marvel, a teapot, or a ... Read more

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  • The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali

    A Biography

    by David Gordon White ...
    Series series Lives of Great Religious Books
    The rise, fall, and modern resurgence of an enigmatic book revered by yoga enthusiasts around the worldConsisting of fewer than two hundred verses written in an obscure if not impenetrable language and style, Patanjali's Yoga Sutra is today extolled by the yoga establishment as a perennial classic and guide to yoga practice. As David Gordon White demonstrates in this groundbreaking study, both of ... Read more

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  • Prisoners of Shangri-La

    Tibetan Buddhism and the West

    by Donald S. Lopez ...
    "Lively and engaging . . . raises important questions about how Eastern religions are often co-opted, assimilated and misunderstood by Western culture." — Publishers WeeklyDonald Lopez provides the first cultural history of the strange encounter between Tibetan Buddhism and the West. Charting the flights of Western fantasies of Tibet and its Buddhist legacy, Lopez presents fanciful visions of ... Read more

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  • Asian Journals

    India and Japan

    by Joseph Campbell, Robin Larsen ...
    Series series The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell
    Travel with Comparative Mythologist Joseph Campbell to discover the power of myth in AsiaAt the beginning of his career, Joseph Campbell developed a lasting fascination with the cultures of the Far East, and explorations of Buddhist and Hindu philosophy later became recurring motifs in his vast body of work. However, Campbell had to wait until middle age to visit the lands that inspired him so ... Read more

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  • The Idea of Ancient India

    Essays on Religion, Politics and Archaeology

    by Upinder Singh ...
    How can the complexities of ancient India be comprehended? This book draws on a vast array of texts, inscriptions, archaeology, archival sources and art to delve into themes such as the history of regions and religions, archaeologists and the modern histories of ancient sites, the interface between political ideas and practice, violence and resistance, and the interactions between the Indian ... Read more

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  • Seasons of the Fleeting World: Writing Haiku

    Haiku & Tanka, #2

    by Poets Unite Worldwide, Fabrizio Frosini ...
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    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Museum on the Roof of the World

    Art, Politics, and the Representation of Tibet

    by Clare E. Harris ...
    For millions of people around the world, Tibet is a domain of undisturbed tradition, the Dalai Lama a spiritual guide. By contrast, the Tibet Museum opened in Lhasa by the Chinese in 1999 was designed to reclassify Tibetan objects as cultural relics and the Dalai Lama as obsolete. Suggesting that both these views are suspect, Clare E. Harris argues in The Museum on the Roof of the World that for ... Read more

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