Authors:Ryûichi Abé, Ryûichi Abé,
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keywords: mantra, weaving
Number of Pages: 620
Published: 2000-10-15
List price: $28.00
ISBN-10: 0231112874
ISBN-13: 9780231112871
The great Buddhist priest Kûkai (774-835) is credited with the introduction and establishment of tantric -or esoteric -Buddhism in early ninth-century Japan. In Ryûichi Abé examines this important religious figure -neglected in modern academic literature -and his profound influence on Japanese culture. Offering a radically new approach to the study of early religious history -combining historical research, discourse analysis, literary criticism, and semiology -Abé contends that the importance of Kûkai´s transmission of esoteric Buddhism to Japan lay not in the foundation of a new sect b
Author: Thomas Ashley-Farrand
Publisher: Sounds True, Incorporated
Keywords: meditation, mantra
Published: 2006-03-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1591791774
ISBN-13: 9781591791775
The power of mantras was so great that the Buddha himself was concerned about their misuse in the hands of merchants and generals. Mantras are "sacred sound syllables" that can effect changes to your inner psyche and the external world. Today, Thomas Ashley-Farrand – one of the foremost authorities on Vedic and Buddhist Sanskrit mantras in the West – makes these sacred sounds widely available in a new integrated book-and-CD learning set.
Author: Eliot Pattison
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Keywords: tao, yun, shan, inspector, mantra, skull
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2008-09-30
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0312385390
ISBN-13: 9780312385392
Winner of the 2001 Edgar Award for Best First Novel, Skull Mantra was a sensation when first published and received wide acclaim from critics and readers alike. The Skull Mantra was ranked with Gorky Park and Smilla’s Sense of Snow as a novel as much about a people and a place--the Tibetans of the high Himalayas--as it is a gripping thriller. The corpse is missing its head and is dressed in American clothes. Found by a Tibetan prison work gang on a windy cliff, the grisly remains clearly belong to someone too important for Chinese authorities to bury and forget. So the case is han
Author: Douglas M. Jones
Publisher: Canon Press
Keywords: parody, christian, jabez, mantra
Number of Pages: 60
Published: 2001-06-15
List price: $7.00
ISBN-10: 1885767889
ISBN-13: 9781885767882
Bruce Wilkinson’s best-selling book, The Prayer of Jabez, is so popular with Evangelicals it just had to be bad. Wilkinson told us to be "gimpers" for God; Jones shows us how to be kippers for God. In this parody the conservative Christian author allows humor to reveal the more ridiculous assumptions driving the original book. Each chapter of the original is turned inside out so that we can really see what’s being said. Though the parody is rather ruthless in its humor, it is not hopelessly cynical just for the sake of mockery. It points to a more constructive vision, a vision of C
Author: Mark Unno
Publisher: Wisdom Publications
Keywords: light, mantra, myoe, refractions, shingon
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2004-06-25
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0861713907
ISBN-13: 9780861713905
Shingon Buddhism arose in the eighth century and remains one of Japan’s most important sects, at present numbering some 12 million adherents. As such it is long overdue appropriate coverage. Here, the well-respected Mark Unno illuminates the tantric practice of the Mantra of Light, the most central of Shingon practices, complete with translations and an in-depth exploration of the scholar-monk Myoe Koben, the Mantra of Light’s foremost proponent.
Author: Diana Killian
Publisher: Berkley
Keywords: mysteries, murder, mantra, pose, corpse
Number of Pages: 281
Published: 2008-04-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0425220907
ISBN-13: 9780425220900
Readers will bend over backward for the debut of the first yoga mystery series. Ever since her husband ditched her-for another man-A.J. hasn’t exactly been on the road to inner peace. Then her yoga-guru aunt is found dead, and A.J.’s named the sole heir to her lucrative yoga studio-making her a multimillionaire, a prime suspect, and the killer’s next target.
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