Authors:Titus Burckhardt,  Michael Fitzgerald, Brian K
Publisher: World Wisdom
Keywords: symbolism, art, oriental, foundations
Number of Pages: 148
Published: 2009-08-25
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 1933316721
ISBN-13: 9781933316727

This fascinating edited collection of art historian Titus Burckhardt’s most important writings on Hindu, Buddhist, and Taoist art is lavishly illustrated with 140 superb examples of Oriental art, architecture, statuary, and painting.

Authors:Gerald Hausman, Bob Kapoun, Joe Medicine Crow,
Publisher: World Wisdom
Keywords: edward, curtis, photographs, stories, taker, selected, image
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2009-05-25
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 1933316705
ISBN-13: 9781933316703

The work of Edward Curtis captures forever the images, myths, and histories of a vanishing age. The Image Taker features essential selections of photographs and the seldom- seen tribal stories recorded and preserved by Curtis in his 20-volume masterpiece, The North American Indian, offering the reader a bridge through time to the last generation of Indians from the Buffalo Days of pre-reservation life.

Author: Heinrich Dumoulin
Publisher: World Wisdom
Keywords: treasures, world, religions, japan, history, buddhism, volume, zen
Number of Pages: 520
Published: 2005-09-25
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0941532909
ISBN-13: 9780941532907

In this second volume of his classic history Dumoulin turns his attention to the development of Zen in Japan.

Authors:Swami Ramdas,  Rebecca Manring,
Publisher: World Wisdom
Keywords: perennial, philosophy, library, ramdas, swami, essential
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2005-05-25
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0941532739
ISBN-13: 9780941532730

The writings of Swami Ramdas (l884-1963) possess the same enduring quality found in such classics of spiritual writing as The Way of a Pilgrim and The Gospel of Ramakrishna. Ramdas was one of the greatest saints of the 20th century and he wrote in a simple, eloquent style that any sincere soul—regardless of religion—can understand. Ramdas emphasizes that we can realize God through constant remembrance of the Divine. The Essential Swami Ramdas collects extracts from Ramdas’ many books and it emphasizes the heart of his message: unswerving faith in the mercy of God leads to certain deliveranc

Authors:Joseph Epes Brown,  Michael Oren Fitzgerald, A
Publisher: World Wisdom
Keywords: elk, black, perennial, philosophy, series, living, letters, legacy, american, indian, commemorative, spiritual
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2007-04-25
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 1933316365
ISBN-13: 9781933316369

This book offers fascinating insights into the world of the pre-reservation Indians. It is a collection of classic essays that examines the universal characteristics of American Indian culture and tradition. This new edition also offers a personal view of Dr. Brown’s life and research through his private correspondence from his time on the reservation and sheds insights into his relationship with old time Indian leaders including the legendary Sioux Medicine Man Black Elk.

Author: Paul Goble
Publisher: World Wisdom
Keywords: thoughts, nature, american, native, traditional, relatives
Number of Pages: 36
Published: 2005-09-25
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0941532771
ISBN-13: 9780941532778

In these ancient stories, illustrated using traditional designs and colors by world-renowned artist Paul Goble, the life of the Native American people is vividly expressed anew. All Our Relatives (mitakuye oyasin), a frequently repeated phrase in Lakota ceremonies suggests the interdependence of created things, and because all Plains Indian tribes viewed nature as a manifestation of the Creator, this book paints a compelling portrait of the spiritual life of these nomadic peoples. For more than forty years, Paul Goble has attended Plains Indian ceremonies, sat around tribal campfires, and know

Authors:Jean-Louis Michon, Roger Gaetani,  Seyyed Hoss
Publisher: World Wisdom
Keywords: philosophy, series, perennial, wisdom, love, sufism
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2006-03-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0941532755
ISBN-13: 9780941532754

For hundreds of years, the inner spiritual core of Islam has been the focus of Sufi practitioners and thinkers. Those initiated into its mysteries have sometimes expressed them in ecstatic poetry, in a symbolic language of love, or in reasoned prose. These essays by such contemporary writers on Sufism as Seyyed Hossein Nasr, William Chittick, Titus Burckhardt, Martin Lings, René Guénon, and Frithjof Schuon, allow the reader to understand the language, the wisdom, and the beautiful history of classical Sufism. Covering a wide range of topics related to the mystical aspect of Islam, Sufism, th