Tim Ward 
What the Buddha Never Taught [EPUB ebook] 
A ‘Behind the Robes" Account of Life in a Thai Forest Monastery

A guide to Buddhist ritual, drawing on research in cultural studies and psychology. Approaching Enlightenment uses the Sevenfold Puja as a basis for understanding ritual activities, symbols and …

In this book I open my heart as a loving testimony of my journey from darkness to light. Pat, was my dearest friend and companion, was drawn away from me through Alzheimer”s disease long before her …

Prophecies, messages about the way we live today; badness, darkness, light, spirit world, spirituality, religion, governments, paedophilia, bestiality, black magic and more is talked of within these …

An Introduction to Islam, Fourth Edition, provides students with a thorough, unified and topical introduction to the global religious community of Islam. In addition, the author”s extensive field wo …

In Mountain Mandalas Allan G. Grapard provides a thought-provoking history of one aspect of the Japanese Shugendo tradition in Kyushu, by focusing on three cultic systems: Mount Hiko, Usa-Hachiman, …

This original, provocative study, first published in 1973, presents a new method of interpretation of mythology, and reveals the wide-ranging implications of this universal phenomenon for many discip …

A unique and major contribution to the scholarly and policy debate on American foreign and economic policy toward the Islamic Republic of Iran. A volume that will be of interest to scholars and …

This empirically grounded work explores the emerging aspects of cultural politics in the world’s most populous Muslim nation. It engages with complex issues of cultural translation, localization and …