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Manufacturer: Jain Pub Co
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Nathmal Tatia
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Publisher: Jain Pub Co
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Dewey Decimal Number: 181
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Publication Date: 2006-10-30
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Reading Level: 362
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Description: Nathmal Tatia, one of the leading Jaina scholars of our time, provides us with the first systematic and in-depth study of the great problems dealt with in Jaina philosophy. It begins with the basic Jaina worldview of non-absolutism (anekanta-vada), and deals next with Jaina epistemology. Three major topics are then studied in great detail, with full reference to the Jaina scriptures. These are: the problem of avidya in the various Indian schools; the Jaina doctrine of karman; and Jaina yoga. This latter includes an important study of Haribhadra's comparative studies in yoga. Tatia has here given us a first-rate advanced level study of Jaina philosophy.
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Price: $26.50
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Sale: $0.94
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Manufacturer: State University of New York Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: State University of New York Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 294.5925
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Publication Date: 1993-04
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Reading Level: 331
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Price: $24.50
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Sale: $24.50
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Manufacturer: I. B. Tauris
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jeffery D. Long
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Publisher: I. B. Tauris
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Dewey Decimal Number: 294
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Publication Date: 2009-08-04
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Reading Level: 272
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Description: Jainism evokes images of monks wearing face-masks to protect insects and mico-organisms from being inhaled. Or of Jains sweeping the ground in front of them to ensure that living creatures are not inadvertently crushed: a practice of non-violence so radical as to defy easy comprehension. Yet for all its apparent exoticism, Jainism is still little understood in the West. What is this mysterious philosophy which originated in the 6th century BCE, whose absolute requirement is vegetarianism, and which now commands a following of four million adherents both in its native India and diaspora communities across the globe?In his welcome new treatment of the Jain religion, Long makes an ancient tradition fully intelligible to the modern reader. Plunging back more than two and a half millennia, to the plains of northern India and the life of a prince who - much like the Buddha - gave up a life of luxury to pursue enlightenment, Long traces the history of the Jain community from founding sage Mahavira to the present day. He explores asceticism, worship, the life of the Jain layperson, relations between Jainism and other Indic traditions, the Jain philosophy of relativity, and the implications of Jain ideals for the contemporary world. The book presents Jainism in a way that is authentic and engaging to specialists and non-specialists alike.
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Manufacturer: D'Associates
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Hermann Kuhn
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Publisher: D'Associates
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Dewey Decimal Number: 294
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Publication Date: 1999-06-01
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Reading Level: 176
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Description: The only book that gives direct access to unknown dimensions of our consciousness. Almost 2000 years ago an Indian sage documented an ingeniously simple way into hidden dimensions of our consciousness. Though this manuscript had been carefully handed down throughout the ages, its true meaning and the brilliant message buried within had been lost. Recognizing the value of the document on one of many journeys through India, Hermann Kuhn spent over 20 years deciphering the ancient text and testing the methods and information contained therein. For the first time The Notion of Growth presents this ancient knowledge and its practical application in modern English and makes it accessible to everyone in the West. The Notion of Growth contains real instructions how to use our consciousness far more efficiently than we do now. It is an infallible path to far more concentrated life, expanding awareness and immense joy.
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Price: $46.95
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Sale: $35.02
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Manufacturer: Routledge
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jacob Neusner
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Publisher: Routledge
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 296.18
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Publication Date: 1999-08-17
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Reading Level: 263
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Description: Both Judaism and Islam define the character of the social order, morality and theology through law, reflecting the shared view that there is nothing in human life beyond the scope of divine concern. But the uniqueness of the two religions is apparent in the areas where they disagree: the idea of the Land of Israel has no counterpart in Islam, while Islam's jihad is nowhere to be found in Jewish law. The authors compare the classical statements of the Torah and of classical Sunni Islamic law to present an innovative study that compares and contrasts the two religions, and offers an example of how comparative religious studies can provide the grounds for mutual understanding.
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Price: $21.95
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Sale: $16.04
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Manufacturer: Devora Publishing
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Hanna Kalter Weiss
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Publisher: Devora Publishing
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Dewey Decimal Number: 940
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Publication Date: 2006-11
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Reading Level: 396
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Price: $18.95
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Sale: $15.00
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Manufacturer: State University of New York Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Christopher Chapple::John Thomas Casey
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Publisher: State University of New York Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 181.044
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Publication Date: 2003-11
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Reading Level: 192
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Description: Presents the various religious approaches to Yoga described by Haribhadra, the eighth-century sage, who held a universal view of religion. Includes a translation of his original text on Yoga.
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Price: $35.00
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Sale: $34.99
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Manufacturer: Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies
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Edition: Bilingual
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Dewey Decimal Number: 294
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Publication Date: 2002-09-30
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Reading Level: 240
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Description: The Yogasastra and its voluminous auto-commentary, the Svopajnavrtti, is the most comprehensive treatise on Svetambara Jainism. Written in the twelfth century by the polymath Hemacandra, it was instrumental in the survival and growth of Jainism in India as well as in the spreading of Sanskrit culture within Jaina circles. Its influence extended far beyond confessional and geographical borders and it came to serve as a handbook for the Jain community in Gujarat and overseas. It is a systematic presentation of a set of ideas and practices originally belonging to the Svetambara canonical scriptures and traditions molded into a coherent whole with the help of a long row of scholastic thinkers. Hemacandra integrates innovations of his own as well as non-Jaina elements of pan-Indian and Saiva provenance, attesting to a strong Tantric influence on medieval Jainism. Some of these elements came to be perpetually included within Svetambara orthopraxy and orthodoxy due to the normative status acquired by the Yogasastra. The present translation is the first of its kind in a Western language.
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Price: $109.95
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Sale: $45.00
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Manufacturer: Edwin Mellen Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Lavanya Vemsani
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Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 294.52113
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Publication Date: 2006-10-31
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Reading Level: 244
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Description: Studies the evolution of Balarama in Vaisnavism through comparative analysis of Balarama stories from selected Hindu puranas, asserting that Balarama was a multifaceted deity of considerable importance in early Vaisnavism. The analysis of Balarama stories provides insight into the long process of the development of Vaisnavism.
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Price: $39.95
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Sale: $45.86
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Manufacturer: Wayne State University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Wayne State University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 294
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Publication Date: 2000-08
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Reading Level: 210
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Description: Modern Jewish Mythologies presents ten essays, each of which seeks to demonstrate the function and dynamic effect of myths in Jewish social, political, and psychological life. The essays are based on the Mason Lectures delivered at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies in the winter of 1995. Glenda Abramson has gathered a series of essays that explore the complex relationship between myth and ritual in modern Jewish culture. The eleven contributors examine such topics as the ancient myth of the Golem, myth and the function of collective memory, South African Jewry and their moral views on Apartheid, the male superhero in Zionist cinema, and separating myth from reality in remembering the Holocaust. Together, the essays in Modern Jewish Mythologies capture the meaning of myth in modern Jewish society. This book is ideal for folklorists and scholars of cultural and Jewish studies.
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