The Yogins Of Ladakh

Author : John Crook,James Low
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8120814797

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The Yogins of Ladakh by John Crook,James Low Pdf

When John Crock of Bristol University began research in the Zangskar valley of Ladakh in 1977 his prime intention was to investigate the social anthropology of the area through studies of village life. In 1986 Crook returned to Ladakh with into the social organisation, history, meditational practices and philosophy of the yogins who still lived and practiced in the remote parts of the area. This book is a record of the author's adventurous journeys to meet some remarkable men. The yogins were often generous, providing accounts of their training, one of them allowing Crook to photograph a Mahamudra by the eminent Tipun Padma of this difficult work together with that of a biography of the great women yogin Machig Labdron provides the basis for extensive and original discussions of the meaning of Tibetan Buddhism and it's significance in our time.

Author : Alexander Norman
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
ISBN : 9780544416581

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The Dalai Lama by Alexander Norman Pdf

The first authoritative biography of the Dalai Lama--a story by turns inspiring and shocking--from an acclaimed Tibetan scholar with exceptional access to his subject. The Dalai Lama's message of peace and compassion resonates with people of all faiths and none. Yet, for all his worldwide fame, he remains personally elusive. At last Alexander Norman--acclaimed Oxford-trained scholar of the history of Tibet--delivers the definitive, unique, unforgettable biography. The Dalai Lama recounts an astonishing odyssey from isolated Tibetan village to worldwide standing as spiritual and political leader of one of the world's most profound and complex cultural traditions. Norman reveals that, while the Dalai Lama has never been comfortable with his political position, he has been a canny player--at one time CIA-backed--who has maneuvered amidst pervasive violence, including placing himself at the center of a dangerous Buddhist schism. Yet even more surprising than the political, Norman convinces, is the Dalai Lama's astonishing spiritual practice, rooted in magic, vision, and prophecy--details of which are illuminated in this book for the first time. A revelatory life story of one of today's most radical, charismatic, and beloved world leaders.

Author : Henry Osmaston,International Association for Ladakh Studies
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 8120814320

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Recent Research on Ladakh 6 by Henry Osmaston,International Association for Ladakh Studies Pdf

The International Association for Ladakh Studies (IALS) was formed to provide contacts between all who are interested in the study of Ladakh to organise colloquia and to publish the proceedings and to issue a newsletter Ladakh Studies.

Author : John Crook
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 1002 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2001-12-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8120812018

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Himalayan Buddhist Villages Environment, Resources, Society And Religion Life In Zagskar, Ladakh Eds. by John Crook Pdf

Preface, PART One: Introduction to the Philosophy of Navya-Nyaya, PART Two: Summaries of Works, Notes, Index.

Author : Jeremy Fyke,Jeralyn Faris,Patrice M. Buzzanell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135038519

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Stretching Boundaries: Cases in Organizational and Managerial Communication by Jeremy Fyke,Jeralyn Faris,Patrice M. Buzzanell Pdf

Stretching Boundaries: Cases in Organizational and Managerial Communication focuses on non-traditional organizations in a variety of contexts. Because cases range from small family-owned entrepreneurships and cybervetting to provincial egovernment democratic movements in China, this supplemental text enables a reexamination of the boundaries of traditional organizational contexts. Cases delve into organizing structures, relationships, and visions for global not-for-profits, hybrid, creative industry, and entrepreneurial organizations. This book stands to benefit instructors and students in at least four ways. First, it provides instructors with an application-based teaching tool to help spark discussion. Second, students will find the case studies interesting and applicable to their future work lives, especially undergraduates who will soon be in the work force. Additionally, cases help students grasp course materials that may be otherwise challenging. Finally, for graduate students, the book encourages reflection on important topics for future research.

Author : Robin Ian MacDonald Dunbar,Louise Barrett
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780198568308

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Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology by Robin Ian MacDonald Dunbar,Louise Barrett Pdf

With contributions from over 50 experts in the field, this book provides an overview of the latest developments in evolutionary psychology. In addition to well studied areas of investigation, it also includes chapters on the philosophical underpinnings of evolutionary psychology, comparative perspectives from other species, and more.

Author : Bruce Kirkby
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-29
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781771622707

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Blue Sky Kingdom by Bruce Kirkby Pdf

One morning at breakfast, while gawking at his phone and feeling increasingly disconnected from family and everything else of importance in his world, it strikes writer Bruce Kirkby: this isn’t how he wants to live. Within days, plans begin to take shape. Bruce, his wife Christine, and their two children—seven-year-old Bodi and three-year-old Taj—will cross the Pacific by container ship, then travel onward through South Korea, China, India and Nepal aboard bus, riverboat and train, eventually traversing the Himalaya by foot. Their destination: a thousand-year-old Buddhist monastery in the remote Zanskar valley, one of the last places where Tibetan Buddhism is still practised freely in its original setting. Taken into the mud-brick home of a senior lama, Tsering Wangyal, the family spends the summer absorbed by monastery life. In this refuge, where ancient traditions intersect with the modern world, Bruce discovers ways to slow down, to observe and listen, and ultimately, to better understand his son on the autism spectrum—to surrender all expectations and connect with Bodi exactly as he is. Recounted with wit and humility, Blue Sky Kingdom is an engaging travel memoir as well as a thoughtful exploration of modern distraction, the loss of ancient wisdom, and the challenges and rewards of intercultural friendships.

Author : Elliot Cohen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000457827

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The Psychologisation of Eastern Spiritual Traditions by Elliot Cohen Pdf

This essential book critically examines the various ways in which Eastern spiritual traditions have been typically stripped of their spiritual roots, content and context, to be more readily assimilated into secular Western frames of Psychology. Beginning with the colonial histories of Empire, the author draws from the 1960s Counterculture and the subsequent romanticising and idealising of the East. Cohen explores how Hindu, Buddhist and Daoist traditions have been gradually transformed into forms of Psychology, Psychotherapy and Self-Help, undergoing processes of ‘modernisation’ and secularisation until their respective cosmologies had been successfully reinterpreted and reimagined. An important component of this psychologisation is the accompanying commodification of Eastern spiritual practices, including the mass-marketing of mindfulness and meditation as part of the burgeoning well-being industry. Also presenting emerging voices of resistance from within Eastern spiritual traditions, the book ends with a chapter on Transpersonal Psychology, showing a path for how to gradually move away from colonisation and towards collaboration. Engaging with the ‘mindfulness movement’ and other practices assimilated by Western culture, this is fascinating reading for students and academics in psychology, philosophy and religious studies, as well as mindfulness practitioners.

Author : Volker Caumanns,Marta Sernesi,Nikolai Solmsdorf
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783923776627

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Unearthing Himalayan Treasures by Volker Caumanns,Marta Sernesi,Nikolai Solmsdorf Pdf

The Festschrift celebrates Franz-Karl Ehrhard, Professor of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich from 2003 to 2019. Offered on the occasion of his 65th birthday, it comprises 26 papers by friends and colleagues to honour his outstanding and far-reaching contributions to the field of Tibetan Studies. Mirroring Franz-Karl Ehrhard's research interests, the papers centre on the religious and literary traditions of Tibet and the Himalayas, including sacred geography, religious history, philosophy, and studies in textual production and transmission.

Author : Elizabeth McDougal
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004691742

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The Words and World of Ge bcags Nunnery by Elizabeth McDougal Pdf

Ge bcags (Gebchak) dgon pa, founded in 1892 in Nang chen, Khams (Qinghai Province, PRC), is still active today with around 250 nuns practising intensive Vajrayāna rituals, yogas and meditation. The nuns’ knowledge goal is embodied, nonconceptual awareness, yet they spend many hours daily reading texts as part of their training. By investigating the whole context of the nuns’ lifeworld and ways of learning, this ethnography questions the role of reading in Ge bcags’ tacit knowledge tradition. At a time when Tibetan learning practices are quickly modernising, this book demonstrates a Buddhist tradition whose textual knowledge is not exactly literal, but cultivated through continuous, whole person learning.

Author : Andrew Harvey
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Ladākh (India)
ISBN : 9780618056750

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A Journey in Ladakh by Andrew Harvey Pdf

Now considered a classic among readers interested in Tibetan Buddhism and pilgrimages of the spirit of all kinds, A Journey in Ladakh is Andrew Harvey's spiritual travelogue of his arduous journey to one of the most remote parts of the world--the highest, least populated region in India, cut off by snow for six months each year. Buddhists have meditated in the mountains of Ladakh since three centuries before Christ, and it is there that the purest form of Tibetan Buddhism is still practiced today.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Geography
ISBN : UCLA:L0086647963

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Calcutta Geographical Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Girishwar Misra
Publisher : Pearson Education India
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09
Category : Developmental psychology
ISBN : 8131717445

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Psychology In India, Volume I: Basic Psychological Processes And Human Development by Girishwar Misra Pdf

Psychology in India, Volume I: Basic Psychological Processes and Human Development comprises six original essays and analyses research conducted on psychological processes. It integrates biological and ecological approaches to the study of behaviour; recent research in developmental psychology; studies on language acquisition and language processes, reading, and bilingualism and multilingualism; contributions from neuroscience, cognitive science, and cultural psychology towards the knowledge of cognitive processes; research on affective and motivational processes; and studying personality. Concepts, methods and theories have been covered.

Author : Henk Blezer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004483071

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Proceedings of the Ninth Seminar of the IATS, 2000. Volume 1: Tibet, Past and Present by Henk Blezer Pdf

The proceedings of the seminars of the International Association for Tibetan Studies (IATS) have developed into the most representative world-wide cross-section of Tibetan Studies. They are an indispensable reference-work for anyone interested in Tibet and capture the cutting edge of Tibet-related research. This volume is the first of three volumes of general proceedings of the Ninth Seminar of the IATS. It presents a careful selection of scholarly and academic articles on Tibetan history, which includes contemporary developments as well as a compact, but significant, linguistic section. The complete series covers ten volumes. The other seven volumes are the outcome of expert panels. Of special interest to readers of this book may be the edited volumes by Christopher Beckwith (linguistics), Helmut Eimer and David Germano (Buddhist canon), Lawrence Epstein (Khams pa history), Deborah Klimburg-Salter (art history) and the third volume of the general proceedings (Bhutan and art history).

Author : Tim Birkhead,Jo Wimpenny,Bob Montgomerie
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781400848836

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Ten Thousand Birds by Tim Birkhead,Jo Wimpenny,Bob Montgomerie Pdf

Ten Thousand Birds provides a thoroughly engaging and authoritative history of modern ornithology, tracing how the study of birds has been shaped by a succession of visionary and often-controversial personalities, and by the unique social and scientific contexts in which these extraordinary individuals worked. This beautifully illustrated book opens in the middle of the nineteenth century when ornithology was a museum-based discipline focused almost exclusively on the anatomy, taxonomy, and classification of dead birds. It describes how in the early 1900s pioneering individuals such as Erwin Stresemann, Ernst Mayr, and Julian Huxley recognized the importance of studying live birds in the field, and how this shift thrust ornithology into the mainstream of the biological sciences. The book tells the stories of eccentrics like Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen, a pathological liar who stole specimens from museums and quite likely murdered his wife, and describes the breathtaking insights and discoveries of ambitious and influential figures such as David Lack, Niko Tinbergen, Robert MacArthur, and others who through their studies of birds transformed entire fields of biology. Ten Thousand Birds brings this history vividly to life through the work and achievements of those who advanced the field. Drawing on a wealth of archival material and in-depth interviews, this fascinating book reveals how research on birds has contributed more to our understanding of animal biology than the study of just about any other group of organisms.