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These 145 illustrated Tibetan Buddhist symbols, and the instructions for incorporating them into everyday life, will please the eye, mind, and soul. Gaze upon Buddhas and Bodhisattvas who exist for the benefit of all living beings. Also: mudras (sacred gestures), good luck symbols, ritual structures, and more.
An uplifting guide to powerful prayer The simple act of prayer can give you courage and strength in challenging times, provide answers to life's questions, help you foster a personal connection to a higher power, and fill your heart with profound comfort and peace. But how many of us have been taught how to pray? The art of effective prayer is fully explored in this one-of-a-kind guidebook by award-winning author Richard Webster. Whether you're addressing God, the universe, or your Higher Self, this book on prayer for beginners will help you connect with the divine. Webster offers easy techniques for achieving a state of mind conducive to a meaningful spiritual exchange for complete health and wellness. You'll also discover how prayer is linked to magic, as well as how to strengthen prayers with chakra energy, create a sacred space, pray with a mandala, and communicate with angels. Webster also shares fascinating testimonials—from personal anecdotes to proven scientific experiments—that illuminate the immense power of prayer.
A compelling new portrait of the lost realm of Lemuria, the original motherland of humanity • Contains the most extensive and up-to-date archaeological research on Lemuria • Reveals a lost, ancient technology in some respects more advanced than modern science • Provides evidence that the perennial philosophies have their origin in Lemurian culture Before the Indonesian tsunami or Hurricane Katrina’s destruction of New Orleans, there was the destruction of Lemuria. Oral tradition in Polynesia recounts the story of a splendid kingdom that was carried to the bottom of the sea by a mighty “warrior wave”--a tsunami. This lost realm has been cited in numerous other indigenous tradition...
Covering secret societies, mysterious ancient traditions, and the often-mistaken history of the world's religious symbols, this book takes readers on a tour through the fascinating world of religious symbolism and reveals the most mysterious and misunderstood facets of religion. Hidden Religion: The Greatest Mysteries and Symbols of the World's Religious Beliefs not only explores the history and origins of widely recognizable symbols, like the Christian cross and the Star of David, but also introduces readers to more obscure symbols from religious traditions around the world—even defunct ones like those of the ancient Aztec and Mayan societies. In addition, the book discusses the "religiou...
Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.
This study is focused on the interaction of material and symbolic values in the domain of sacred trees in India. By presenting samples from 3,000 years of Indian ritual practice, it is shown that in many sacred geographies trees continue to connect the present with the past, the material with the symbolic, and the contemporary ecological with the traditionally sacred. Although in India religion may have become very much a temple cult, its embeddedness in the natural world enhances today's 'green' interpretation of religious traditions. That in environmental matters such religious inspiration may be both successful and highly ambivalent at the same time is the thought-provoking position taken in the final chapters.
Los ensayos que incluye este volumen dan testimonio de la fascinante riqueza y diversidad del budismo, así como del indeleble legado del profesor Luis O. Gómez, uno de sus estudiosos más reconocidos en el ámbito internacional en las últimas décadas. Mostrando fidelidad a la pericia, los conocimientos y el amplio espectro de temas que dominaba el doctor Gómez, las colaboraciones reunidas versan sobre distintas tradiciones del budismo asiático y lidian con aspectos fundamentales para comprenderlas en profundidad. Debido a que aborda temas relativos a los budismos de distintas épocas, y a expresiones chinas, indias y tibetanas, esta obra, constituye una antología imprescindible, idónea para todos los interesados en explorar las diversas y fascinantes aristas del budismo asiático en sus dimensiones históricas, filosóficas, rituales y simbólicas.
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