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PUSPIKA eBook Series

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  • Puṣpikā: Tracing Ancient India Through Texts and Traditions

    Contributions to Current Research in Indology, Volume 4

    Edited by Lucas den Boer, Daniele Cuneo ...
    Series Book 4 - PUSPIKA
    Puṣpikā Volume 4 contains the proceedings of the seventh International Indology Graduate Research Symposium (Leiden 2015). The fourteen papers included here cover a rich variety of topics related to the intellectual traditions of South Asia such as grammar, poetry and philosophy, examined from a plurality of disciplinary perspectives, with a particular emphasis on philology, history and sociology ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    A Biography

    by David Shulman ...
    Spoken by eighty million people in South Asia and a diaspora that stretches across the globe, Tamil is one of the great world languages, and one of the few ancient languages that survives as a mother tongue for so many speakers. David Shulman presents a comprehensive cultural history of Tamil—language, literature, and civilization—emphasizing how Tamil speakers and poets have understood the unique ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Nothingness: Tadao Ando's Christian Sacred Space

    by Jin Baek ...
    Based around an interview with Tadao Ando, this book explores the influence of the Buddhist concept of nothingness on Ando’s Christian architecture, and sheds new light on the cultural significance of the buildings of one of the world’s leading contemporary architects.Specifically, this book situates Ando’s churches, particularly his world-renowned Church of the Light (1989), within the legacy of ... Read more

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  • Ride the Tiger

    A Survival Manual for the Aristocrats of the Soul

    by Julius Evola ...
    Translated by Joscelyn Godwin, Constance Fontana ...
    Julius Evola’s final major work, which examines the prototype of the human being who can give absolute meaning to his or her life in a world of dissolution• Presents a powerful criticism of the idols, structures, theories, and illusions of our modern age• Reveals how to transform destructive processes into inner liberationThe organizations and institutions that, in a traditional civilization and ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • Classical Samkhya and Yoga - Burley

    An Indian Metaphysics of Experience

    by Mikel Burley ...
    Series Book 3 - Routledge Hindu Studies Series
    Samkhya and Yoga are two of the oldest and most influential systems of classical Indian philosophy. This book provides a thorough analysis of the systems in order to fully understand Indian philosophy. Placing particular emphasis on the metaphysical schema which underlies both concepts, the author adeptly develops a new interpretation of the standard views on Samkhya and Yoga.Drawing upon existing ... Read more

    $87.99 CAD

  • The Other Face of the Moon

    by Claude Lévi-Strauss ...
    Translated by Jane Marie Todd ...
    Gathering for the first time all of Claude Lévi-Strauss’s writings on Japanese civilization, The Other Face of the Moon forms a sustained meditation into the French anthropologist’s dictum that to understand one’s own culture, one must regard it from the point of view of another.Exposure to Japanese art was influential in Lévi-Strauss’s early intellectual growth, and between 1977 and 1988 he ... Read more

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  • Nothing

    Three Inquiries in Buddhism

    by Marcus Boon, Timothy Morton, Eric Cazdyn ...
    Series series TRIOS
    Though contemporary European philosophy and critical theory have long had a robust engagement with Christianity, there has been no similar engagement with Buddhism—a surprising lack, given Buddhism's global reach and obvious affinities with much of Continental philosophy. This volume fills that gap, focusing on "nothing"—essential to Buddhism, of course, but also a key concept in critical theory ... Read more

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  • A Philosophy of Emptiness

    by Gay Watson ...
    Listening to a performance of John Cage's 4'33", you hear, at first, nothing. Yet on listening more closely, something is heard: the coughs of the audience, the shuffling of paper, gentle muttering. What had seemed to be emptiness is instead something more significant, a meditation on the sounds present even within silence. In A Philosophy of Emptiness, Gay Watson reclaims emptiness as a positive, ... Read more

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  • The Origin of the Baltic and Vedic Languages

    Baltic Mythology

    by Janis Paliepa ...
    The following commentaries regard the edition of Latvian Dainas and Vedic Hymns, published in Latvian. This monograph presents a broadened scope and discussion of Baltic and Vedic languages ... Read more

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  • History at the Limit of World-History

    by Ranajit Guha ...
    Series series Italian Academy Lectures
    The past is not just, as has been famously said, another country with foreign customs: it is a contested and colonized terrain. Indigenous histories have been expropriated, eclipsed, sometimes even wholly eradicated, in the service of imperialist aims buttressed by a distinctly Western philosophy of history. Ranajit Guha, perhaps the most influential figure in postcolonial and subaltern studies at ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Dawn After Dark

    A Dialogue

    by Daisaku Ikeda, René Huyghe ...
    Translated by Richard L. Gage ...
    Series series Echoes and Reflections The Selected Works of Daisaku Ikeda
    Dawn After Dark is a discussion between a French art critic and a Japanese religious leader. They personify two distinctively human pursuitsart and religionthat are bound together by a sense of the sacred. For more than a century, Western thought has celebrated and sustained an optimistic faith in the ceaseless progress of science and technology. That optimism is now fading, and the West has been ... Read more

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  • The Golden Age of Indian Buddhist Philosophy

    by Jan Westerhoff ...
    Series series The Oxford History of Philosophy
    Jan Westerhoff unfolds the story of one of the richest episodes in the history of Indian thought, the development of Buddhist philosophy in the first millennium CE. He starts from the composition of the Abhidharma works before the beginning of the common era and continues up to the time of Dharmakirti in the sixth century. This period was characterized by the development of a variety of ... Read more

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